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re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:07 am to truth87
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:07 am to truth87
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White people are generally in control of the economy and they have by and large chose no longer to invest in NBR
Seriously? Without white people's tax money propping things up, you'd devolve into Zimbabwe even faster.
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Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:35 am to texashorn
The base of capitalism is the ability to "own" things and to secure the benefits of one's own labors. No one wants to invest their money in places where they cannot secure their property and their lives due to indemic crime. I have heard the same from many former tenets of retail space at Cortana Mall and elsewhere in North Baton Rouge. They sold enough merchandise to he profitable if not for their incredibly high "shrinkage rate", i.e. the percentage of goods that are lost to theft. They were shop-lifted out of business.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 6:09 am to kingbob
You are right.
Owning a few stores and selling two locations to a big box I understand this well.
The big box Grocery stores, drug stores, etc have different price codes. In a high theft market they go up on prices on the exact same item they sell for less in a less theft area. They make their profit off turns and renting space to vendors (hallmark cards in a drug store). When you vendors who rent space cannot make money and your theft more than your turns it is time to go.
When you have high theft you have to go up on margins or move out the area. It is to the point the prices you have to charge are just way to high to cover your cost and not show that you are doing it to survive in the gehtto. That is why you will not see a Wal Mart or big national chain grocery store go deep into the gehtto. At the same time you do see Wal marts pop up on almost every corner in a middle class growing area.
Now an independent can possibly make it as they do typically have higher margins to make up for the high theft. If a Wal Mart's A,B, or C level price goes too high they can get caught and looks bad for them.
Smaller drug stores use to do it all the time. I do not know if they still do it. Their pricing set depends on how much competition, projected theft, and avg income of clientele. Set by A,B, or C pricing system.
Owning a few stores and selling two locations to a big box I understand this well.
The big box Grocery stores, drug stores, etc have different price codes. In a high theft market they go up on prices on the exact same item they sell for less in a less theft area. They make their profit off turns and renting space to vendors (hallmark cards in a drug store). When you vendors who rent space cannot make money and your theft more than your turns it is time to go.
When you have high theft you have to go up on margins or move out the area. It is to the point the prices you have to charge are just way to high to cover your cost and not show that you are doing it to survive in the gehtto. That is why you will not see a Wal Mart or big national chain grocery store go deep into the gehtto. At the same time you do see Wal marts pop up on almost every corner in a middle class growing area.
Now an independent can possibly make it as they do typically have higher margins to make up for the high theft. If a Wal Mart's A,B, or C level price goes too high they can get caught and looks bad for them.
Smaller drug stores use to do it all the time. I do not know if they still do it. Their pricing set depends on how much competition, projected theft, and avg income of clientele. Set by A,B, or C pricing system.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 6:54 am to johnnyrocket
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When the first black family moved across the street most of the neighbors put their homes up for sale. Hollywood Elementary use to be all white and when the first group of black kids moved into the district people moved out.
Same thing happened in Glen Oaks round 73-75
Posted on 6/25/17 at 7:26 am to skuter
Born and raised in the "garden district " near city park. Beautiful neighborhoods and homes around there. We would ride our bikes to the park and play all day. Then one day our bikes started missing, the little store down the street was robbed several times, a neighbor was attacked in her home, and stuff started walking off around the house. My dad came face to face with a thief stealing our large ferns on the front porch one day, It was a 15+- yo kid, and dad was armed with his revolver. He let the kid go and we sold the house a few months later as he was afraid he was going to kill someone over something stupid like stolen house plants. We loved that house but crime completely pushed us south of that area. The swimming pool at city park closed before I ever got to swim in it, but I herd it was nice as well. It was just a turtle pond to us. Then years later it was filled in. I sure miss the unlocked doors, big screen porches and nights where neighbors would just hang out.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 7:33 am
Posted on 6/25/17 at 7:33 am to meauxjeaux2
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I think it all went downhill when the drive thru movie theaters shut down
NBR traded drive thru movies for drive by shootings.
ETA: Rumor has it that there was a massive food shortage after Gravy was born.. folks had to move out to grow their own food, and thus resulting in the great exodus.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 7:38 am
Posted on 6/25/17 at 8:57 am to truth87
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truth87
Did StrongSafety get banned again? This has to be his alter.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:03 am to kingbob
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Racism did play a role, primarily in the location of the interstates and red-lining, but your post is nothing but one big troll.
