@IslenoGutierrez LOL, I live in Houston Tx. now and i'm glad that Fiesta Supermarket sells Patton's hot sausage, and Food Town supermarket sells Crystal hot sauce, but sadly, there's no alligator sausage here. Another slang popular with urban New Orleans African-Americans is to end some sentences with "ya heard me"! And btw, the term "bling" (reffering to jewelry) was started by the rapper 'Lil Wayne (a New Orleans native).
@nola305 More things Whites added to New Orleans: French bread, pecan pie, dressing up in masks, sazerac and hurricane cocktails, the Irish immigrants started the practice of pronouncing words like oil-earl, foil-ferl, boil-berl, etc, creole mustard, creole tomatoes, catholocism, gumbo z' herbes (greens gumbo for lent), river boats, Mardi gras crews, Mardi gras balls, the trinity seasoning for cooking (onions, celery, bell pepper), smoked sausage, boudin, hog head cheese, boiling crawfish, etc.
It should be clear what I am talking about. Why is it when black people talk about themselves others get uncomfortable? Hurricane Katrina disproportionately affected black New Orleanians. I am a son of black New Orleans. Don't I have the right to try to rally the troops in light of the tremendous disaster that overwhelmed us Did you see our suffering in the Superdome and elsewhere. BLM, sir.
@@clarencewilliams807 Nobody was getting uncomfortable about black people talking about themselves... as long as you’re not talking bad about some other race, talk away... Hurricane Katrina affected everybody of all races in the entire New Orleans metro area...I had water up to my roof... so no it didn’t affect black folks disproportionately...it affected everyone...hurricanes don’t see color, they are an equal opportunity destroyer of anything in their path... I’m also a son of New Orleans, born and raised but unlike you I don’t see a black New Orleans or a white New Orleans, I just see New Orleans and we are all part of it and it’s history and culture... and there were white people at the superdome suffering too...but do you honestly think only the people at the superdome suffered during Katrina? I had an uncle that died due to the mold in his house as he was trying to repair it... black folks were not the only people suffering during or after Katrina... and not just Black Lives Matter, all lives matter...we are all important enough for all our lives to matter...
@nola305 Yes, Patton's hot sausage is the best hot sausage, and crystal is the best hot sauce. All of my family uses those two foods. Alligator sausage is not real big in New Orleans, mostly in the country areas outside of New Orleans. But sometimes you see it on po-boy's in the New Orleans area. New Orleans Blacks have alot of influence from country towns in Louisiana because alot moved there in the 60's-80's, but New Orleans had a large Black population before that of like 30% of the city.
@nola305 Yes, "ya heard me" is strictly Black slang. Whites say "ya know", which is used the same way. Yes, bling was started by Lil Wayne in New Orleans and popularized with the song "Bling Bling". I give credit where it is due. Like I said, our culture is a hybrid culture that was created by both Whites and Blacks over time. Each others cultures rubbed off into the big pot and created a wonderful culture. Gumbo was the one dish that every ethnicity in New Orleans had influence on.
@nola305 It's because of the media showing second lines and Jazz funerals that it became popular. Before1980, New Orleans was a White majority city. There are countless things that Whites have contributed to New Orleans culture, like Mardi Gras, king cake, parades, beignets, pralines, Jambalaya, Shrimp Creole, grillades and grits, po-boys, words like neutral ground, and make groceries, where y'at, chicory coffee, architecture, Muffalettas, half the history of gumbo and red beans.
@nola305 Same thing happen one time walking in the French Quarter holding a plate of red beans and rice. I walked pass this Black woman and she said "oh, that's my people food", and I asked her what she meant. She said "that's Black people food". I started laughing. I said mam, this food was created by both Whites and Blacks. White New Orleanians eat this every week. White French colonists fled Haiti during the slave uprising with dry red beans. Red beans evolved in N.O. from Whites and Blacks.
@IslenoGutierrez I beg to differ in your statement, "where y'at comes from White New Orleans people, Blacks picked it up from Whites". It's the other way around, in the early '60s, "where 'ya at" was a slang used by Blacks as a greeting and LATER co-opted by URBAN whites. Whenever there's a trend started by Blacks, Whites always coin phrases as their own just like it's NOW popular for Whites to romantisize Black culture i.e. secondline parades etc. Blacks in N.O. don't use this term anymore.
