Hello, I will briefly talk about what I did on Fat Tuesday. I woke up at around 10 o'clock and immediately left the house with my family. We caught up with our other family members, who camp out every year in order to reserve us a sport. We caught most of Zulu, Rex, and the Truck parades. For my family, we usually bar-be-que and just talk about funny stories. This is really the only time of the year I spend time with this side of the family.
All of the little kids were so excited as the people on the float were throwing lots of trinkets; however, the most exciting part for us was the great music. Hearing the bands play in the parades was a lot of fun. Everyone was 'second lining' throughout the day.
In the end, after the parades, we all went back to a cousin's house. On the ride there, we actually got into the conversation of 'what does it mean to be a 'Creole.' As I stated before, my family believes that a Creole is someone born in New Orleans and has Spanish/French and African American historical roots. Once we arrived to my cousin's home, we talked more, ate, and just had a great time.
Hope you all had a wonderful experience also!
Best,
--André
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When you have time, can you lay out their arguments a bit more for us and try to explain why the racial categories are necessary. this is actually a very important discusssion that I want us all to engage in so the more voices we have, the better!
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