re: Editorial: A. Rice - What happens leadership abandons a city to crime.

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Florida Blvd. used to be the dividing line so it’s creeping south

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i would even draw the line at Sherwood Forest now.

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A politically connected friend of mine relayed to me that one of his colleagues, a black Democrat lobbyist in Baton Rouge, told him, “Maybe now you white people will care about crime in Baton Rouge.”

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Here’s what is really going on.

The whites see and read about all the crime in NBR and other black neighborhoods and do get upset when some drive by thug slaughters a four year old home in bed or a young HS kid at party is murdered in some random throw down. We ask. why aren’t people in that neighborhood turning in the murderers? Why aren’t good folk there trying to clean things up?

We do get upset, but we become numb to it. After all if the folks in those neighborhoods don’t do anything why should we get upset, right?

Well now an innocent is slaughtered and she’s not ftom the hood. She’s a white student and not part of the culture. Sure we are upset. Sure we are alarmed. Sure we take it harder because we all know that this stuff is spreading out of the hoods and that poor girl very well could have been my sister, my daughter or my friend.

The truth is we all good people care about the crime. We all hope the thugs and gangs are stopped and jailed. The thing is we need a leader that can attack the thugs and gangs and get all the good folks on the same page.

Mayor Broome won’t do it. She can’t do it. She is all about race.
To her an attack against the thugs is an attack against blacks in general when reality it’s an attack on evil.

The thugs and gangs are getting more brazen. Citizens are arming themselves. We see rivals shooting it out on Hundred Oaks, gun play at Sherwood Oaks and a gang hit at JA Alexanders. We all see the common denominator here and all the balloon launches, bike rides and speeches aren’t going to fix things. We need leaders that understand the problem with the will to attack the problems.

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Serious question, what can those in EBR do? I’m not politically connected, I’m not rich, and I’m not a criminal nor do I know any. What can I do to make this city better?

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Is the relationship salvageable?

Do you know of any example where citizen can turn a city around?

What do you do when a lying, cheating, spouse continues to care more about the felons he/she is banging than you? What do you do to make them better?

The answer is you move to Texas.

Great points doubleb.
The American Spectator article is a hard-hitting truthful article that I am passing on for others to read. hopefully the national publicity about this and New Orleans- the new murder capital of the country, can elicit change. Doubtful

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The American Spectator article is a hard-hitting truthful article that I am passing on for others to read. hopefully the national publicity about this and New Orleans- the new murder capital of the country, can elicit change. Doubtful

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I read half that article before realizing it was Scott McKay's work.

It is great that it's on a larger website than the Hayride though.

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Also talks about how there are two Baton Rouges, one above Gov't St. and the other below it.

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Wish that were true, but its really not any more.

can rage all we want about the incompetent mayor and she sucks but here are a few of your true enemies of the state

This article sums up the heavy price of identity politics built on the backs of long passed transgressions and present day false narratives.

It reminds me of the messages placed on billboards purchased by the Baton Rouge Union of Police in 2020.

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A politically connected friend of mine relayed to me that one of his colleagues, a black Democrat lobbyist in Baton Rouge, told him, “Maybe now you white people will care about crime in Baton Rouge.”

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What a fricking joke. I believe us Whitey's have been asking the black community why you only March, loot, and riot when a black thug criminal, in the midst of doing criminal shite, is shot by a white cop, but NEVER lift a finger when anyone else, regardless of race, is killed. There was a 6 or 7 year old girl that caught a stray bullet to the head while she was sleeping in North BR a year or 2 ago, and not a fricking peep from the black community. As i read through social media posts, anytime a white person asks the black community, "why aren't you #sayinghername or marching/rioting over an innocent black girl murdered in a drive by" the answer from a resident of "the community" was, "that is a black thing, and you white people need to butt out".