Soror AKA2D91'
It's good to see you hanging out. Same to yah, holla!
Anyhow, interesting article from the WSJ...
It does seem that NO will not be as "coloured" as it once was in the past 30 years... But what will happen with its rich legacy of jazz and the fun it use to be? I guess that all will be filtered over time.
Also, what I found interesting about this article is that the folks there will rebuild it. It will become like a "Disney-fied fortified capitalism at its best" NO, but the flavor will be blanded--no sense of real spice... Like they'd make red beans and rice and forget the okra or something... Like no filé in the gumbo... It will be mudbug éttouffe, but the rice is too sticky... Like something out of the Zatarain's box... Something will really be wrong with spice there when they rebuild it...
And the jazz will sound filtered. Not the real downhome jazz with a lil' blues mixed in it...
That will be the saddest thing about a rebuilt NOLA... It would be soooo gentrified that once "they" build the Park Place Hotels on them to withstand a category 10 hurricane with tsunami warnings
, then no one can work or live there... And forget the cake walk from NOLA...
Same with Mississippi near the gulf...
The relationships have already changed a long time ago. I do think folks of African descent will lose there footing in most of the south and probably most of the country being cast aside like this...
Amazing that the folks refuse to leave even in the worst of conditions. I pretty much do not blame them. However, it might be better elsewhere... But is it worth it?