Marc Morial
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You know, we're not going to get caught up in a paralysis of study.
We're going to try to do it.
If it doesn't work, we'll chuck it, we'll put it on the side, and we'll go do something else.
And so we had all of this, you know, youth program.
And it was contagious because as the city did it, then churches and faith-based organizations decided to create their own camps.
Right.
Their own youth programs.
I mean, so we had this whole almost revolution in youth programming in New Orleans in those days.
I also did something that, you know, it was dramatic.
I put a curfew in place.
And I'm a civil rights, civil libertarian person.
But I said, too many of these kids are getting killed at night.
They're out.
Look, we're going to help the parents.
You had to be in.
Now, if you're going to work, you're an exception.
You're going to school activity.
But New Orleans also has an attractive nightlife.
A little bit.
We got French Quarter.