Class in America

I found the 3rd January 2007 episode of Oprah very interesting. I watch the show not too often, but could not resist this episode because of its theme. Of particular interest to me was when a Mr Karl Muth, an investment banking heir, discussed how some of the public housing has been converted into condominiums. There was a segment from a documentary by one of the heirs of the Johnson & Johnson made companies. Mr. Muth comments snagged my attention, as the body changes, he saidThe result threatens to happen here in New Orleans. What could be the trend from occurring is to stop here, that some of our public housing buildings could actually be historical landmarks. Other than that, there are plans, including the demolition of some public housing in stadiums and buildings, which will hopefully build mixed-income neighborhoods. Residents who have lived in public housing demolished first dibs on the security of newly built houses and apartments. The city hasalready successfully achieved this objective when they tore the St. Thomas housing project built and neighborhoods, which are called the "River Gardens." These particular quarter even managed to escape from all the flooding, when she was near the Mississippi River Bank, which curves through the city.

I think, demolition, as many of the old projects and rebuilding it in the fashion of "River Gardens" a good thing. I think that the new housing plays a role in the improvement of the class.People seem to feel better about the new home and work harder to keep clean the area, and where the crime once plagued the area, it has become rare since the new housing was built. I remember a shooting happened in the region before Katrina, and was pleased with the local news to see how excited and singing the neighbors over to try to continue to fight crime. The improved housing is no magic pill, but it seems at least get people with differentClasses to live closer together, creating a stronger sense of community.

I think that another revelation of Katrina and the dam that injuries forced us (Americans) are facing is the fact that class has no role in this country, and that there is more of the working poor than we might want to admit. It is as if the homeless and those who remember the "low income" and "working poor", as some of us are "a paycheck or a serious illness," as Oprah talked about it from our classreduced. "We" could "they." And it scares us. Some of us prefer not to see, so that the homeless and working poor have become invisible.

Many people on the devastation that New Orleans will be taken care of, but there were people who thought (and probably still think), the New Orleans, which earned the city. And I can not help thinking that those who believe to do so because they think that New Orleans is, or was that fromespecially poor people.

I'm always baffled by the barriers we between us, and will never forget how the Hurricane Katrina roared through the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans, exploding these obstacles as the storm broke the walls of the dikes.