Thy Kingdom Come... Minneapolis/St. Paul Teeter on the Edge of White Privilege's Final Days

Previously on SBPDL: Prairie Home Companion vs. Ghetto Home Companion: The Violent, Blighted World of Black People in North Minneapolis

Earlier on in Ze'ev Chafets book Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit, a white expatriate of the city - Tom De Lisle - is interviewed about the tragedy (still unfolding) in the city once known as the Paris of the West:

''This is the place where the wheels came off the wagon of Western civilization,'' he told me. ''This town has become unlivable. What I want to know is, where's the outrage? There is no outrage here. ''You'd think there would be an outcry, or at least some sympathy for the victim. Detroit is as helpless and hopeless a place as any in America.'' (p. 26)

Like Tom Hanks character in Cast Away watching Wilson the Volleyball drift out-to-sea, you can feel the sorrow in the quote from De Lisle, knowing the city he once knew had already been overtaken by a tidal change. 

Thy will be done... 'white privilege' replaced with a police state to combat black crime

How many other individuals, like Tom De Lisle, have stared blankly at the city they grew up and felt the exact same way? 

How many other individuals have anticipated an outcry, and outpouring of emotion, or perhaps something, anything over the complete collapse of their hometown, only to be overwhelmed by the farcical silence replacing the outrage?

For those wondering, the wheels of Western civilization are coming off in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

You'd think there would be an outcry. 

Maybe some outrage. 

At least sympathy for the victim. 

You'd be wrong. [Closing the Gap: Mayoral Candidates Share Plans to Reduce Racial Inequities, The Journal, Aug. 22 - Sept. 4, 2013]:

The city’s substantial racial disparities in employment, education and housing have been a major focus of the mayoral campaign.

Within a generation, the demographics of the city are expected to shift and the majority of Minneapolis residents will be people of color. Working on closing the racial gaps will be a major challenge for the city's next mayor. 
Minneapolis has some of the worst racial disparities in housing, employment and educa- tion in the country. The most recent City of Minneapolis report looking at the disparities was released in March. This infographic highlights some of the key stats in that Results Minneapolis report.

Overall, the city’s population is 60 percent white and 40 percent minority. According to recent research by the Amhert H. Wilder Foundation, children of color make up 93 percent of the city’s children in poverty. The city’s demographics are also undergoing a dramatic change — the majority of children under the age of 20 are non-white.

The Twin Cities, without its founding population (white people), will not function in the same manner as it will when 'white privilege' is completely extirpated and the same racial malaise that set over Detroit  sinks in the streets of Minneapolis/ St. Paul. 

From 1860- 1950, Minneapolis was 98 percent white or greater; in 1960, Minneapolis was 96.8 white; in 1970, the city was 93.6 percent white; in 1980, the city was 87.3 percent white; by 1990, the city was only 78.4 percent white. 

Today, Minneapolis is 60.3 percent white. 

Only 100 years ago, blacks represented .9 percent of the population of Minneapolis (2,592 out of 301,408); today, blacks represent 18.6 percent of the population of Minneapolis. 

From 1850-1980, St. Paul was 90 percent white or greater (usually hovering around 98 percent white); today, St. Paul is 55 percent white. 

The Great White North is melting away, revealing something dark and sinister no one wants to confront 
[Rubén Rosario: Under siege, a St. Paul neighborhood needs answers, PioneerPress.com, 8-15-2013]:        

"No question these hoodlums have been getting bigger and bolder and out of control in that area for over a year, blocking traffic, harassing people," said the officer, who asked to remain anonymous because he is not permitted to speak publicly without advance approval from the department.

The cop also added that colleagues working the East Side feel their hands are tied by police leadership they suspect is more concerned about community backlash if they aggressively enforce curfew and other quality-of-life laws.

"Look, recreation centers are fine and they may help, but these (gang members) don't go to rec centers," said the officer. "It's not all law enforcement, but in this case right now, the hammer needs to come down on these people."

