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re: ZIP 70805: The Worst Neighborhood in Baton Rouge
Posted on 11/6/14 at 4:56 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 11/6/14 at 4:56 pm to fr33manator
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Call a spade a spade
racist
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Posted on 11/6/14 at 4:59 pm to GetCocky11
Thanks for the link to all the stories. That's pretty cool.
Posted on 11/6/14 at 5:04 pm to GetCocky11
I had a job for 3 weeks last year that required me to visit people in their homes and work in 70805. Alone. It was the most terrifying experience of my life. The cops outside Glen Oaks HS told me I was crazy and to GTFO. I did.
Posted on 11/6/14 at 5:07 pm to GetCocky11
Weird that the BBC would take interest in this.
Posted on 11/6/14 at 5:14 pm to pooponsaban
quote:I hear the BBC likes the BBCquote:They have black folks in England
Someone from the BBC spent significant time in that neighborhood?
Posted on 11/6/14 at 6:32 pm to GetCocky11
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Unemployment in the 70805 zip code is 13%
Posted on 11/20/14 at 2:42 pm to lsu2006
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No, I don't remember the 1950's.
The last of the white folks checked out of that area in the mid-80's.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 2:56 pm to sec13rowBBseat28
This neighborhood is the way it is because whites at that time couldn't stomach living amongst blacks. Their racial xenophobia made them flee.
One good thing about affirmative action is that it stopped some of the flight suspects from fleeing.
One good thing about affirmative action is that it stopped some of the flight suspects from fleeing.
This post was edited on 11/20/14 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 11/20/14 at 3:03 pm to chryso
quote:You are trying to make this about race when it is truly more about class status. You think the middle class and upper class blacks stayed in Monticello and Park Forrest? Hell no, they are living in River Bend now or somewhere else too
Yeah, because when 5 white families move out when the first black family moves in it is because of all the murder and rape
Posted on 11/20/14 at 3:03 pm to gadknot
There are some streets in 70805 that even my Google Map won't go to.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 3:04 pm to StrongSafety
quote:Disagree. The successful and good citizen blacks fled the neighborhood just like the successful and good citizen whites.
This neighborhood is the way it is because whites at that time couldn't stomach living amongst blacks. Their racial xenophobia made them flee.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 3:06 pm to lsupride87
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Disagree. The successful and good citizen blacks fled the neighborhood just like the successful and good citizen whites.
Exactly. It's not the blacks that they couldn't stomach, it was the criminals. It's not the middle class's fault that poor African American males commit crimes at far higher rates than all other demographics.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 3:06 pm to StrongSafety
quote:For example Strong, you are black. For some reason, nobody will point a finger at you or your parents blaming you for being racist or whatever for going to Catholic High and not staying and trying to help our public schools. But whites like me who went to Catholic or other private schools are accused of this. When in reality, whoever decided to send us to Catholic did it because they could and they thought it would provide us with a better situation in life. Simple as that.
StrongSafety
This post was edited on 11/20/14 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 11/20/14 at 4:21 pm to lsupride87
Sorry but 70802 has taken the lead this year, BBC
Posted on 11/20/14 at 4:46 pm to meauxjeaux2
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same with the Shenendoah area. Didn't take long for the St. Jean section 8 complex to ruin the entire frickin garea.
Wedgewood,Shenendoah,Lake Forest Park. All turning to shite.
Shenandoah is hanging on but you can see it happening. It's a shame. Shenandoah was the GOAT in the 80s and 90s.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 5:26 pm to lsupride87
I actually know a couple that did and they are quite successful 
Posted on 11/20/14 at 5:36 pm to lsupride87
what is worrisome is not people's outright racism. Few people like that still exist. What is troublesome is the implicit racial xenophobia,bias, and stereotypes that still lingers today. Because it literally seeps its way into everything we do.
I'm not saying we can just pile on family's for doing what's best for their kids. That not fair. But what we can do is dig to the core of some of our societal problems and fears. white flight, even it was conceived, was purely done out of xenophobia. I suggest, as a nation, it's better for our unity if we discuss our problems and grievances as opposed to running away from them and leaving the disenfranchised to build with the mess. That's what areas like Glen oaks, istromus, and Capitol
High represent today
I'm not saying we can just pile on family's for doing what's best for their kids. That not fair. But what we can do is dig to the core of some of our societal problems and fears. white flight, even it was conceived, was purely done out of xenophobia. I suggest, as a nation, it's better for our unity if we discuss our problems and grievances as opposed to running away from them and leaving the disenfranchised to build with the mess. That's what areas like Glen oaks, istromus, and Capitol
High represent today
Posted on 11/20/14 at 6:35 pm to StrongSafety
I lived on Evangeline St. in 70805 from 1984 until 1997. I watched neighborhood turn to 'hood. It went from a place you could play till the street lights came on to gunshots at night and prostitutes turning tricks. Sad. Mohican/Prescott were the worst areas when we delivered food to the poor. I would go with my mom and she would leave me in the car with her .22
Posted on 11/20/14 at 7:16 pm to GetCocky11
70802 isn't much better. That would be Old South Baton Rouge a/k/a "The Bottom."
Posted on 11/20/14 at 9:55 pm to Shexter
In the late 90s I worked for the Rent-A-Center on Plank and Evangeline...Brandywine was a common Repo spot. That video is downright scary for a former Repo man. I saw shite that should never be seen and still regret not calling CPS on several occasions.
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