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Plants and factories were built in/near black communities because white people didn’t want them near their neighborhoods and black had/have no power

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Or, stick with me here, they put them in areas where land was cheap.

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Plants and factories were built in/near black communities because white people didn’t want them near their neighborhoods and black had/have no power. Blacks didn’t flock to live near refineries.

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The Exxon Plant in Baton Rouge was built in the early 1900's near the Old Bridge. It is my understanding that that was a mostly white population during that time (I know in the 70's we would go visit my Aunt in what is now North Baton Rouge) and that they built the Plants there because that was near where the workforce (mostly white men coming back from WWI and WWII) were settling. It was the expansion of the city and white flight that left all of the houses in North Baton Rouge open and then the black folks moved in the area because land and rent was cheaper.

If this is the case, then the blacks did, in fact, kind of flock to the area to live near the refineries.

At least, that is what I think happened, someone please correct me if I am wrong.

Of all the outrageous BS you’ve posted, this might be the worst. The manufacturing sites were mostly built on sites that had formerly been plantations (many companies have preserved these homes on their sites), because it was high ground with river access, and large tracts of land where purchase only involved one, or a few, landowners.

The Exxon Baton Rouge refinery was built in 1909, all the houses around it were workers at the refinery that could walk to work. There are plenty of pictures from back in the day, please circle any minorities you find in any of them. As people became more mobile, they moved to newer, larger homes out in the suburbs.

The minorities that purchased those homes decades later knew they were buying next to a manufacturing site, and the homes were priced accordingly. The chicken came generations before the egg here.

You are completely FOS. You should take the L and leave this thread before you come out with something even more moronic.

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Plants and factories were built in/near black communities because white people didn’t want them near their neighborhoods and black had/have no power. Blacks didn’t flock to live near refineries.

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Because of this post, all of your other posts, and the fact that you have sex with homeless people.

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Plants and factories were built in/near black communities because white people didn’t want them near their neighborhoods and black had/have no power. Blacks didn’t flock to live near refineries.

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Those communities were white when those plants were built.