re: The Old NOLA East - pictures from the Plaza at Lake Forest

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It almost seemed like it was intentional ghettoization of the area. A conquest if you will.

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The politics of the day would never have characterized it that way, but you're right. It's largely analogous to "equity" efforts today. The problem then was simple and unsubtle: you can't inculcate a sense of moral responsibility into people by placing them into better surroundings when they had no sense of moral responsibility from the start.

Today, the masks are off. The politics of envy mandates that anyone with more achieved it through ill-gotten means, or they're the beneficiary of a corrupt system designed to favor them. Thus, it must all be dismantled.

The end result is the same.