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KamaAina

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9. I marched in one of the early MLK Day parades in New Orleans

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Aug 28, 2013, 05:04 PM

Aug 2013

This was before MLK Day was a holiday, so my activist friends nominated my unemployed self to go.

I was the only white person on the bus to the Lower Ninth Ward. Yes, that Lower Ninth Ward. (This was in 1991.) Yes, I got some looks, but nothing more.

We marched right past Fats Domino's house. You could tell it was Fats Domino's house because it was emblazoned with stars and the letters "FD".

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