Oh wow, that is so sad and horrible. It seems as if there is a collective effort to destroy and erase Black peoples history and contributions to culture and society. It's horrifying and terrible, simply awful.

Creole Cajun food is soooooooooo so so special and spectacular.

It’s still here!! I live in the 13th ward and been here since late 90’s. You can still walk or streetcar to fantastic gumbo- chicken- and a streetcar will get you meatloaf

Oh my 😮Terrible

@@lesliejaggers2275 exactly

I was so fortunate to go to her restaurant Dooky Chase for an after-prom dinner. I also bought her cookbook.

and resilient, when you think of all the things they have had to deal with and are still to this very day dealing with.

Beautifly said❤

THANK YOU !!!!!!!😊😊😊

So Nora wasnt an adult?

@@robinanders3954 no identity except for ‘ Nora ‘. Did Nora have a family ? Who took of her family while she worked at your house ?

@@robinanders3954 No MRS/MS or nothing.. u KNOW she was forced to work in their house as it was against the law for Black women to be stay at home moms to their OWN children / refused to work in the home of a white family at the behest of a white woman. Against the damn LAW. I’d even be willing to bet his mother did NOT work.. he only added THAT so it wouldn’t appear to the Black commenters that his family partook in ‘maintaining the help’. All the likes his comment got is UNDOUBTEDLY from other white ppl.

I appreciate sir... your fond memories of your hired help...I'm sure you all loved her dearly

@@hoodooandheadwraps6202 exactly. I hoped my comment made him take a closer look at how much they claimed to love her. I saw it happen. I took care of a man who had terminal cancer. They had a maid named Connie. Connie got old and it was really starting to show. Instead of doing something like, giving her a severance package w their millions of $$, they seized on an opportunity when ONE TIME ONLY she wasnt feeling good and got snappy with the wife. Just sent her on her way and didnt think anything else about it. But they "loved her so much". I went and checked on her as I'd begun giving her a ride. Luckily her daughter was able to move her mom in with her. The lady was 80 years old for crying out loud and had worked for that family for 30 years. They all sung her praises till she just got too old to keep up. And then threw her away like anything else theyd used up and threw out. I get sick of the "well that's just how it was back then" bs. I've had many arguments w my own family about how if you know something is wrong, you dont just go along to get along w society. That's why everything is so upside down right now. People didnt stand up for the right things and if they did, the government infiltrated those groups and destroyed true movements to bring about real change (ie anti war movement turned into drugged out hippies). Our society has been carefully constructed and engineered thru massive psychological operations to gain acceptance and legalization for every sin imaginable. Theyve worked hard keeping us at each others throats instead of going after them. It wasnt hard to do cause the white folks enjoyed their priviledge. Even the ones who think they never got any. I wasnt born w much and still dont have much but I knew when having to deal with the police, I didnt have to be afraid I'd wind up dead. I knew I could go to any part of town w out someone possibly asking me what I was doing there. Didnt get followed around while shopping. Yeah theres classism and I've had to deal with that but so what. Coulda married a man w $$ and had all that if that's what I wanted. But classism, you can just look the part and not have to deal with that. Big huge difference being judged or categorized just cause your black. But guess what I learned just from reading the Bible for myself by the time I was 12 in 1987, yall are the true Israelites and its prophecy time! Oh yes the tables are about to flip all the way over. I'm watching them inch their way down now. This here mystery Babylon America has a whole lot of judgement coming her way. And along with that comes true Israel's restitution. So get your traveling shoes on, I got mine on all the time. This place is gonna blow and when the way is made out of here, I ain't hesitating one minute!

New Iberia here - Southern and Tulane University Law School- Katrina broke my heart- loss a total of five close relatives and friends- have not returned since.

Too bad they didn't pay tribute to those who created the recipies though.....

@ds22009 I'm pretty sure the ones who cooked the food are the ones who created most of the dishes.

nope.

ds22009 Well, who created the recipes then?

French, italian, and spanish settlers utilizing the local resources.

I was born and raised in New Orleans, I love the people and our great culture!! ❤️🙏🏾❤️

Im from Seychelles Island and our native language is creole...but more like haitian creole...but mostly our food looks exactly like y'alls cooking!! i would love to check out your grandma's cookbook!!

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Epiphany parish hope and duels street

Where can I purchase the cookbook

Amen!

Well said😇💜💜my great grand father was born in New Orleans and I'm so thankful that he met and married my great grandmother( who almost lived to be a century)born in Texas and we keep our family traditions going. She was Native, now I see how they met and had all them kids💞💗💓💓🤎🖤. They was eating and dancing. Amen

I know what you’re saying 🎉🎉🎉🎉

WEEKS ISLAND- IBERIA PARISH- HERE

I call my great grandma Nana.. we are too

My Daddy's folks are French/Italian/African Creole... from New Orleans, Slidell, Napoleonville and Lake Ponchartrain areas...LOVE me some dirty rice and seafood gumbo... Yeah!

