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re: The Culture: New Orleans natives say newcomers are profiting off black traditions
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:01 am to fr33manator
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:01 am to fr33manator
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Gimme a fricking break. People like him can’t accept that blacks made contributions just like the rest, and that New Orleans is a patois of influences (and black influence isn’t even the majority historically speaking)
While I agree that many cultures made significant contributions to New Orleans, I think it could easily be argued that the black slaves and their ancestors have made up a considerable amount of those contributions. Jazz music, food, African traditions, slave labor used to help build the city, etc. NO was a major slave port so there was a major African presence in the city in the early days.
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Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:03 am to Epic Cajun
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The statement was made that New Orleans is "bad" for a middle class family with kids. In regards to the city itself, that is true.
Plenty of people make it work so we will just have to agree to disagree
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:03 am to darnol91
quote:because it's about 10x more interesting than the vast majority of places
Why live somewhere where the norm is counter culture when it comes to education?
Most people with means who live within a big city's limits send their kids to private school.
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:06 am to MrLSU
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Ya’ll take pictures of us.
When people experience an event they take pictures. Even more so now with cell phone camera tech.
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Ya’ll put us on your commercials.
Participants get paid for this
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You send us all over the world and we don’t get a dime!
Participants get paid for this and expenses paid
What's all the bitching about? If one indian or musician appears in a commercial then all have to get paid?
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:07 am to tgrbaitn08
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Why pass on Metairie? Is Metairie just as bad for a middle class family with kids?
Because that wasn't what the initial premise was.
And, I personally wouldn't want to live in Metairie (although this convo has been completely hypothetical).
We moved away from New Orleans, because although we could afford to live in a nice neighborhood, and pay for private school, it still didn't seem like a great place to raise kids. Though, I do still miss it, and often regret moving away.
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:08 am to Saskwatch
Are they mad because white people participate in second lines and follow the Mardi Gras Indians? Are rhey mad because people line the streets and take pictures of them?
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:09 am to Epic Cajun
I hear ya. Where yat now?
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:11 am to tgrbaitn08
They are just mad because people won't give them money. They feel like they deserve to be paid for nothing.
Honestly, I bet most blacks in the city don't feel like these little whiners who are complaining about this issue.
Honestly, I bet most blacks in the city don't feel like these little whiners who are complaining about this issue.
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:12 am to tgrbaitn08
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I hear ya. Where yat now?
...Lafayette
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:13 am to notiger1997
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They are just mad because people won't give them money. They feel like they deserve to be paid for nothing.
Well the actors in the show Treme and all the other movies and TV shows are getting paid
They need to be mad at Hollywood South
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:14 am to tgrbaitn08
They’re mad because they aren’t getting directly paid for this kind of thing.
A mean, outside of having a job which exists pretty much solely due to tourism.
NO is like Las Vegas South, a Disneyland that people come play in for Mardi Gras or visit for conventions / sporting events.
They sure don’t produce much of anything tangible so most jobs would either not exist or would be greatly diminished if not for all that tourism money.
A mean, outside of having a job which exists pretty much solely due to tourism.
NO is like Las Vegas South, a Disneyland that people come play in for Mardi Gras or visit for conventions / sporting events.
They sure don’t produce much of anything tangible so most jobs would either not exist or would be greatly diminished if not for all that tourism money.
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:15 am to OnTheGeaux
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ensuring that their rich traditions that were passed down to them get carried on for generations to come.
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Aren't these the same folks that DEMANDED statues from generations back be removed? Thought so...
How the hell are these two things related? How is having statues of piece of shite that conscripted children into war placed on public land a type of culture?
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:16 am to ThreauxDown
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I like how they mention the Mardi Gras Indians thing.
African Americans stealing Native American culture, and complaining about people stealing their culture
True, and believe me, they have ruined their own culture.
Drive by the area after these cultural events and tell me what you see: more litter and popeyes boxes and daiquiri cups thrown all over the ground with zero regard for their city or those who come behind to clean up after them, because they certainly can't be bothered to do so. Yeah, great "culture."
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:16 am to teke184
They want to get paid for a tourist taking a picture of them sitting on the front porch drinking a 40 playing dominos?
Oh that rich
Oh that rich
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:17 am to mmmmmbeeer
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While I agree that many cultures made significant contributions to New Orleans, I think it could easily be argued that the black slaves and their ancestors have made up a considerable amount of those contributions. Jazz music, food, African traditions, slave labor used to help build the city, etc. NO was a major slave port so there was a major African presence in the city in the early days.
Is anyone arguing they didn’t make significant cultural contributions to the city in its history? But acting like New Orleans was a “black city” in the distant past is patently false. As well as denigrating all the contributions others made.
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:19 am to fr33manator
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Is anyone arguing they didn’t make significant cultural contributions to the city in its history?
They’ve done more harm to the city than they’ve done good
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:20 am to teke184
If some of these people were at least slightly enterprising, they too could profit off if the culture
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:21 am to notiger1997
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I bet most blacks in the city don't feel like these little whiners who are complaining about this issue.
psh, most blacks are waiting in line to have their pictures taken
most seem to embrace it
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:23 am to rocket31
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most seem to embrace it
they definitely know how to embrace tourists
Posted on 4/17/19 at 9:23 am to lsuwontonwrap
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I know more transplants who care more about the "traditions" than a lot of locals.
This is very true. Problem is, they can't emulate it because their personalities are dry like the places they come from. Hopefully their kids that will grow up in it will revive the traditions and culture and actually be a genuine part of it from their core.
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