{"id":2236774,"date":"2024-05-03T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T21:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/residents-secede-from-crumbling-crime-infested-city-leftists-cry-racism\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T21:48:06","slug":"residents-secede-from-crumbling-crime-infested-city-leftists-cry-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/residents-secede-from-crumbling-crime-infested-city-leftists-cry-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Locals Break Away from Deteriorating City. Allegations of Racism Arise"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fresidents-secede-from-crumbling-crime-infested-city-leftists-cry-racism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2236774&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In \u200cthe late 90s, Norman Browning, a veteran and father of three, volunteered\u200d as a \u200dcoach at Woodlawn\u200c High School, aiming to give back to\u2063 Baton Rouge. Observing significant changes in \u2062the school, Browning led a movement to create a new city, St. George, with improved education \u2064and governance, culminating in approval by voters in 2019 after years of legal battles. In\u2062 the late 90s, \u200bNorman Browning, a veteran and father of three, volunteered as a coach at Woodlawn High School in Baton\u200d Rouge to\u2063 give back. Witnessing \u200dnotable changes, Browning spearheaded the formation of St. George, a\u200b new city focused on enhancing education and governance. Finally, in 2019,\u200b after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/class-action-settlement-deadline-to-file-claim-in-16-million-crunchyroll-settlement-in-nine-days\/\" title=\"Only nine days left to file a claim in the  million Crunchyroll class-action settlement\">prolonged legal\u2062 battles<\/a>, the voters approved \u2063its establishment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the late 90\u2019s, a veteran and father of three named Norman Browning <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13371505\/baton-rouge-school-sports-coach-racial-tensions-wealthy-white-residents-city.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">took<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  a job as a volunteer coach at Woodlawn High School in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Browning had been educated by Baton Rouge\u2019s public schools and he wanted to give back to the community. But very quickly, he realized that Woodlawn was very different from the school it used to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For one thing, there wasn\u2019t much discipline. Teachers didn\u2019t have close relationships with parents, and didn\u2019t seem particularly interested in doing their jobs. Test scores were abysmal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, demographics had shifted dramatically. Students were poorer than they used to be. And there wasn\u2019t much of the fabled \u201cdiversity\u201d that we\u2019re told is so important. More than half of the student body was black. Meanwhile, Baton Rouge and its schools were becoming increasingly violent. (Currently it\u2019s one of the ten most dangerous cities in the country).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s just one recent example of a common sight in Baton Rouge schools:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So there\u2019s a brawl in the school, and then the parents show up and they get involved in the brawl too. And then a gun turns up, and the cops aren\u2019t remotely surprised by any of this. This kind of thing has been happening consistently in Baton Rouge for the past decade. As the Daily Mail <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13371505\/baton-rouge-school-sports-coach-racial-tensions-wealthy-white-residents-city.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, on a single day in 2013, Browning observed \u201cas many as six separate fights between unruly students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead of shaking his head and moving on \u2014 which he very easily could have done \u2014 Browning decided on a different course of action. As the Daily Mail reports, Browning decided to help lead a breakaway movement to effectively secede from East Baton Rouge parish and incorporate a new city called St. George. This new city would have schools that admit students who actually want to learn, and teachers who want to teach.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1361-the-matt-walsh-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea was a longshot. Other movements to incorporate new cities and secede, most notably the effort by Buckhead to secede from Atlanta in Georgia, have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2023\/03\/02\/buckhead-cityhood-bill-fails-georgia-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fallen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  short. That\u2019s mainly because local politicians \u2014 including conservatives \u2014 have stood in the way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But \u2014 after a campaign that took the better part of a decade \u2014 in 2019, voters finally approved a ballot initiative to create St. George. What followed were years of legal battles that ended last week, when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasc.org\/opinions\/2024\/23-1108.C_23-1118.C.OPN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4-3 decision<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that St. George can indeed incorporate. St. George will be a 60-square mile area, with a population of more than 85,000 residents. (For comparison, Baton Rouge is 76 square miles, with a population of more than 200,000). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019ll make St. George one of the largest cities in the state. They\u2019ll have their own mayor, public services, and city council. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A key part of the Louisiana Supreme Court\u2019s ruling is that, contrary to what Baton Rouge claimed, St. George has the financial means to be self-sustaining. And that\u2019s not surprising. Taxpayers in the area that\u2019s now known as St. George <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/stgeorgelouisiana.com\/faq\/#:~:text=George's%20taxpayers%20provide%20two%2Dthirds,that%20government's%20expense%20in%20return.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  roughly two-thirds of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-could-double-its-taxes-to-start-massive-new-social-program\/\" title=\"California Could Double Its Taxes To Start Massive New Social Program\">total tax revenue<\/a> of the government of East Baton Rouge. But they receive only about one-third of the government\u2019s expenses in return. And, despite paying all these taxes, St. George residents haven\u2019t been <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/stgeorgelouisiana.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">represented<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in the mayor\u2019s office in Baton Rouge in modern history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In other words, St. George is vital for East Baton Rouge\u2019s economy. And in return for all the tax revenue St. George has generated, Baton Rouge has done basically nothing for St. George. They made their neighborhood more dangerous and their schools even worse. And on top of that, the people of St. George have no real representation in local government. So now East Baton Rouge isn\u2019t going to get that tax revenue anymore, or at least not anywhere near the same amount. In fact, St. George residents are currently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrz.com\/news\/st-george-leaders-say-they-want-east-baton-rouge-to-return-residents-tax-dollars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">seeking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  tens of millions of dollars in back taxes that they\u2019ve paid to the East Baton Rouge parish government since 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You have to wonder why this isn\u2019t happening more often. Governments that don\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iraq-on-the-verge-of-being-lost-to-iran-gop-leaders-warn\/\" title=\"GOP leaders warn that Iraq is on the brink of being lost to Iran.