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re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:51 pm to LongueCarabine
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:51 pm to LongueCarabine
Not really. While NBR has some shuddered industrial facilities and warehouses along Choctaw, there are tons of jobs in NBR. They're just by and large not being worked by people living in the neighborhood. Those middle class black families who do live in the nice parts of NBR either work at those places, teach at area schools and universities, work for the state and local government, or hold professional degree jobs.
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Posted on 6/25/17 at 2:51 pm to johnnyrocket
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did not sell until the black man who lived next door came home drunk and mistaked our house for his. He busted down our glass storm door and front door. My grandmother who stayed with us when my dad worked nights shot the guy in the butt with a shot gun and spit in his eyes with the snuff she chewed. She said I was out like a light snoring my 4 year old butt off while they havd 4 BRPD officers show up. The next day our house went up for sale.
Baton Rouge needs more awesome grandmothers like yours! I know that my grandmother would have done the same thing, except the shot would have been fatal, then spit the snuff in his dead eye.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 3:05 pm to kingbob
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Entitlements give you enough to live, but not enough to be comfortable so they have to resort to illicit income (cash businesses, theft, selling drugs, etc) to have more spending money. Section 8 and cradle to grave entitlements (medicaid, disibility, WIC, SNAP, etc) are the downfall of civilzation.
As an experiment, we should end all entitlements for 5 years and let that segment of the gene pool die off. Once the general tax paying public sees first hand the benefits, make it permanent. It's a win - win.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 3:26 pm to truth87
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Truth87
6 post count
Reg user: 6-24-17
Gravy alter
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Racism is the main reason why NBR has declined bottom line. White people are generally in control of the economy and they have by and large chose no longer to invest in NBR due to once again the lack of whites in the area.
It really saddens me to see only the affluent areas close to LSU growing ... I feel like the whole city suffers when only a very small portion of the city sees any type of commendable economic development and growth.
Gravy -
I'm going to let you in on a little well known secret...developers are going to follow and build where there are money, jobs, and growth. As much as you want it to be about race or poor, poor pitiful me, it's not. Again, they (rightfully so) will follow money, jobs, and growth to be successful.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 3:28 pm to Tigeralum2008
Not reading all 9 pages but Judge John Parker destroyed Baton Rouge. He just set the trap and had to wait 50 years.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 3:44 pm to Tigeralum2008
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What lead to the decline of NBR?
Not enough led pencils?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 3:55 pm to Tigeralum2008
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BR metro area in 2003. By that time NBR was what we all see today
It was like that in the late 80's
Posted on 6/25/17 at 3:59 pm to kingbob
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Bar Marche
It was Bon Marche but I like your name better.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 4:01 pm to Giantkiller
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Not reading all 9 pages but Judge John Parker destroyed Baton Rouge. He just set the trap and had to wait 50 years.
Yep. He didn't like his rulings but said he had to follow the law. It's a shame the parties of the consent decree didn't work something out.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 4:33 pm to Supermoto Tiger
The amount of ignorant white racist trash on TD is repulsive and alarming. I'm clearly not among intelligent, decent, and inclusive people.
And people wonder why LSU academic rankings continue to take a nose dive, enrollment is down, why most of our brightest Louisiana and U.S. high school scholars avoid LSU, and why we can't attract top professors on the level of more prestigious and liberal public universities such as UC Berkeley and UT Austin.
And people wonder why LSU academic rankings continue to take a nose dive, enrollment is down, why most of our brightest Louisiana and U.S. high school scholars avoid LSU, and why we can't attract top professors on the level of more prestigious and liberal public universities such as UC Berkeley and UT Austin.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 5:04 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:35 pm to truth87
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nd people wonder why LSU academic rankings continue to take a nose dive, enrollment is down, why most of our brightest Louisiana and U.S. high school scholars avoid LSU, and why we can't attract top professors on the level of more prestigious and liberal public universities such as UC Berkeley and UT Austin.
What do the city of Austin and Berkeley not have in common with Baton Rouge?
Here is your answer why they are better.
ETA links,
Austin
Berkeley
Baton Rouge
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 5:39 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:36 pm to Tigeralum2008
Dope, especially crack cocaine probably did it in. Gangs started selling it, other gangs fought and killed them for that territory or if they sold on theirs, etc. And it just escalated. I'm not an older resident, I'm 32 but I'll take a guess.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 5:37 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 5:58 pm to Tigeralum2008
Urban blight?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 7:24 pm to recruitnik
Paid top dollar in Midcity. I may be the only single, straight white woman in the most fun eight block neighborhood in the Rudge.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 7:33 pm to Tigeralum2008
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What's going to happen when SBR homes get old?
Southdowns, Garden District, and Hundred Oaks aren't exactly "new" developments brah.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 7:34 pm to truth87
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truth87
I mean take your pick here: Gravy, one of the idiot twins, Chuannna, DC, or Delgado just trolling?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 7:43 pm to Martini
1989, perfect credit, bought first house, interest rate was 18%. It was in Garden District but the house only cost $22,500. Worth about $300k now.
We had more stolen over those years than the current value.
No point, just commenting.
We had more stolen over those years than the current value.
No point, just commenting.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 7:45 pm to Tigeralum2008
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blackhole
ISWYDT
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:36 pm to truth87
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Truth87
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The amount of ignorant white racist trash on TD is repulsive and alarming. I'm clearly not among intelligent, decent, and inclusive pe
Good you should leave.
Your time will be better spent race baiting on Gravy's FB page - it fits your agenda. You've only been here 48 hrs and dig up a year old thread - just to race bait folks.
Goodbye ole boy. Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 9:53 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:50 pm to truth87
Truth87,
Robberies at gun point, Reverend Al, Mayor Sha'ron, Governor Johnny Belle and jackhole race baiters like you are a good portion of the problem.
Robberies at gun point, Reverend Al, Mayor Sha'ron, Governor Johnny Belle and jackhole race baiters like you are a good portion of the problem.
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