He also noted a lack of outrage, particularly from the African-American community, over the recent beating, but more so the gang-related slaying of a 17-year-old youth by another last month in the same area. Both were black. The suspects in the Widstrand beating also belong to a predominantly black gang.

The Rev. Devin Miller, a longtime black community advocate, responded to similar concerns in a post on the E-Democracy.org Payne-Phalen discussion forum this week.

"The unfortunate reality is that there are not many (black) 'leaders' as you would think in the neighborhood," wrote Miller, who serves as a forum engagement leader, served on the District 5 Planning Council and lived in the area for about a decade.

"I would also challenge the broader community to not categorize this as an African-American leadership issue but as a neighborhood and community issue," he added. "It will take all of us to change the minds of the many and to help the few."

Ben Greiling, who has lived in the nearby Dayton's Bluff neighborhood for the past four years, noted the lack of response to last month's slaying.

"I think we have accepted a level of violence in the area as long as it's a gang-versus-gang thing and doesn't affect the rest of us," Greiling told me. "But this was gang-on-innocent-bystander."

The recent chatter on the discussion forum over the gang violence, however, illustrates a community still engaged. The postings come from residents who care deeply about where they live, are demanding answers to tough questions from police and others while also exploring ways, including police enforcement, to stamp out gang violence.

Constance, for one, hopes so.

"You know, there are times when this place is not so bad," she said. "I don't believe it's a racial issue. What I do believe is that it's a mix of gangsters and knuckleheads who need to be taken off the streets. People shouldn't be living in fear like this."

The wheels of Western civilization have fallen off in many places where civilization once flourished; gifted through white flight with an infrastructure built to once sustain Western civilization, the new inhabitants of cities like Detroit, Minneapolis, and St. Paul look upon land inherited without any martial opposition.

Never, ever in history has this happened.

That's why the situation we live through is so unique.

That's why answers are so difficult to come by.

That's why so many good people stand aghast at the silence, the lack of outrage, and with a feeling of utter helplessness at the situation.

No matter what anyone says or does, the eradication of white privilege from Minneapolis/St. Paul means the removal of civilization from a city once blessed with peace and prosperity.

In its place?

Look to Detroit in 2013 for the future of Minneapolis/St. Paul.

"Put the Guns Down Festival" and "Take Back Our Neighborhood" Marches Highlight 'New Normal' in Majority-Black Milwaukee

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow." -- Men In Black

In 1950, Milwaukee was 96.6 percent white and only 3.4 percent black. 

By 1970, Milwaukee was 15 percent black and 85 percent white. 

Only a decade later, Milwaukee was 71.4 percent white and 22.9 percent black. 

1990? Try only 60.8 percent white and 30.2 percent black. 

At the turn of the millennium, Milwaukee was 45.4 percent white and 36.9 percent black. 

In 2010, Milwaukee is now a majority-black city, with 40 percent of the population black and 37 percent white. 

The 2011 Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission showed that the rate of homicides for blacks in Milwaukee is 27.9 per 100,000; for Hispanics, 9.7 per 100,000; for whites, only 1.7 per 100,000. 

For those wondering, the white population in Milwaukee still exists as if it's 1950. 

The black population in Milwaukee is doing its best impression of the black population in New Orleans. 

Milwaukee Police Department, by Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius (from irreplaceableAracdia Publishing)  is a pictorial history of the history of the city's police. In chapter six, titled 'The 1950s', an unpleasant fact is spelled out:

Sandwiched in between the war years and the rebellious and turbulent 1960s, the 1950s were more tranquil times - the "Eisenhower years." Following World War II, the whole country, and the birth rate, was booming. Everything seemed safe, sane, and secure in Milwaukee. Public relations messages from the MPD assured citizens that "the policeman is your friend." Community-wide programs for bicycle and traffic safety kept police in touch with you, and Milwaukeeans enjoyed a real sense of peace and well-being.  

