Despite criticism, newly approved Louisiana city not racist: Spokesperson

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A group of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, residents have won a yearslong battle to form a new city. St. George city spokesperson Andrew Murrell says citizens are simply exercising their constitutional rights to “form a city, vote and self-govern.”
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@stevenmcgillivray9283 3 ай бұрын

St. George isn't concerning it'sself with being called racist, it's got bigger and better things to look forward to.

@MM-sq5pf 3 ай бұрын

Now that they can focus on positive things

@willoneil1456 3 ай бұрын

Yeah death taxes and problems trying not to.

@stevenmcgillivray9283 3 ай бұрын

@@willoneil1456 They'll thrive and prosper, due to their industriusness.

@DeMan59 3 ай бұрын

All that revenue they are gonna have! Lol. No more paying “some people” to do nothing! Imagine how beautiful that part of the city will be within a year.

@stevenmcgillivray9283 3 ай бұрын

@@DeMan59 It's a separate City now.

@bb3ll07 3 ай бұрын

Baton Rouge just want those people tax dollars 😂😂😂😂

@PD-yd3fr 3 ай бұрын

And had the city addressed the issues with the schools, this would have been avoided

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

His rhetoric is full of fallacies. 1. East Baton Rouge Parish has not recorded a population since 1810. 2. The City-Parish has had a consolidated government since the 1940s, similar to larger cities like Jacksonville, FL, Nashville, TN, and Louisville, KY. 3. They have had and will continue to have representation in the parish’s government, but it’s clear they want total control and influence over the consolidated arrangement. Additionally, many areas in the parish haven’t been annexed into the city since the current government arrangement was established (e.g., Merrydale, Monticello, Shenandoah, Oak Hills, and more). This is suspect, as these developed areas flood constantly-look back to the 2016 floods and see how hard these areas were hit. They don’t subsidize the city. The mayor had to fight to put up an aqua dam to protect them from floods and lost her battle in Louisiana’s courts. They don’t have a plan for public schools, and many concerned parents who live in the area send their kids to top schools in the state like Liberty Magnet and Baton Rouge High School. The financial numbers they cite are questionable, as a couple of the state’s justices dissented, noting that there was no solid data to support their claims.

@user-nd8le9px4g Ай бұрын

@bb3ll07 Exactly!! African wants to beat whitey down and steal his money

@davewestly307 25 күн бұрын

@@prestonval4439prove it or it’s you who is false

@Bryan-jd7os 3 ай бұрын

So tired of everything being called racist, it's lost all meaning.

@willoneil1456 3 ай бұрын

In America ? It's all about race and money and especially power. But so what. Deal with it and keep living. I hope both places flourish

@teebone2157 3 ай бұрын

Mind your business as your Bible says

@jvanek8512 3 ай бұрын

Same could be said about the phrase "unAmerican"

@richiestarks6163 3 ай бұрын

It’s only racist if they’re jealous. If you live in their misery too, then it’s ok. Forget all that. Everyone deserves the pursuit of happiness.

@MM-sq5pf 3 ай бұрын

It's just means someone who goes to the track now

@TheBullet51 3 ай бұрын

working people are sick of paying for inner city ghetto culture.....

@tedgemberling2359 3 ай бұрын

Why shouldn't people with more money subsidize people with less money?

@maple-leafs13 2 ай бұрын

Nobody wants to pay for more basketball americans

@tedgemberling2359 2 ай бұрын

@@maple-leafs13 what do you mean by basketball Americans?

@timothya.g.991 2 ай бұрын

@@tedgemberling2359the question is, why must we? We're not obligated to subsidize them

@tedgemberling2359 2 ай бұрын

@@timothya.g.991 if they are left without help it will spiral into worse and worse conditions. Asking for this help is just Christian charity. Christ called us to be neighbors to those unlike ourselves.

@donaldmaxie5264 2 ай бұрын

OK, Baton Rouge, you are now a large majority black community, and a black run city government, without white interference. Show us what good things you can do for the people of Baton Rouge.

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

Black Baton Rouge has preserved through red-lining, sit ins. serrated swimming pools and parks, The first Bus Boycott in the nation, Jim Crow, National guard shootings at Southern, share cropping and through today's police brutality. They are exhausted and giving up on the city many are moving to the burbs waters than whites.

