So while the United Nations does not pull the weigh and wield the influence it once did, nonetheless it is an important entity worldwide. United Nations experts have weighed in on the debate over public housing in New Orleans and has accused the U.S. federal government and local authorities of forcing predominantly black residents into homelessness.
The experts have said that decisions by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and local governments to demolish public housing units violate the human rights of some New Orleans residents. They say thousands of families displaced by Hurricane Katrina will be affected, and that mostly blacks will be evicted.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the chaos and fallout made New Orleans seem like a Third World country. I thought I was watching news reports of hurricane relief efforts, or the lack thereof, in Haiti, for example.
I believe that the powers that be want to recreate a new New Orleans and that plan does not include blacks in the predominantly black areas. Here we are in Iraq trying to make life better for them when we cannot even get it right in New Orleans. It is a sad commentary, but what say you?
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