re: Any hope for North Baton Rouge with Mayor Edwards?

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There isn’t much in the way of good housing out there which just needs to be rehabbed. A lot of it is shitty shotgun housing.

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I hate most of the homes in NBR. The majority are not charming at all and have bad bones. Most homes need to be demolished and new construction needs to come in after them. Also the lack of greenery in most of NBR is so bad, I wonder if the Exxon plant has anything to do with that.

The older homes in SBR look so much better and have way better charm. Especially SouthDowns, Capital Heights, Garden District, and Spanish Town. Also the greenery here is much better

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That's why I don't understand White kids who were not raised in Black culture that love Black culture (jigging, Boosie, aggressive rap music, ghetto slang, etc) .I know it may look cool but I also know they see the high level of dsyfunction attached to it so it's best to stay away from it as much as possible. It's much harder to separate yourself from it when you're raised in it but it's possible b/c I did it and life is better for me. I wish I was raised in White culture ... I know it's not perfect but it's absolutely less dsyfunctional than Black culture ... Black culture is the worst to me compared to everybody else

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I spent early formative years in Baker in the late '70s and early 80's. It was very segregated geographically, but we lived on the fringe of the black area of town. I spent just about every day of the summer at a BREC open gym within walking distance of my house with a 50/50 racial mix. It was an awesome childhood. I didn't even think about it at the time, but my Elementary school was 95% white. Junior High was 65/35 white and while there were small issues with race, it was not a large scale problem. Sports (as always) was very integrated, with a closer to 50/50 mix with both athletes and coaches. One of my best friends was black and we become life long friends and still keep in touch. Looking back, it was utopia for the time. We kicked arse in all sports and the same kids did nto high school and while there weren't a lot of mixed race parties, there was no real tension. I left before high school but not before the Judge Parker segregation ruling came down and within 2 years, it was going downhill, and within 5 years it was on its way to being a shithole.

The biggest losers, by far, were black kids. They were the ones taking the hour plus long bus rides each way. They were the ones that were forced out of extra curricular after school activities unless they were affluent enough to have private transportation (I know my poor white arse would not have been able to afford it). There were a lot of issues between the local blacks and bussed in blacks, ever more than cross race issues. Academics wert to shite, followed by a community following and attendance, and eventually all athletics.

I was long gone, but it is sad to see how dysfunctional indeed the city has become. For all races. And dysfunctional culture did indeed have its role in that happening, but without forced bussing initiated by a tone deaf white judge, Baker...and the BR area as a whole are a much different place today.