@3rdwsoldier Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@davewestly307 25 күн бұрын

@@donaldmaxie5264 yea the new Wakanda 🤣

@trumpeldorf 23 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@Gfysimpletons 8 күн бұрын

📉

@Orecatmeatprocessors 3 ай бұрын

Most people want to live in a safe area. Face the facts. In a lot of black area's Walmart, Wall Greens, other stores are leaving like In and Out burger in Oakland. Black Shoplifting and crime caused the stores to close & leave. Young black men kill more people than most anybody else. Even successful blacks move out of these black crime areas. I would never put my kids in black crime ridden schools and neither do successful black people. Who wants to talk all day about the crime and murders all the time. It is unproductive! Move where your kids don't have to listen to that unproductive nonsense, but can learn get a good education and live in productive safe areas! My kids deserve that and as their father I will make sure they get it! Remember this we don't have to live in St George we can go lots of other safe places. It's not that big of a deal!

@aceproinc 2 ай бұрын

That's WHAT I DID...never want to go back

@robertknight9506 3 ай бұрын

Most the people in Baker and Scotlandville are black. Conveniently unreported.

@user-vj2pp1oy1x 3 ай бұрын

A wise person once said " the demand for racism is greater than the supply"

@MaryLynn1 3 ай бұрын

Baton Rouge will miss that free money. 😂😂😂😂😂

@tinaanderson200 3 ай бұрын

Wow 😳 they need there own 🤑 smh

@RazgrizDavion81 3 ай бұрын

well they can start "working"

@tinaanderson200 3 ай бұрын

They should have been had they own town investing in the bc smh

@teenahweenah2608 3 ай бұрын

These people are called wealthy white people. What is the definition of wealthy white people?

@chriscaspian2280 3 ай бұрын

@@RazgrizDavion81 Harsh words

@JB-ti7bl 3 ай бұрын

Congrats to St. George. Be great!

@MM-sq5pf 3 ай бұрын

Let's see how they prosper now, so awesome

@DeoVindice85 3 ай бұрын

Aluminum Foil window curtains not welcome in St. George. Yay

@staypositive950 3 ай бұрын

Being racist is treating someone unfairly because of their race. Just wanting to live alone with your own tribe is not racist. Literally no no one believes that. Forced association is just as evil as segregation. Let people form the communities they choose. Forcing unwanted people on others is evil.

@Bryan-jd7os 3 ай бұрын

Great point.

@Wolfcamp555 3 ай бұрын

Segregating yourself is not evil.

@RazgrizDavion81 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I don't see any problem. The city is not closed people can come and go, different local law...but hey it is a local law.

@jvanek8512 3 ай бұрын

but if you don't want to live with others because of their race that is by definition racist.

@AKR088 3 ай бұрын

@@RazgrizDavion81 actually they don't label it correctly. Always talking around the actual fact, but not mentioning the reality. They'd still allow these people in to their community who will eventually mess everything up later on, and years later will reach back to same result like now.

@BlueBeast2013 2 ай бұрын

The Baton Rouge Mayor's "Summer of Hope" event on Monday at a public pool had to be shut down early because of fights that broke out. Fortunately, bathing suits can't hold guns so nobody was shot. That type of behavior is one of the reasons crime is rampant and people are tired of it and have been working to form the city of St. George. It's simply controlling your own destiny.

@davidjaerobins4180 Ай бұрын

What made matter worse is that the vicinity is too small. Liberty Lagoon, really Mayor Broome? She should've chosen Blue Bayou instead, smh.

@jaysonj9327 3 ай бұрын

Cultural re-enrichment. Well played, St. George.

@Chulitatr 3 ай бұрын

Then it would include everyone.

@thechinesevirus9628 3 ай бұрын

@@Chulitatr😂😂😂

@Chulitatr 3 ай бұрын

@@thechinesevirus9628 Your point?

@TommyStGeorge 3 ай бұрын

@@Chulitatr It does. It includes everyone or every race within the borders of SG

@JohnSmith-ux3tt 3 ай бұрын

@Chulitatr What makes you say that?

@PatricenotPatrick 3 ай бұрын

Why would it be about race?? Sorry I’m from Houston and black and I don’t even stop for gas on I-10 when I’m passing through BR 💀💀💀 Good for them, let the people decide. And please don’t move to Texas BR ninjas, it’s enough Louisianans here already 😒

@perrykeshahwalker5321 3 ай бұрын

Those ninjas are deadly girl.

