re: Cedric Richmond wants to fight over the FACTS of NOLA being talked about.

I grew up out there where Cedric comes from. I know the area. I watched as his neighborhood became "da hood" I remember when it was relatively safe except for some high school kids trying to steal car radios. Then I watched as the area became increasingly violent...The fact that the violence increased as the the amount of Section 8 housing and government vouchers grew seems to be very causative to me. Richmond would do to get his butt back into the old neighborhood and maybe see how it has changed. grocery stores.....no commercial shopping .....no decent places to eat....depressed home values.....high rates of property crime, lots of assaults, home burglary....did I mention lots of murders now....yeah lots of murders.

I haven't lived there since I went to law school in the late 1980's....but I do keep track of things there. Still have lots of friends whose parents both black and white (mostly black) who still live there and Cedric does not do a damned thing to help them