Old school New Orleanians still use this term amongst themselves. The standard reply to the where y'at greeting is "awright'. Example: Where y'at, Isleno. Your reply would be: Awright. And what blacks in New Orleans do you know ? Do you know any in the 9th Ward. The Treme? Uptown? What part of town did you live in. What school did you go to What ward are you from. Or are you just somebody who has been there for Mardi Gras and now you are an expert on the culture. Since you are, could you please tell me what a Creole is Did blacks pick up Jazz music from whites as well? Revisionist historians are a big part of American culture.
@nola305 It's just a shame that most of the Whites left for the suburbs and now the media sees mostly Blacks in New Orleans and focuses only on Jazz, second lines, Jazz funerals, and Mardi Indians. Yes Blacks were influental in music and entertainment in New Orleans, but so where the Whites. New Orleans went from being a 68% White city to being a 67% Black city within ten years during the late 70's early 80's. Whites fled to the brand new homes of the suburbs. Sad story.
@nola305 Blacks got Where'yat from us. Where y'at started in White neighborhoods. Go look up the "Yats" of New Orleans: White New Orleanians. Actually, Blacks or Whites did not create the culture alone. You added to it, just like us Whites added to it. It is a mixed culture. The main things Blacks contributed was Jazz, second lines, Mardi Gras Indians, and Jazz Funerals. But Jazz and Jazz funerals has some influence from Whites. New Orleans is a mixed culture whether you like it or not.
Where y'at comes from White New Orleans people. Blacks picked it up from the Whites. Yats are White New Orleanians with the Yat dialect. If you don't believe me google New Orleans Yat, or go to wikipedia and look up New Orleans Yat. Yat comes from the Y'at in Where y'at.
I can't understand why you are making this about race. Since you are, why don't you talk about the HUGE slave markets that existed in New Orleans where people who look like me were bought and sold.Because black people tell the truth about what we have been through in this country doesn't mean that we hate white people. Do you find something wrong with us celebrating ourselves? I'll tell you one thing, we certainly aren't racist against white people. White people come to second lines in droves, and I have yet to see one of them mistreated by the predominantly black celebrants. New Orleans is a city of hospitality. No one is a stranger or outsider at any predominantly black function. Too bad we can't say the same about us at predominantly white functions.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that black people picked up where y'at from white people. So what? And what difference does it make? In my piece I didn't get into the historical origins of the term, I just said that it was a popular greeting in black New Orleans. You are spending lots of time with a tangential issue. The focus here is the way we were treated after Hurricane Katrina. And the whole world saw that. Can you comment on that and get away from the inconsequential side issues?
@@clarencewilliams807 lol, so I gotta be racist to say blacks picked up the phrase “where y’at” from whites? My God, people like you have gotten to the point where you accuse anyone for being a racist if they don’t attribute everything to black people and the simple fact that blacks might have picked up things from white folks...you know they call that slander since nothing I said was racist...
@@clarencewilliams807 Make this about race? All I said was that black folks picked up the phrase “where y’at” from white folks...there is nothing wrong with saying such a thing and it’s not being negative to black folks...it’s just your mind went there when there was no need to go there... and speaking about slavery, yeah it was bad but you never went through it so to keep on about something you never went through to people that never put you through it is just adding new salt to an old wound... and yes, blacks people go to celebrations all over the nation where whites are the majority all the time and nothing happens to them... look at Mardi Gras, black people come to Mardi Gras in droves and nothing happens to them by white people...
@nola305 That's a straight up lie. The whole Where'yat thing comes from White people. That is why White New Orleans are known as the "Yat's". White people been saying Where'yat waaaay before 1960. It was a greeting developed and used by Whites. I am a native New Orleanian, and I am White of Spaniard and French Descent and my family came from the 9th ward when it was White, just like most of the city, which is not White anymore. New Orleans culture is not Black, it is a mix of White and Black.
I suggest you try to learn a little more about New Orleans culture and not just what the Blacks contributed, or what they think they created. New Orleans has a tremendous amount of contributions from Whites. New Orleans is a whole lot more than Jazz, second lines, Jazz funerals, and Mardi Gras Indians. Like I said it is a mixed culture, half from my people, half from yours, and belongs to both of us.