Coronet magazine presented the MPD with an award on February 20, 1952, commending the city as the "most crime free metropolis in the nation."Three years earlier, the MPD's Detective Bureau was presented with the Call the Police Valor Award, "for courage, intelligence, devotion to duty as guardian of the law."

Named the "most crime free metropolis in the nation" back in 1952, when the city was 96.6 percent white.  Where once the police existed to protect the interests of white property owners (and to offer a third-parental to white children, a benefit of your tax-dollars going to work for you), now police engage in a hilarious game of community relations with the warring black population in a program called "Take Back Our Neighborhood" [South side Milwaukee neighborhood rallies against violence, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8-29-13]:

 As she marched with others from one crime scene to another, pushing her young grandson in a stroller, Maria Pedraza said she's lived in her south side house for 37 years and she's not moving. 

Yes, she's seen a lot of changes in her neighborhood through the years. But, she said, she calls police when she sees trouble. 

"You have to be vigilant and you have to be involved," she said. 

So at high noon Thursday, she joined about 50 south side residents gathered in front of Holy Name of Jesus Parish on S. 11th St. With police, ministers and community leaders she pledged to work together to stop the violence, and she prayed for peace and safety. 

The "Take Back Our Neighborhood" rally and march was organized by the Milwaukee Police Department, community and faith leaders in light of the recent wave of shootings and killings this summer. 

It's still 1950 for whites in Milwaukee; it's New Orleans-type conditions for blacks in Milwaukee

Records show there have been 67 homicides in Milwaukee this year, compared with 54 for the same time period last year.

Not to be outdone, but the 9th Annual Put Down the Guns festival was held in Milwaukee only days after the "Take Back Our Neighborhood" event, a grim reminder black violence isn't going anywhere but up, up, and up as the white population dwindles away in the city [Anti-violence fest poses upbeat counterpoint to grim Milwaukee trend, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9-1-13]

Dozens of protesters marched through the streets of Milwaukee's near north side on Sunday chanting, "Stop the violence with peace and love," as part of the ninth annual Put the Guns Down Festival. 

Hundreds gathered throughout the afternoon at King Park, near N. 15th and W. Vliet streets, to call for an end to the violence that many said is pulling apart their community and threatening their children's lives and futures. 

"Seven thousand black males die in homicides every year in the United States," said Muhibb Dyer, 38, of the Wisconsin Chapter of the League of Young Voters, which sponsors the annual event. "This is a critical issue of our time, and we have to do more as a society to address it." 

Locally, August was one of the most violent months in recent memory, according to Milwaukee police, with eight people killed and nearly two dozen injured in the first week alone. 

The city has had 66 homicides so far this year. The August spike in violence comes after a 19% increase in nonfatal shootings in June and July, compared with the same two months in 2012. 

For many at the festival, gun violence has touched them personally. They hear shots fired in their neighborhoods at night and wake up wondering whose funeral they'll attend today. Parents and grandparents are afraid to let their children play outside or walk to a nearby park. 

Before the parade, marchers gathered in a circle and one by one called out the names of loved ones who have been killed by gun violence. There were nearly 30 in all. 

Susana Lamon of Milwaukee was at the park with her 3-year-old son, Deandree Ellerson Jr. 

"His father was murdered before he was born," she said of Deandree Ellerson Sr. Lamon said he was 27 when he was killed. 

"He was sitting in a vehicle and was shot in the back of the head," she said. "They said it might have been an accident or a robbery. They never caught anybody. 

"Every day is bittersweet." 

The causes of the violence, community members said, are myriad, from drugs and the lack of jobs to a society that punishes parents for disciplining their children. 

More must be done, they insist, to improve education, create family-supporting jobs and chart a path back into society for young people who get into trouble. 

"It's as basic as love," Dyer said. He thinks the black-on-black violence that plagues central cities and the mass school shootings that often are carried out by white gunmen in suburbs around the country are symptoms of the same disease. 