1) Of course I'm a troll to people who hate to hear and be reminded of their own racism. I was raised by a white mom who was the first in our family to have a black best friend (the housemaid's daughter) and she was awaken to the horrific racism blacks experienced in BR first hand through her. She made sure I didn't follow the racists and flawed mentality of my grandparents and most people in our family and it worked.
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No one wants to live in a violent crime infested area where they're not welcome. Just look back to that case of that poor white couple who were nearly beaten to death at a gas station by the airport because they were in the wrong neighborhood after dark. Those who can escape a place like that will.
2) Are you freaking kidding me?? Not every neighborhood in NBR is violent and crime infested. There are plenty of pleasant neighborhoods in NBR that have very few to zero white people simply due to the fact it became too overwhelmingly black (Forest Heights Parks, Southern Heights, Sharon Hills, Greenwood Estates, etc). And do you know how many white people (including myself) that have been by the gas station near the airport and nothing ever happened??? You taking one isolated issue and making it seem like all whites are targeted 24/7 which is racist propaganda. You sound extremely ignorant and like your first name is Bubba.
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This is just rediculous. Olive skin is Mediterranean, i.e. Jew that works outside with a damn Jew Fro. Jesus was a Jew in Israel, not black. Queen of Sheba was definitely a sista and King Soloman had that Jungle Fever.
I never said Jesus was black. I said He was a man of color with olive skin and wool hair (non-straight) which means He resembled more of a black person than a white person with pale skin and straight hair. So Jesus would've been discriminated against by white america had He been here in this country which makes me want to vomit ... the most important man to ever walk the Earth treated like trash simply based on His aesthetic. And most biblical experts say he was the darker spectrum of the olive skin with coarse hair but I'm sure you're still gonna picture him being pale skinned with long straight hair and be my guest ... apparently you already live in a fantasy world not based in facts.
LINK - Scholarly article on Jesus' skin color and hair
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:32 am to truth87
Jesus was a white American
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:58 am to Tigeralum2008
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What lead to the decline of NBR
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Blackhole
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could have supported a vibrant economy had they been perpetually maintained by individual property owners.
...and there's your answer.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 10:00 am
Posted on 6/25/17 at 10:03 am to Tigeralum2008
Culcha
Posted on 6/25/17 at 10:04 am to truth87
So basically you joined this board in the last few weeks...
Then you went on a search for "Racist" material, finding a thread from ONE YEAR AGO to bitch about.
What organization are you working for? Who does that?
Does anyone not get what is going on here?
How do you even find this post from that long ago?
Then you went on a search for "Racist" material, finding a thread from ONE YEAR AGO to bitch about.
What organization are you working for? Who does that?
Does anyone not get what is going on here?
How do you even find this post from that long ago?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 10:16 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Low interest rates in the '80's
What??? The highest interest rates on record are from the 1980's.
The federal funds rate, which was about 11% in 1979, rose to 20% by June 1981. The 1980's average interest rate was 18%.
Compare that to my 3.8% mortgage today.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 10:18 am to KJS
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Then years later it was filled in. I sure miss the unlocked doors, big screen porches and nights where neighbors would just hang out.
Well hell...don't you know it was your parents fault. If they would have stayed put, sunshine and rainbows would have been the order of the day and the neighbors of all colors would gather in front yards and celebrate the diversity that is championed by the left. Of course...many on the left moved out to safer pastures also so they could complain about your racist views from a safer location!
Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:17 am to truth87
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Forest Heights Parks, Southern Heights, Sharon Hills, Greenwood Estates
All current shitholes that used to be nice neighborhoods in the 80s. I used to play baseball in Sharon Hills. It's a dump now.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:30 am to truth87
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And do you know how many white people (including myself)
How much guilt do you have?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:57 am to LasVegasTiger
NBR used to be blue collar, plant employees.
Ever hear the term:" there goes the neighborhood"? It's been around for a LONG time.
Ever hear the term:" there goes the neighborhood"? It's been around for a LONG time.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:22 pm to Tigeralum2008
Take a drive around up there and report back on the common denominator that you find.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:28 pm to truth87
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And do you know how many white people (including myself) that have been by the gas station near the airport and nothing ever happened???
omgz!
you mean the probability of being robbed wasnt a 1?
fricking moron.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:41 pm to Tigeralum2008
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The neighborhoods look like they were well designed and could have supported a vibrant economy had they been perpetually maintained by individual property owners. Was this the issue ultimately causing residents to move to nicer areas/newer homes in SBR? What's going to happen when SBR homes get old?
A big part of the problem with N. Baton Rouge is the fact that decent-paying blue collar jobs have been going overseas for years.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 12:46 pm
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