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Development Drowned and Reborn

GEOGRAPHIES OF JUSTICE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

SERIES EDITORS

Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
Mathew Coleman, Ohio State University
Sapana Doshi, University of Arizona

ADVISORY BOARD

Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto
Zeynep Gambetti, Bogazii University
Geoff Mann, Simon Fraser University
James McCarthy, Clark University
Beverly Mullings, Queens University
Harvey Neo, National University of Singapore
Geraldine Pratt, University of British Columbia
Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, CUNY Graduate Center
Jamie Winders, Syracuse University
Melissa W. Wright, Pennsylvania State University
Brenda S. A. Yeoh, National University of Singapore

Development Drowned and Reborn

THE BLUES AND BOURBON RESTORATIONS IN POST-KATRINA NEW ORLEANS

CLYDE WOODS

EDITED BY JORDAN T. CAMP AND LAURA PULIDO

2017 by the University of Georgia Press
Athens, Georgia 30602
www.ugapress.org
All rights reserved
Set in Minion Pro and Proxima Nova by Graphic Composition, Inc.

Most University of Georgia Press titles are available from popular e-book vendors.

Printed digitally

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017941819

ISBN: 9780820350905 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780820350929 (paperback : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780820350905 (ebook)

For Clyde, with gratitude
Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido

We Made It

SUNNI PATTERSON

Im from a stock that pitch cocktail bombs and hand grenades

We pour cayenne pepper around the perimeter of a building to keep the police dogs at bay

Im the Panther Party in the Desire Housing Projects of New Orleans

Im a nigga turning the gun on the national guards

Take a long, long look!

Im a cook in the kitchen asking the misses to taste the dinner

Take a long, long sip!

Cause Death aint always this good

Its eyes popping out their sockets

Its a lifeless body rocking backwards and forwards

Its a boy stabbed 47 times in front of the church-house

Its a man 43 years old stuffing his penis in a 9 year old girls mouth ...

Nah, Death dont always taste good!

Just dont sound like something I wanna eat

Often, I hear them say it was a train came through the room

Left Mama so depressed she was unable to move

Until one day ...

It was a few months after the Hurricane

Husband and child found the trinity bloody in bed

His wife, his son, his other daughterDEAD!

And on the end table there was a letter that read ... it said,

I couldnt stay here ... not for one minute longer, and it made no sense for me to leave here alone, cause who would take care of my babies with their mama gone?

Im telling you ... Death aint always good

Itll leave you fending for water and food

Itll riddle up your body in an Audubon Ballroom

Theyll El Hajj Malik El Shabazz you

Crown you King, and then dethrone you in a Lorraine Hotel

Theyll disfigure your body where folk cant tell if you Emmett Till or not

Tell them, Mama, Keep that casket open!

Let all the world see, it aint just burning in Mississippi

Hell is hot wherever you be

From the rooftop to the cell block

Step on up to the auction block

And bend over

Touch your toes

Show your teeth

Lift her titties

Examine his balls

Now, this damn near sounds like a hip hop song

But its slavery at its peak!

Its a circus for all the freaks

Theyll warn you caution when you speak

Cant afford the truth to leak.

But well say blessed are the meek

And all the ones who make peace

And all the ones who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness

For theirs is the Kingdom

Earth is their inheritance

So, no matter how treacherous ...

Theyll try to trap us in them trenches

Theyll dig deeper ditches, but all that matters is this:

Which side will we pick?

Which path will we choose?

Its either win or lose

Cause death dont come in vain.

Not for us to remain enslaved

Or our spirits to remain in cages

It comes so we might be courageous

To fulfill our obligation to our God and all creation

To stand in determination, able to look Death straight in the face and say ...

We made it!

We made it!

We made it!

We made it!

FIGURES

ABBREVIATIONS

BCVL	Bogalusa Civic and Voters League
BNOB	Bring New Orleans Back Commission
BOLD	Black Organization for Leadership Development
BPP	Black Panther Party
BRASS	Black Revolutionary Action among Soul Students
CIO	Congress of Industrial Organizations
CORE	Congress of Racial Equality
COUP	Community Organization for Urban Politics
DLC	Democratic Leadership Council
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency
FHA	Federal Housing Administration
HANO	Housing Authority of New Orleans
HUAC	House Un-American Activities Committee
HUD	U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
LCRC	Louisiana Civil Rights Congress
LFU	Louisiana Farmers Union
LIFE	Louisiana Independent Federation of Electors, Inc.
LMDDC	Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission
MR-GO	Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet
NAACP	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NFU	National Farmers Union
NOD	New Orleans Division, Universal Negro Improvement Association
NOPD	New Orleans Police Department
OPEC	Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPSB	Orleans Public School Board
RNC	Republican National Committee
RSD	Recovery School District
SCU	Sharecroppers Union
SNCC	Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SOUL	Southern Organization for Unified Leadership
TCA	Total Community Action
UNIA	Universal Negro Improvement Association
VA	Veterans Administration
WPA	Works Progress Administration

ABOUT CLYDE WOODS

Clyde Woods was an associate professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He died July 6, 2011. A native of Baltimore, Woods received his PhD in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles. The bulk of his scholarship focused on the historical geography of the U.S. South and the political influence that the region exerted on the national and global political economy. Woods is the author of

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