My grandfathers family are Louisiana/Alabama Creole with Trinidad roots. I miss his cooking.

That's the name we called our great-grandmother! Nani

My mom is From Shreveport Louisiana and we have Creole blood in us

Say it louder for the people in the back.

Very true ❤❤

@The Realist And the Geechee's, live in Georgia, especially Savannah.

I know, I would learn about there contributions as well. It's amazing how the geechee/Gullah have been put of the Gullah Island where they have been for many years. Rich people have went there and took everything from them

I have seen a video on youtube about the Gullah people!

@@barbram8001 and on the island in mobile South Carolina

Thumbs up 👍 for the Gullah GeeChee Ancestors from John's Island and Wadalaw Island South Carolina, near Charleston South Carolina.

Deborah Palmgren I’m a white Creole from greater New Orleans and we all ate the same things because we all shared foods.

​@@IslenoGutierrez didn't even know white creole existed

@@ShirellStevenson Yep, we white Creoles exist, plenty of us. There are French Creoles, Spanish Creoles, Acadian Creoles (Cajuns) and German Creoles. French last names like Rabalais, Bordelon and Ducote, Spanish last names like Gonzales, Fernandez and Romero, Acadian last names like Guidry, Blanchard and Leblanc and German last names like Trosclair, Toups and Haydel. Many white Creoles today are a mix of any of those types. The French Quarter of New Orleans is a former white Creole neighborhood that was full of French Creoles with a minority of Spanish Creoles before it became a tourist attraction and populated by whoever from wherever.

Oh, I forgot to add that Cajuns are white Louisiana Creoles and used to be called Creoles before the term Cajun came along. In fact, Cajuns used to be called Acadian Creoles to separate them from other white Creoles like French Creoles, Spanish Creoles and German Creoles. That’s why we all eat the same food is because we are all Louisiana Creoles eating Louisiana creole food. This idea of “Cajun food” is made up, it’s not real.

@@ShirellStevenson me either, that's a new one for me!

Yes

Please do 🎉🎉🎉

Id give anything to go back and have one more day in the kitchen with my Grandma.

I just learned about my Creole heritage and was so exciting to find out why I liked the things I did cleared up some of my ideology. Where this idea comes from. Why I like this or that kind of food. I was.a adopted child with no idea where I came from originally. I took a DNA test from Ancestry test and a lot of my history came forward.

I love GOOD FOOD 🎉🎉🎉🎉

She was a Karen looking to sound genteel...

You noticed that too.

I had a black girl friend- KAFINY Who is STILL looking to sound and act GENTEEL- I think she was trying to change her name to MS. MONET- it Was taken by a KAREN-JUST Sayin-

Mr. B's Bistro is one place you can go. My son inlaw is the evening manager. This restaurant is part of the "Brennan Family" of restaurants. Good food!

Riiiiight. By "circumstance." Too many white folks are still trying to have polite conversation about a savage reality.

Enslaved, not slaves😡

this is very good documentary

Jena.

@@Dutchess80 Thank you Dut chess I corrected my error.

I wonder if you know the woods family

@@skylamanning3925 Can't say I do? Why do you wonder that?

Olson Woods - yes, grew up cross the street from Durham middle school. Tiny Winy was the candy show

That's James DERHAM middle School uptown, ya' heard me!? ⚜️

@@nola305 Ha Bruh

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depité senatè What do you mean it’s all Haiti? St. Domingue (colonial Haiti) is only one component of Louisiana creole cooking. There are also elements from French. Spanish, Americans from the southern US, Germans, Italians, Martinicans (Martinique), Cubans, Native Americans and Acadians (maritime French Canadians).

Stanley Dougé Creole has never had such a meaning you speak of in Louisiana. In Louisiana, traditionally creole was the name given to people born of the land, regardless of race. However, since its usage was mainly during colonial times of French and Spanish colonization, creole culture tends to have a French-Spanish base with added influences. In Louisiana, Creole is neutral of race or ethnicity. One must only be born on the land and into the culture. You can shake your head all you want, but I can provide you with historic Louisiana documentation to back my argument.

@@IslenoGutierrez The video is basically telling you the truth and you still don't understand. During colonial times The French and Spanish colonies didn't separate people by just race , you are correct.To be honest you just picked out certain parts of the truth. The French and the Spanish didn't want to recognize the blacks as being either of French nor Spanish decent. Hatians has a lot to do the taste of the food as well as Africans . You have to also know the history of the spices. go back and do some more reading.

