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Three friends and I were on our way to compete in the 1994 Ultimate Frisbee College National Championships in Baton Rouge Louisiana. In our van we had 12 people, guys and girls. We decided to stop in the French Quarter of New Orleans for dinner and drinks friday evening before continuing on to Baton Rouge and starting the tournament Saturday morning. We had driven from North Carolina and we wanted a short break before finishing the last two hours of our trip.So we drank a few drinks called “hand grenades “that are sold in the French quarter that have a disclaimer about how drunk you will get if you have more than 3. We had about 5 each and 4 of us ended up in the jail, 2 guys and 2 girls, all jailed for public drunkeness .We all got bailed out after we woke up from our blacked out state in the Orleans House of detention. We got to Baton Rouge at 9 am , we had arrived in NOLA at 4 PM and this was a detour we hadn't planned on, spending the night in jail. The games started at 9 am Saturday and we arrived right at game time, severely hung over. The girls with us had been so drunk they had dropped their glass bottles of beer repeatedly in a bar and the staff was upset they had to keep sweeping up the shattered bottles and called the police. That's how it all started , after drinking enough grain alcohol to put us all in a drunken blackout.We were the favored team and we ended up winning the national championship on Monday afternoon. All 4 of us had court 2 hours away at 9 am in New Orleans and we couldn't party because we were worried about missing our court date that was set for Tuesday morning at 9, this occurred over Memorial Day weekend so the courts were closed on Monday…At the end of the tournament the tournament director threw us a traditional Cajun crawfish feast , and one of caterers was a handsome older man, a man of mixed Creole ancestry who I talked to about the cajun culture and the proper way to eat crawfish. He was friendly and we had a few laughs. The story of our arrests was the talk of the tournament, and the tournament director gave us the number of his friend who was a lawyer in new Orleans. We called the friend and he laughed when he heard our story and how we had gone from jail to national champs over the weekend . He agreed to represent us in court and said “ I will be the black guy in the suit on the courthouse steps at 845.” It was a relief to have representation and when we arrived on the steps at 845 , the man in the suit was the Creole man I had talked to the day before at the crawfish feast after our victory!. He had been the attorney for the mayor's office in New Orleans for 9 years, he got our charges dropped and we each paid court costs of $125, and our case was the first one heard. We stressed all weekend and this stranger agreed to meet us and represent us free of charge, and he said the city was about to screw us over big time until he intervened. He then said “ just buy me lunch and we will call it even and tell me the story of how all this went down. “ After lunch he took us to his house and got us high. Ultimate Frisbee is an awesome sport and the ultimate community is very tight, this man was an angel from heaven on this day. A week later I found out I got pubic lice from the nasty jail uniform but it just adds to the great story. This man agreed to represent us on his day off for free simply because we played the sport he did, and I had no idea he was a lawyer when he brought the 30 pounds of crawdads to our post game victory party, and he commented on how nice I had been to him when I thought he was just the caterer, when in fact he was a high powered connected attorney in one of the most corrupt cities in the USA, so it goes to prove, be kind to everyone you meet, you never know just who will save your behind someday.

They already do.Take Louisiana. This state is known for having great food, fun parties…and for being a failed state that’s utterly, utterly broke. [1][1][1][1]On lists of things that the US states are good at, it’s never been higher than 45th. It has the fifth worst healthcare in the country, the third worst school systems, it’s dead last in economic opportunity, and for a state that was nicknamed the Sportsman’s Paradise, it’s ranked 50 out of 50 in natural amenities and attractions. [2][2][2][2]A lot of the state’s problems, especially its woefully underfunded schools and state institutions, would be fixed with an injection of tax money, not tax money from its citizens (who actually don’t have any money to give) but from the oil and gas industries who cause innumerable problems for the state’s residents.What kind of problems?Two words: Cancer. Alley.[3][3][3][3]Luckily that picture is from 1972, things are a little better now. Now, people just die quietly from shitty air quality and carcinoma. Naturally people in Louisiana are clamoring for some sort of oversight of this kind of thing.Except, no. They aren’t.Louisiana is deep Red and pro oil and gas politicians rule the land. The state is fiercely anti-union and passed right to work laws that are among some of the toughest in the country. EDIT: A Right to Work State is a State that has passed a measure forbidding Unions from collecting agency fees, a form of union dues. While the premise of the laws sound good, they’re actually designed to deliberately undercut the ability of Unions to organize workplaces. They’re also coupled with packages of other laws that make it difficult to organize a union of any kind, ever. Those right to work states are fairly solid all over the South.[4][4][4][4]Oil and gas contributes extremely high dollar donations to federal and state politicians in Louisiana. In 2018, in the Louisiana 6th district alone, Garrett Graves took more than $213,000 from the oil and gas Super PACS. They were his largest contributors. By contrast, the highest dollar amount for one of his Democratic opponents, Justin DeWitt, was two grand.