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Remains and all of the work yet left to be done. >> when i looked at that report today from the new orleans chapter of the urban league, i felt like the main thrust that i didn't fully understand i think before seeing it put in those terms, the main thesis was that a lot of what explains some of the -- a lot of what explains the racial disparity in the recovery, particularly some things about political representation and whether or not people are governing themselves and people are being governed according to a fair demographic sense, a lot of that is because the poorest neighborhoods and the ...

Dallas, or the green dot plan, that suggested that many of these historic african-american neighborhoods should not come back, that they should be turned into lagoons. there was a public uprising against that plan, but the effect it had is that it delayed, if you will, the comeback of a whole host of neighborhoods, both african-american middle class, working class and even some neighborhoods that were mixed and not necessarily african-american. secondly, the state's primary compensation program, the road home program, in fact was a program that was not evenly, fairly or equitably administered....

Didn't fully understand i think before seeing it put in those terms, the main thesis was that a lot of what explains some of the -- a lot of what explains the racial disparity in the recovery, particularly some things about political representation and whether or not people are governing themselves and people are being governed according to a fair demographic sense, a lot of that is because the poorest neighborhoods and the blackest neighborhoods are neighborhoods that people were less able to come back to, less able to move back into new orleans back into than other neighborhoods that tended ...

There was a public uprising against that plan, but the effect it had is that it delayed, if you will, the comeback of a whole host of neighborhoods, both african-american middle class, working class and even some neighborhoods that were mixed and not necessarily african-american. secondly, the state's primary compensation program, the road home program, in fact was a program that was not evenly, fairly or equitably administered. it was the target of a successful civil rights racial discrimination lawsuit. so the point is even after the immediate, if you will, stumbling and fumbling, there were...

Neighborhoods should not come back, that they should be turned into lagoons. there was a public uprising against that plan, but the effect it had is that it delayed, if you will, the comeback of a whole host of neighborhoods, both african-american middle class, working class and even some neighborhoods that were mixed and not necessarily african-american. secondly, the state's primary compensation program, the road home program, in fact was a program that was not evenly, fairly or equitably administered. it was the target of a successful civil rights racial discrimination lawsuit. so the point...