"I think it's a hyper-materialism that focuses on possessions and not on human beings and what we can do to build character and families, and educate every child so they can still have an American dream," he said. 

We've already covered why there are more school shootings at white schools than black, but the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel fails to mention most school shooters/mass shooters have mental issues requiring some form of medication; what can you blame black violence on (save white racism, which doesn't make sense when you look at how violence grips majority black cities nationwide).

From 96.6 percent white in 1950, earning the title "most crime free metropolis in the nation" to a city drowning in the blood of black criminality in 2013 (and with it, businesses seek safer cities to make an honest buck and outside capital investment stays away).

How did Milwaukee get so black? It was a welfare magnet.

Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler -- Another Black Child Killed in New Orleans (11-Year-Old Arabian Gayles), the Most "African City in America"

It was eight years ago today, the Rev. Jesse Jackson stood amongst a throng of black refugees from New Orleans in Baton Rouge. 

Eight years after Katrina hit New Orleans, the eye of the black violence storm remains over the city

He blamed President George Bush for the behavior of those black people the entire world was watching on their television sets (already wards of the state, subsisting on a combination of EBT/Food Stamps, welfare and living in either public housing/or Section 8 Vouchers) [Jesse Jackson lashes out at Bush over Katrina response, Associated Press, Sept. 2, 2005]:

Racism is partly to blame for the deadly aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, calling President Bush's response to the disaster "incompetent."

"Today, as the President comes to Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi for his ceremonial trip to look at the victims of the devastation, he would do well to have a plan more significant than a ceremonial tour," Jackson said Friday. "His whole response is unacceptable."

Bush has acknowledged that the federal response has not been acceptable, but promised that the government would get supplies to survivors and crack down on violence in New Orleans.

Jackson questioned why Bush has not named blacks to top positions in the federal response to the disaster, particularly when the majority of victims remaining stranded in New Orleans are black: "How can blacks be locked out of the leadership, and trapped in the suffering?"

The civil rights leader said the flooding that caused thousands to be trapped inside the city was caused by a lack of federal funding for its levee system and hurricane planning. The resulting tragedy, he said, has largely hit New Orleans' black residents, because they were too poor to evacuate before the storm hit.

"There's a historical indifference to the pain of poor people and black people" in this country, he said.

Jackson also said the news media has "criminalized the people of New Orleans" by focusing on violence in the city.

The good reverend said the "media" has 'criminalized the people of New Orleans by focusing on violence in the city, though it would be fun to point out what Lou Dobbs, then with CNN, said eight years ago today in response to Rev. Jackson on his Lou Dobbs Tonight program:

It is also important, because Reverend Jesse Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP have injected a straightforward and dramatic and perhaps even truthful charge that much of the failure here is because of race.

But we should put in context, it seems to me also, that the city of New Orleans is 70 percent black. Its mayor is black. Its principal power structure is black. And if there is a failure to the black Americans who live in poverty and in the city of New Orleans, those officials have to bear much of the responsibility.

Sadly, outside of this one episode, the media doesn't do a good enough job of highlighting the black violence in New Orleans, regardless of it transpires during a natural disaster or the unnatural disaster of an entire government, academia, and public remain completely silent about the black role in undermining civilization. [In Big Easy, slow headway against crime: More murders are being solved and convictions won. But concerned residents wonder if the city can sustain inroads in the face of rampant violence., Christian Science Monitor, August 7, 2007]:

In the two years since hurricane Katrina soaked the Big Easy, the murder rate has soared, and street justice has prevailed over the notoriously ineffective halls of justice.

"We're in a brave new world here. It's the wild, wild West, and a circumstance that very, very few cities have ever been through," says Stella Baty Landis, an anticrime activist and owner of Sound Cafe in the Marigny neighborhood. "Right now we have some very positive developments happening, but it's unclear whether we'll be in a position to sustain them."

