New Orleans Is Not Chocolate City Anymore, But That’s OK


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Fast-forward to 2013, and New Orleans – a.k.a. “Chocolate Cityâ€￾ – ain’t no more. NOLA now has only one citywide elected official who is not white. Yes, just one. Sheriff Marlin Gusman is it. The mayor, two council-at-large positions, the district attorney, coroner and major appointed positions in the police and fire chiefs are all white.

So what happened to Chocolate City? Well, for one thing Katrina happened. Hurricane Katrina chased a lot of the underclass from NOLA, mostly black and poor, and replaced them with upwardly mobile white folks who have changed the landscape around the city with their gentrification of neighborhoods and eclectic homes and businesses. The city of New Orleans, once nearly 75-percent black, now is only about 62-percent black. It is more conservative and more affluent.

http://negrovoice.com/2013/08/20/new-orleans-is-not-chocolate-city-anymore-but-thats-ok/
 
As a visitor that loves the City of New Orleans I still look at New Orleans as "chocolate City". It's more than French Quarter/Bourbon Street...and the only New Orleans City Official I've EVER known was Ray Nagin and I"ve been visiting New Orleans since I was a kid.
 



CEE DOG said:
When we have control we abuse it. So is life.............
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Surely this is a typo. White folks don't abuse authority?:noidea::lol:

By the way, many of the New Orleans folks were intentionally displaced due to a government operation during Katrina.
 
Not the Government dude. I am talking about the thugs who terrorize our streets and neighborhoods fighting over turf that will never be theirs!!! All politicians are crooks. Just like all rich people have done dirt. No way around it in those situations.
JayRob said:
Surely this is a typo. White folks don't abuse authority?:noidea::lol:

By the way, many of the New Orleans folks were intentionally displaced due to a government operation during Katrina.
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I was in New Orleans last weekend. Nothing much has drastically changed from my view. However, I haven't traveled around the city entirely. Still pretty much up and running from what I saw.
 
ALPHA3 said:
Please explain. Downtown New Orleans and the French Quarter is not representative of the entire city.
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I was not referring to Downtown and the French Quarter. When my brother was at Xavier from 84-88 you could feel the "blackness" and a sense of pride. Then when my cousin was there from 88-92 at Xavier I was old enough to explore other parts of the city and it was still there. Then when my other cousin was at Xavier from 96-2000 you can tell that the AFrican Americans still had that hope going.

Then having to go there with the DoD after Katrina you feel that emptiness....like there was something missing but you could not pin point it. It is definitely something missing but I just can't describe it...

My cousin Keith who graduated in 92 died recently and we had a funeral for him at Xavier Dr. Francis talked about this while giving the Eulogy saying that the uniqueness of the African American community helped to grow New Orleans.
 
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I was not referring to Downtown and the French Quarter. When my brother was at Xavier from 84-88 you could feel the "blackness" and a sense of pride. Then when my cousin was there from 88-92 at Xavier I was old enough to explore other parts of the city and it was still there. Then when my other cousin was at Xavier from 96-2000 you can tell that the AFrican Americans still had that hope going.

Then having to go there with the DoD after Katrina you feel that emptiness....like there was something missing but you could not pin point it. It is definitely something missing but I just can't describe it...

My cousin Keith who graduated in 92 died recently and we had a funeral for him at Xavier Dr. Francis talked about this while giving the Eulogy saying that the uniqueness of the African American community helped to grow New Orleans.
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Cool, I'm not against what you're saying I just wanted to know the opinion of someone not from there. The landscape of New Orleans was already changing before Katrina hit. Katrina just sped the process up. After I was leaving the Saints game this past Friday, I drove through area where the Melmophine and Magnolia projects once stood. Where these projects once stood, individual homes now stand that really look nice. I told my dad it looks like people have pride in these homes as the areas look nice and gone are corner the stores, crowds, broken glass and broken down cars. I don't like that it took a hurricane to spur positive social change but it was change that was needed. Something must be going right with the recent annoucement of Tiffany & Co becoming the anchor store for Canal Place. They just rehabed an entire Mid City neighborhood bringing various new companies and that COSTCO across from Xavier is a monster.
 
jsupop33 said:
Man, that neighborhood by Xavier was still too hot for me when I lived there in 2007.
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Are you referring to Gert Town on the other side of the canal? If so, how in the L did you end up over there? LOL! You must me talking about the neighborhood that school sits right smack in the middle of.
 
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The city of New Orleans, once nearly 75-percent black, now is only about 62-percent black.
http://negrovoice.com/2013/08/20/new-orleans-is-not-chocolate-city-anymore-but-thats-ok/
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This goes to show that Black folks don't vote nor stick together, especially in New Orleans. 62% Black is still a significant majority. I know this Black female who moved from New Orleans to New Iberia after Katrina and she worked as a nurse in the state charity hospital system. She was able to relocate her job to the charity hospital in Lafayette. Recently, she has been very concerned about her position being eliminated due to the cuts by the Jindal administration. I asked her did she vote in the last gubernatorial election and she said no. She didn't think her vote would have made any difference. After listening to her tell me this, I got the strange feeling that she wasn't alone in her thoughts.
 
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JAG89 said:
This goes to show that Black folks don't vote nor stick together, especially in New Orleans. 62% Black is still a significant majority. I know this Black female who moved from New Orleans to New Iberia after Katrina and she worked as a nurse in the state charity hospital system. She was able to relocate her job to the charity hospital in Lafayette. Recently, she has been very concerned about her position being eliminated due to the cuts by the Jindal administration. I asked her did she vote in the last gubernatorial election and she said no. She didn't think her vote would have made any difference. After listening to her tell me this, I got the strange feeling that she wasn't alone in her thoughts.
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This is how a bunch of people think.
 
ALPHA3 said:
Are you referring to Gert Town on the other side of the canal? If so, how in the L did you end up over there? LOL! You must me talking about the neighborhood that school sits right smack in the middle of.
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:emlaugh: the stories I can tell you about them hoodrats in Gert Town....:emlaugh:
 
ALPHA3 said:
This is how a bunch of people think.
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Sure, but 62% is still a strong majority. If 100% of the 38% minority voted, it would only take 81% of that 62% majority to maintain the overall majority. This is one of the reasons why the Democratic Party in Louisiana is so weak.
 
I knew once some black people moved away from New Orleans and got better jobs many wouldn't return. I run into folks all the time from N.O. in ATL. that are doing a little better than they were at home. I agree with 89 though. The AA that are still in the Big Easy have to be more vigilant about getting to the polls. Whites in metro N.O. in particular and Louisiana in general have been wanting to gain control of the city for a very long time. Katrina has certainly facilitated what they were not able to do. Can't help but thinking about that song that is near and dear to my heart, "Do You Know What it Means To Miss New Orleans."

[video=youtube;m4jU8IQK5b0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=m4jU8IQK5b0[/video]
 
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Still seems the same to me. Hopefully I can move there one of these days once my nest egg is built up enough. I love New Orleans.
 
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