@kevinarceneaux4743 3 ай бұрын

Louisiana people made Houston population

@vidaliatheonionqueen 3 ай бұрын

oh they moving to texas 😂 everytime i get these young adults at my shop, squakin to their mommas over the phone (instead of talking to the person theyre supposed to be conducting business with), going on about how they aint got no business in all that mess behind the new mall (gang crime) and how they gonna be coming up in 5yrs, they always talk about how theyre moving to houston or atlanta 😂😂🤣

@PatricenotPatrick 3 ай бұрын

@@kevinarceneaux4743 made it worse 😒

@PatricenotPatrick 3 ай бұрын

@@vidaliatheonionqueen LMAO RIGHT THO?!

@philyoutuber7270 3 ай бұрын

That word has no meaning anymore

@yyyfffff33333 3 ай бұрын

A lesson to blacks . Don't bite the hand that feeds you !

@genXdoom72 3 ай бұрын

Thangs sho wuz betta when dey wuz sum wyte folks aroun

@user-nd8le9px4g Ай бұрын

@@genXdoom72 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@KingKilo88 Ай бұрын

@@genXdoom72 wtf did u say? The translation couldn't even come up with a language.

@davewestly307 25 күн бұрын

@@KingKilo88 that wuz repreashuns language

@redfoxx1417 3 ай бұрын

Don't blame them for wanting a piece of mind everybody doesn't want to live in a warzone

@MM-sq5pf 3 ай бұрын

Nope, only very few do, and they can have it

@geraldstone8396 3 ай бұрын

Finally, someone telling the truth that St. George was never part of Baton Rouge .

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

@lalaboards 3 ай бұрын

Im moving to St George .

@JohnSmith-ux3tt 3 ай бұрын

Who cares if it is about race - they are leaving. Baton Rouge shouldnt have screwed around with their kids schooling. Another classic example of FAFO.

@WakandaleezaRazz 3 ай бұрын

“Oh lawwwwd how we gon make it without Dwight peepo?!” ✊🏿😭

@Rockstarmade224 3 ай бұрын

🤡🤡🤡

@nobilesnovushomo58 3 ай бұрын

They literally just had to make the PES somewhat function.

@YTHatesMe-999 3 ай бұрын

I do just fine without them.

@MM-sq5pf 3 ай бұрын

Nose all wide breathin" the white man's air

@IAMBENNYBLANCO. 3 ай бұрын

Congratulations 🎉!!!!!

@EXPRECDJ 3 ай бұрын

Let’s go St. George, Louisiana! 💯💯💯

@Theendisnear429 3 ай бұрын

Wtg Baton Rouge. May you flourish.

@roanwa4712 3 ай бұрын

St George was never a part of the city of Baton Rouge to begin with.

@ko9856 3 ай бұрын

That money BR was hitting them up for was tho obviously

@TommyStGeorge 3 ай бұрын

@@ko9856 the CITY of BR used tax revenue from the UNINCORPORATED are area outside the city limits to fund the CITY Police and Fire Departments which provided no services to the unincorporated areas. It wasn't BR's money

@ko9856 3 ай бұрын

@@TommyStGeorgeWhere did i disagree?? Commented only to agree that the city of BR never considered st george apart of their metropolitan outside leaching off their property taxes

@MM-sq5pf 3 ай бұрын

So it won't be missed, buh bye

@TommyStGeorge 3 ай бұрын

@@MM-sq5pf LMAO but you will miss the $40-50M a year that goes to us and the $250M in back tax revenue collected since the incorporation election established SG. Try not to OD on copium

@saltytwofer 3 ай бұрын

Baton rouge is mad because they know they didn't lose an anchor, they *were* the anchor. At least as a rusted lining, (D) rule will be even stronger in Baton, lol.

