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Thread #118257   Message #2561121
Posted By: katlaughing
08-Feb-09 - 04:07 PM
Thread Name: Faubourg Tremé-Story of Black New Orleans+jazz PBS
Subject: RE: Faubourg Tremé-Story of Black New Orleans+jazz PBS
Well, I never stopped crying while watching this and still have tears from grief and joy and awe. This should be mandatory viewing by all young people in schools and, it would be good for all communities to watch it, too. Not just for recent history, but for the history which has been left out of the textbooks for far too long. And, for the music. Any adjectives I would attach to it would be woefully inadequate...I cannot do it justice. I hope all of you who are interested get a chance to see this. It is more than worth it.

A note: one of the things that outraged me, besides the fact that the shrub should go to prison for Katrinagate, was at the end when they told of a musician whose life was saved by music, who spent two years living in a FEMA trailer only to be arrested in 2007 for playing music on the streets of Treme without a permit!

kat