Reply #5: I'm afraid that Disneyland NOLA is going to be like every other

[Warpy]

place the fascists have sanitized into a white folks' playground. It's going to lose all the real flavor it had, flavor that came from poor folks who learned music, dancing, cuisine, and storytelling at their grandfolks' feet and who kept the changes coming with each new generation. The engine driving the culture of that city has had the cam shaft and cylinders removed. Nothing is left but an inert block.

Oh, Mardi Gras will continue to happen, beads will be flung from the elaborate floats and tourists will bare their pink bits and puke into the gutters. However, everything that kept it all fresh and vital has been gutted. It's just going to be more commerce, programmed and predictable.

'Scuse me if I stick to rainbow areas where we're all welcome. I've seen the real Disneyland and that's been enough plastic fakery to last a lifetime. I haven't been back to Times Square since it's been sanitized and I won't be going to NOLA, either.