@George-hl2xm 3 ай бұрын

I support California becoming its own country

@coldspring624 3 ай бұрын

You would hope a newly formed city would steer clear of the obvious downfalls and corruption it is fleeing

@F3ND1MUS 3 ай бұрын

GOOD JOB ST GEORGE

@vidaliatheonionqueen 3 ай бұрын

we were never part of BR. we were UNINCORPORATED, meaning we were not governed by any city.. yet our tax revenue was funding BR's operating costs. we have been and still are part of the east baton rouge parish. the less than intelligent ppl cannot grasp that the parish are not the same.. though both are run by the same leader.. all the remaining unincorporated can still incorporate into our city, or even into BR. but it's likely they won't. they voted no to incorporate, just as they did when they petitioned to join BR. at the end of the day, BR isnt obligated to our money, especially while neglecting us. there was taxation w/o representation

@christopherhoward4083 22 күн бұрын

I may not be smart with legalities or terminology, but it basically sounds like they are their own city now if they aren’t paying for Baton Rouge anymore. It’s amazingly good news for both cities.

@vidaliatheonionqueen 22 күн бұрын

@@christopherhoward4083 its not that we are our own city *because* we are no longer paying for BR. we are our own city because we incorporated into one. a new city. and therefore we *shouldn't* be paying BR we actually shouldnt have been paying BR in the first place, as we were never part of BR nor governed by them. we are merely part of the same parish. BR thinks its bad news for us, as though we cannot afford to be our own city. thats want they want ppl to think. in reality, they want our money so theyve been trying to sabotage this movement

@MM-sq5pf 3 ай бұрын

It's not racist, but damn I love the concept

@crisadams5871 Ай бұрын

I laugh when groups of people bash another group and then get mad when they distance themselves or dont show support to those groups.

@helloMRdj1 3 ай бұрын

Im from Spain, I was in Baton Rouge a year ago as a crewman for a Spanish Galleon that was docked in the city. They never told me about the crime there before going and had various life-threatening episodes during the 10 days I spent there.

@twentysecondcenturywoman 3 ай бұрын

Unfortunately in cities in the U.S. there’s hella crime in downtown areas. We need mass incarceration but that would be “racist”

@christinemurray1444 3 ай бұрын

The biggest challenge for St George will be to stop the marauding criminals from Baton Rouge coming into St George. They plan to invest heavily in policing and schools.

@LukeMornings 3 ай бұрын

I went visit the ship when yall where docked. Sorry you had that experience.

@Beavereaver 3 ай бұрын

On behalf of the entire country of the United States I’d like to apologize to you. We have this political party in America that believes letting criminals do whatever they want without consequences is the best way to correct racial injustices. In some places in America you can steal up to $950 and if you get caught it would be like getting a ticket.

@razziade 3 ай бұрын

The mayor for BR is only distressed because she may have to take a pay cut. I love when things work out. Now blacks can govern their own city, and show everyone how it’s supposed to be. Great job St. George. The border between the 2 cities is going to be like Hempstead and Garden City here on Long island. Crossing the street from Hempstead (ghetto) into GC is a total 180-beautiful homes, safe neighborhoods, and prosperous businesses. I wish St. George the best!

@RobertHodge-xu3zw 3 ай бұрын

So much for inclusion and anti-segregation .

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

@moneymentum 2 ай бұрын

"Racist" isn't a real word. It was developed by Trotsky to deflect criticism of Jews. It's logically impossible semantically; there can't be "racism" without honesty, and honesty can never be anything but loving as opposed to hatred.

@oscarwalton1188 Ай бұрын

They have been treated unfairly for years and they have every right to do what they did and it isn't their responsibility to support a corrupt city that they have technically never been apart of.

@scotthewes2431 3 ай бұрын

I live in Los Angeles County. Over 100 years ago the city of Pasadena split off from LA for the exact same reason (back then everyone was white so the only colors were white and green, as in money). Since then 30 other cities within LA County have split off. Today there are 274 cities in LA County and the 31 best to live in are all the same 31 that broke away and became financially independent from LA county. They all have their own schools, police departments, fire departments etc. it’s proof that small government works better.

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

L.A. County also has the 2 times the population of the entire state of Louisiana so some division is to be expected But county issues are still issues for cities that are not independent of the county.

@chriszenko3598 3 ай бұрын

What’s racist? They have a Chinatown not far from my area the area is 95 percent Chinese people.they prefer to live with their own culture it’s a more cohesive environment for them who can blame them nothing wrong with that

@juneabfalter7361 3 ай бұрын

You'll be in fine shape as long as you don't put a lot of democrats on your p.Ayroll😂😂😂

@davidjaerobins4180 Ай бұрын

I'm from Baton Rouge and remembered when Central incorporated into a city 20 years ago. If Central was able to do it, so can St George.

