The Best #‎ Gift We Can Give

The Rest Of America, With Some Small Exceptions, Has Been Bulldozed And Rebuilt And Then Bulldozed And Rebuilt Again. Our Places Have Become Interchangeable. Here In New Orleans, Everything From The Architecture To The Way In Which People Eat, The Way In Which They Talk, The Way In Which They Do Business, The Way In Which They Dance, The Manner In Which Everything Is Set To A Parade Beat, They're All From Here. There's No Place Like It.

We Have No Sense Of The Collective Anymore In America. The Response To Katrina Was Proof Positive Of That.

How That Happened - How The Money And The Power Arrayed Itself And Who Got The Share In That, Who Got Cut Out, Who Was Exploited And Who Did The Exploiting - That To Me Is A Story Of The Deuce That's More About Almost The America That We Inhabit Today, More Than Just Merely About Pornography Or Prostitution.

If I Had To Guess And Put A Name On It, I'd Say That At Some Point, The Drug War Was As Much A Function Of Class And Social Control As It Was Of Racism.

African American Music Can't Happen In Germany Or In Italy Or In Mumbai. If America Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth Today, The Greatest Single Cultural Loss Would Be Blues, Jazz, Hip-hop, R&b, Rock-and-roll.