re: Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome receives transition team recommendations

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exxonmobil is the 3rd largest refinery in the united states,numerous businesses along plank rd.,the br airport, gn gonzales, quite a few industrial companies are still on scenic.

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None of that is true. NBR is an economic wasteland devoid of any forms of employment which results in the citizens being poor and having to resort to crime in order to provide for their families.

THE GLOSSARY: Almost everything is sourced from: Institute for Democratic Renewal and Project Change
Anti-Racism Initiative. A Community Builder’s Tool Kit

CLASS: A group of people with similar levels of wealth,
influence, and status.

CLASSISM: Differential treatment based on social class or
perceived social class. Classism is the systematic oppression
of subordinated class groups to advantage and strengthen
the dominant class groups. It’s the systematic assignment of
characteristics of worth and ability based on social class.

CULTURAL DIVERSITY: The makeup of various social
structures, belief systems and strategies that other cultures
use to adapt to life situations in all parts of the world.

CULTURAL PLURALISM: Recognition of the contribution
of each group to a common civilization. It encourages
the maintenance and development of different life styles,
languages and convictions. It is a commitment to deal
cooperatively with common concerns. It strives to create
the conditions of harmony and respect within a culturally
diverse society.

CULTURAL RACISM: Those aspects of society that overtly
and covertly attribute value and normality to white people
and whiteness, and devalue, stereotype and label People of
Color as “other,” different, less than or render them invisible.
Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones
as nude or flesh colored, having future time orientation,
emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective
ideology, defining one form of English as standard and
identifying only whites as the great writers or composers.

CULTURE: A social system of meaning and custom that is
developed by a group of people to assure its adaptation and
survival. These groups are distinguished by a set of unspoken
rules that shape values, beliefs, habits, patterns of thinking,
behaviors and styles of communication.

DENIAL
Refusal to acknowledge the societal privileges (see the
term “privilege”) that are granted or denied based on an
individual’s ethnicity or other grouping. Those who are in
a stage of denial tend to believe, “People are people. We are
all alike regardless of the color of our skin.” In this way, the
existence of a hierarchical system or privileges based on
ethnicity or race can be ignored.

DISCRIMINATION
The unequal treatment of members of various groups based
on race, gender, social class, sexual orientation, physical
ability, religion and other categories.

DIVERSITY
The wide range of national, ethnic, racial and other
backgrounds of U.S. residents and immigrants as social
groupings, co-existing in American culture. The term is
often used to include aspects of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual
orientation, class and much more.

EMPOWERMENT
When target group members refuse to accept the dominant
ideology and their subordinate status and take actions to
redistribute social power more equitably.

EQUALITY
Access or provision of equal opportunities, where individuals
are protected from being discriminated against.

EQUITY
A state in which all people in a given society share equal
rights and opportunities.

INCLUSION
Inclusion authentically brings traditionally excluded
individuals and/or groups into processes, activities and
decision/policy making.

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM
Institutional racism refers specifically to the ways in which
institutional policies and practices create different outcomes
for different racial groups. The institutional policies may
never mention any racial group, but their effect is to create
advantages for whites and oppression and disadvantage
for people from groups classified as non-white. Examples:
Government policies that explicitly restricted the ability
of people to get loans to buy or improve their homes
in neighborhoods with high concentrations of African
Americans (also known as “red-lining”). City sanitation
department policies that concentrate trash transfer stations
and other environmental hazards disproportionately in
communities of color.

PREJUDICE
A pre-judgment or unjustifiable, and usually negative,
attitude of one type of individual or groups toward another
group and its members. Such negative attitudes are typically
based on unsupported generalizations (or stereotypes) that
deny the right of individual members of certain groups to
be recognized and treated as individuals with individual
characteristics.

PRIVILEGE
A right that only some people have access or availability to
because of their social group memberships (dominants).
Because hierarchies of privilege exist, even within the
same group, people who are part of the group in power
(white/Caucasian people with respect to people of color,
men with respect to women, heterosexuals with respect to
homosexuals, adults with respect to children, and rich people
with respect to poor people) often deny they have privilege
even when evidence of differential benefit is obvious. See the
term “right” also in this glossary.

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people who are part of the group in power (white/Caucasian people with respect to people of color, men with respect to women, heterosexuals with respect to homosexuals, adults with respect to children, and rich people with respect to poor people)

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In EBR, whites are the minority and are not "in power"...

Appendix B:
THE ST. GEORGE BREAKAWAY MOVEMENT

Context

National media portrayed the St. George incorporation
movement as an effort by affluent whites to secede from
their poorer, less advantaged black neighbors. The organizers
of the St. George effort bitterly resist this characterization.
They vehemently deny that their desire to incorporate has
anything to do with racial animus. Rather, they insist that
they are motivated by a desire to create better schools for
their children and exercise more local control over their tax
dollars. They accuse the East Baton Rouge School Board
and the City-Parish Government for failing to adequately
serve the needs of the residents of the St. George area. After
a significant number of EBR schools were labeled as “failing”
by the state Department of Education, the St. George
movement organized in the hope of creating a separate
school district. When those efforts failed, they decided to
incorporate a new city in order to secure the establishment
of a school district. After a protracted petition campaign, the
St. George organizers in June, 2015 fell a mere 71 signatures
short of meeting the legal threshold necessary to bring the
issue of incorporation to a referendum.

State law prohibits the supporters of failed petition efforts
such as these from restarting their campaign for two years
after the initial thrust has been declared unsuccessful. St.
George organizers have reportedly vowed to restart the
incorporation drive later this year as soon as the legal
prohibition inhibiting their efforts expires this upcoming
June. The prospect of a renewed breakaway effort involving
the desire of residents of the wealthiest area of the city
seeking to separate from the remainder of the parish
represents a counterproductive diversion of time and
resources for Baton Rouge. This is particularly true in light
of the racial tumult our city experienced this past summer
surrounding the shootings of Alton Sterling and the Baton
Rouge police officers. Moreover, Baton Rouge and the
surrounding region are still recovering from the impacts of
Great Flood of 2016. Thus, we can ill afford to engage in a
divisive fight over incorporating St. George. The following
section details how the St. George movement represents
another unfortunate chapter in the long history of racial
segregation in Baton Rouge. This is true despite the adamant
denials and/or best intentions of the organizers of the
breakaway campaign.

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Demonizing SBR and whites to build up NBR is not the way to handle it.

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Get your conventional thought processes outta here.

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Megan Matt got a job? Good for her!

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Is she the token of the group?

Should read as "result of Judge Parker fricking up considerably and constantly in his plan to implement Brown v Board of Education."

look I'm just glad there's income so no one else ends up on the FA wire