Quote History Quoted:I grew up in Helena
I would recommend a couple things to see and do but sounds like you are bugging out any minute.
It was a decent little town back in the 60s and 70s when I lived there.
There a still some decent people there that are working hard to make it better but it just keeps declining.
I still visit a couple times a year and always look forward to it.
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Interestingly enough, in these declining small towns around here, what used to be divided on strictly racial lines is nos changing to be more of a division between decent people and not-so-decent people.
Lot of black people around here are educated, good, hardworking decent people, and they are sick of the hoodrats running THIER towns in the ground. Same with the decent white folk, who have finally noticed that those good, hardworking black folks make good neighbors while the methbilly white-trash are, in fact, the ones stealing the wire off your pivot on your farm.
When decent people all realize that it is in their best interest to support other good people, and not take up for the scum just because they share skin color, then progress is made.
After two decades of a corrupt black mayor who robbed the town blind, Marianna elected a decent guy as mayor. He is a white guy, elected by a town that is 80% black, and is the poorest county in Arkansas. The decent black folks watched the town decline for years with a crook in charge who was only elected because he was black, so they stopped voting for skin color and started voting for the best candidate.
Helena had the same scenario, but unfortunately the white mayor they elected is just as big of a POS as the guy he replaced.
The Delta has gone down bad. The good people that still live here have started to try to move things in the right direction, and that's meant decent people, regardless of race, working together against the shitbags.
Long way from what things were 30-40 years ago, but at least people are finally waking up and addressing the problems