tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20306110.post5032240225976380864..comments2023-06-06T08:36:19.228-05:00Comments on Unbeached Whale: A Reading List for the Down Trodden but Hopeful Hearted in All Matters of LoveLittlemilkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08875308841224185781noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20306110.post-63908696056985501292007-08-16T01:06:00.000-05:002007-08-16T01:06:00.000-05:00"The whole medical care debacle scares me tremendo..."The whole medical care debacle scares me tremendously. The educational system seems to be comatose."<BR/><BR/>Yes, c'est un vrai mess. And they took total advantage of this to whiten the place. It is as though it had been planned. They want to demolish the old French Quarter Woolworth's - the one that had the sit-ins for integrated lunch counters - and put in a parking structure with condos on top. Put 18 holes of golf on the old St. Bernard housing project, it seems.<BR/>Etc. How the h*** do they think N.O. got to be N.O.? Not like that.<BR/><BR/>But: Lafcadio Hearn in the 19th century said things were so bad, the government was so inept, that if he explained it nobody would believe it. This in the 19th century U.S. which I have heard was very uncomfortable generally. !<BR/><BR/>It is *hard* to live there now but you can still feel the city - not dead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20306110.post-32249600814398579522007-08-15T19:46:00.000-05:002007-08-15T19:46:00.000-05:00That really bothers me. In New York City politics...That really bothers me. In New York City politics run on this completely different parallel concerning money and management. It seems that we are voting in our mayoral elections for those with the best vision for the 5 disparaging boroughs and their ethnically divided component parts.<BR/><BR/>N.O. politics are really cut on some clear race lines – a tick for tack sort of game concerning pedigree and citizenry. And I really believe this hurricane has kicked up all that rhetoric concerning "blacks" managing themselves versus competency. <BR/>Blacks and Competency, Blacks and Competency go together like a horse and carriage in American politics.<BR/><BR/>Those that are designing the city do not want poor blacks to come back. There is a price out going on. I just wonder how the violence is going to play into equation. The true wild card.<BR/><BR/>It is all very suspenseful from a far; I just wonder what it is like to live there. The whole medical care debacle scares me tremendously. The educational system seems to be comatose. And the Southern political machine that I witnessed in Tennessee seems so much stronger the further south you go. It is a not only a good ole boy sort of world, it is also one that judges all of its players by that yardstick. The lack of confidence people have in the governor and the mayor have been whispered to me by free flowing well liquored white boy Confederate lips more than once. No kissing was involved Cero. I promise.Littlemilkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08875308841224185781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20306110.post-625178617438923342007-08-15T10:57:00.000-05:002007-08-15T10:57:00.000-05:00"My assessment at this point is that we are produc..."My assessment at this point is that we are producing adults who are functionally illiterate in 2 languages"<BR/><BR/>YES. It is really scandalous.<BR/><BR/>OT: I haven't figured it all out. Some say it will ruin our credibility - another corrupt politician. Others say it will improve it - we got him. Still other say there is a movement up to get rid of corrupt *Black* politicians so that the white ones can rake it all in again. I am slightly at sea as well...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20306110.post-42749725156495665472007-08-14T18:21:00.000-05:002007-08-14T18:21:00.000-05:00Yeah. A friend is going to Port-au-Prince this mo...Yeah. A friend is going to Port-au-Prince this month. I could not make it, I had too many obligations before fall to really make it happen.<BR/><BR/>Maybe next year. <BR/><BR/>What are people saying about the OT scandal in New Orleans? I am really wigged out. I read the NY Times piece, but I have yet to get to the Times Picayune. I started, but just couldn't bring myself to read past the first paragraph.Littlemilkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08875308841224185781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20306110.post-35114914277180998042007-08-14T09:08:00.000-05:002007-08-14T09:08:00.000-05:00I would love to go to Haiti.I would love to go to Haiti.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com