Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Daemon
From : Frank Reid
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 06:48:00

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Daemon to Frank Reid on Wed Sep 07 2005 23:49:00

 >   Beyond that, though, there's an assertion of internal racism that I actual
 > have a little hard time even trying to swallow.  The city's - what - 63%
 > African American, and the local government is (if I'm not mistaken) almost
 > entirely so.

I'm out of my area on demographics dicussions, so I won't speculate on what is
happening.  I do know it's a social and not ethnic issue.  Statistically, my
community (Prince Georges County -- just east of D.C.) is 65% black and more
than 85% total ethnic minority (among the top five nationwide on that figure, I
think).  Like other close-in DC communities, we grapple with our share of
"urban" issues -- largely drug-related crimes.  However, we don't suffer from
systemic unemployment, political corruption or the other problems I'm sensing
might exist in the New Orleans culture.  I'm a stone's throw from the Columbia
Air Center ("Croom" section of the county), which is an airport opened in 1940
by localy black aviator hobbyists who encountered discrimination at other
DC-area airports then.  Poverty and affluence don't have inherent racial
borders.

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