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re: ZIP 70805: The Worst Neighborhood in Baton Rouge

Posted on 11/20/14 at 3:04 pm to
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 11/20/14 at 3:04 pm to
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This neighborhood is the way it is because whites at that time couldn't stomach living amongst blacks. Their racial xenophobia made them flee.
Disagree. The successful and good citizen blacks fled the neighborhood just like the successful and good citizen whites.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
67579 posts
Posted on 11/20/14 at 3:06 pm to
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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.
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