re: BR Native Tim Parrish writes book on growing up in BR

I am unaware of a city, town, village on the face of this globe that is immune from some fashion of bigotry. If in fact he learned of such at home then the problem was at home and by extension those at home naturally navigated to those of like mind...church. I doubt seriously there is much here to see and this novel will be one of many quickly forgotten.

If he believes Baton Rouge was a hotbed in his youth he missed the days of MLK....I remember my belief that the city was about to explode and I didn't even live there...Was the home of my mother. New Orleans, that city of immense culture, was simmering as well and I vividly remember the divides...racial, ethnic, religious, neighborhoods, subdivisions, as a child.

It was what it was..cannot unring the bell...learn from it and make it better....don't dismiss nor fail to remember..but don't blame your community because of what you learned at home....He has the cart before the horse

What drove people out was the forced bussing of black students from black schools not even close to our neighorhood. The crime rate increased, people moved, black people moved in, violence in the schools increased. I was there. This is a fact. If you look at this particular part of town now and if you could see what it was back then, it looks like a war zone now. How do you explain that?