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Creoles of Color in Plaquemines Parish, LA

A profile of the remarkable French-speaking mixed-race community of diamond in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Rare pre-Katrina scenes from the documentary "The ends of the earth : Plaquemines Parish Louisiana " by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker at www.cnam.com.

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It is very telling, especially when you look at the subject of the rest of this documentary. It is very interesting that "les Blancs" often made no distinction between Blacks & Creoles of color and discriminated against them all the same.
LOL, the journalist said " and the Creoles and Whites? And the interviewee said " oh oui, les Créoles et les Blancs, c'est magnifique hein" This is a very telling statement.
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There are even Asians wit naturally green eyez, it's all about da GENEZ White ppl have a monoply of said trait BUT WHITE DID NOT CREATE THIS FEATURE BCUZ IT EXISTED B4 THERE WAS A SUCH THING AS WHITE PPL so get over yourself...Most humans of any color background are born with blue eyez but someone like you would deny that fact. Genez are like light switches everybody has a mix of on and off genez.
Shut dat pseudoscience bullshit da fuck up bcuz only a ignorant racist prick would attribute a feature such as green eyez to a group of humanz dat AREN'T indigenous to anywhere. Who in da hell said I'm Islamic? No one. Does it matter anywayz? Hell Naw & I'm Black/Native American jackass! Eye color is polygenic trait, thus one main feat arise, it's not dat Black ppl have a lot of White blood, it's White ppl have a lot of Black blood bcuz guess what BLACK PPL ARE THE FIRST HUMANZ DUHHHH!!!!!
Bullshit, don't give be that Hebroite Black power Nation of Islam black crap. ETHNIC africans don't have light eye color. Light eyes are a evolutionary development of snow reflecting the sun. This environment is typicall found in cold regions. Thus people developed lights eye colors. Please African-Americans have a lot of white blood, so fuck off with your pro-black shit!
Jux bcuz a "negro" may have green eyez doesn't mean that they're mixed wit White either...Black ppl have an array of different NATURAL featurez, Act like you know...
proudcreole, and the creoles treated the blacks wrong too!
proudcreole, the people that came to Louisiana from Haiti were a mixture of both free men and the enslaved...I know this because I am Haitian...when the revolution happened, whites, mulattoes and free blacks took their slaves along with them.
this is da real louisiana creoles! I luv this video...thank you
Which in turn is causing us to die out. If you are creole then look up the national creole heritage society & sign up...we must preserve this branch of the negro culture.
This is bullshit. My wife & I are Creole & white folks dont like us & they call us niggers, Cajuns dont like us much either & blacks with no french in them, blacks that are not creole dont understand us...but we are black...Creole is African, French & Spanish or Indian....but the foundation is french & black. We have been made to hate ourselves & think that in order to make it we must "pass" as white but not all of us think that way...then we dont pass the culture & history on to our children.
There are a lot of negros that deny white blood and instead say they have Indian blood. I dunno about you but A negro with green eyes, well those green eyes didn't come from a Native American.
that old guy at the end managed to look totally bad ass while wearing the worlds highest pants
And I am quite aware that certain NA tribes held African American slaves. And along with that, there were Creoles of color who also owned slaves.
I am humble enough to admit there is a lot and do mean a lot I don't know about our history (and I do fully accept my African American heritage along with any other mixtures in that background). However, I do defer to the scientific evidence that DNA testing provides even when that truth may not mesh with the official story. Did mixing occur between Blacks and NA? Yes. But, most of the mixing that did occur during slavery was between white and blacks.
DNA testing only test less than 1% of your DNA.
You dont know too much about our history bcs Native Americans had slaves and also Native American reservations were in Arkansas, Georgia, and Mississipi as well in the early 1800's. When black southerners say that they have NA ancestors they know what they are talking about. I dont believe the hype, most people know their backgrounds.
Well actually it is the case the most black people do have at least some white in them, even if it is 10% or less. The practice of the white master sleeping with the slave woman was more widespread than is actually acknowledged. That happened throughout the South. On the other hand, mixes of blacks and Indians is greatly exaggerated. Most of the mixing that did take place happened mostly in Louisiana and the Oklahoma territories.
Also I read an article that said most African Americans have very little white and Indian blood in them and it depends on where they live. Some have more than others. But for Creoles and blacks of New Orleans the percentage is much higher, 22%.
Yeah I know but that was not always the case for Creoles of color since having lived free there was no need for rape and there were many consentual relationships between the French and Creoles. Then some Creoles themselves owned slaves.
That is partially true. The truth is the vast majority of blacks in this country have European in them. Many of them are necessarily proud of it because the source of that ancestry is from the slave master or one of his sons or other relatives who raped the slave women. That is not a proud beginning. Many blacks prefer to say and believe that they are mixed with Indian rather than admit their European ancestry because the latter was not a voluntary mix.
The thing is most people go by looks, if you look straight up black, blacks just want to hear that you're black and nothing else. In the case of many Creoles, they were too white to be black and too black to be white but some passed for white.
Whites in general was never what Creoles had a problem with, it was the Anglo-Americans who marched into Louisiana and changed things which made all Creoles, whether white or mixed despise them. Everything was going fine for Creoles of color before the Louisiana Purchase. Creoles had been living free for hundreds of years and were respected by the French and treated as a separate ethnic group. Some even had more money than whites.
The people in this video hardly represent real Creoles.



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