Jesse Jackson perceives benefit to be had by showing up in New Orleans to lead a protest march.
Jackson leads protest in New Orleans
Published: April 29, 2007 at 12:24 PM
NEW ORLEANS, April 29 (UPI) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson joined about 750 people for a protest against the lack of progress in rebuilding the poorest parts of New Orleans.
750? That’;s a pretty sad showing, especially when you count the Reverend Jackson and his normal group of bootlickers, sycophants and toadies, then ad Hizzoner Mayor “Chocolate City” Nagin and HIS group of hangers-on, toadies, leeches and slugs.
“I see the Saints are back, the basketball team is back, the white top tablecloths are back and Mardi Gras is back,” Jackson said Saturday. “But 250,000 people are not.”
Jackson joined demonstrators in the Lower 9th Ward to question why hurricane recovery money has not trickled down to many homeowners struggling to rebuild. Much of the criticism was directed at administrators of Louisiana’s Road Home rebuilding program, the Times-Picayune reported Sunday.
Rev. Jackson is doing what he does best, skipping around the truth. Money is making it back into New Orleans in a way novel to Jackson and his crowd: PEOPLE ARE WORKING FOR IT!
Why aren’t all those folks coming back to New Orleans? Well, let me tell you: First, a lot of people that were relocated found that there’s a bright new world out there where you CAN get out of generations of poverty.
A lot of small business people have found that hard work in other locations is different than New Orleans. You can actually just go to work and make money without having to wade through layers of bureaucracy and graft.
And Jesse’s normal power base, well, let me be quite frank: They will stay where you put them, sitting on the porch, drinking forties, scoring a bit of undocumented pharmaceuticals, and waiting for the world to take care of them, just like they did in New Orleans for generations, children of LBJ’s War on Poverty. Except they’ll be doing it in Houston or Atlanta or Kansas City or wherever else those buses happen to have stopped. No ambition. No skills. Dead ends. Products of the dimmocrat party who used them for one thing, and one thing only, a happy voting block necessary to keep dimmocrat politicians in office.
Why isn’t the government paying these people to rebuild? You don’t pay people to rebuild what isn’t theirs. If you were living in government-paid housing, the rebuild money goes to the owners of the housing, not the occupants.
But ol’ Jesse ain’t gonna let that stop him form laughable protests.
The demonstrators marched to the intersection of Jourdan Avenue and North Galvez Street, where a levee breach destroyed surrounding neighborhoods in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The marchers included New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League.
Jesse is indeed quite a piece of work……..I read in the Sunday Hattiesburg American about the walk…gotta wonder why anyone would actually consider rebuilding the 9th Ward a good thing.. honestly. Why would anyone rebuild a slum???
I think you’re 100% on the mark here. When the buses carried folks out of NO they discovered a new world. One in which any ambition and diligence could be rewarded. And, unlike NO, places where the local government didn’t drag you down or abandon you–until election day.
If the former residents really wanted to come back to NO, they would have found a way to get back there and work on the rebuilding of their neighborhoods. Wouldn’t they?
Sure hope they (the NO cabal) don’t try to bus folks back for the next election or try mailing out all sorts of absentee ballots.
Time to cut the leash the dogs have already gone and they don’t want to come back.
When I came back to NOLA with a new job and a flooded home to rehab (largely done myself–don’t dodge those yearly calls from your insurance agent, folks), it wasn’t long before I noticed rush hour traffic to and from the CBD was just about like it had been before Katrina. That’s when I knew just about all the people I wanted back were back. The crime here has escalated in direct correlation with the return of public housing residents and denizens of certain well-known (by us locals) slum areas. I have some hope that those who’ve relocated have found better lives, but I suspect many have just gotten on the dole or moved into criminal/dependent cultures wherever they are. Jackson, Morial, and Nagin are clearly desperate, as are those of us who must fight against them at every turn. NOLA has a chance to get back some of the good it once had, when it was a racially and economically mixed city, as well as an engine of commerce and culture for the central Gulf region. Bulldozing projects, terminating social welfare programs, and funding infrastructure are the lynchpins and right now, even HUD is pushing in the right direction–don’t expect that if a demoncrat is POTUS next term. So help us get NOLA and the nation straightened out–get out the vote for Fred Thompson.
I think that Jesse has the brilliant intellect of a single match flame in the Namib Desert at high noon. On the other side of the coin he has the street smarts to use his own people for personal financial gain and they are dumb enough to follow him to the toilet just to soak up his aroma.
I suppose if Ray Nagin can get reelected it shouldn’t be too surprising that JJ can maintain such a following. Each is a mystery to me, but I think the chapters are of the same book.
BTW, I made a run to New Orleans, Opelousas, and Port Barre last week, arriving back home here in Florida with a small cooler full of crawfish tails, wild duck, and boudin. Oh yeah!!