Why does no one like to engage dialogs on these variables within our society ?? We as people can't find answer's lest we make subject matter of these things. in as simple term items.
Anyone can drive and look and see, it does not take a PhD study or a year long task force of a 100 meeting to determine the erosion and expanding ghetto's some areas have become. common sense , eyes open awareness shows reality, in everyday realism. Go to some parts of the city that are overcome with much despair and people are simply lost within a loop of a deteriorating community, Look at our areas of despair - Motown, Cedar Grove, Queensborough, MLK- Cooper Road Area, Ledbedder, Area around Woodlawn High, Lakeside around Booker Washington, North Highland. Look at the demise of Southern Hills when the population became mixed, its commerce fell like a giant rock, with the removal of major commerce.
People caught in the waver of a nations pursuit of everyone being an elite executive, in process of administration elitism, they forget about basic and simple function of modifying policy so that it functions with common sense doctrine, and simplified navigation and proactive movement's of rebuilding with equality in premise and equality as its principle concern in how it does so - not like before of a biased and segregated program and policy of which many policies were constructed in the ages before, which many still exist in today's systems. but to go in and redesign policy, to deal with 'full circle equality" and how the policy is structured and how it is designed for general interpretation's.
Anyone who pretends to be unaware of the fact our past policies which still exist in the way policy is managed, as designed in a time, when equality was not a vague concern to be afforded city wide. Our past policies were designed in the middle of a segregated society, and nothing about a policy that was designed in a segregated society, had a concern to deal with full circle equality, they were designed with the slant for general interpretation to follow the process of separate but unequal.. and that runs the gambit from how things are funded, to even the considerations of what will and will not be funded, and the resulting disparity and imbalance and bias, in which area could and could not get funding. Those are models, created and designed for the quick super-imposing of unspoken redlining policy, which was and is done by "implication" and that implication has influence current day attitudes, to be "denial to consider", obstinacy to invoke change" and selectively blindness to the reality of the resulting distress, and lack of consideration of how it results to simply, expand the nature of what is considered ghetto, by the conditions and appearance which results.
How people choose to selectively ignore this and pretend it is not so, is the most absurd things imaginable. $10 dollars worth of gas, a car and 2 hours of riding around, can reveal more things than any administrative task force with its choice of selective blindness and skim over and diminish reality factors, will uncover or even address if they task it for a year. By the time they finish their meetings, the nature of the ghetto expansion will have spread 10 block or more in every direction, eventually connecting them into a mass multi area connected ghetto..
Some how people in general society, all over this nations, got hung up into trying to fit image models of elite politically correct administrators, more than a functionally pro-active leaders in getting things done. The result is nothing gets done but a lot of meeting are held- and the bottleneck process continue, while the city spread into a wider ghetto with inter-connections to other areas, resulting in an expanded ghetto by its conditions and appearance.
And everyone of these areas are minority dominant populations. We as a city have not arrived at any level of achievement as a city in these areas, We have seen more and more of these mentioned areas, simply deteriorate and fall into ghetto status, by its conditions and appearances. Unfortunately, beyond having access to have some minorities appointed and elected to positions, but that has failed to change the dynamic deprivation of these areas. If anything by some means, some of these areas have simply become worst in conditions and imagery, leaving reality in the over-all process. which is a very perplexing set of reality variables to consider.
Unfortunately they get the same neglect as they received in times and ages before- instead of change, not only do the people see these areas as hopeless, even the people in charge of them have a hopeless mindset about them, to the point there are no proactive highly functioning programs, that truly reach to address much of it, and not even to seek out ways to make dialog about what are the issue and how can the issues and challenges be approached to find ways to make change.
The city made more progress in these areas in the late 1960's and it simply stopped flat in its tracks by the mid to late 1980's. the only gains has been in seated position, but has not resulted to show any gain in area enhancements or improvements- but anyone can drive their car down any street in any of the aforementioned areas. and all that is seen is an expanding ghetto environment- which results in areas getting a "don't go there label" attached to them. now any who care to dispute this, all you need do is ask yourself, where do you go and where it is that you do not go? and then ask yourself what is the perception as to why you don't go to the areas you avoid ? then in basic simplicity, does that not imply that failure is at some multiple levels in our system and process of city concerns.
I try to read the internet news - but I've not seen not one council district proposal of what their needs are posted: Not one proposal that outlines what kind of stimulus these individual and distinct districts need. From the State Reps of the districts as Representative districts, why is their proposals not published in the paper ? Even from a Parish stand - where are their proposals and why no media print of these proposals? Surely Economic Development should have had a proposal published as to what they want or need or aim for as to stimulus programs, and Community Development, should have had a proposal published as to what they want or need or aim for as to stimulus programs - but none of this stuff has even been vaguely mentioned- not even considered to be published for general consumption. Should we all not find that to be a very curious situation that begs for inquiry ??
Everything President Obama outlines, these areas are prime locations to implement these rebuild programs - from retro fitting homes, to every category of program that one can imagine, these areas are ripe for the creation of it.
Nothing in the Stimulus Budget addressed anything beyond roads, airport , parks and water and sewer -- but the Presidents plan made note to speak about the winterizing of homes - our area never even considered to jump on the wagon and denote that need in our areas, but each year.. we have peoples homes burning down from trying to figure out how to heat them and keep the heat in.
Our city functions with the same principle of being re-morphed into a separate but unequal environment, and no one addresses it, and if its even mentioned , suddenly no one wants to talk.. and immediately flee from anyone who even remotely mentioned these things need to be addressed. I don't get it..
Even the recent article about moving a dump to MLK area, and claim it is good for factory jobs.. why does no one consider the ramification of a dump being in an already devastated community. If they want to build a re-mold and re-process of raw material into usable commodity, the dump does not need to sit right next door to the plan; We have more trucks in this area than many area have in an entire region. and we have more remote locations to build a landfill and surely not in an area that has that proximity to the same lake we get our water from- in 10 years the plume from such a landfill will probably cause toxins in the water, and with the shallow water table of the south, it may happen before 10 years.
If they want a Factory in MLK, what is wrong with working with the glass factory, and finding out how to make glass suitable for solar panels, and have a solar panel plant placed in MLK area. then it has jobs that have progressive and respectable function to show people industry that meets with the future in a better way. now combine that with factory that re-mold and re-cast raw materials.. but in now way does a dump need to be there. the people have been dumped on enough over the ages..
Look around our city, they turned away from small business and turned our city over to Wal mart.. and every place there is a wal mart, there are closed and abandoned grocery stores, and small business with closed signs, or they are simply abandoned building. and no one seem to see the realism of it, yet there are cities that turned away Wal mart because they did the study and found those fact to be true.. but instead Shreveport Bossier, allowed 5 of them to decimate a region with only a fraction over 1/4 million people. and wal mart pays low wages and cheap under performing benefits. and they cart the money out of our region before we even get a chance to recirculation of any generated income whicht the area produces. Continually big business show the power they have to control neighborhoods, by the fact of their closure, when they leave the area is devastated.. and still it can't see that it can only support and maintain itself with stability by supporting the re-creation of small business, which keeps its money circulating in its own communities.
We have a state willing to pump millions to beg corporations to say, and they turn it down and close shop anyway.. and yet we can't see the need to use that same offered money to support small business and change the policy and actually respect the support of small business as start up, as well as ongoing. We have a anti start policy, that does not support start ups,.. and then we wonder why there is slow to non existent new business.
Its pretty certain no one will address anything with a response, because I see even the articles in the paper. don't garner much commentary that addressed the need for this city and region to invest in its own people. or to see all it's people with equal eyes of regard as persons.
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