@IslenoGutierrez LOL, I live in Houston Tx. now and i'm glad that Fiesta Supermarket sells Patton's hot sausage, and Food Town supermarket sells Crystal hot sauce, but sadly, there's no alligator sausage here. Another slang popular with urban New Orleans African-Americans is to end some sentences with "ya heard me"! And btw, the term "bling" (reffering to jewelry) was started by the rapper 'Lil Wayne (a New Orleans native).
@nola305 More things Whites added to New Orleans: French bread, pecan pie, dressing up in masks, sazerac and hurricane cocktails, the Irish immigrants started the practice of pronouncing words like oil-earl, foil-ferl, boil-berl, etc, creole mustard, creole tomatoes, catholocism, gumbo z' herbes (greens gumbo for lent), river boats, Mardi gras crews, Mardi gras balls, the trinity seasoning for cooking (onions, celery, bell pepper), smoked sausage, boudin, hog head cheese, boiling crawfish, etc.
Isn't it strange how white people become disturbed when black people talk about themselves and don't try to imitate the slavemaster?
@@clarencewilliams807 Wtf are you talking about?
It should be clear what I am talking about. Why is it when black people talk about themselves others get uncomfortable? Hurricane Katrina disproportionately affected black New Orleanians. I am a son of black New Orleans. Don't I have the right to try to rally the troops in light of the tremendous disaster that overwhelmed us Did you see our suffering in the Superdome and elsewhere. BLM, sir.
@@clarencewilliams807 Nobody was getting uncomfortable about black people talking about themselves... as long as you’re not talking bad about some other race, talk away... Hurricane Katrina affected everybody of all races in the entire New Orleans metro area...I had water up to my roof... so no it didn’t affect black folks disproportionately...it affected everyone...hurricanes don’t see color, they are an equal opportunity destroyer of anything in their path... I’m also a son of New Orleans, born and raised but unlike you I don’t see a black New Orleans or a white New Orleans, I just see New Orleans and we are all part of it and it’s history and culture... and there were white people at the superdome suffering too...but do you honestly think only the people at the superdome suffered during Katrina? I had an uncle that died due to the mold in his house as he was trying to repair it... black folks were not the only people suffering during or after Katrina... and not just Black Lives Matter, all lives matter...we are all important enough for all our lives to matter...
@@IslenoGutierrezIf you don't comment on my theme, then I will cease communicating with you.
@nola305 Oh, I forgot to add hot sauce and hot sausage. There's a whole lot more too, they come to me as I think about them.
@nola305 Yes, Patton's hot sausage is the best hot sausage, and crystal is the best hot sauce. All of my family uses those two foods. Alligator sausage is not real big in New Orleans, mostly in the country areas outside of New Orleans. But sometimes you see it on po-boy's in the New Orleans area. New Orleans Blacks have alot of influence from country towns in Louisiana because alot moved there in the 60's-80's, but New Orleans had a large Black population before that of like 30% of the city.
@nola305 Yes, "ya heard me" is strictly Black slang. Whites say "ya know", which is used the same way. Yes, bling was started by Lil Wayne in New Orleans and popularized with the song "Bling Bling". I give credit where it is due. Like I said, our culture is a hybrid culture that was created by both Whites and Blacks over time. Each others cultures rubbed off into the big pot and created a wonderful culture. Gumbo was the one dish that every ethnicity in New Orleans had influence on.
@nola305 It's because of the media showing second lines and Jazz funerals that it became popular. Before1980, New Orleans was a White majority city. There are countless things that Whites have contributed to New Orleans culture, like Mardi Gras, king cake, parades, beignets, pralines, Jambalaya, Shrimp Creole, grillades and grits, po-boys, words like neutral ground, and make groceries, where y'at, chicory coffee, architecture, Muffalettas, half the history of gumbo and red beans.
@nola305 Same thing happen one time walking in the French Quarter holding a plate of red beans and rice. I walked pass this Black woman and she said "oh, that's my people food", and I asked her what she meant. She said "that's Black people food". I started laughing. I said mam, this food was created by both Whites and Blacks. White New Orleanians eat this every week. White French colonists fled Haiti during the slave uprising with dry red beans. Red beans evolved in N.O. from Whites and Blacks.
@IslenoGutierrez I beg to differ in your statement, "where y'at comes from White New Orleans people, Blacks picked it up from Whites". It's the other way around, in the early '60s, "where 'ya at" was a slang used by Blacks as a greeting and LATER co-opted by URBAN whites. Whenever there's a trend started by Blacks, Whites always coin phrases as their own just like it's NOW popular for Whites to romantisize Black culture i.e. secondline parades etc. Blacks in N.O. don't use this term anymore.
