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Improving Our Cities · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mamas. Dear mama, is how much of
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  the problem in our cities today in America is because of the way we talk
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  about our cities. Well, let's ask our American mamas. Alma Mason and
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  joining us now are American mama's Terry Neediville and Kimberly Burlison. This is one
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  of those things I think about kind of the the Biblical teachings on this one
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  that you know, as a man thinketh so, is he what you your
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  self talk has a lot to do with who you're going to be in the
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  future. Yes, but that's not just on an individual basis. That can
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  be on a family basis, that can be on a city basis, that
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  can be on a national basis as well. Yes, oh my gosh,
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  yes, you know. I was thinking about this because this this past weekend
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  we had Katillion. It was a seventy fifth year that Streport hosted a katillion,
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  and it was the most glamorous, lavish jordinary event and one of the
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  parties was out by the Riverview Park and it was incredibly beautiful. The first
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  time they've ever done that, right, Yeah, yeah, it's usually in
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  the Riverview Hall or whatever. Well, and I'll tell you look, the
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  Red River at night can be very pretty, right, it's at nine times
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  it can be beautiful. Well, think about this thost Even in Shreveport for
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  the last i'd say ten years, people almost they're very apologetic. We've got
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  that old shreve Stadium where the bats, you know, they can't get they
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  can't take care of the bats situation. We had a baseball field that they
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  tried to tear down, but then the because bats had moved into this baseball
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  field, there was a lawsuits and stuff. And right now we have it
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  where they started demolishing a baseball field, but now they can't continue demolishing it.
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  So we just have this and it's an iesore if you're coming down I
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  twenty. So people judge Streetport based on what's basically on I twenty, and
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  then of course the news outlets to they talk about our crime because our crime
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  did go, you know, skyrocketed a little bit during the last few years,
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  and it's higher than it should be. Yes, So I want to
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  say this, I'm a Shreatport girl through and through. I'm I'm unapologetically Shreveport.
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  I love it. There's basically you've got like all areas, all cities,
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  you've got the great side, you know, you've got the kind the
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  side that needs a little more help where the crime is. But we there
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  was some rapper that came through Streetport and he did a song and he called
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  it Ratchet City. Do you remember that. I believe it was there a
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  Streetport based rapper, actually I think it was, and everybody jumped on that
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  bandwagon called it started Chet Right. Well, we have a new mayor.
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  Things are starting to turn around a little bit. This event was spectacular,
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  and so I put on Facebook, I'm proud to be from Streetport. I'm
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  proud of this place. I know it's got things that need work on like
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  everybody else, but we have great people, we have great bones, we
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  have great structure, we have a great vision. And so when I said
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  that, people started jumping on there. I love being from here. You
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  know, it's like contagious, just like it was contagious to be grit it.
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  You know, during that period, I noticed that it really takes one
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  person to point out this place is remarkable. The history, the traditions,
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  the things that we have going for us. We just don't talk about it
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  because it's overridden by the negative news. You know, well, it's like
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  what you said, it's like contagious negatively. You can also have it contagious
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  negatively, positively and negatively. And so people are focusing on the negative and
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  if they just changed their thinking. But what you posted. You posted this
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  beautiful picture of the bridge with the lights on it this party, and what
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  was so fun was to see people say, yes, I'm a proud Treeport
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  native. You know, I love Streport. And I thought that one comment
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  that I love Streetport and I'm proud of Streport was contagious. Yes, But
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  you know what, there was a time not too long ago you talked about
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  how beautiful it was with the lights on the bridge and the lights downtown.
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  I think just about any cities gonna have some kind of this problem. We
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  went years with the lights on the bridge being broken. Yes, one or
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  two of them would be on, yes, and the rest would not.
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  And it looks just like it looked. The downtown looked like the bad pride
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  of town, right because the lights were not. But we have families here,
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  like I think about the callen Bergs who brought the Louisiana Film Prize into
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  Streetport. All right, So folks outside of Shretport, Louisiana. Film Prize.
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  Yes is a it's an independent film producer prize right here in northwest Suisia.
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  But you're bringing all these independent independent films and it's a great thing.
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  You have people like Kevin and Donnah Bryan who he is an architecture here in
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  town, and they they believe in the city so much that they a lot
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  of these people are buying the downtown shops to build to have their own business.
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  So you're building back because if you look back, you know Twin Blend's
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  does this. These are twins that make you know that I love them.
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  These are these twins here in town who take old pictures from like the night
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  forties of street Port, and then they blend it together with what's here,
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  what's now. And so if you look back to when the women were wearing
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  gloves and hats going down downtown and then you went through the eighties where it
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  was crime ridden and you have gangs. Now it's on an upswing because you
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  have families here who lived here their whole lives, who count on their own
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  vision and it's making it make it beautiful again. The same thing happened in
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  fort Worth. I mean Fort Worth was that way. It was like you
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  didn't go downtown. It's thriving now and all it took a family, the
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  Baths brothers that went in cleaned it up. That's all it takes, because
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  good is contagious. You saw it in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, especially
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  after the rural city family had problems in the nineties. You go to Oklahoma
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  City. Now it's amazing and actually they're building. They're in the process of
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  building the largest building in all of North America in Oklahoma. So now see,
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  it takes people. It takes the good people that have vision and have
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  hope and know that whatever they do, it is for the next generation.
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  And I think we got it here. If you like ask our American mama
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  was a question, go to our website of grab rato dot com slash mamas
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  and click on the ass the Mama's button tearing out of Kimberly Brothers and thank
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  you so much, Thank you,