Wealthy white Louisiana residents win right to form their own city and split from poorer black neighborhoods in landmark court ruling after a 10-year - Critics of the new city say the plan is 'racist' and will create a 'white enclave'

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Wealthy white Louisiana residents win right to form their own city and split from poorer black neighborhoods in landmark court ruling after a 10-year battle​

• St George will have 86,000 residents across a 60-square-mile area
• Critics of the new city say the plan is 'racist' and will create a 'white enclave'
• Baton Rouge residents fear move will be economically devastating for their city

Wealthy 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 ruled on Friday that the new City of St George could move forward with incorporation, splitting off from the rest of Baton Rouge.

St George will have 86,000 residents across a 60-square-mile area in the southeast of East Baton Rouge Parish 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.

Leader of an anti-St George campaign group, M.E. Cormier, told the New York Times: 'There is no basis in fact that the existence of St. George is positive or will bring positivity or have a positive impact on any areas of the cities or the parish.'
Plans for St George started nearly 15 years ago when residents decided they would like to start their own school district.

Their plans then grew more ambitious and in 2015 they drew up a proposal to create their own city.

The proposal didn't get enough votes and the movement ground to a halt until 2019, when a second ballot to incorporate St George passed, with 54 percent of residents voting in favor of separation.

A lengthy court battle followed, with Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome and Mayor Pro Tem Lamont Cole suing St. George organizers soon after the election.

They argued that St George would siphon over $48 million in annual tax revenue from the city-parish government with serious knock-on effects for local services and staff.

They claimed that the loss in revenue would mean services would have to be cut and employees laid off and that St George's proposed internal budget was inaccurate and that they would not be able to be self-sufficient.

Lower courts in Louisiana supported Baton Rouge's arguments, and shot down the proposed new city.

But now the state's Supreme Court has overruled their decisions, saying that the internal budget is balanced and will be able to provide public services, meaning St George can incorporate.

Critics of the St. George proposal argue that it would create a poor, black, and urban Baton Rouge and a wealthy, white, and suburban St. George.

Posting on Facebook, resident Sarah Stelly wrote: 'St George reeks of class division, it's quickly becoming the new worst type of bigotry.'

Another resident, Paul Brady, wrote: 'The segregationist won. I'm no longer a citizen of Baton Rouge. I now live in the white enclave of St George.'

Leader of an anti-St George campaign group, M.E. Cormier, told the New York Times: 'There is no basis in fact that the existence of St. George is positive or will bring positivity or have a positive impact on any areas of the cities or the parish.

'The detanglement, logistically speaking, is going to be an absolute nightmare.'

But Andrew Murrell, a leader of the St George project, told the paper: 'This is the culmination of citizens exercising their constitutional rights.

'Now we begin the process of delivering on our promises of a better city.'

Fellow campaign leader, Norman Browning told The Times: 'I look forward to our ability to build an efficient, productive and vibrant city while contributing to a thriving East Baton Rouge Parish.'

The split campaign emerged out of the ashes of a failed campaign to create a new school district by the wealthy, predominantly white residents of southern Baton Rouge
A 2014 study by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber found that the effects of the partition would be economically devastating for the remainder of Baton Rouge, immediately creating a $53 million budget shortfall.

The study also raised concerns as to whether the remaining portions of Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s state capital, would be able to support public services despite the loss of tax revenue.

As the tables below shows projected figures for St. George would create a town with an average income $30,000 higher than present day Baton Rouge, while the unemployment rate would be halved.

According to figures compiled by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, the new town would have a majority white population, as opposed to Baton Rouge which has a black majority and the number of people receiving food stamps would also be more than halved.

 

[Breadbassket]

lol shouldn't they be happy? whitey's gone, what's the problem?

Whitey don't matter but their money does.

 

[Dick Mason]

The same could be said about Detroit, Gary, East St. Louis, Camden.

Those old burned out cities probably still have all that it takes to succeed. They weren't plopped into those spots randomly, that's fancy land. They could be powerhouses once again, just not with those populations. It's a shame that that is not where demographic replacement was focused. Entire cities could become inhabitable almost overnight.

Too bad most homes are just gone now. They've turned every Mayberry, America into vacant lots filled with trash. The favela soul is hard to quell.

 

[Balr0g]

So is this the new way of doing things? Building your "exclusive enclave" and the rest be damned? Well now all those minorities can show the white people how to do things.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

"My brother used to live in that area and fought hard against an incorporation". So, if true, what's the mixing context? Well, the context is that his brother didn't live there in the last 10 years. How do I know this? Observe:

After the petition was voted upon and approved, the Louisiana Supreme Court noted that not a single person who was allowed to vote or owned land in the area ever objected to the incorporation, which Louisiana laws allow to do.