@arkansasgreg 2 ай бұрын

Sounds like Baton Rogue has been the welfare recepient of St. George's generosity. Imagine that. 🤣

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

LOL, that's what they want you to believe. One of the state's largest taxpayers in the city proper is Exxon. Considering the extensive infrastructure and flood recovery efforts the City/Parish has maintained over the decades, St. George residents will soon realize that much of their development is being subsidized by the rest of the parish. St. George is bordered by a frequently flooding bayou. Look into the AquaDam the Mayor fought against to save that part of the city during floods, and lost to another parish leader Mitch Oruso in 2021

@arkansasgreg 2 ай бұрын

Looks like they will have a government and resources to excel.

@davewestly307 25 күн бұрын

@@prestonval4439 sit down with all that nonsense

@cpodurnell3701 3 ай бұрын

I think the word racist has lost its shock and awe.

@RazgrizDavion81 3 ай бұрын

Good decision by the community, I pray for all the best of their future endeavor. God Bless Them

@frankburklin1116 3 ай бұрын

" Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the Change we've been waiting for. We are the Change that we seek" B Obama. Baton Rouge needs to take care of thier failures and stop whining.

@MsDesiree39 3 ай бұрын

These pple just want to live in a well run area, nothings wrong with that

@Sjwolosz321 3 ай бұрын

My parents couldn't get us out of Busing in 1971 quick enough .Forced to go to schools where we didn't learn a thing besides George Washington Carver and how he invented a computer out of peanut better . Put us in private schools and gave us a chance

@teenahweenah2608 3 ай бұрын

The educational system in the United States of North America is lacking in both public and private institutions.

@vidaliatheonionqueen 3 ай бұрын

children who start in the east baton rouge parish school district and move to anyother district later.. they always end up failing the grade or their scores are moticed immediately and they are put back a grade from the start because Baton Rouge is sooooo far behind other school systems

@teenahweenah2608 3 ай бұрын

@@vidaliatheonionqueen Did you know grades are arbitrary? The educational model is based upon a "ROTE" learning experience.

@vidaliatheonionqueen 3 ай бұрын

@@teenahweenah2608 no sht grades are arbitrary 🙄 that doesnt change the fact that ebr parish school system is far behind other school systems. you can tell by the student's KNOWLEDGE. When they dont know multiplication or algebra at the same age and grade as other school systems' students do. highschoolers dont even know proper grammar in ebr parish public schools. its fckng embarrassing. and it's not entirely on the school system. the many public school kids and their family in BR simply do not care about education

@teenahweenah2608 3 ай бұрын

@@vidaliatheonionqueen Mathematics requires time, focus, and discipline. Schools do not have the time to properly teach children mathematical skills. There are too many distractions, such as gender ideology, and modern technology, cell phones, computers, and televisions.

@stevereed8786 2 ай бұрын

Bub By! It's been exhausting trying to put up with the insanity so we will just say Bub By!

@jeffrey6618 2 ай бұрын

Trump 2024

@khon6339 3 ай бұрын

who's mad & why? they want to be self sufficient & self reliant. see who will prosper. Louisiana experience

@graf1922 5 күн бұрын

What I see is a split between a liberal/progressive area and a moderate/conservative area. I dont see St.G excluding anyone who wants to work hard, have their tax dollars service their needs and own their little piece of America. If im going to run a business, I'd want to ge in a place where the police will arrest and the DA will prosecute criminals. If BR lets shoplifters go with a verbal warning and St.G gives them 30 days, a fine and community service, guess where they will think twice about shoplifting? I don't know what the penalty actually is, but I'm sure it's more than being put on the naughty list.

@BLACKONCODE2024 3 ай бұрын

The whole country is segregated and always will be🤷🏽‍♂️

@ralemc1960 3 ай бұрын

How does an area of a city with over 100000 not be given tax dollars for their own school??? Baton Rouge messed up. They wanted the tax dollars and took the dollars for their own.

@teenahweenah2608 3 ай бұрын

What's the age stratification of St. George? St George needs young people to thrive.

@anthonyurgitano2114 2 ай бұрын

That’s the real meaning of woke!

