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19th December 2011   ·   0 Comments

By Edmund W. Lewis
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It’s hard to believe compare personal loans wa that another year has come to an end and that we are fast approaching 2012, the year ancient Mayans predicted would bring the end of the world as we know it and the year many Republicans would wish the world would end if President Barack Obama somehow manages to rise to the occasion as he has many times to win a second term.

While we can’t spend every waking moment worrying about the Mayan prediction that the world is on the verge of ending or the reasons why so many people are diametrically opposed to anything the President tries to do to make life better for all who live in this nation, we can and must continue to find ways to stimulate our minds with a little brain food. Here are a few shots to the dome that are designed to challenge those who read this page to think for themselves and not buy whatever it is they are selling on the evening news without digging a little deeper:

• How does this nation let former President Ronald Reagan get away with payday loans seattle area calling Black women ‘welfare queens’ and GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich get away with calling President Barack Obama the “food stamp presi­dent” when the country’s welfare recipients are overwhelmingly white?

• After the recent police attacks, evictions and arrests of people in the Occupy Wall Street Movement, is there any doubt which aide in this struggle the government is on?

• If it had been one of his own sons “showering” with former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, do you think Penn State head coach Joe Paterno would have handled the situation differently?

• With palm tree-lined streets, bike paths, a dog park, additional streetcar lines in the CBD and pricey boutique shops and posh restaurants popping up downtown, isn’t New Orleans looking an awful lot like a funky hybrid of Sun City, Beverly Hills and Greenwich Village?

• Why can’t more people see that the only thing worse than destroying Claiborne Avenue to run the interstate highway through the community once would be another major upheaval to the area that destroys the cultural traditions that fresno payday loan cash advance have been born since the bridge was built without widespread community support?

• Why did it take the gentrification of Faubourg Tremé for those with decision-making power to see that it is a bad idea to run an interstate highway through a Black neighborhood with cultural and international significance?

• Why don’t home invasions and burglaries in eastern New Orleans get the same kind of media coverage that those in areas like Lakeview and Lakeshore Drive get?

• How many more years will it be before the city gets around to repairing neighborhood streets?

• Why hasn’t the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board or the New Orleans Recovery School District gotten around to repairing the water leak at the site of the modular classroom buildings erected for use by Audubon Charter School near the intersection of Robert E. Lee and Charlotte Drive, and how many tons of water would you imagine have been lost over the past few weeks that water has been gushing like a river?

• Now that someone has been shot in pay day loans bemidji front of the Wendy’s restaurant on St. Charles Avenue, how long will it be before someone proposes another teen curfew for that section of the city?

• Does anyone think the mayor owes Black leaders an apology after blocking them from attending a “meeting” about solving the scourge of violence that is claiming the lives of many young Black men and sending many others to prison?

• Does anyone have any faith in this city’s police department to enforce the law or in this city’s criminal justice system to administer justice?

• If it was unlawful for Occupy NOLA protesters to assemble and sleep in Duncan Plaza, why did it take two months for the city and the police department to get around to enforcing the law?

• Why do the same Black “bootlicker”’ keep getting hired and appointed to boards and commissions to do the bidding of the powers that be? (Never mind, I think I get it.)

• After the defections of stars David West and Chris Paul and other changes, how many New low interest personal loans for good credit Orleans Hornets fans would trade their 2011-2012 season tickets for a ticket to the BCS championship game between LSU and Alabama?

• Was the Census report that revealed that one in two people in the United States is either poor or low-income really that big of a shocker?

• Was anybody shocked when GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told his fellow GOP presidential candidates that they should stop fighting and bickering amongst themselves and ‘focus on beating Barack Obama’?

• If you had a choice of colors, which one would you choose, my brother?

• How would you like to have you for a friend?

• If today was your last day on the planet, would you feel good about the choices you’ve made and the way you treated others?

• Regardless of your political affiliation, aren’t you happy to know that the men and women of the U.S. armed forces are finally coming home from Iraq?

• Wouldn’t it be nice if military families didn’t have to worry about having enough to easy loan interest calculator eat, escalating prescription drug prices, inadequate health are or a lack of support services for returning war veterans?

• How many Black businesses have you supported this holiday season?

• Wouldn’t it be great if more families made contributions to HBCUs as part of a new holiday tradition?

• Is anybody surprised that Louisiana recently received a failing grade for its lackluster approach to adhering to environmental laws?

• Are you ready for the rematch with the Dirty Birds on Monday Night Football?

• With a number of important elections and political issues looming on the horizon, are you already getting prepared to challenge your friends, co-co-workers, neighbors and loved ones to get and stay involved in the community in 2012?

• Why do so few people list ‘Reading more’ as one of their New Year’s resolutions?

• How are you going to celebrate Kwanzaa this year?

This article was originally published in the December 19, 2011 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper