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re: BR Native Tim Parrish writes book on growing up in BR
Posted on 6/22/15 at 8:57 am to TheCaterpillar
Posted on 6/22/15 at 8:57 am to TheCaterpillar
Whatever he is, he has a paper a-hole.
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Posted on 6/22/15 at 8:58 am to c on z
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What does one have to do with the other in this case?
He is calling out the south for something that he experienced over 30 years ago. Things have changed since then. Ridiculous to compare his time growing up to the church shooter. Meanwhile all these Yankees who love shitting on the south for being racist are living segregated for the most part..do you not see the hypocrisy?
Posted on 6/22/15 at 8:59 am to Mung
This is 100% complete BS, IMO
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:01 am to Dizz
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I am shocked to hear there was open racism in the south in the 70's and 80's, shocked I tell you.
Still is, but nowadays it's not uncommon to hear things like "white boy" try to be used as a derogatory statment in shite talk. Which is fricking hilarious
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:11 am to gorillacoco
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Some of what he's saying is probably true, but I'll bet he's going to exaggerate like hell to sell some more copies. At the expense of everyone he can throw under the bus.
Yep.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:15 am to Topwater Trout
Sure, things have changed. Most of the whites in EBRP have abandoned the school system by going to private school or moving to Ascension or Livingston Parish.
His timing is right on. Prolly will now sell 5x the books. W/o the shootings nobody ever heard of this book.
His timing is right on. Prolly will now sell 5x the books. W/o the shootings nobody ever heard of this book.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:20 am to Mung
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His timing is right on. Prolly will now sell 5x the books. W/o the shootings nobody ever heard of this book.
Absolutely. Early on he picked his niche and now he is capitalizing on it like any modern media whore would do.
We are all a bunch of cross burning Klansmen down here in the dirty south. Makes for a good story for the NE wacko liberals to tut-tut and shake their heads at.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:24 am to TheCaterpillar
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Well Parrish graduated HS in 1983
1976. Where are people getting 1983? TP was most likely working on his master's in '83.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:27 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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1983
That's my screw up in the OP. Saw somewhere that he was born in 64
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:31 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Two years earlier, I’d made the short geographical journey from industrial north Baton Rouge to college-town south Baton Rouge. The psychological journey was proving much harder. Every step I took away from my blue-collar neighborhood toward the frat-boy-ruled world of LSU seemed a betrayal of my roots. I hung in a middle distance between working-class resentment and alienation from that very same working class, from my high school cohorts who used **** like punctuation, the macho boys who’d kick your arse for acting too smart. “fricking Einstein” a dude had called me once, just before he connected with my jaw.
So he grew up in industrial North BR. Istrouma High?
Sounds like he hated growing up here with those meatheads and fratboys.
He's just another dickhead who thinks they are somebody and likes to shite on where they came from because they had some bad experiences.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:33 am to Mung
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Most of the whites in EBRP have abandoned the school system by going to private school or moving to Ascension or Livingston Parish.
Probably true...I went to private school. Was just amazed to hear how bad it was at one time...and for anyone to think it resembles that to this day is out of touch with reality.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:37 am to meauxjeaux2
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He appears to have made a transition from hating blacks to loving dick.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:37 am to dagrippa
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“fricking Einstein” a dude had called me once, just before he connected with my jaw.
I owe someone a beer.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:37 am to Topwater Trout
I went to Baker. School System was shocked in 83 when they closed Scotlandville High and sent half those kids to Baker. Sure helped our football team though.
Parrish experienced the original desegregation spasm of the 70s.
Parrish experienced the original desegregation spasm of the 70s.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:42 am to SEClint
He's cast himself as an outsider looking down on those around him from a very early age. Everyone has run across their share of racist troglodytes but this a-hole really has played it to the max and painted the area with a very broad brush.
Everyone in Chicago are gangsters, everyone in LA is a movie star, everyone in Miami is a Cuban entertainer. frick this stereotypical academic lifer.
Everyone in Chicago are gangsters, everyone in LA is a movie star, everyone in Miami is a Cuban entertainer. frick this stereotypical academic lifer.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:42 am to dagrippa
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Two years earlier, I’d made the short geographical journey from industrial north Baton Rouge to college-town south Baton Rouge. The psychological journey was proving much harder. Every step I took away from my blue-collar neighborhood toward the frat-boy-ruled world of LSU seemed a betrayal of my roots. I hung in a middle distance between working-class resentment and alienation from that very same working class, from my high school cohorts who used **** like punctuation, the macho boys who’d kick your arse for acting too smart. “fricking Einstein” a dude had called me once, just before he connected with my jaw.
Translation: I hate who I am and the frat boys were mean to me.
I know Tim and hung out with him quite a bit when I was at LSU. He was a pretty cool, funny guy. I never got any negative vibes from him other than the fact he was a flaming libtard who took offense to some stuff I scrawled on the wall of his house. He was really pretty fun to be around and seemed to get along with everybody.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:42 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
A lot of the older peeps in my family went to istrouma. The ones who went in the 60s say it was great and kids roamed the city freely. (white kids, obviously)
The ones that went in the late 70s say it was pretty violent. Lots of fighting and struggling to keep things the way it was.
The ones that went in the late 70s say it was pretty violent. Lots of fighting and struggling to keep things the way it was.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:49 am to StrongSafety
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StrongSafety
You really need to let go of your hatred of Whitey. You're never gonna find peace.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:51 am to Mung
I was bussed across town in the early 80s after going to my neighborhood school from 1978-1981ish. It was a jolting and bizarre experience, to go from walking to school and seeing all the kids in your neighborhood, to getting up at 5:30 and catching a bus in the near dark to go across town to school with kids who you didn't know.
No one liked it. There were natural tensions and incidents when you throw kids together from radically different backgrounds. It got better and by the time I was in HS it was no big deal. Scotlandville HS, McKinley, BRH etc were all in good shape in the 90s. There weren't exactly race wars
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It's changed now because parents are more protective (IMO) and tend to send their kids to private schools more often.
No one liked it. There were natural tensions and incidents when you throw kids together from radically different backgrounds. It got better and by the time I was in HS it was no big deal. Scotlandville HS, McKinley, BRH etc were all in good shape in the 90s. There weren't exactly race wars
. It's changed now because parents are more protective (IMO) and tend to send their kids to private schools more often.
Posted on 6/22/15 at 9:58 am to Mung
The one thing I hate that has happened over the ladt few years is black people don't say hello as much while walking down the street. To me, it's the simple politeness of small town life, you pass another human being and you acknowledge their existence.
A lot of the younger whites/blacks will do it after a prompt, but the older black people seem to be growing more distant. Odd really.
Maybe I'm just old.
A lot of the younger whites/blacks will do it after a prompt, but the older black people seem to be growing more distant. Odd really.
Maybe I'm just old.
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