I just back from NOLA with my daughter one month ago.
The place seemed taken over by black kids to me....ghetto thugs and Spike Lee movie looking college kids where the guys all looked like Lil Wayne and the girls in 5 inch heels
I saw a group attack a white couple (for her purse)right under my Sonesta balcony on Bourbon, the white guy and girl fought like hell and the wold pack ran off empty handed...they were lucky.
The few whites in attendance being the softassed pussies most whites are these days just stood there. I was trying to come off the balcony. I ain’t one to lick my nuts ..not even at 50.
Anyhow....New Orleans has been a part of my life since 1957 and I grew up 150 miles away and have kin there.
I love the place but the worm has turned there. Outside the nice places you mentioned, it’s a savage third world violent mess and it’s the fault of the folks who live there, not anyone else.
They made it, they live in it and we are at their risk when we travel there....sorta like those open range safari tours.
But I do believe it should be saved.
PS: I’ve never been “mugged “ anywhere but I was witness to one at 93rd and Columbus in 1982.....Puerto Ricans on white
deranged white guys in Houston notwithstanding
I too have always loved New Orleans but we aren’t going back. Our last trip was in the spring before Katrina, of course I didn’t know then it would be our last trip. I hope NO is revived but I am too old to be a part of its revival. Bye buy NO.