No, I don’t have a pet alligator
I don’t live in the bayou
I don’t take a canoe or an airboat to school
I don’t shoot my own dinner every night
I don’t carry a shotgun
I don’t ride a trolley
I don’t eat “bag-nets” or “pray-lins”
I don’t walk around shirtless at Mardi Gras
I don’t go to Bourbon street and get wasted every night
I’m not a cannibal because I eat “poor-boys”
I go to church, not voodoo rituals
I ain’t stupid, I be edumacated and I no tawk Cajun y’all
So stop stereotyping New Orleanians. Because even though you may not understand us, we’re
awesome.
Ashley, age 17