The liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch, an admirer of communist social engineeringschemes like HUD, the Housing and Urban Destruction Department creates forEuropean Americans and African Americans, had a field day for years withLaclede Town. At first, the news stories report that Laclede Town's hundredsof tenants were fairly happy campers. For many years, college students atSt. Louis University made up a large number of tenants here. In addition,there were some business people who lived there. The idea was to revitalizethe city.
Then, it got new owners who offered apartments to African American SectionEight tenants under HUD rules.
Then, Laclede Town was struck with murder, assault, rape, shattered windows,cars that got stomped on each night until no one could live there. Studentsmoved out. Businessmen moved out. The African Americans remained. No oneelse could live with them. It was too dangerous.
Finally, it had to be shut down. It was totally wrecked. The Post-Dispatchblamed the landlords, even though all HUD projects always end the way. Itcouldn't possibly be the poor exploited African American tenants, couldit? So, here is what is left. For a few weeks. They are wrecking it now.Why?
They want to remove the evidence of what happened here. Just like Waco andOklahoma City. Destroy the entire crime scene.
Say good-bye to Laclede Town. To remove the evidence, HUD gave this landto Harris-Stowe University, a mostly African American public university,across the street. That was just last month. We had to fly to St. Louisjust to grab these shots, before it was too late. So, they are tearing LacledeTown down.
They want us to forget what happened here.
Because they want to repeat this error. Henry Cisneros, the U.S. HUD Secretarywho thinks that social engineering can change people for the better eventhough it has always produced social decay, chaos, and dysfunctional neighborhoods,says this type of housing will be the final experimental tweek that makeshis poor African American clients good at last. Well, you can sure see itin this picture, can't you? Nice wrecked urban renewal site.
Oh, the property? It's been vacant for about ten years. The wrecking crewsjust tore out the windows and doors a few days ago. They tore off the plywood,before we could photograph it. There are plenty of photos in past issuesof the Post-Dispatch and Riverfront Times. National newspapers have somepictures, also, if you need to research this further.
Now, HUD can see the light at the end of the tunnel at Laclede Town. Soonall the evidence will be gone. People forget quickly. It won't take long.This pictorial history may help, though. Anyway..
Now, they can commit this hate crime against other neighborhoods like yours.And with this project dead and buried under the soil along with your neighborhoodin the future no one will be able to come here ever again with his littledaughter and point and say, "Look, Honey. Here's where daddy livedas a college student. It was nice, before THEY came here."
And then, he can hear his little girl sob sweetly and say, "Daddy?Is that what's going to happen to our neighborhood, daddy?" And thenhe can say, "Yes, honey. That's what's going to happen to us."
Another Genocidal Tragedy HUDCreated for European Americans.
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