And They Ask Should New Orleans Be Rebuilt? Hell Yes!!!

It is really amazing to me that the question should New Orleans be rebuilt is being asked. Though I have quoted on engineer on a previous post who stated unless there was enough money to build New Orleans, it should not be rebuilt. However to actually question whether this city should be rebuilt to me is frankly Ludicrous. According to the gentleman from the Army Corp of Engineers there was a .05 percent chance of a Category Five hurricane hitting the Gulf coast. It hit. Houses that had stood for CENTURIES were demolished all across the gulf from Alabama to Louisiana. Katrina was no ordinary Hurricane. This is a question that absolutely should not be asked. Maybe if the federal government had given Louisiana the money to fortify their structures part of this tragedy could have been mitigated.

Furthermore it seems to me that their is an element of prejudice towards people living in the south to even question this issue. New Orleans and the people of the Gulf paid federal taxes just like the rest of the country. They should get the money to rebuild their states and cities. Let's not forget that Southern Blacks and Whites and Urban Blacks all over the country are the ones over in Iraq Fighting for out country. Louisiana sent 2200 men from the National Guard to fight over in Iraq and only God knows how many of the men from the Gulf are fighting in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Navy. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Are we funding billions to build and rebuild Iraq. Hell Yes!!

Finally, I am so surprised that the question is seriously being considered when we have hundreds of millions of people living on the coast of California with greater odds than .05 percent of being earthquakes into the ocean. We have folks in Florida we watch every year who say after every Hurricane, "Oh we'll rebuild" and the government comes through every year with the money and even back to California wild fires ravage southern California every year and folks say rebuild and do rebuild. This is a National Tragedy let's not make it worst. Everyone gets to rebuild except the deep south.

As for New Orleans I have questioned why the Levy was not fortified to a category five Levy but their is a lot that can be questioned. If New Orleans is not rebuilt or given he funds. I hope that the good citizens living on the coast and the San Andreas Fault and in the Natural wild Fire Zones are given orders to evacuate. I hope that when the citizens of the state where the president brother is governer have their houses knocked down year after year that they are told not this time after the 100th year of hurricane relief that they can no longer build in these zones.

Finally the way that this New Orleans incident has gone down is being quietly questioned by many. They are questioning why the evacuation automatically included relocation plans, in other words a bus ticket out but don't return. Some are even questioning whether the Levy could have been exploded by someone. In order to get all of those black poor people out of there. For I know that New Orleans is being rebuilt right now. The lights are on and the rich and the upper middle class have plan on returning but the largely black population of New Orleans is gone. Not just the poor and destitute and hopeless but the black people who actually liked living in New Orleans living in black neighborhoods. While living in San Francisco I was told by someone that San Francisco was offering anyone who wanted to leave a free bus ticket out of the city, evidently this was being done to try to get rid of portions of the underclass. Unfortunately there were not many takers, I suppose if the city of New Orleans had made the same offer not many would not have accepted the offer. Unfortunately if the blacks choose not to return they will be knocking out a large part of the culture of New Orleans which has it roots as Creole African French and and???? Unfortunately the people who just left New Orleans were not just deep in residents but had been there for generations, this is their heritage which I personally hope that they don't abandon. For as many who have relocated to other parts of the country know their is nothing like a heritage and having a family to mind the homefires of your heritage no matter how dysfunctinal it helps to always have a place and know that place is where you are from and your heritage lies.


#### As usual not checked for spelling and grammar or grammar. Sorry!!!!!