Obviously this is the attitude of not only the majority of Republicans, but the majority of whites.
Just being realistic.
...and also some blacks. I have a friend who's black who made distance from public housing one of her major criteria in looking for a house.
Realistically, there's a major dichotomy in the minds of most people on public housing, even people of goodwill. One the one hand, we wish the best for people who are forced to live in public housing; on the other hand, we don't want to be subjected to the problems that inevitably come with certain types of public housing. That's just realistic.
Some of public housing's severest critics are those who used to live in it. People who used to live in it, and got out, are often the people who hate public housing the most. They don't necessarily hate all the people who live there, people who are their friends, but they just hate the whole package -- the crime, the ugliness, the drug dealing, the fact that everything's always broken, nothing ever works, etc.
Not all distaste for public housing is based purely on ill will toward anybody who lives there.
No, no. The fellow speaking was fantasizing a hurricane-provided genocide of blacks, not the destruction of some particular type of building, dazzleman. This genocide is what I am saying is the generally GOP and white attitude. They delight in the misfortunes of those they hate - they enjoy seeing blacks made worse off in the same way they enjoyed the impact of AIDS upon the gay community.
While your're right about the GOP's love of AIDS (Reagan himself felt those with the disease deserved it), lately Ken Mehlman and Evil Karl Rove have been openly courting blacks to join their party. I don't think they support a genocide of blacks, who they see as potential voters, but they do hate public housing.
Also, Orleans county was something like 80% for Kerry last year and makes up a big part of LA's population. While they are (hopefully) appalled at the destruction from Katrina, I'm sure the GOP is privately happy that a big bastion of Democrat support is now dispersed throughout the country. The Drudge Report said some refugees are even going to Utah!!
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/09/MTFH18824_2005-09-09_21-12-19_SPI974148.html
