27.5.12

Créole family reunion


Mardell Sibley is organizing a family reunion https://www.facebook.com/CajunPrairieAFamilyReunion in February focusing on the Vidrine and related families.  What I think is cool is that she is calling it a Creole family reunion.  She says the reason she calls it Creole is because she at first called it Cajun which is not unusual.  Of course, she is like me and a lot of us.  We all lived through a time where Cajun was promoted and we all adopted, as Carl Brasseaux explained numerous times, “a mythical Acadian heritage.”  Carl Brasseaux as well as scholars such as Winston Deville talked about this subject so many times.  Anyway, I think it’s good that she’s calling it a Creole reunion.  All people are invited which is different but which is the way it should be.  Because I’m bored with the absurd artificial  segregation of Cajuns and Creoles. 

Evangeline Parish French Creole Heritage

That's it for me. It's been real. I used to talk about this subject on forums and with people and several found it annoying. Evangel...