'If this was a well-to-do White Neighborhood...' Duh

If it were not the area of the city most prevalent to flooding, it would be a well-to-do Neighborhood, white or otherwise, and re-building would not have then necessary. There is a reason that the real estates prices are lower there

That wasn't the only problem with that clip.

First, the reason so much of the lower 9th ward hasn't been rebuilt is the city of New Orleans won't let it rebuild to the preious construction standards. The landlords that owned the property don't want to spend the money and residential owners don't have the money or have left the area. The administration that insisted on these standards was led by a black man. The areas that were rebuilt were rebuilt by the owners, the government had little or nothing to do with it.

Second, the young Marine complained of the NG's patrolling the area stating they were unnecessary. That is utter BS. At the time of the filming NOLA was inundated with violent street crime and abandoned areas of the city were being looted. The NOLA PD was still in disarray and the NG was requested to help by the NOLA city leadership. He had zero clue what he was talking about.

Third, the lower 9th Ward will likely never be rebuilt for a couple of reasons. First, there simply isn't the population to live there. NOLA's population is about half what it was prior to Katrina. Most of those people will never return. Second, it is below sea level and the sea will not be denied. Even the Dutch are pulling back from their policy of building seawalls and are starting to let the sea back in to claim its old seabed. No one wants to spend the money necessary to build in the area,it makes no financial sense. The structure of New Orleans was permanently changed when Katrina flooded the city.

After the flood of 1993 whole towns in the Mississippi River Valley were moved and people of all collors told they could no longer build in the floodplain if they wanted access to flood insurance. Race and economic class had nothing to do with it. Typical controversy engendered by people who had no idea what they were talking about.

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