re: Jazz Fest Experience - 1 dead at Mandinas

When you hire certain people in New Orleans, whether they are decent people or not, you open yourself up to every possible bad scenario they bring with them. I don't know the percentage of dishwashers and waiters in New Orleans who are dragging baggage around with them, but it's pretty high and their baggage is a lot more violent than the typical service industry baggage. It's why middle to upper middle class African Americans have been leaving New Orleans in droves for 25 years. They can have good kids who get caught up in violent bs by association and relations. It's better to just get them the hell out of here. It has left a major hole in the black community down here.