@@ms.carter4297 No, blacks were not recognized as French or Spanish... but the culture of New Orleans and south Louisiana is one of a mixture of influences. There is no haitian influence in Louisiana... however, there is some St. Domingue influence (the multicultural French colony that existed before it became the all black republic of Haiti). But understand, the spices in the cooking of south Louisiana comes from many of the influences of peoples that settled it. The French and Spanish brought lots of spices... and some spices came from the Caribbean and some came from Louisiana itself... Louisiana’s culture and food is a mixture of many different influences, but there has always existed a French and Spanish base...

@Tito Torres it was neutral until Jim crow and CODIFIL

All I can say being raised in New Orleans,it's indeed a legendary city. Loved e ery dish mother cooked . Can't find cahwahn stew no wheres!! Sad to say the family city is now scarey city and foods are are being lost since Katrina flood. The seniors and senior's children are all dead or ill; and the you ger generation or Rev I sing the good creole receipes, losing the real cuisine. But still I will never ever cease to love Nawlin' s and its real history

This ain’t a lie. I’m from one of the big creole families - my dad is one of those gens de couleur libres, or passé blanc, those creoles from Cane River, who tend to marry each other. Now dad thinks for himself. He married my mom, velvety Black and gorgeous, Black French Creole as they say. Gets kicked out of the family. Years later, after their eldest was born, they slowly got accepted back, once they saw the kids were so light and some with those bright green eyes (yup, insert eye roll here). But it’s kind of too late - I don’t know many folks from dad’s side because they were so unwelcoming to my mom. Funny thing - dad’s side stopped speaking French a couple generations ago, but mom’s side continued straight to her generation with French as their first language, even though dad’s got the French last name and mom didn’t. As I’m writing this, they are still alive and happily married, looking like an interracial couple. But as soon as dad speaks, you can see he’s proudly Black. I love the rich history both types of Creole affords, and am so proud to be a product of them!

My daddy was Creole and mama Cajun. I never knew what kids meant by what are you? because neither parent, grandparents or other relatives identified as anything but La. Cajun or Creole. Even today l don’t get into those feel good, let’s get acquainted discussions because l don’t identify culturally with white or black America. As to the darkskin, yes. I was years old when l found out a friend’s relatives birth names were Pearl and Alma, not Black Pearl and Dusty Alma! But when you grow up around them you learn it’s not hate and they mean the person no harm. I remember when my daddy told one of my brothers to choose his wife wisely. He said if you get stuck on stupid, remember what your mama and grandmama look like. 😂😂😂

@@lovelyreen9936 what a honest and uplifting piece of history, thank you for sharing your family history. I visited nola on three occasions last year the last time to see the damage from hurricane Ida in Edgard Yes Louisiana is a very interesting state. The climate and the land are beautiful. Other than the occasional hurricane would be a great retirement spot.

I thought creole meant you were mixed with different things? How is someone creole and they’re full black? Asking for a educational reasons

@@XxMercuriiXx …the only reason they’re black today is because you have blacks and others trying to erase our culture. We’re not African American and AA aren’t Creole. Integration was wrong for everybody!!!!

I keep reading your comments regarding white creoles. There is no such thing, sir. Those white creoles with the French surnames are French Creoles! I know this because my papa is one and so is most of his light eyed family! Yes, they have the European look but many have the black hair and black eyes of their Native American or African ancestry. Only the Cajun can be said to be truly white. I understand by your surname your either Spanish or Italian, but you cannot speak for all lightskin Creole people. There is no such thing as mixed race Creole either. That’s your sly way to connect the darker ones to the African Americans. Those red skin and tan skin Creoles are the ones with the heavy Native American lineage, like my dad. Btw, Many Creoles who are intermarried with Blacks say so. Like entertainer Beyoncé is half Black and half Creole.

@@MayMay-el4wg You don't know what you are talking about...read a real history book...NOT People magazine