 

[Breadbassket]

If you have problems with St George you should check out South Fulton, Georgia. It is America's "blackest city" and it has people that want to create a real-like Wakanda.

 

[inception_state]

Whitey don't matter but their money does.

The really comical part is that they challenged the incorporation on the grounds that it would reduce minority voting power. In a city that is 54% black and 34% white.

5 The petition challenging incorporation contained other allegations regarding the requirement of a full-time police department; dilution of minority voting power; violation of the City-Parish Plan of Government’s prohibition against additional incorporations in East Baton Rouge Parish; and a mandatory injunction requiring the election to amend that Plan of Government. These issues were heard and disposed of and are not before us.

 

[NewnameRealEmail]

The poor part around the Indian streets and 110 are FRIGHT OUTSIDE THE FUCKING GATE of a large ExxonMobil chemical plant, with an abundance of jobs and support services, and the local population STILL can't provide people who can clear the requisite background checks and experience to qualify as a laborer on a turnaround.

Lmao. Wanna know how I know you’re white?

Spoiler

jobs are for crackas. Real niggas get SNAP with cash bennies.

 

[Starved Artist]

Lmao. Wanna know how I know you’re white?

Spoiler

jobs are for crackas. Real niggas get SNAP with cash bennies.

Could you imagine an entire town of people on Snap? There's already several and there's not a drop of brown in the population.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Segregation is the only way a society can have equal rights for everyone. Otherwise we have to admit that one race should be on top, and that goes against DEI so we can't have that.

The more PC shit gets the more racist it gets, but it's just constantly filtered through this veil of fake niceness and corpo-speak to try and be palatable to the masses. Once in practice like this though it becomes EXTREMELY clear what's going on here. California gated community-ization of other parts of America.

 

[Null]

Calling it already. The first legislation St. George passes will be to force gender ideology into their schools, force incels in dresses into womens' bathrooms, and jail people who object to neoliberal gender ideology.

That's what rich people do after all. Molesting children and banning all speech that hurt their fee fees or hurts the fee fees of faggots and trannies.

It's really inspiring how much the average person, even white people, hate white people.

 

[The Lawgiver]

It's really inspiring how much the average person, even white people, hate white people.

There's the average white person type white people and then there's "white people". No I'm not talking about Jews though Jews technically fall under the category sometimes due to being white skintone guys minus the funny goy factor. It's specifically the white people that hate average joe type white people and brag constantly about how white people should go extinct but then segregate into little elitist compounds of only white people. This like a white person specific problem, you never see this shit with the other skin tones save for like asians, but even then asians specifically hate each different countries' asians rather than just like the general skin tone/region.

 

[Pentex]

Critics of the St. George proposal argue that it would create a poor, black, and urban Baton Rouge and a wealthy, white, and suburban St. George.

Baton Rouge has been successfully decolonized and racism is solved.

Wakanda on the bayou is an inevitability.

 

[JohnnyG]

If you have problems with St George you should check out South Fulton, Georgia. It is America's "blackest city" and it has people that want to create a real-like Wakanda.

From the article:

How South Fulton found itself in this predicament — its Black mayor openly at war with its all-Black city council, not to mention its Black former mayor and many of its more prominent citizens — is a story of the sometimes painful, unintended consequences of Atlanta’s fraught history of segregation, desegregation and resegregation.

"90% black city with 100% black-run government devolves into chaos. White people from 80+ years ago to blame."

Pronounced kuh-LEED kuh-MAH-oo, the mayor legally changed his name when he was 18, choosing to use all lowercase letters in the West African Yoruban tradition that prizes the community over the individual. kamau is much more radical — a gay, Christian, socialist, self-described “elected activist” and “Black nationalist,” a former film student, flight attendant, bus driver, Black Lives Matter organizer and city council member. As mayor, he ... stressed his slogans of “America’s Blackest City” and “Black on Purpose.” His goal, he has said, is to create here not only a “laboratory” for progressive policy but “a real-life Wakanda” — the fictional Black African empire that is the setting for the movies “Black Panther” and the forthcoming “Wakanda Forever.”

He grew up in south Fulton County in what he calls “a very successful upper-middle-class family” — the “Huxtables,” he said — but his parents’ success, he came to think, was not the same as his people’s success. In middle school, he organized a student protest to petition teachers to use the names of African nations in an Olympics-themed field day. After graduating from Tri-Cities High School in East Point — also the alma mater of the hip-hop duo called OutKast — kamau went to private, predominantly white Ithaca College in upstate New York. Before he graduated in 1998, the school confirmed, he was a cinema and photography major, part of the gospel choir and active in the African Latino Society. He spent a semester abroad in South Africa studying post-Apartheid democracy.

