Jessica Dandridge-Smith
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67 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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We love loud music.
We love our foodways.
And I don't, you know, like when after Katrina, a lot of people came down to New Orleans to be helpful and they were like, guys, it's six o'clock.
Can you turn off the music?
And we're like, no, no.
We're not going to turn off the music, but you can leave.
Yeah.
And, you know, I think that that there is a belief that we can that you can't do both, that it's either or.
And I think there is a gray that we can live in.
I mean, first of all, as a Norlinian, I always think that we're the most special place ever.
Right.
We have jazz.
We have, you know, second line music.
We have masking Indians.
We have Mardi Gras.
We have our Cajun food and Creole food.
But I think below that is a conversation around people from all over the world for over 300 years that managed to figure out how to live amongst one another.
You have former enslaved people, you have Jewish communities, you have Sicilians, you have now Vietnamese and now Palestinian communities, people who have lived through many challenges that now know how to celebrate together.
that's something that's not easy to replicate and replace.
And so when you're talking about how to approach this in the future, I think that you have to be able to be realistic, yes.
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