We Want Our Hood Back

Of course you all know that im from the the St. Bernard Projects in the 7th ward of New Orleans.
I've told you of how we've been back and were turned away & all sorts of things related to my hood after katrina. Well.. Here's whats real. I just read an article on NOLA.com about how hhere a rally in my hood that turned violent.. Here's part of that article...

"This is our home," said Pamela Mahogany, moments after a small but volatile group of residents pushed and pulled on a chain-link fence in a brief tug-of-war with HANO security. The fracas ended when HANO officials called in police officers.

"Everyone who lives in the projects is not on welfare," said Mahogany, a licensed practical nurse in New Orleans, now living across town with her 16-year-old son. "Everyone does not sell drugs. Guess what? I ain't never sold none in my life. Guess what? I'm a nurse and I work every day. They got good and bad on the Lakefront. In Eastover, they got bad people. If you get rid of public housing, you're not going to get rid of it (drugs)."

Read the Full article HERE


Here's a section that Disagree's with that statement on some things, I believe & agree with some of this part also But I'll express my opinion after this quote

HANO spokesman Adonis Expose said. "It's still closed."

And that's just fine with Sonya Davis, 47, a former tenant who relocated to Houston after the storm.

"It's a drug-infested, crime-ridden murder trap," Davis said Tuesday over the phone from Houston. Davis, who worked in food service for Orleans Parish schools, said she lived in St. Bernard as a young girl and later as a young mother, but had moved out for good several months before Katrina.

"If you put that thing back up, the whole city is going down," said Davis, who lived in the 6th Ward with a Section 8 voucher before the storm, and liked it.

Temporary housing

St. Bernard was essentially put out of its misery by Katrina, Davis said, and the former tenants need to move on. Public housing is not meant to be a permanent home for generations, she said.

"They need to get out of that mentality," she said. "Life goes on. This is over with. You want to come back to something better. You want to move up and on."

Pre-Katrina, HANO helped house 14,000 families -- 50,000 people -- in complexes or through the federal Section 8 subsidy program.

I Know this lady, She's one of my friends moms. She also was one of the few saying that she wanted to go back to the hood. I guess she's had a change of heart

OK... New Orleans as a whole was Drug & crime infested.. That was apart of N.O's Bad Side but we lived there. Same with our hood .. The SBP had become of of the worst hoods in N.O. over the past 5 years. and it didnt get any better... but you're saying these things when These were yours/mines and everybodies Family, Friends Children associates involved in these things. That was the PEOPLE not the BUILDINGS.. I dont care how bad the hood was. you lived there. I lived there It was our home. .. You moved out when you could which was good for you.. Your Son was still In the drug/crime infested hood doing his thing with the drugs himself, but yet he was living with you. in a "House" that you liked.. so this means that you're in a drug infested area still .. .. look at what happened in Katrina .. your "House" was Destroyed and the Bricks are still standing.
Residents should be allowed back if they want to make the area clean and better...
they arent going back to do anything bad. None of that is there anymore. We need places to say.
She is right about how The Hood is supposed to be Temporary Housing and You shouldnt have that " I wanna go back to the hood" maintaliity...But yet thats for people who Make it out on there own like she did and not by force.. .. But wait .. she made it our of "the Projects" but she stood in a Section 8 Housing Which was Still Like Being in The Projects. The difference was that One was a House or apartment in a regular neighborhood..& not built as a mass complex like the Projects in N.O. .. She's talkin' that talk But Section 8 is supposed to be Temporary Also. You Dont Own your home lady!!...

Mrs Davis is one of the Good Residents, Didnt bother nobody .. same as My family. but we lived and grew up around this stuff for years so i dont think that we should degrade what we've been around our whole life after Surviving Da Hood... Its not the buildings that make the people. Its Ignorance that leads to the maintality of The Projects..

We want to go back there because its a HOME .. Moving on for us would be Staying away from N.O. as a whole because everything you said about Our hood was The same way in the 6th ward and everywhere else.

Temporary Housing is Basically Anything You Live in & Do Not Own. so Mrs Davis. Untill you Own Your Home You Dont need to talk about my neighborhood. Especially Due to the Fact that EVERYBODY THAT ONCE LIVED IN THE PROJECTS TENDS TO RUN BACK TO THE PROJECTS WHEN HURRICANES COME Why BECAUSE WE HAVE HIGH BUILDING.. YOU WERE IN THE HOOD WHEN U SURVIVED THE HURRICANE. .. THE ST BERNARD PROJECTS SAVED YOUR LIFE. IT SAVED MY LIFE!

I LOVE MY HOOD & If it ever comes to a point that I should move back, I sure would move into the same hood.


If You all notice how they say the word "We" alot in that article.. Well I'll say this ..

There is no "We" WithOut "US" there..
Point Blank...


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