I wanted to blog today..

... but I dont necessarily have anything to say, How about I just update you on my housing situation...

Everything is good, We haven't moved yet, when we do I'll start working probably no less than a month of Hibernating in the new home. It's cold and it's also Winter in America.

Migrations of the past and migrations of the present.

Seems like everything is a Cycle. we have learned about many times were people have migrated from where ever to America, Then when they got here we seperated and migrated, we shifted people around. then everytime disaster strikes people have to move from one place to another. .. When Katrina happened it was like a great migration. The Katrina people are Everywhere now. Some are back to their home towns, Others are still Displaced or Found a home elsewhere. Thousands will never return back to the city. This only means that The People from the South are Bringing Southern Style Everywhere. thats a good thing. as our white and black people moved from the south, So did the Latin Community, people from South America, Mexico And Elsewhere are all in New Orleans now.. and they arent leaving. its not a bad thing because it adds on to our culture..

Just Imaging.. the PoBoys we get from those corner stores that we call "Louisiana Made" .. wer made by some Iranians and some Vietnamese people .. Speaking of the Vietnamese; The guy who my mom will be Renting from IS a Vietnamese man. .. yet we have black people who get mad because they run the corner store.. they also own The house homes they used to live in when they were here...now we need to live in them..lol ..

Thats one thing about Black people in N.O that we need to seriously get straight. WE cant get mad at the Foreign residents, they are coming here doing what they have to do to survive in America. Us black dont own the Corner store because We aren't making an effort to buy in to one. Another thing about Corner stores. is that Most of them Sell Liquor.. Of course we all say, They do that to keep the blacks down But NO! we don't have to BUY nor Support these stores who sell it. but then You cant avoid it it because EVERY store near our schools and hoods Sell Liquor. what you can Refrain from is purchasing certian goods, because then they'll notice that nobody wants what they sell.

Sere Street had...

• Feltons A&G Food Store
• a Hole in the Wall (which was used as a Bar, Club and game room in the past)
• The Snowball Shop (or Sweet Shop)
• Burnell's Which was renamed "King's" no less than a year before Katrina.
• Mr. Harrison's Sweet shop
• Asia Baptist Church.. which used to have a daycare center there also

All the store's sold Liquor except for the snowball shop, Most of the time Kids would go to Mr. Harrison's. Which he knew everyones parents so he wouldn't sell liquor or cigarettes to the kids ... Burnell's had drug activity every now and then, and a whole lot of loitering. They weren't black either. they hired blacks though. Mike was cool, it just was his people who had the store bad ...

Outside of the neighborhood from Sere were other stores and The Gym .. at onetime you had to pass up a grown folks liquor lounge to get to the Gym.. Many people had been killed in that area .. a barbershop another snowball/liquor shop


On St. Bernard...

• Stop Jockin' - Barbershop, Sweetshop Carwash and everything.... owned by Jimmy, a black dude originally from the neighborhood. It used to be a sweetshop black when we were young.
• There were about 4 Clinic's One specifically for Dentistry. They wre black owned
  
• There are A Number of Churches on St Bernard .. I think there are 4 to be exact.
• Spiders Food store (and liquor store)..
• The Rising Sun (which was used for multi purposes_ Mainly rented as a hall ...and once was Harrison's sweetshop in the past.
• Galaxy was a Vietnamese owned store that sold platters like spiders. The real name of the store was "Liberty" ..but the previous name was Galaxy ..
  
• there was a 2 game rooms in that building but one was replaced with a doctors office LONG after they closed
• Safari Supermarket .. shame .. It burned once and many have been arrested and shot there...
  

Off St Bernard both ways were Schools, The Old Shoe town, A Laundromat a senior home.. post office, masonic gathering place , food stamp office but the more you see that was the more outside of the general area you were..

Senate Street....

• Jimmy's which was turned in to Handy's also known as THE CORNER STORE by day and the Liquor store at night ..lol
• a home whiich turned into a chirch
• a laundromat

Outside of that was a Church .. and in the past there was a laundromat and a sweetshop by day.. Club by night kinda place ... Burned down way back...

Hamburg Street

• Food Pantry
• Catholic School and Church
  
• Another Baptist church
  

And thats all...

now To sum this stuff all up .. We had

More Churches and Liquor Stores in the community than EVERYTHING .. why? I dont know .. its crazy though..lol


.. All of this is know by me and Useless to you ..lol I lost myself

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