The inferiority complex of who I will call American Blacks have toward Black New Orleanians (who could also be called Creole Blacks) is deep, wide, & impressive in its attempts to reassert itself even when no more superior note has been tried or claimed. God bless the child.
It is a legacy of American Colonial logic (ie, those first thirteen states) that makes mere difference, distinction and dissimilarity automatically suggestive of a hierarchy—that is a superior vs inferior—when it needn’t do. 🙃
When you graph this on top of notions of colorism and colorstruck logic—even tho logics of color worked entirely differently in New Orleans, et al, than they did those first 13–it becomes a mighty wicked grease fire. Attempts to “reorder” the hierarchy is like water to that fire.
In other words, just go and do do the hoodoo that you do so well, it’s y’all’s spell, hell — but it ain’t that voo doo doo. ^_^ Cheers!
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