@patforet7336 Ай бұрын

Why is it racist to want children to read and write upon leaving high school, and without getting shot or robbed? Very high taxes with out representation is unimpressive. Baton Rouge is a welfare city which will have to be supported by the state and crime will rise due to less money for non tax paying tribes.

@johng.7560 3 ай бұрын

What is racist about wanting to live in a safe, clean desirable place. The people whining racism don't even have self respect, never mind anything of value to offer society.

@WesB1972 3 ай бұрын

People are tired of " __________" thug culture. (fill in the blank as you see fit)

@TommyStGeorge 3 ай бұрын

FINALLY! someone in the press gets the facts about SG 100% accurate. Thank you NN for actually asking the right questions from the right person.

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

@CookiezN 3 ай бұрын

Good 4 you.. Wish you peace and happiness..

@bb3ll07 3 ай бұрын

Everything is not about race! It’s a CLASS war!

@alexanderryan1176 3 ай бұрын

It's basically between races though.

@realzionygo 3 ай бұрын

@@alexanderryan1176Because the elite overlords want you to think that ;) If you put your gaze on race, the elite overlords are free and clear to continue to do what they want.

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

MLK's March on Washington was initially planned as "Poor People's Campaign "

@wlh52 24 күн бұрын

To me it just shows who should really be running Baton Rouge. The people that have a problem and come up with a solutions, rather than throwing a tantrum and stomping your feat like a child. Like that ole saying "Can't have your Cake and Eat it too.

@PatrickCTimeTravel 3 ай бұрын

This could be a new model across the country.

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

its basically Red- Lining 2.0

@uyoyouu188 3 ай бұрын

The pink people will always be pink pill.

@MrStatelessperson 2 ай бұрын

Separation

@beacarr9652 3 ай бұрын

You're Kings and Queens, Baton Rouge- do you NEED yt? We know you didn't WANT yt. What's the problem now?

@lions_tribe7759 3 ай бұрын

Congrats to you All but more important our blessed Constitution was applied to free citizens who want what they pay for...

@LuckyFoxes789 3 ай бұрын

Iam curious how many other metro citys might do this. And if states will change zoneing laws to keep this from happening in other city's. I know parts of Atlanta proper have tried to do this also.

@jem77469 3 ай бұрын

I think we should also be happy for the people of Baton Rouge. They have been degentrified. Decolonized, even.

@bsleds4585 2 ай бұрын

Good for them they dont need to fund other areas they can get off there ass and do for themselves like saint george

@tinaanderson200 3 ай бұрын

I, support them nothing wrong with it bp 😁 do not ivest they can not use others money 🤑 for them selfs bye not racism smh

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

His rhetoric is full of fallacies. At least 3. 1. East Baton Rouge Parish has not recorded a population since 1810. 2. The City-Parish has had a consolidated government since the 1940s, similar to larger cities like Jacksonville, FL, Nashville, TN, and Louisville, KY. 3. They have had and will continue to have representation in the parish’s government, but it’s clear they want total control and influence over the consolidated arrangement. Additionally, many areas in the parish haven’t been annexed into the city since the current government arrangement was established (e.g., Merrydale, Monticello, Shenandoah, Oak Hills, and more). This is suspect, as these developed areas flood constantly-look back to the 2016 floods and see how hard these areas were hit. They don’t subsidize the city. The mayor had to fight to put up an aqua dam to protect them from floods and lost her battle in Louisiana’s courts. They don’t have a plan for public schools, and many concerned parents who live in the area send their kids to top schools in the state like Liberty Magnet and Baton Rouge High School. The financial numbers they cite are questionable, as a couple of the state’s justices dissented, noting that there was no solid data to support their claims.

@Gfysimpletons 8 күн бұрын

Keep try….whilst Baton Rouge fails lol

@SteveMichael 3 ай бұрын

I am an outsider but it seems to me that this happened. A large city had a nice area (Baton Rouge) and they taxed them like crazy to feel the poorer area (New St. George). People got tired of it and tried to negotiate it. The current administration (Democrat) knew that their position was so strong in the area that they didn't need to talk. There was nothing in their mind that Baton Rouge could do. So they laughed at them, and then just made fun of them. But Baton Rouge decided to break away. St George thought this would be impossible and fought it tooth and nail in court. The court didn't go their way so now they want to smear Baton Rouge as a bunch of racist. The media of course focuses on this and pushes the narrative in all their discussions. To me this is a lesson as a leader to always listen to your constituents.

