Second line following the funeral of Lois Nelson-Andrews. November 20, 2021. 

Are they trying to? (Just asking)

@@gunit8315 Indeed they are and it's not just on a person-to-person (or) a on-my-block level. They're passing municipal legislation and ordinances to curtail second lines, and a whole host of cultural norms that make this legendary city rare and unique. And furthermore it's not just limited to New Orleans. It's happening all over the Caribbean region as well. Belize, Barbados, and Guatemala. They come in force the sale of beach front property that has been communally owned in some cases for over 100 years. Same fuckery occurring in the Gullah islands in the Carolinas.

@@gunit8315 Imagine you have a historical home designated a historical heritage site, and a developer literally bulldozes the place and turns it into a ultra-contemporary steel and glass structure. The is what's happening from a cultural standpoint in New Orleans. A systematic dismantling of the city's institutions in favor of newly arrived people with a agenda to reshape the city to suit their own personal needs. Modern Colonization.

FACTS. DAMN THOSE GENTRIFIERS

@@presterjohn1697 then work hard and get rich

This is where they get it from.

@@herewegoagin4667 Nope, ... this has been going on for Centuries..

@@idiotu668that doesn't mean that its origins didn't come from somewhere else lol

We were. With a group of musician buddies, one fellow stated that it was sad we didn't see a Second Line parade. A few minutes later, off in the distance, a blurp of a siren, the beat of a bass drum, and a whoofing tuba heralded a street parade....a birthday party!

In the 80s, there was a famous scene from the show, "Designing Women" where the ladies had a business convention in NOLA- and one of the characters said they drank so many Hurricane cocktails and partied so hard up & down the streets of New Orleans following a large band- they didn't know they had accidentally joined a funeral procession, lol.

@@ellasabe6377 Oh, that is so rich that it's gotta be illegal AND bad for you. I'd love to be a fly on the outside.

This is not a city of Cajuns, Lafayette is the city of Cajuns

This is 100% a Creole cultural custom. Cajuns have no hand in this.

@@juliejunkyardx hey french talker cajun to me plus N.O is surrounded by bayous so that's where you get the cajuns

This is how they send people off it can be disrespectful to some but it’s NOLA culture so for them that’s not disrespectful

Different cultures, different meanings. I've never seen that act so it was surprising but I rarely get to experience happy funerals it's beautiful

That was only a sample of what goes down.

West Africa too

Yes his mother funeral