@@MayMay-el4wg No, you’re 100% wrong. I’m a white Creole of French and Spanish origin and my ancestry goes back to colonial Louisiana and I have no black or Native American ancestry. I know for a fact because I’ve done a DNA test. You obviously don’t know what or who Creoles are from what you’ve said thus far. Creole is not a particular race or ancestry. Creole in Louisiana means to be born in Louisiana of old world ancestry (any ancestry that is not Native American) and usually a colonial Louisiana descendant of any race. There are white Creoles, black Creoles, mixed race Creoles. There are even Filipino Creoles that are descendants of 18th century ship passengers that were aboard Spanish galleon ships that arrived to Louisiana. All people of the Louisiana colony were Creoles regardless of race. This is documented in Louisiana’s historical archives. You’re attributing this French/black mixed race idea that you’re familiar with and belong to, to all Creoles and then calling them French Creoles which is wrong also. French Creoles in Louisiana are white people of Louisiana French descent. There are also Spanish Creoles (whites of Louisiana colonial Spanish descent), Acadian Creoles (Cajuns) and German Creoles (whites of Louisiana colonial German descent). Euro/Afro mixed race type Creoles are called Creoles of Color. Why of color? Because there are Creoles not of color, which are the white Creoles. All of this is backed by historically documented evidence and academic literature. There are white people in Louisiana of French descent, those of Spanish descent and those of German descent of Louisiana colonial origin and these people are white Louisiana Creoles (French Creoles, Spanish Creoles and German Creoles and many white Creoles are any mix of these). Cajuns are Acadian Creoles, a type of white Louisiana Creole. Before the term Cajun came into existence, Cajuns were called Creoles, specifically Acadian Creole. There is historical documentation with that too. A famous piece of historical evidence for that claim is the Breaux Manuscript of the Attakapas district 1840-1901. And my surname is Spanish because I descend from colonial Spaniards that have been in Louisiana since the 18th century. They are Spanish Creoles. But I also have ancestry from 18th century Louisiana French people who are called French Creoles. There are plenty of French surnames in my family if you must know, very popular ones too might I add that even a few of them are street names in New Orleans. I don’t speak for Creoles of Color or black Creoles. I speak for white Creoles, but specifically myself and my family. And yes, there are mixed race Creoles too. There are two types. One of European and West African mixture (with some having Native American admixture and some not having it) and one of European and Native American mixture (this one is historically known as métis Créole). And yes, there are black Creoles too, they are Afro-Creoles. They are the Louisiana born descendants of the colonial Louisiana black population. Another thing is, to be a Louisiana Creole, one must be born in Louisiana. Creole is also a synonym for a locally born Louisiana person. This is all found in the historical record. 300 years of Louisiana historically documented evidence will validate everything I’m saying here. Not only that, my parents identify as Creole, my grandparents identify as Creole, my great grandparents identified as Creole and all my family before them. And Beyoncé’s mother is a Creole of Color because she’s a Euro/black mixed race type Louisiana Creole and born in Louisiana but Beyoncé is not a Creole because she was not born in Louisiana. You can’t be “half Creole”. It’s not an ancestry that you can be half of. Either you’re Creole or not. Being born in Louisiana is a prerequisite to being a Louisiana Creole. This is also in the Louisiana historical documentation. Don’t go down this rabbit hole with me, I’d rather not embarrass you in front of all these people here with a wall of evidence.

@@MayMay-el4wg So was my grandparents, how many Durettes do you know, they spoke Creole French, (Ptois) and were staunch Catholics.

Edith lefel

Haiti is our major influenced especially of the voodoo/vodou that has arrived in Louisiana. Haiti gave Louisiana creoles a named of many African countries.

@Mani M prove it! Napoleon made sure the new Orleanes slave knew nothing about the revolt in Haiti. Creole came from Africa and french! Did you know this? Are you making up your own thing here? Even your spelling of the words are distorted. What are you ashamed of? Seems you're running away from real history here....I'm proud of my Haitian heritage and culture, not the witchcraft of course, because that's abomination it is Idol worship.

@Mani M You are diminishing and discrediting truth of history for some made up tradition you call kreyal. Be proud of your blackness- Africa is our roots not Europe. Nor should we cling to other peoples heritage, i.e. Indians. They all hate yashruels people..Be content how God made you. GOD IS THE GREATEST!

@Mani M Ebonics is what you're talking about, not creole!

@@childofGodsKingdom Thank you for saying this. I just recently had to give my son n law pointers on the Creole history. All the young people know is that they are Creole because of good hair and light skin,but don't know anything about their history

Madame is my aunt .

sex potions & petals I love your aunt

She's a blessing full of knowledge and wisdom

They sound a like too

Leah Chase is what princess and the frog movie is based on. Her Father started dookey chase

@@lovestorymobilewinery7222 …her father in law. She married the son, Dooky Chase. ⚜️

Talk About Good, published by the Junior League of Lafayette is good one, has many Creole and Cajun recipes, (318)988-2739, Le Bon Ton Roule ¡😎¡

The Picayune Creole Cookbook first published in 1898. www.amazon.com/Picayune-Creole-Cookbook-Picayunes/dp/0486226786/ref=sr_1_6?crid=M4IZ8Y82XFZH&keywords=the+picayune+creole+cookbook&qid=1554059644&s=gateway&sprefix=the+picayu%2Caps%2C161&sr=8-6

Leah Chase

It goes back to the Doctrine of Discovery. And the Papal Bulls. And Marco Polo before that. Where Columbus got his ideas from.