Long post ahead-
Louisiana was not set up to succeed. It should really be two states, with the rednecks up north going with Arkansas. That partially attributes to the confusion that wrecks the state. For a while, Louisiana was known as the most politically progressive state in the South, especially when Huey P Long came through with the Kingfish politics, but the progress was built on centuries of corruption.
So lets analyze Louisiana... at its inception, it was like San Francisco or Las Vegas. It is the original American boomtown, meaning it was set up for financial purposes, not just settled to be settled. The British came down and Europeans with plantations in the Caribbean migrated to Louisiana. Just like the Carolinas were settled by white plantation owners from Barbados, Louisiana began to be heavily populated with white refugees from Haiti, who brought their slaves along with them. Louisiana was conducive to producing sugar cane, and became feared amongst slaves because the work conditions would kill you- it was similar to the death work camps that the Nazis and others used.. Enslaved people were shipped "down the river", but it also a place where more African families were separated than any other place in America. So New Orleans has a lot of joy, but it is also a place that harbors a lot of pain for folks.
I recently did a research analysis on the Louisiana public education system, I was intrigued by what was creating conditions that led to Grambling being in the condition that it was. Back in 2012 I went to a conference with BAEO, Black Alliance for Educational Opportunities, a nationwide charter school group, and we toured the schools in New Orleans. It was heartbreaking to a city with this many black folks just divest from the public schools. Unlike charter schools up north, the ones down south are being legislatively tied to religious schools. Basically, a religious school can get public funds and not comply with educational standards. So when I did my study two years ago, I found that while high school graduation rates had somewhat climbed, acceptance rates for graduates from New Orleans was not increasing at the public colleges at the same level.
This divestment from the public schools has allowed corporations like Teach for America etc to commodify our children, and treat education like a lottery system. Roughly half of New Orleans' children go to schools with less than an A or B rating; also the system that is in place is not neighborhood based, so students getting to school can be challenging not only for the kids and the schools but the parents too.
All of this makes it easier for children to fall through the cracks. New Orleans is a canary for all black cities in majority Republican states.
PS- I need all you non Southern folks to stop talking down on folks having manners. Some of us were raised like that, nothing wrong with it. I can only speak for myself but I don't do it to c00n; I do it because I want the same respect given to me.
If you think Louisiana is bad, you should see the shyt that goes down in Bama. You got people voting down lotteries and casinos because of "religious reasons", but yet we give all of our revenue to MS, FL, GA, TN, and LA who all have lotteries, casinos, or both
Louisiana was not set up to succeed. It should really be two states, with the rednecks up north going with Arkansas. That partially attributes to the confusion that wrecks the state. For a while, Louisiana was known as the most politically progressive state in the South, especially when Huey P Long came through with the Kingfish politics, but the progress was built on centuries of corruption.
So lets analyze Louisiana... at its inception, it was like San Francisco or Las Vegas. It is the original American boomtown, meaning it was set up for financial purposes, not just settled to be settled. The British came down and Europeans with plantations in the Caribbean migrated to Louisiana. Just like the Carolinas were settled by white plantation owners from Barbados, Louisiana began to be heavily populated with white refugees from Haiti, who brought their slaves along with them. Louisiana was conducive to producing sugar cane, and became feared amongst slaves because the work conditions would kill you- it was similar to the death work camps that the Nazis and others used.. Enslaved people were shipped "down the river", but it also a place where more African families were separated than any other place in America. So New Orleans has a lot of joy, but it is also a place that harbors a lot of pain for folks.
I recently did a research analysis on the Louisiana public education system, I was intrigued by what was creating conditions that led to Grambling being in the condition that it was. Back in 2012 I went to a conference with BAEO, Black Alliance for Educational Opportunities, a nationwide charter school group, and we toured the schools in New Orleans. It was heartbreaking to a city with this many black folks just divest from the public schools. Unlike charter schools up north, the ones down south are being legislatively tied to religious schools. Basically, a religious school can get public funds and not comply with educational standards. So when I did my study two years ago, I found that while high school graduation rates had somewhat climbed, acceptance rates for graduates from New Orleans was not increasing at the public colleges at the same level.
This divestment from the public schools has allowed corporations like Teach for America etc to commodify our children, and treat education like a lottery system. Roughly half of New Orleans' children go to schools with less than an A or B rating; also the system that is in place is not neighborhood based, so students getting to school can be challenging not only for the kids and the schools but the parents too.
All of this makes it easier for children to fall through the cracks. New Orleans is a canary for all black cities in majority Republican states.
PS- I need all you non Southern folks to stop talking down on folks having manners. Some of us were raised like that, nothing wrong with it. I can only speak for myself but I don't do it to c00n; I do it because I want the same respect given to me.
If you think Louisiana is bad, you should see the shyt that goes down in Bama. You got people voting down lotteries and casinos because of "religious reasons", but yet we give all of our revenue to MS, FL, GA, TN, and LA who all have lotteries, casinos, or both
the north is more segregated than the south
same is true for the women 
in fact damn near every Black Person i know that has kids with a cac has experienced a racial episode in their relationship at some point.
im not paraphrasing that's EXACTLY what she stated he said.
and tried for another one. It was all good until 5-6 months after his second daughter was born and her color came in
His life tho.
