This isn't even necessarily conspiratorial, just supported unintended consequences - that to some degree, crack and "crack for crackers" - meth - help ensure that no only are poor people otherwise occupied in trying to find fixes for misery, but that the communities themselves create armed structures surrounding economies that enslave people - see gang leaders as Kapos in the Nazi created ghettos and the whole issue of urban decay seems to have a little more logic and sustainability to it.
One of the first things that came to mind in looking at New Orleans is that the people who stayed behind seem to be poor and black. I have seen few white faces in the city of New Orleans. Where would the poor have gone? What would they have done for shelter, for money, for resources? Staying behind, even knowing what a disaster it would be, provided some potential for relief that would not have come if they left.
This really is our shameful tsunami. Why is it still true in America that rich white people's lives are worth so considerably more than anyone else's?
I wonder what will happen when the effects of the drug trade fully wear off. I think crime is only going to get worse in this country for a long time, especially now that so many so-called Christians are working so hard to either completely kill God off, or bring Armageddon on themselves absent a vengeful all-father.
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