[5][5][5][5](In the interest of full disclosure, I worked Justin DeWitt’s campaign, I’m biased).But it goes further than just congressmen. When Bobby Jindal, the former Governor of Louisiana ran for president, his buddies in the oil and gas industries gave him $1,320,000 dollars.[6][6][6][6] Mr. Jindal’s biggest legacy as governor in the state was his commitment to expand the Industrial Tax Exemption Program, where industries are allowed to defer state taxes as long as they claim to be employing local citizens. [7][7][7][7]Well, sometimes. Most local journalists have found that not always to be a square deal.But Jindal and the State legislature pushed through ever more tax breaks and now, Louisiana has finally ranked first in one category:Louisiana gives more tax breaks to private industry than any other state in the country. Even Texas taxes the oil and gas industries at a higher rate. Remember when I said that the schools are broke? This is why.So imagine how shocked everyone was when a local school district in Baton Rouge finally refused to give ExxonMobil its annual 2 million dollar tax cut? Shock! Outrage! How could they do this to a poor, sad little 279.3 BILLION DOLLAR a year Company?[8][8][8][8]Exxon’s reaction was childish.[9][9][9][9][10][10][10][10] They threatened to put their proposed expansion somewhere else, robbing that same school district of the money that they needed to keep the lights on. Remember when I said Louisiana had the third worst schools in the country? Remember when I said it was because they have no tax base?What was so shocking to so many people was that this was a surprisingly brave stand. Everyone assumed that even the school board was in Exxon’s pocket. After all, oil and gas has lined the pockets of politicians for decades so why would a school board be exempt? Essentially, Exxon, using its power and money, chooses who wins in downstate races merely by cutting a check. They don’t directly tell their employees whom to vote for, they let ad campaigns do that for them.And when those ad campaigns don’t work, they tell you that they’ll move out of your community and take your job and your salary and your health insurance with them. So they insist that you, a worker with few other options, have no choice but to vote for the guy they tell you, through million dollar ad buys, to vote for. And when that guy gets into office, he takes away your union, he ruins your school system, and then tells you that by giving the billionaires who own your company a big break, you’ll get a tiny piece of pie. And in Louisiana, which ranks very high in political corruption, that guy will steal your pie too. [11][11][11][11]What’s messed up about this is that it’s actually a nationwide problem, Louisiana is just the most egregious example. In New York City, a fully Democratic state house and state senate and city council and mayor’s office and governor’s mansion were about to essentially give away part of Brooklyn and Queens with very little input from the large number of men and women this would affect. [12][12][12][12]The company they wanted to give it to, and even COMPETED AGAINST OTHER CITIES to get the chance to give it away to, was Amazon, one of the most powerful companies in the world. Amazon pushed their way into Queens with NDAs [13][13][13][13]and dead silence from the people responsible for this decision. [14][14][14][14]EDIT: Shortly after Amazon pulled out of the New York deal due to bad publicity, an organization called the Job Creators Network put up these billboards all over the New York area:The Job Creators Network was founded by Bernie Marcus, the founder of Home Depot and is funded by Robert Mercer, the former owner of Breitbart.[15][15][15][15]Before you ask, yes, Amazon gave money to the political campaigns of Yvette Clarke, Hakeem Jefferies, and Brian Higgins.[16][16][16][16] Who are they? Yvette Clarke[17][17][17][17] and Hakeem Jefferies[18][18][18][18] are the Federal congresspeople from the New York 8th and 9th Districts respectively…which is located in Brooklyn and Queens, where Amazon wanted to build. Brian Higgins[19][19][19][19] is the Distinguished Gentleman who serves the New York 26th District…which is Buffalo, a major shipping hub that serves the Great Lakes, Canada, and oh, yeah, New York City. If you’re wondering how much money Amazon gave to the races that were downstate from Congress, the answer is god only knows…Open Secret certainly doesn’t.Now, if you worked for Amazon or wanted to work for Amazon, are you going to vote for the guy who has enough money from your boss to pay for a TV ad or are you going to vote for an unknown who opposes your gravy train?Corporations have been telling you who to vote for this whole time, you just never noticed. They’ve been telling you who to vote for ever since the Supreme Court said that their checkbook was a first amendment right.[20][20][20][20]EDIT:We had a commentator who I blocked who got angry that I was being critical of the oil and gas industry because he thought I was an environmentalist. This answer had nothing to do with that but now, just to spite him I’ll add this:Louisiana depends on their natural resources to survive as a state because there are so few other industries available to them. This is because, as I explained, the oil and gas industry actively makes it harder for them to improve enough as a state to attract other industries. The Oil and Gas industry’s reckless exploitation of those resources has lead to sinkholes that destroy communities[21][21][21][21][22][22][22][22], higher rates of cancer[23][23][23][23], and massive oil spills[24][24][24][24] that disrupt the fishing industry[25][25][25][25]. I wasn’t attacking Oil and Gas from an environmental perspective but if you are a commentator who is dumb enough to prioritize filling your gas tank over the health of your community, then I’m sorry, you are a foolish, ridiculous person.Based on how the Oil and Gas Industry has harmed the state using a few million in revenue and a lot of coldblooded politicking, [26][26][26][26] you have to wonder if the cost is really worth it.ADDENDUM: I posted this answer this morning and it’s jumped to nearly a thousand upvotes in a day. Having that many eyes on this thing has turned the comment section into a repeating parade of nonsense. When it gets really bad, I delete the offending comment but here’s a quick primer for the folks who want to bug me over this answer.