Bye Bye La Loca

[sereneorange]

As I was coming home last night, La Loca was driving off. She played "Two bits and a haircut" on her car horn and really laid on the horn for the last note. She didn't see me, so I think it was just a good bye to the apartments and the residents. I am glad she left in the dark. That car of hers will never make it in the sun. I am not entirely sure it will make it out of the city. 

She had said in the appeal trial that she was getting a FEMA trailer and just needed a week. She took the full two weeks. I hope she does have something waiting for her. I hope she has a counselor and some meds waiting for her, too. She is simply one of the saddest things I have ever seen. I think it must be very hard for her having to be evicted and go back to Louisiana on the anniversary of the hurricane that sent her here.

Everyone give wishes and prayers for a better future for La Loca. 

Comments

[rainygirl.livejournal.com]

La Loca was a Katrina evacuee?

Oh geez.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

yup.

[texasdeathtrip.livejournal.com]

i would have put some raw fish in her car, well hidden, as a special 'fuck you'
or marbles in the gas tank

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

I am not angry with her. I feel sorry for her. She is batshit crazy, not evil.

[blot.livejournal.com]

did social services get involved at all?

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

don't know for sure.

[blot.livejournal.com]

it seemed to me that katrina evacuees may have contributed to some violent crime at least in MN. New Orleans is afterall, supposed to be under the water .... maybe its time the people that used to live there experience the infastructure of other cities...
I personally dont want to see New Orleans rebuilt to be the same as it was before.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

in Houston, the homocide rate increased 70% since last year. I am not sure about the other crimes.

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

I hope she gets the trailer.

I saw a post about Houston from another LJ friend I thought you might find of interest:
http://doc-neuro.livejournal.com/211793.html

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

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[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

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I hate this shithole and want to get back to NOLA pronto
Houston really sucks. Aside from hating the place and the whitebread suburban atmosphere of sterility and sameness, I have also come to the conclusion that I hate the people here as well. They are closed minded self centered barbarians and it's a wonder they can live with themselves or sleep comfortably at night.

Here, let me give you an example:

I'm watching the news tonight and there is a town hall meeting set in one of the many gigantic stadium sized "six flags over jesus" style churches in this city regarding a recent quadruple homicide. Video footage of the perps shows absolutely zero evidence they were anything other than locals. Everybody in the town hall meeting is talking about how they want all the New Orleans Katrina victims to "get out" and row after row of barbarians coming up to the microphone blaming them (all of them as a block) for making neighborhoods dirtier and poorer, for the rise in crime rates, etc etc as though there are no normal people or as though the normal people asked the criminals to come along with them.

And then they all cheered with the same kind of insane glee I saw when Carla Fay Tucker was executed when the mayor discussed a special "eviction task force" to give all the hurricane katrina victims the boot (onto the street if necessary).

Houston to me represents the darkest and lowest element of humanity. People here dont understand, they dont want to understand, and they are very proud of their ignorance and resent anyone who tells them they should try to understand.

These people and this place disgust me, to the point where it frequently makes me feel sick to my stomach. Being in this place for this long is slowly driving me insane. If I dont hear from the jobs I applied to in the next 2 weeks I'm applying to a new orleans area police department (they are quite desperately shorthanded and arent likely to turn me down because I havent finished my college degree) and leaving here. one way or another. I can't stay here. I just can't.

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[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

anyone who thinks Houston is whitebread and is just "sameness" obviously is not leaving their gov't paid for apt. This is an incredibly diverse city. We have a HUGE Hispanic community. Our Vietnamese and Indian and mediterranian communities
" A 24.92 percent of the population of Houston is African-American. Asians account for 5.19 percent of the population. Hispanics account for 37.43 percent of the population, while Whites account for 30.75 percent of the population."

That doesn't seem terribly white bread to me.


What makes me sick is that city put on a job fair in our veeeeeeery large convention center - specifically geared toward employment options for the evacuees. The mayor pointed out that there were 5,000 jobs open in the city offices alone. Hardly anyone showed up. That is incredibly telling. I continually see women on television with their nails done (about $20 every two weeks) and weaves and hair done (anywhere from 100-500.00 ) but these women still don't have jobs and are upset that after a year we are expecting them to have jobs and pay for thier own housing.

We have jobs here. Anyone who is not up and out of their house by 8 am and staying out putting in applications until 5 PM is NOT doing a serious job hunt. Job hunting should be treated like a full time job. There is no convincing me that anyone who does that Monday through Friday is NOT going to be able to find a job in a year.

Also, I am aware there are MANY lovely people that are here from NOLA and other places because of the storm. Those people are usually pretty happy here. They were about something in NOLA, and they brought something to the table here. No one is blaming them.

Our assumption that the influx of the evacuees has something to do with our spike in crime is not unfounded. This city has had a declining crime rate since the 80's and within 1 year, homicide spiked up 70%. Most people would see a correlation.

So, sorry to hear that he not only has such a inability to see anyone but white people in a predominately minority city, but if he is so unhappy, he is welcome to leave, too.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

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