no schools...

(I've spoken with an activist I know from the Lower 9th who has seen kids eating frozen meals in a cafeteria where asbestos abatement was being done)  we know there is a policy NOT to open public schools and to play a complicated political game of "charter" schools

no jobs...

I saw a crew of Latino workers being supervised by an Anglo with a Corps of Engineers name tag back in June.   I'm pro-immigration, but I think government should continue to give preference to citizens.  The "boss" couldn't even speak to his Spanish/Portuguese speaking workers.  Asked me to translate.  There's a reason reconstruction jobs are going to people who can't ask questions, can't file claims.

no family around...

some kids are sent back to the city while family try to send them money from Texas, Mississippi where there is work.  Guess what? Unsupervised teens get into trouble.

no one to counsel them ...

I think all the time of the juveniles who floated in their own feces in the Orleans Parish Jail.  Of the kids I met who saw family die.  Will they ever get past that?  Not without a concerted healing process by counselors, pastors, teachers... and real security in their lives.

We are killing a generation.  

I say Moloch "Lite"  because we do it by putting the guns into their own hands.