The picture from the "Sliver on the River" still looks grim. This year the city's murder rate is on track to top 100 for every 100,000 residents, more than 11 times the national average. The latest crime wave mirrors the dark days of the late 1980s' crack epidemic and marks New Orleans as the city with the sharpest spike in violent crimes in the US over the past year. A murder suspect in nearby Houston is five times more likely to get caught and be put on trial than one in New Orleans.

The roots of the crime wave can be linked to both social and institutional breakdowns that worsened after, but were not necessarily created by, the storm, says Jim Bernazzani, FBI Special Agent in Charge for New Orleans.

"This [criminal] segment of society, primarily African-American males, are products of an education system that didn't educate, a state judicial system that failed to mete out consequence for criminal activity, and an economic landscape devoid of meaningful jobs," says Mr. Bernazzani.

 No Special Agent Bernazzani, it has nothing to do with the education system, the judicial system, or the economic landscape -- it has everything to do with black people.

That's it.

Black people.

Say it with me again: black people, who collectively can't replicate the academic standards set by whites; black people who stress out an overworked judicial system and intimidate witnesses from testifying against them; and black people who devastate any private investment in their neighborhood through ungodly rates of criminality.

Blacks.

It's not the Klan killing black children in New Orleans; it's not Hurricane Katrina killing blacks in New Orleans; it's black people [Several gunmen suspected in triple shooting on General Ogden Street that left 11-year-old girl dead, NOLA.com, 9-2-13]:

An 11-year-old girl is dead, and her 11-year-old cousin and a man wounded in New Orleans early Monday in the latest shooting in the city, according to neighbors and the New Orleans police.

Several gunmen opened fire outside a home in the 1300 block of General Ogden Street around 12:15 a.m., according to police. The 11-year-old girl, who was inside the house, was shot multiple times, once in the head, and died of her wounds about 5:10 a.m. at a nearby hospital, police said.

Nearby, Alicia Ellis, 23, said she'd heard Raven and friends "playing right out here, for the longest," pointing to a thin strip of grass alongside her home, a few houses away from the scene of the shooting.

"Everyone knows this here is a block of children, everyone," Ellis said. "Why they come here, shoot here when they know, they know it's a block of children? It's not safe to play no more."

At the scene Monday morning, there was a hole in the front door's glass and a red horizontal marking stood out against the door's white paint. And signs of children's play were ever-present -- white chalk scribbles on the front sidewalk, a child-size, discarded Hawaiian Punch, and scattered Tootsie Frooties wrappers. 

It was the second slaying of a child in New Orleans in five days. On Thursday night, 1-year-old Londyn Samuels was shot and killed in the arms of her babysitter near the intersection of Washington Avenue and South Saratoga Street. The 18-year-old babysitter was reported in stable condition.

Speaking of the Monday triple shooting, Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas called it "unconscionable."

"This is a case of unconscionable, reckless violence, which has devastated yet another New Orleans family, who must now make funeral arrangements for one of its children," Serpas said. "And this child's cousin must now try to heal both physically and emotionally after suffering gunshot wounds at the young age of 11.

 This case would be unconscionable, if four other black children hadn't been killed in less than three years. 

Thus, it's quite conscionable. 

At least for the black population in New Orleans.

Some have tried to claim New Orleans is the most African city on the North American continent, though these Afro-enthusiasts fail to recall the city only recently (in the mid-1970s) became a majority black city -- all because the levels of black crime became intolerable for European civilization to be maintained without the police resorting to extreme levels of brutality that were immediately labeled racist.

The Felony Action Squad (FAS)... too little, too late.

That the black civilization demographically dominant in New Orleans has such a callous disregard for young life does offer exacting proof that the Crescent City is the most African city in North America, but we already knew that after blacks behaved like Africans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Quiet though -- we don't want to alert Rev. Jackson to more examples of barbaric black behavior...


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Katrina Turns Eight, Yet a Hurricane of Black Violence Still Rocks the Big Easy: It's Time for the Bob Barker Plan

Eight years ago, the world was supposed to feel sorry for the black people in New Orleans they watched on their television sets. Hurricane Katrina had exposed, for the world to see, unpleasant racial realities that don't go away with the passage of time or the changing of the channel.

It's time we get serious about the "Bob Barker Plan"

They only get more intense.

How can you expect to clean up the streets of inner city America, when those on the front-lines of black violence blame anyone and everything except black people for littering the streets with violence?
[I Was Shot in New Orleans, But I’m Not Angry at My Shooter, NextCity.org, 8-27-13]:

Mother’s Day 2013 brought one tragedy and two miracles out of New Orleans. Here is the tragic: Young men with guns shot me and 18 other people at a parade. The miracles: Among the 19 shot, no one died from their wounds, not even me. The bullet landed in my stomach, shredding through internal organs before lodging in a delicate patch of tissue surgeons have nicknamed the “soul hole” because getting hit there can easily take a life. My surgeons told me the fact that I survived is a feat of nature.

No one ever expects to get shot, but I especially never expected it the way that it happened. Sunday, May 12 was just like every other Sunday I spend in New Orleans, filming the city’s weekly second line parades. For the uninitiated, second line parades are an only-in-New-Orleans phenomena. The tradition spans back more than a century to a time when blacks were not allowed, by virtue of their race, to purchase life and health insurance policies.

Instead, black communities around the city banded together to form neighborhood-based “social aide and pleasure clubs” that would use dues money and other fundraised cash to offset funeral and major health care costs for their members.

To promote the club, members would each year put on daylong parades for their neighborhoods, complete with brass bands, costumes, royalty and fanfare reminiscent of Mardi Gras, albeit on a smaller scale. The “second line” of neighborhood people would follow the band and club members’ lead as they danced across the city. (Blacks at the time were not permitted to join Mardi Gras Krewes, so this also presented a rare opportunity for blacks to march in the streets.) The parades remain today a predominately black affair, although more and more people from outside the community have begun to participate in the ritual and, certainly, to document it.

The parade, with its sharply dressed band and dancers followed by a “second line” of revelers, had been going for about 30 minutes when two young men began firing indiscriminately into the crowd. A man selling icy beers from a picnic cooler on the back of a red wagon ducked. Everyone began to run in panic. The men were shooting to hit a single target, regardless of everyone else who was in the way. I fell in the street, hit in the side but feeling the burn of the bullet deep in my stomach. The appearance of the ambulance was both immediate and interminable.

Six weeks and 11 surgeries later, I was released from the hospital. Every day is a struggle. I am in constant pain. I’ve lost a significant amount of weight. The things I used to love I can no longer enjoy. One thing, however, is not a battle: I feel no anger or vindictiveness toward those who shot me. Instead, I feel sad. As I move on with my life, the young men who perpetrated this crime are facing the rest of their lives behind bars. They are in early 20s and have already lost their chance at a full, free adulthood.

This is a worn-out theme in my tattered city. People are tired of hearing about it, but seemingly have no answers. Yet as a black woman, I don’t believe there are no answers. I believe there can be resolution to the deadly phenomenon if enough people were truly committed to ending it. 

I guess it wasn’t altogether true when I said that I was not angry. I am outraged — not at the young men who shot me, but at the system that fostered their violence. Most of the young men who commit violence in our city are born in circumstances that never give them a chance to be anything other than desperate. And people are liable to do anything during desperate circumstances, up to and including lashing out with gunfire at a parade of people just to hit a perceived threat. We are no more human to them than they are to us. And until we see that they are a product of our indifference and begin to hold elected leaders accountable for their circumstances, we will continue to see their indifference directed toward us.

New Orleans is a relatively small city, with a population of about 361,000. It’s totally feasible to drill down to the number of young black men that are either at risk of falling into a life of crime or are already there. City records count 17,925 black men between 15 and 25. Of this group, about one third are at risk, with criminal records, teetering on the line toward the criminal life. That’s a little more than 6,000. That’s a manageable number to plot out an assessment and case management program for them.

