We should have the courage to acknowledge more of our history than what’s safe and cuddly and good for tourism.
Sure you've been screwed, white boy, but it wasn't by black people.
Did a socially established white person ever assume a black identity, long-term, in the era before Rachel Dolezal? Apparently Voodoo queen Marie Laveau's lover did just that.
There's the Old South and then there's the Other South. Revulsion over Jindal's coded bigotry places New Orleans in the latter camp.
In reality, much of the trumpeted social healing of our ancient problems amounts to little more than optics, the columnist argues.
Memo to the GOP: "You can't go to the well again and again and then claim the water's toxic."
The triumph of the Republican Party's "Southern Strategy" can finally be called complete.
A Tulane conference contends that playing up what's unique about New Orleans has a way of masking what's wrong. The columnist doesn't buy it.
"Jindal has offered his hand to a Stepford wife, a conservative suburbanite, a Mrs. Brady."
The more I hear about how terrible the city was before the storm, the more I remember its unterrible charms.