Are you afraid of New Orleans? Afraid you might get killed? Afraid you might get drunk? Afraid you can’t get here from there? Then stay away.
I sent this email to someone today because I’m sick of the naysaying about New Orleans from people who don’t know jack shit about this city and what it was like pre Katrina and what it is like post Katrina:
Dear […..]
Re: Crime in New Orleans
Can I tell you something – this is being horribly over reported in the press everywhere and to the detriment of New Orleans. Does New Orleans have a crime problem – yes – the same one it has had for decades – it’s a black on black drug problem that needs desperate attention because it is killing off young black men. But it is no different then being in New York or any urban city.
The tourist areas are relatively safe and I say that like I say New York is safe or Moscow is safe. You don’t walk around at night on your own looking like a tourist. But I am in these areas and areas much less highlighted than these as a regular and feel comfortable.
I’m kind of starting to take it personal the anti-New Orleans backlash.
Really if I didn’t love this city I would say go somewhere else because I don’t think I want these people in my backyard with their negative and naysaying attitudes. I have a sign on my house that says Be Nice or Leave – and I mean it.
Y’all are going to have to come to your own conclusions about whether you want to come here or not, because honest to god [you] should come here to support this city, it is an important city historically, fundamentally, and spiritually to all of the United States and if petty people can’t see the forest for the trees than bless their hearts, they don’t deserve to come here.