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

Baton Rogue has been Democrat ran since its first mayor. I suspect St. George leaders know they have to play with Black leaders if they want a stake and influence in parish politics and that's their real problem.

@KLS775 3 ай бұрын

If you guys don’t live there you can’t judge objectively

@augustinep6193 3 ай бұрын

Good. Thanks.

@roblewis8227 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting concept. I think we will see alot more of this in the future.

@PVo-1111 2 ай бұрын

I left EBR so i know what hes yalking about. I wish the taxes were less.

@scott5669 3 ай бұрын

These people are tired of living around 🗑 you can't blame them😎

@numeris7609 3 ай бұрын

Did this charlatan just say Baton Rouge was not a city? It’s the capitol city of Louisiana. I grew up there. Only on this channel could someone say something so completely idiotic unchallenged.

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

@patrickcong4595 3 ай бұрын

It’s that what everyone has been telling us… if you don’t like something vote. They did.

@honestsagittarius4566 3 ай бұрын

The vote failed on St. George end several times and they barley edged out a win the 5th time so yea…that says a lot

@ivanildefeitosa3649 3 ай бұрын

Bravo!

@user-oq2db8vp2p Ай бұрын

It’s very simple. The people in Saint George are tired of the moochers in Baton Rouge.

@DeoVindice85 3 ай бұрын

Rent Free

@tysonboy1980 2 ай бұрын

Don’t blame them

@sirdeepy555 3 ай бұрын

🇺🇸OUR POLITICAL GARDEN🇺🇸

@WellsLarry 3 ай бұрын

If only the people of the past could see the mess slavery created for their posterity.

@chrisleblanc581 3 ай бұрын

I was born and raised in Baton Rouge, and what is now St George. Specifically, I mostly lived in Shenandoah before court forced desegregation. Only a fool would believe the motivation for the split is not both class and race based. The city was always highly segregated. So we’re the schools until the early 80s. When bussing was forced by the courts, I remember protests. I remember the buckeye three. I remember the white flight to all the very new private schools. My whole life I’ve seen and heard complaints about doing what is fair- providing all equal access to public funds and public resources. As certain as I am this is all race based, I’m equally certain it would have never happened if state law required all funding for schools to go into one pool that is then equally divided. But delude yourself with whatever delusion you need to so that you can sleep at night and pretend you are a pious Christian.

@bluebell3720 3 ай бұрын

All they had wanted was a school district They were refused That area pays the mist tax but has the least resources and no descent school Had the money been used fairly and they had resonable resources they wouldn't have done this It wont be white only! About 18% black

@Rainy_Day12234 3 ай бұрын

Go woke then sane people try to distance themselves.

@KeishiahOliver 3 ай бұрын

For right or wrong… Everyone should want a better life… why does the media always make it about race. I’m so sick of that narrative. #yes I’m black!

@beacarr9652 3 ай бұрын

The per capita tax revenue was completely skewed by race- take the total paid in by race and divide it by race per capita- now look at expenses per capita by race. Why do you want St George to be a part of Baton Rouge? $$$

@prestonval4439 2 ай бұрын

@overbanked 2 ай бұрын

I cannot stand the mainstream media

@VanCLowe 3 ай бұрын

No more reparations to those people

@truebetold65 3 ай бұрын

Can you blame them.

@Rjisawake 3 ай бұрын

I give it 2 weeks lolol

@LunaLapin-ho5tk 3 ай бұрын

Then what happens?

@billyvon666 3 ай бұрын

All white towns have little crime. Id live there.

@eshep2943 3 ай бұрын

except the new city isnt all white. in fact its about the national average for diversity

@AA21-J 3 ай бұрын

It’s not all white it’s like 18% black

@MsDesiree39 3 ай бұрын

There's a reason why black celebs live in white neighborhoods. 😅😅

@Rainy_Day12234 3 ай бұрын

@@AA21-JBaton Rouge whites are 35% and in St. George it’s 70%.

@robinr.2233 3 ай бұрын

St. George is in Utah

@MsNerdsRevenge 3 ай бұрын

St George Island in Ireland. Saint George Parish in Barbados. Louisiana has the state flag with the mother in the near with her babies!!! It is the 1/2 St George Penny. Baton Rouge is for Joan of Arc.