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Posted on 4/4/17 at 5:50 pm to OweO
The problem is that the small minority has succeeded in convincing a plurality of voters in the city that all of their problems are because of evil rich white racists, and that any alleged corruption on the part of black officials is just a racist conspiracy witchhunt launched by white leaders to destroy the black community by slandering their public servants.
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 5:52 pm to OweO
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Yes because I think a small minority of people are the ones who fuel the divide.
Yeah. How'd they get elected? What are the chances that the same type of shitbag won't continue to get elected if St. George becomes reality and demographics shift?
Baton Rouge is doomed.
Posted on 4/4/17 at 6:08 pm to tduecen
This isn't just a BR problem. This is every large city in the south issue. People can say what they want but cities with the demographics of BR always end up having shitty public schools and government which leads to the money leaving the city (white flight ) and then end up a shithole. Call the it what u want but it's the truth
Posted on 4/4/17 at 6:09 pm to TigerstuckinMS
I hope it was just because Bodi was a bad candidate and that many were expecting Broome to be a moderate in the Kip mold rather than a huckster in the Marcelle mold, but I am very scared that a majority of voters voted for exactly what we're getting and exactly what they wanted.
Posted on 4/4/17 at 6:24 pm to jlntiger
This is spot on! It started with forced bussing that collapsed the neightborhood schools and then the neighborhoods themselves (Belaire, Baker, Broadmoor, Sherwood, Lee, etc.)
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 6:33 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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Yeah. How'd they get elected? What are the chances that the same type of shitbag won't continue to get elected if St. George becomes reality and demographics shift? Baton Rouge is doomed.
This is the most troubling aspects. If St. George annexes, it takes a big lump of the tax base and voters who give a shite about things with it.
But we leave behind LSU and downtown to the Gravy Train and his ilk.
They will destroy what is left of BR.
If only we could draw a line carving out downtown and LSU and let the Broome crew have NBR to run into the ground with their policies.
But they won't let that go. They will demand to murder the best parts of BR proper to satiate their crooked schemes.
It's a tragedy
Posted on 4/4/17 at 6:33 pm to PapaPogey
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Start with Gardere and then build a wall on Florida Blvd to divide the N and S
You'd have to at least start at I-10
Posted on 4/4/17 at 6:40 pm to skuter
It's on a downward spiral unfortunately. Not that I don't enjoy parts of Baton Rouge, and I've been downtown more in the last two or 3 years than I had in the previous 10. Unfortunately, I don't see anything good coming from the current administration. I had hope, but that fell by the wayside very quickly.
Posted on 4/4/17 at 6:43 pm to tduecen
Once the door opens to racial politics (regardless of what race is doing the politics), it is difficult to resolve anything. You won't have good government.
Posted on 4/4/17 at 6:43 pm to LSUSkip
From 2007-2104 I had hope for Baton Rouge. Nowadays, not as much, but not nonexistent either.
Posted on 4/4/17 at 6:49 pm to tduecen
Find another city that you've been to that has 125k black people and 90k white people...you can't compare apples to oranges. What is that 60% black? Yeh I doubt you will find many cities "in harmony" with those demographics.
Posted on 4/4/17 at 7:05 pm to tduecen
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What would you do to "fix" things as they currently are?
I don't know if fundamental differences in ideology can be 'fixed' anywhere, not just Baton Rouge. It is impossible to communicate effectively or to compromise when one side has an agenda and/or chooses to believe or 'feel' that the other side is incessantly 'out to get them,' however baseless & unfounded those beliefs & 'feelings' are. It's a problem when one side is a-logical and operates & makes decisions based on feelings, only, not common sense, reason, & logic.
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