This morning in my email, I received this message from Stephen Perry, President and CEO of New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau: The New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) is working aggressively to ease customer fears, preserve future business and mitigate brand damage surrounding the outrageous violence that occurred on October 31 and in [...]
Tag Archives: racism
The Lessons Not Learned
August 29, 2010 – 11:19 am
To his credit, NBC’s Brian Williams on Meet the Press asked Wendell Pierce if racism and classicism played a role in the slow governmental response to the post-Katrina flooding, and pointed out that NBC was able to get supplies to him and the NBC crew covering the aftermath. Pierce answered tactfully but pointedly—less interested in [...]
Can We Ever Change?
March 10, 2010 – 10:38 pm
We learned an important lesson in the past few weeks in regards to the cover of our March issue. As those of you who are old enough to remember, in 1972 George Carlin did a monologue on the “seven words you can never say on television.” Those were shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and [...]
Wha?
February 1, 2010 – 5:43 pm
OK, I’ve been way out of the loop. My computer’s hard drive crashed and burned, along with all my information (back up in the “cloud”, but buying another computer and trying to restore everything has been all-consuming). I haven’t blogged for a long time, not even since the big game. I am thrilled we are [...]
Mandatory Reading
December 19, 2008 – 11:13 am
The Nation‘s A.C. Thompson wrote an account of white vigilante activities in Algiers in the days after Hurricane Katrina that must be read, if for no other reason than because no one else has covered it (or if the Times-Picayune did, I can’t find it on their Web site). Pervel and his armed neighbors point to the [...]
