The Daily Mail reports that the "[w]ealthy white Baton Rouge residents have won a decade-long court battle to split from poorer neighborhoods and form their own city with plans for better schools and less crime." The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that a new city to be called St. George can incorporate, including taking a section of Baton Rouge with it. "St George will have 86,000 residents across a 60-square-mile area in the southeast of East Baton Rouge Parish," the article relates, "and will have its own Mayor and city council."
Supporters of the new city say that the existing city-parish government is poorly run, with high crime rates and bad schools.
Opponents say the movement is 'racist' and will create a 'white enclave' as it separates a wealthy area of the city from the majority Black city and school district.
We've all been told that black people built this nation and that whites all became wealthy off the labor of black people. Consequently, I'm sure that with all the evil white people gone, Baton Rouge can finally realize its destiny and greatness, becoming the likes of the fictional Wakanda.
Good for them!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if this will start a trend. I thought I'd seen something in the past few years of certain areas of Atlanta, Georgia, making noises of attempting to split off to form their own communities. As an op-ed I read about this matter in Baton Rouge points out, the people in St. George had been paying higher taxes, but getting less in the way of services, including police service; and some of the reduced service was due to actual policy of the City/Parish government in order to be "anti-racist".
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