A predominately black movie is diverse
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NO is only about 58% black, so halfish. Its still 32% white. And that's relying on people's honesty and I can guarantee that a significant amount of those blacks aren't "black alone" as the census asks, but mixed something and they don't want to admit to being a light skinned nigga because that will get them bullied to hell.
The issue being, and what they won't ever admit to, is that the South is still mostly segregated. You will find entire sections of town that are black only or white only, with the larger percentages just increasing the amount of neighborhoods for each. So you can walk through NO and find literally only white people if you pick the right neighborhood, and vice versa.
So it loops around to being realistic for reasons they won't acknowledge. That the blacks don't want to live near the whites and build their own ghettos to keep segregated.
The director used that as his justification for having a mostly black cast. I was quoting him. I’ve only been to New Orleans once for a jazz festival. It was fun but I wouldn’t want to live there. Where I live in Texas it’s about 60 percent white and the rest is a mix of black/white/Asian.
I was just throwing out some perspective for anyone who cares. Because its a phrase that is technically true, but very devoid of context and clearly written by someone who lives in a big blue metropolitan city instead of Louisiana.
Also New Orleans ain't worth going to, mostly because its more than half black. The tourist areas get all the protection and cops and clean up to make money, all the while there are dozens upon dozens of hoodrats waiting in every alley for a dumb drunk tourist to wander too far and get jumped, robbed, raped, or all of the above. Anything outside the tourist spots is a run down shithole that is barely above a dilapidated shanty town.
The jazz festival was in a safe area but I could easily see I would not want to live there. I can download all the jazz I want from the safety of my home lol