re: Official EBR State of the City-Parish 2018 Thread | 6:30PM - Old State Capitol

Just looked up silky slim's Twitter account. Apparently he just uses his account to retweet MC Hammer tweets

So there’s a lot of crime in the city and she replaced the police chief. Sounds like a smart move. She put a black person in that position when the city is majority black. sounds like a smart move

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So there’s a lot of crime in the city and she replaced the police chief. Sounds like a smart move.

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She didn't replace him because he was doing a poor job.

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She put a black person in that position when the city is majority black. sounds like a smart move

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Sounds racist.

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She will reportedly also talk about current and future projects dealing with education, roads, and building better neighborhoods.

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I can predict where these projects will be centered..

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I can predict where these projects will be centered..

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I don't mind that she's targeting the blighted areas of town for improvement. The issue I have is that she's trying to have it completely funded through taxes. You can't expect people to pay for your vote farming projects then turn around and call them the enemy (or deprive them of services they disproportionately fund). Her plans are two-fold. Punish St. G folks for trying to incorporate and lock down her voting block with free stuff.

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If it weren't for Alton Sterling trying to fight and shoot officers, three cops would still be alive today, three others wouldn't be injured (one of which may never recover), the two cops who originally responded could actually live a normal life free of racists trying to kill them, and Dabadie would still be chief. To blame anybody but the criminal pieces of shite for Baton Rouge's problems is absurd.

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So Alton sterling, who was killed by cops, is to blame for cops being killed months after. Knew you scared of blacks, didn’t know you were scared of ghosts too

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I don't mind that she's targeting the blighted areas of town for improvement.

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In theory, it’s great, but it’s been proven time and time again that giving nice public things to low income and blighted areas isn’t anything but a waste of money.

The people in those parts of town don’t take care of what they have, much less public property. Giving them nice things isn’t going to make the areas nice.

Iirc, the guy who killed all the cops that day did it because of the cops killed Sterling.

I dare say that the majority of the people who post on this site could care less about the new police chief’s skin color, as long as he was the best candidate and will do a good job.

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In theory, it’s great, but it’s been proven time and time again that giving nice public things to low income and blighted areas isn’t anything but a waste of money.

The people in those parts of town don’t take care of what they have, much less public property. Giving them nice things isn’t going to make the areas nice.

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I completely agree. The one that really irks me is the "school improvement" nonsense as if the badass kids with bad parents will improve if only we build them a state of the art facility and hire the best teachers. Their only hope is a charter school system that offers programs that weed out the bad apples preventing others from learning. The current school system is bad for all students. If they can weed out the trouble makers, it gives better opportunity for the ones that have potential. Saving 30% is far better than what they have now.