How do we work?

Once every few weeks a new topic will be displayed on the blog. Young people, ages 5 - 96, will submit their responses. Student writing will be posted as it is received. Know someone that would love to contribute? Pass the word.

Blog #14 Topic Choices:
Write about a place or an aspect of New Orleans that has influenced you OR use the words "Escaping the heat/to get out of the heat..." of New Orleans.

Submission Logistics: Submissions should be in response to the blog topic. Poetry and prose, up to 500 words in length, should be emailed as a Microsoft Word attachment. Emails should include author’s first name, age, and School.

Submissions can be sent to: youngneworleanswritingtogether@gmail.com
Submission due date: May 31st, 2012 @ 5pm

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Bizzy - NOLA Myths

Stereotypes of New Orleans

really, there are too many to list.

They drink, they party, they’re fat, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

People thousands of miles away judge us, think of us, stare at us, gawk at us, point at us and laugh—
they believe they know who we are from the television they watch,

they love to view us, like people at a zoo,

without real knowledge, they make speculations.

Now, we can say that they are wrong, but that would, in some ways, make us wrong too.

Because yes, some of us with very high blood alcohol levels slurp from tall, plastic, cups,

yes, some of us dance down Bourbon street on Saturday nights, and into Sunday mornings,

yes, some of us may have a slightly higher daily caloric intake than the average American,

Don’t the stereotypes have to come from some deep-seated truth?

Don’t we admit, to ourselves, when no foreigners are around…

that the large, stumbling man over there has had a little too much fun.

Bizzy, age 17
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