“Studies have shown that more money doesn’t improve test scores.” - Yeah, but since test scores are a lousy way[27][27][27][27] to measure student performance and a god awful bane on the school system, who cares? [28][28][28][28]Programs that give students places to go,[29][29][29][29] that support their interests,[30][30][30][30] that help them learn a trade[31][31][31][31][32][32][32][32] are expensive. They also would make America a much, much better place to live“Nobody should be forced to join a union/unions are corrupt/You’re pro union/Way to go Union brother”- I am not pro-union, I actually regard unions as crummy, foul tasting corrupt medicine to a disease that can only be cured with robust legislation but since I literally wrote two thousand words about why that won’t happen I think they’re about the best option left. Right to work states do not prevent closed shops. America hasn’t had closed shops since 1947.[33][33][33][33]I actually didn’t realize that and I had to edit my answer, the myth that Right to work prevents them is one more reason that right to work states eat ass. Right to work states have the biggest divide between white collar and blue collar salaries. They prevent you from organizing in favor of demanding fairness from an employer, which is bad. Sorry, let me say that louder[34][34][34][34] THAT IS BAD![35][35][35][35]And America has a long history of exploiting people[36][36][36][36] in labor positions. [37][37][37][37]And that situation is only getting worse, especially in Louisiana. Don’t believe me? Take it away Sheriff Prator:That’s a sheriff of Caddo Parrish, talking about keeping people in jail, so they can clean up his police stations for free.“You admitted your bias, why should I believe you!”- Well, I admitted I worked on a political campaign and saw first hand what money does to Louisiana politics. Let me ask you, what are the people YOU trust not telling you? Sean Hannity, for instance, covered the Mueller investigation without disclosing he was in constant contact with one of the subjects of that investigation. [38][38][38][38]He sings Trump’s praises, on a News station, while also campaigning for him.[39][39][39][39] Also while having access to change White House policy as an outside aide.[40][40][40][40] Shit, I did a little work as a speechwriter without getting paid, Hannity makes bank for this crap[41][41][41][41] so if my bias is a sin, he’s the fucking devil.“You’re a commie!”- I’m a former Republican and ex-Conservative. I’m a lot of things but… you know what? I’m not even gonna bother defending myself for that. If wanting people to earn a living wage and work in safe conditions is Communism then you know who was the biggest commie in American history? This dude:None of you better say nothing bout the Bull Moose! 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Since the questioner obviously meant the racial climate in the state and not the physical state itself, then the answer is easy: Louisiana is a very racist state, and it's even a racist standout by the standards of the American South.Why?Despite having a large Black population it's never had a Black governor,nor large numbers of Black legislators- In fact Black politicians in Louisiana can only win in areas which have Black majorities, not in areas with Black minorities.There are high levels of segregation in the state - While there's integration in some of the state's largest cities, there's distinct informal segregation throughout the rest of the state. An example of this are the parishes which surround the city of New Orleans and which are mostly White. Black residents are unwelcome in those parishes and often experience police harassment while even traveling through them.Louisiana's prison population is majority Black despite Blacks making up a minority of the population- There's a lengthy history of the court snd penal system in the state being used to oppress the state's Black minority. It continues even today.Louisiana's Black population has a lower standard of living and higher death rates due to poor access to health care - If things were slightly different from its White majority, it could be dismissed as anomaly. However it's not and it's been that way for many decades.There are constant media reports of racial discrimination and ethnic tensions from within the state - While things have obviously improved since the Jim Crow era, Louisiana's racial and social views are reminiscent of the 1970s more so than the 2010s.Yes questioner, Louisiana is quite racist and will be so for the foreseeable future.References:Chief says he's sorry for post but won't concede it's racistRacial Profiling in Louisiana: Unconstitutional and Counterproductive'It was always a pretty racist town': residents on the Baton Rouge's north side – in pictures 'It was always a pretty racist town': residents on the Baton Rouge's north side – in picturesLouisiana State Police, overwhelmingly white and male, face new pressure to build diversityhttp://www.louisianaweekly.com/new-crisis-the-mass-incarceration-of-women-and-minorities/