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Creoles of Color in Plaquemines Parish, LA

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A profile of the remarkable French-speaking mixed-race community of Diamond in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Rare pre-Katrina scenes from the documentary "The Ends of the Earth: Plaquemines Parish Louisiana" by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker at www.cnam.com.

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  • Yeah you rite!!

  • @sambo861 That is true...but there are groups of some creoles of color who do still think this way. It is a relic of the past for the most part though.

  • @woxihuanshu because of what he says at 2:33. In some states if a hispanic does not have an accent, they are ok. If they have an accent, they are not. Racism is like black people, it comes in many different shades. Some are more threatened by nationality, language, color, or manner of dress. In Texas some whites feel that blacks are okay as long as they arent N*ggers. Explain that! The saying there is "there are N*ggers and there are blacks." Just "ACT WHITE". Is enough for some. i jus laugh.

  • @woxihuanshu Don't let this video fool you. I would say that the majority of mixed race creoles do not think this way. There are some delusional mixed raced one who have severe inferiority complexes but not the majority.

  • My granddad's people from Port Sulphur, LA. Free Jacks is one of the phrases I recall

  • America is f'd up. This race sht is bizarre and disgusting. I feel sorry for blacks who have to bear this a double burden - first the fact they were raped of culture and had to produce these mules and second, the fact they now have to two enemies there (the original white oppressors and these wannabe whites). It's really sad.

  • why are they so delusional? whites don't like them any more than using them as buffers between themselves and the blacks that are there. if whites really liked them, they would be white. meaning whites would have claimed them instead of discarding them after they knocked up black women and leaving them to form their own communties. the very reason they exist as a 'group' is because whites disowned them but because of anti black racism, they didn't want to be black.

  • The guy at 2:04 speaks French like he has very low i.q. 

  • My Fathers Dad was a dark creole with very fine hair his mother was lightskin who didnt speak english im light brown my children is very light skin

  • This is so said im ashamed to be from BURAS.

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