Old school New Orleanians still use this term amongst themselves. The standard reply to the where y'at greeting is "awright'. Example: Where y'at, Isleno. Your reply would be: Awright. And what blacks in New Orleans do you know ? Do you know any in the 9th Ward. The Treme? Uptown? What part of town did you live in. What school did you go to What ward are you from. Or are you just somebody who has been there for Mardi Gras and now you are an expert on the culture. Since you are, could you please tell me what a Creole is Did blacks pick up Jazz music from whites as well? Revisionist historians are a big part of American culture.
@nola305 It's just a shame that most of the Whites left for the suburbs and now the media sees mostly Blacks in New Orleans and focuses only on Jazz, second lines, Jazz funerals, and Mardi Indians. Yes Blacks were influental in music and entertainment in New Orleans, but so where the Whites. New Orleans went from being a 68% White city to being a 67% Black city within ten years during the late 70's early 80's. Whites fled to the brand new homes of the suburbs. Sad story.
@nola305 Blacks got Where'yat from us. Where y'at started in White neighborhoods. Go look up the "Yats" of New Orleans: White New Orleanians. Actually, Blacks or Whites did not create the culture alone. You added to it, just like us Whites added to it. It is a mixed culture. The main things Blacks contributed was Jazz, second lines, Mardi Gras Indians, and Jazz Funerals. But Jazz and Jazz funerals has some influence from Whites. New Orleans is a mixed culture whether you like it or not.
Where y'at comes from White New Orleans people. Blacks picked it up from the Whites. Yats are White New Orleanians with the Yat dialect. If you don't believe me google New Orleans Yat, or go to wikipedia and look up New Orleans Yat. Yat comes from the Y'at in Where y'at.
El Matador. Which one of the racist New Orleans suburbs are you from?
I can't understand why you are making this about race. Since you are, why don't you talk about the HUGE slave markets that existed in New Orleans where people who look like me were bought and sold.Because black people tell the truth about what we have been through in this country doesn't mean that we hate white people. Do you find something wrong with us celebrating ourselves? I'll tell you one thing, we certainly aren't racist against white people. White people come to second lines in droves, and I have yet to see one of them mistreated by the predominantly black celebrants. New Orleans is a city of hospitality. No one is a stranger or outsider at any predominantly black function. Too bad we can't say the same about us at predominantly white functions.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that black people picked up where y'at from white people. So what? And what difference does it make? In my piece I didn't get into the historical origins of the term, I just said that it was a popular greeting in black New Orleans. You are spending lots of time with a tangential issue. The focus here is the way we were treated after Hurricane Katrina. And the whole world saw that. Can you comment on that and get away from the inconsequential side issues?
@@clarencewilliams807 lol, so I gotta be racist to say blacks picked up the phrase “where y’at” from whites? My God, people like you have gotten to the point where you accuse anyone for being a racist if they don’t attribute everything to black people and the simple fact that blacks might have picked up things from white folks...you know they call that slander since nothing I said was racist...
@@clarencewilliams807 Make this about race? All I said was that black folks picked up the phrase “where y’at” from white folks...there is nothing wrong with saying such a thing and it’s not being negative to black folks...it’s just your mind went there when there was no need to go there... and speaking about slavery, yeah it was bad but you never went through it so to keep on about something you never went through to people that never put you through it is just adding new salt to an old wound... and yes, blacks people go to celebrations all over the nation where whites are the majority all the time and nothing happens to them... look at Mardi Gras, black people come to Mardi Gras in droves and nothing happens to them by white people...
@nola305 That's a straight up lie. The whole Where'yat thing comes from White people. That is why White New Orleans are known as the "Yat's". White people been saying Where'yat waaaay before 1960. It was a greeting developed and used by Whites. I am a native New Orleanian, and I am White of Spaniard and French Descent and my family came from the 9th ward when it was White, just like most of the city, which is not White anymore. New Orleans culture is not Black, it is a mix of White and Black.
I suggest you try to learn a little more about New Orleans culture and not just what the Blacks contributed, or what they think they created. New Orleans has a tremendous amount of contributions from Whites. New Orleans is a whole lot more than Jazz, second lines, Jazz funerals, and Mardi Gras Indians. Like I said it is a mixed culture, half from my people, half from yours, and belongs to both of us.