Battleangel

Corny and obfuscating metaphors aside, there is a real issue here. Apparently, in Neo-con/lib but old-school-racist America, “low intensity ethnic cleansing” is on the menu. Same result, just less messy.

Sploid - ‘Chocolate City’ losing 80 percent of Blacks - Despite Mayor Ray Nagin’s call for New Orleans to come back as a majority-black “Chocolate City,” a new study says up to 80 percent of black residents may never return.

All-black areas of the city got substantially more flood damage than mixed or white-majority areas.

“There’s very good reason for people to be concerned that the future New Orleans will not be a place for the people who used to live there, that there won’t be room in New Orleans for large segments of the population that used to call it home,” said the study’s author, Brown University sociologist John R. Logan.

One also has to seriously consider the evidence of levee sabotage, which would make a lot of sense now, as one has the recent changes in ethnic demographics in fresh memory. The deviously brilliant thing of course is that there isn’t a damn thing anyone can do about it, as noted “half the people who lived in those flood-ravaged neighborhoods were renters.”