In a sane society, city records tracking those 17,925 black males would have as the first directive the implementation of the "Bob Barker Plan." 

Depo-Provera is a sane, reasonable alternative to the streets of New Orleans running red with the blood of innocent black children, murdered by black males firing guns 'randomly' into the direction of some Nubian adversary.

Take Central City, the most dangerous part of New Orleans (boasting a murder rate of 317 per 100,000 in 2007); Disingenuous White Liberal writes for the New Orleans Times Picayune would have you believe that prison (daring to punish black criminals for violating the white man's laws!) is actually what rips up 'families' and tears apart "communities" [Prison rips up families, tears apart entire communities, NOLA.com, May 18, 2012]:

This is "the belt" of Central City, home to an invisible, grating force -- the cycling of its residents in and out of prison -- that can fray family and community at their roots.

Around here, young men leave home for prison, not college. No one can afford to buy Jaymalis trendy sneakers, MP3 players, the things kids covet. So before his house arrest, he took to hanging out with friends and taking what was there.

Neighborhoods like this one have been particularly hard-hit as Louisiana's prison population has increased exponentially in the past few decades. Nobody here is a stranger to the ripples emanating from the state's stiff sentences, swollen prison rolls and vacuum of resources for convicts who return home. 

While the state spends millions of dollars each year locking up Central City residents, it has invested comparatively little in schools, recreation programs, job centers and health clinics. Boys grow up believing that dealing drugs -- a daily trade in the few blocks around Jaymalis -- is the surest way to cash. Doing time is an expected price, if not a rite of passage. 

 Or, those black boys grow up to blow away tiny black children. [Central City violence takes tiny victims, NOLA.com, 9-1-13]:

These were the final and carefree moments of children whose blood has spilled on the streets of New Orleans' Central City neighborhood.

In the last three years, four young children - Jeremy Galmon, Keira Holmes, Briana Allen and now Londyn Samuels - have been caught in crossfire. They died in a section of the city where fear and anger reverberate each time another baby is shot dead. 

"God, please send your mercy down to New Orleans, Louisiana," a preacher thundered during a vigil for Kiera a few days after she died. "We got babies killing babies."

Some lifelong residents of Central City said at times they feel like they are living under siege.
"I'm scared, I'm really scared," said Cynthia Battle, 54, one of the parents who gathered Saturday at a school-supply giveaway at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard. "I'm thinking a bullet might pass us, and I don't let them out anymore. When I was coming up, you would walk around. Now, it's terrible. You have to worry about everything."

For Al Mims Jr., an anti-violence activist whose father was killed 26 years ago, the solution is not to rely only on police and prosecutors. As another young child is mourned in Central City, he said the community must get on the same page.

"I've buried thousands of children since my daddy was killed. We have to stop making excuses when our children are killed in a residential neighborhood," Mims said Saturday. "We've got to teach our children. And it takes a village, but the village has to be on the same page."

 These black people, living in third world conditions within the United States of America, are nothing more than 'pets' of liberal whites and white conservatives like Leigh Anne Tuohy (of The Blind Side fame): the existence of these downtrodden blacks make white liberals feel good, knowing they have a go-to population whose pathetic nature can only be blamed on white racism.

White conservatives feel that if only they could be removed from the ghetto (black community), they would instantly enjoy a life as meaningful as Michael Oher.

It's hard to believe, but New Orleans doesn't have to be a city where four young black children have been killed in three years (all by black males), or where black activists, shot by blacks at a Second Line parade, hold all of their venom at an insidious "system" that actually incubates black criminality through EBT/Food Stamps, Section 8 Voucher, and Welfare.

The "Bob Barker Plan" must be instituted to ensure that the "pet" population of white liberals and white conservatives doesn't get too large; after all, Hurricane Katrina showed us what happens when you don't spay and neuter your "pets".