Rights conference focuses on Katrina

[struggle4progress]

Associated PressNEW YORK - New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina must be allowed to return and have the chance to profit from the rebuilding effort, NAACP President Bruce Gordon said Sunday ...

"We have to make sure that the housing stock that is recreated is ultimately occupied by those who owned a home before Katrina," Gordon said at a news conference kicking off the conference.

The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said that 20 years from now "there will be generations of families who will become multimillionaires because they participated in the restoration of the Gulf Coast."

"We need to make sure that the folks who watched their homes washed away are the same ones who have jobs, who run companies, and participate in the economic uplift that I assure you will occur 10 to 15 to 20 years from now," Gordon said ...

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[mom cat]

1. Absolutely! K&R

[EFerrari]

2. TG for the NAACP.

:kick:

[pitohui]

3. the city is open now, if you want to return, RETURN

if you think you are going to become a multi-millionaire, then what are you waiting for?

come on down

the city has been open, even the lower 9th ward, for a month now and more for some zip codes, your house is never going to be in any better shape than it is today, time to see the situation for yourself and either get it knocked down or get to the repairs

you know, there are places that are actually still closed, like cameron parish, but that's a few hundred miles from orleans!

no one is stopping anyone from returning and i wish instead of talking abt it the people would go ahead and return, the black democratic voter is our best defense against the "nut" element like david duke getting into office in louisiana

the truth is no one rebuilding their home here is going to become any multi-millionaire, but if you think you will, by all means come make an offer on my house, i'll let it go for way less than that

in the words of ray nagin, we don't need any more goddamn press conferences

we need action

best thing any of our leaders can do is to pressure insurance companies and governments to hurry up and give people their damn cash so they can either make the repairs or make the knockdown and start the rebuilding