re: Bloomberg: St. George is The New ‘White Fortress’ City of the South

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Imagine a world so HONEST that Bloomberg did a story on quality of life as related to proximity to black people. Is your quality of life better if you live in a place that’s 96% white or 96% black? Where are the social pathologies higher? Where can your kids grow up in a healthy manner? Where are you safe? And then , again in the service of HONESTY acknowledged that seeking a better quality of life is actually VIRTUOUS. Now that would be a crazy upside down non- progressive world

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All questions I would love someone to answer.

Also, “white fortressing”, a very interesting terminology. In other words, people want to keep their taxes in their own neighborhood. That entire article screams that the minority areas h generate their own tax base and NEED someone else to pay for them.

I read the entire article. The city isn’t breaking away like the Buckhead neighborhood wants to in Atlanta. This is a profound difference.

The article also mentions the movement starting with wanting a schools district but then slants the rest of the commentary to that the movement pushed for more control and completely ignores that the Parish itself told the movement that in order to get a school district it needed a city.

Folks, whenever you read a national article on a topic you do not know well, remember reading an article about a subject you know a lot about and all of the inaccuracies, biases, and outright lies that are published. Reporters are no longer reporting news, but are simply selecting aspects that support their opinion and describing it as “impartial news”

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We offered to bring Gardere in and they said no.

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Don’t you know that it is racist to view a population/area state 9/10 residents want something and then respect their opinion?

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Luisa Godinez-Puig is a senior research associate and a former equity scholar at the Urban Institute. Brian D. Smedley is a senior fellow and a former equity scholar at the Urban Institute.

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They wrote this below?

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St. George would take almost 100,000 residents away from East Baton Rouge Parish

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How is this possible since St George is still part of East Baton Rouge Parish. Did St George create a new Louisiana Parish? They need to get their degrees revoked.

Ironically, I live in St. George and my neighborhood is one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods I've ever lived in in Baton Rouge. It's great.

These people who write and push this crap never have any first hand knowledge of what they are pushing. It's all fiction and far, far from journalism. However, they wouldn't have a job if there weren't so many ignorant people who buy into this narrative.

Whenever there are stories like this, I wonder if the people writing them realize how racist they sound.

“Black people cant survive without rich white people”. Good lord that’s straight out of the antebellum south.

I’m not a big fan of suburb cities but I know why they exist. Nashville did a good thing but incorporating the entire county. Cities like Birmingham, St Louis, Detroit, and Atlanta that are loaded with suburbs have deteriorated into terrible cities with rich suburbs. In Baton Rouge’s case it was deteriorating without them.

You know white leftists would start attacking people who just want to live peaceably

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White Fortress

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Sounds pretty rad tbh

You know how I know the author listens to Coldplay?