Posted on 09/08/2005 9:44:40 PM PDT by MRMEAN
Prayers for the good people of Baton Rouge. Hope the vermin will be gone soon.
And I'll take a wild guess and say that Baton Rouge would be happy to see Nutty's dream come true.
CG, hang on...
---"I don't like the curfew here," said Doughboy, 16. "And I don't like the police. They make grown people stay inside at night.---
At 16, you're not exactly 'grown', no matter how big the chip on your shoulder is.
Many cities and towns will soon get very ugly, and very long before it gets better.
I grew up in Big B.R. and still have many friends there. The situation is quite serious. Baton Rouge is majority white, mostly middle class, and lacks the huge hardcore underclass of N.O. The races and classes simply are not polarized to the same extent, and there is less corruption and crime. The last thing the Baton Rougeans want is for their town to become more like New Orleans. May they get their wish!
Dispersing the thugs far and wide is simply like spreading disease.
We need to quit pretending that anyone who was flooded out is automatically a good, deserving citizen.
Baton Rouge Mayor Melvin L. 'Kip' Holden
Right on Mr. Mayor. Hang in there.
"...this normally unhurried Southern college town and state capital that has become the largest city in Louisiana with a population that may triple to about 750,000."
Is this for real? Red Stick the new metropolis of LA?
IOW, they have rules here.
The weekend after the flood N.O. was to host the "Southern Decadence Festival", aka, "Gay Mardi Gras". 100,000 gays a lesbians were to descend upon the city, where they parade down the streets in lewd costumes and perform sex acts in public without a word said to them by the "police".
Two years ago they marched one of their lewd parades through a church while the service was going on. Not a word was said to them by local authorities, and of course there was no negative press coverage.
This is the atmosphere this fine young American citizen longs to return to.
They aren't vermin, they are poor people. And the kids are playing gangsta.
BR has a huge black population, poor and nearly a majority if I recall right. BR has a racial divide as wide as you can imagine.
This article is feeding the fears of a fearful people and I do believe expresses the darker side of this provincial self congratulating town.
I really don't think this article serves anyone any better than al sharptons race baiting on the other side.
The problem here is traffic, created by white flight for the most part from NO prior to the storm. And the crowding of families into people's home causing nerves to be on end.
There has not been the much anticipated crime wave. Although many seemed to be anticipating it with glee and barefly disguised racism.
I don't like gangs and criminals. But so far the Hurricane people have been peaceable but I can't speak for the residents whose homes are bursting at the seams with relatives.
I find it hard to believe that Mr. Nine would have enemies.
I don't won't to burst your bubble but I think you're going to have more problems than just the traffic.
Hon, I live here. I am not in a bubble at all and know we will have problems.
But I still think this article is meant to heighten racial tensions.
The real problems are on the interstates and side streets where it take twice as long to get to work. Not with teenage black kids trying to play gangsta roles. They will be dealt with if they act up.
But what are you going to do when you are exhausted from driving, having near misses, poorly timed redlights, no parking places.
BTW, these young bucks from N.O. don't play gansta they live it...
First they "play" it,,have you seen kids doing that.
Are you patronizing me? Not sure, but I think you are. Let me know if that is the case so I can deliver a good southern smackdown, okay?
Hahahaha....
U bad hon?
Stay that way and stay safe in B.R...
:-)
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