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ridiculous
I live and work in the French Quarter. Forty, fifty years ago, this was the worst section of the city. Now it's one of the most expensive.
In the Quarter, seems like every damn night there's a "second line"--really, a hired brass band being trailed by a bunch of white conference attendees from Peoria listlessly waving their handkerchiefs. The city trots out this image of itself because it's what the tourists expect.
But when the real thing happens in a poor black neighborhood, the police shut it down?
It's a funeral, people.