Lmao they picked a spoiled globetrotting gay theatre kid whose "revolution" LARP is based on Marvel ethno-fantasies.

South Fulton’s citizens are on average and relative to the state and the nation a little wealthier and a little better educated and a higher percentage of them own their homes compared with residents of the metro Atlanta and Fulton County areas.

So contrary to the narrative of "muh disenfranchised and poverty-stricken", they actually have what could be a functional--

One council member once accused another council member of threatening her with a Taser. The chief municipal judge of South Fulton’s all-Black-female court that early on went viral with the hashtag of #blackgirlmagic was fired for allegedly bullying staff and allowing an HBO camera crew to film in the courtroom without approval. The city council investigated council member Helen Willis and Bill Edwards when he was mayor for reportedly steering a $27-million deal to the development authority of the county instead of the city, but didn’t vote to remove them.

Oh. Still hood behavior even at the most prestigious levels. Dang.

“‘Black on purpose’ policy is to stop begging,” he told POLITICO. “If Starbucks won’t do it, then we start our own coffee,” he said. “Now, if you needed to say ‘Starbucks’ because you think white people’s ice is colder, that’s a different conversation. If you need the Starbucks name on it to make you feel like you have value, then that’s another conversation that we need to have.”

Same thing, in kamau’s view, with grocery stores — Publix, Kroger, whatever big chain supermarkets people say they want to see in South Fulton. He described essentially a food co-op. What kamau wants instead of external recruitment is in-house development — a kind of South Fulton-specific socialism. “Yes,” he said. “Afrosocialism.”
He understands he can’t do any of this without the buy-in from the majority of the seven-person city council. ... One seat is up this November — an open seat because Mark Baker left to run in a congressional primary and lost — and kamau is backing Drew de Man, a Working Families Party-endorsed white socialist farmer with a handlebar mustache.

This tard thinks the only thing stopping him is lack of political power. Hand him total control and he'd pass endless laws demanding "community" versions of every real business, and insist on his civil right to a black-created iPad and UberEats while the town shivered in the dark and starved. Basically Haiti.

 

[Barry McKockner]

Be their slaves or die.

Unironically this. They don't want to exist WITH white people, they want to extract resources from and be in control of whitey. I would have called you a conspiracy theorist years ago for saying this, but every reaction they have to a majority black area losing their white tax base for not managing funds correctly tells you everything you need to know about their intentions. Remember, according to some dumbass who nobody should be paying attention to, the only cure for past slavery is present slavery.

 

[JosephStalin]

Hey, people have rights. Everything has apparently been done legally.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Unironically this. They don't want to exist WITH white people, they want to extract resources from and be in control of whitey. I would have called you a conspiracy theorist years ago for saying this, but every reaction they have to a majority black area losing their white tax base for not managing funds correctly tells you everything you need to know about their intentions. Remember, according to some dumbass who nobody should be paying attention to, the only cure for past slavery is present slavery.

This is the end result of a long game played by affluent white people who want race relations set back so investment companies and organizations constantly have a reason to keep being funded. The US is just becoming just "racism, sexism and segregation with extra steps that say it's not". It's funny with how ass backwards it is but at the same time it's kind of fucking horrifying how ages of fuckers using corpo-speak to shill race shit can just lead people into being ok with this.

 

[Spooky Cloud Strife]

What the hell did they expect, It´s Louisiana, It´s like complain about the lack of LGBT diversity in Uganda

 

[pot of sneed]

I wonder how quickly niggers and 'POC' will be hammering their fists against the gates so they can live amongst all those nasty racist 'oppressors'

 

[Constellationzero]

Segregation coming back wasn't on my bingo card.

Thing is, we'd never be having ANY discussion RE: Plessy v. Ferguson if separate but equal meant that.

Problem is, niggers ruin just about everything they touch. They only want segregation to end as long as they get to enslave white people to build infrastructure and maintain said infrastructure for all eternity while denying them access.

If niggers truly WERE equal to everyone else, and if skin color WAS the ONLY difference (lol, it is NOT), they'd have neighborhoods, town, and enclaves just as nice as any upper middleclass white area.

So, what I'm basically saying is: YES, I am in favor of bringing back segregation.

 

[4090 Chad]

If they are smart, they will immediately elect locals who understand the need to remain all white and then vote in ordinances to essentially make it impossible for low income rental developments to be built. That is how it starts... St. George's only chance for surviving long term is pricing nogs out of their city en masse.