\">provide basic services<\/a> or representation for their citizens don\u2019t deserve tax money from their citizens. That\u2019s a pretty intuitive principle. And there\u2019s no rule that says you can\u2019t make your own city if you want to. Quite the opposite. The right of free association is a fundamental part of the constitution. So why isn\u2019t this more commonplace?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One reason might be that anyone who attempts to incorporate a sane, high-functioning city will immediately be defamed as a racist. Predictably, that\u2019s been the main reaction from the Left to the incorporation of St. George. There has been no reckoning about the failures of Baton Rouge\u2019s leadership whatsoever. Here for example is a former president of the NAACP in Baton Rouge, reacting to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The NAACP guy starts off by saying that some of the people leading the secession movement are on the school board, so they\u2019re responsible for the failing schools. Apparently these school board members should have used their vast influence in order to prevent brawls from constantly breaking out. They also should have forced the students to be smarter, the teachers to care more about their jobs, and parents to actually parent their children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then his argument devolves into accusing everyone in St. George of racism. They didn\u2019t stay and try to fix East Baton Rouge\u2019s broken school system, so they must be bigots who just want to get away from black people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is one of the stock responses you\u2019ll hear on the Left in response to the secession of St. George. For example, on Twitter, a \u201cblack activist\u201d named Samuel Sinyangwe <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/samswey\/status\/1785826822388686961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cThey\u2019re \u2018seceding\u2019 from a majority-Black city to create a whites-only enclave in Louisiana.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just as a factual matter, what this activist is saying about the new city isn\u2019t true. It\u2019s not a \u201cwhites-only enclave\u201d because there are black people living in it. Specifically, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-louisiana-city-st-george-f06a362f9d2e10d7e8b559d4fa50563a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">12%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  of the population is black, which is roughly the same percentage of black people you\u2019ll find in Barack Obama\u2019s preferred island, Martha\u2019s Vineyard. It also mirrors the overall percentage of black people in the United States at large, which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/fact-sheet\/facts-about-the-us-black-population\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stands<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  at around 14%. In other words, these activists calling St. George a \u201cwhites-only enclave\u201d are also, in effect, calling the entire country a \u201cwhites-only enclave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, Woodlawn High School, which I mentioned earlier, is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodlawn_High_School_(East_Baton_Rouge_Parish,_Louisiana)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">within<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  the limits of the new city of St. George. This school, with a lot of black students attending, is not being abandoned by this new city. The point is to improve its leadership so that there\u2019s more learning and less fighting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, if you let these activists talk a little more, it becomes very clear what they\u2019re really upset about. They\u2019re not upset about racism or whatever. They know that East Baton Rouge, like so many other cities in this country, is dysfunctional \u2014 and no sane person would want to continue funding it with their tax dollars. What bothers these activists is that their source of funding is about to go to zero. Their cash cow is abandoning them. They will have to be productive for once and solve their own problems, without taking other people\u2019s money and wasting it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That NAACP president in Baton Rouge eventually gets around to admitting this. Listen:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s pulling a lot of the resources and the tax bases from Baton Rouge. Stuff that is used to keep our city stable. \u2026 This is going to be paid for on the backs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alpha-karen-with-brown-skin-msnbc-guest-ratchets-up-the-racism-to-insult-nikki-haley\/\" title=\"\u2018Alpha-Karen With Brown Skin\u2019: MSNBC Guest Ratchets Up The Racism To Insult Nikki Haley\">poor black folks<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s finally some honesty there. It\u2019s true that, without St. George, Baton Rouge will probably have a lot of financial problems to deal with. But the people responsible for those problems are not living in St. George. They\u2019re running Baton Rouge, which is losing population by the day. As the Louisiana Supreme Court <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasc.org\/opinions\/2024\/23-1108.C_23-1118.C.OPN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said in its decision<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cBaton Rouge has arguably experienced a windfall by collecting taxes in St. George without returning proportionate money and services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Incorporation will allow the money paid by St. George citizens to stay in St. George \u2026 The record establishes the population of St. George is increasing. Conversely, the population of Baton Rouge is declining.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As St. George creates its new school system and builds out its infrastructure, it\u2019s very likely that Baton Rouge\u2019s population will continue to decline. That\u2019s why, already, there\u2019s an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HJ6TvNk46qI&#038;t=27s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">effort<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  by Baton Rouge activists to get the Louisiana Supreme Court to reconsider its decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that will probably fail, as it should. For one thing, some of the economic success of St. George will almost certainly benefit Baton Rouge in a variety of ways. St. George will keep many more people in the area, and the residents there will still pay for some services provided by the government of East Baton Rouge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But more importantly, if St. George continues to thrive, it will send a very clear signal to dysfunctional governments all over the country. And that signal is: Stop wasting our tax dollars, or we\u2019ll leave \u2014 and we\u2019ll take our tax dollars with us. That\u2019s how our system was always supposed to work. Our country was founded on the principle that governments cannot lawfully tax people without representing them or working for their benefit. And with the secession of St. George from the capital city of Louisiana, for the first time in recent memory, that principle is back. Hopefully there\u2019s much more to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 90s, Norman Browning, a veteran and father of three, became a volunteer coach at Woodlawn High School in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, inspired by his education in Baton Rouge&#8217;s public schools. 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