CREOLE FOLKS

More Cosmetic Attacks on New Orleans Creole, Marie LeVeaux. by Ted Duplessis

  VOODOO QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS-UNDER ATTACK AGAIN.NOLA.Com and the Times Picayune has not ONE person on their staff that is knowledgeable in Louisiana culture, people or heritage.

Why is it that every time that I turn around, Marie LeVeaux is being drawn darker and darker? If they're not making New Orleans Creoles white; they are making them African American.  Do people in America only have 2 brain cells?  Can they not comprehend that everyone isn't white or African American?

  (photo from NOLA.Com-Travel.  This is not a photo of Marie LaVeaux. Not even close. This is Science Fiction and drawn by some artist with a great deal of issues.)

Marie LeVeaux was not African American. This woman was highly quadroon, which meas that she had a "drop" of African ancestry.  The woman in the above photo is just a Louisiana African (as blacks called themselves in LeVeaux's days)

There was(is) a social, legal, cultural and genetic difference between a Creole of Color and an African in Louisiana and the French colonies.

I know that the city had like 4 Marie LeVeauxs, and they were always the seventh female child but the family never looked African American, they all looked Creole mixed.

People look really dumb when they just attempt to change someone's culture and race, when that person is very well documented in writings and books.  This is like the former President Bush trying to re-spin himself into a hero after Hurricane Katrina, directly before he left office.  You can no longer simply change history when everything is so well documented.  We are no longer in the stone ages where everything depends on one author's racist view(black or white), in some lop-sided history book showing some lop-sided drawings, where the artist has taken way too many creative liberties.

Marie LaVeaux, still has living relatives, which I know and I know exactly how to contact them-so maybe they should sue for the copy write of her image and name.  The LeVeauxs mixed in with the 7th ward Creole-Glapion family and not one person looks like that woman, in the photo that Nola.Com ran.

For African-Americans that are going to email me and say "all you Creoles want to be white", I will reply that it isn't about being "color struck" or "being white" it is about being honest with history.  When people took Beyonce and made her skin one shade lighter, for a commercial, black people threw a hissy fit but if you make someone 5 shades darker, then for some reason this is o.k.?  Lying is never o.k.  Changing history to fit the current trend and racism is stupid because mind-sets and racial trends die after about 50 years.  If we keep changing history, than no one will know fact from fiction.

The way its going in America, I guess by the time my grand-kids study New Orleans history, she will be a Mexican!

Louisiana Creoles are very literate, and it is very difficult to just change Louisiana Creole history. Many have tried but nothing sticks but the truth.

People spend all day, in this city, trying to wipe Creoles of Color out of every historic account and label them as white or African-American. Of course it would be a local New Orleans paper like Nola.com and the Times Picayune because these Nazis and their entire staff of half ass immigrant writers-have no knowledge of New Orleans and know nothing of the Louisiana people.

Can't people just stop trying to rewrite history from their own narrow minds and pathetic agendas?  Besides, none of these New Orleans Nola.com artist appear, to be Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the famous French impressionist, if you know what I mean.

 

More Lies about Creoles from Ignorant N.O.T.T.! .. by Author

There's some on line publication, called French-Quarter.Com headed up by typical merchants of deception.  We're just to the point where we will refer to them as N.O.T.T. (New Orleans Trailer Trash) and the reason why we are being so harsh is due to the fact that they are deliberately changing history to say that Creoles of Color were the same as Africans.  There was no such thing as an African-American Creole in the 1700's and 1800's time frames in New Orleans or even in Louisiana. They know that Creoles were documented as a separate group.  This is backed up by church, notary, state, census and death records of every single Creole who lived in New Orleans.  You will NEVER find any property owned by anything that says "African"-and it is racist for N.O.T.T. to keep changing a Creoles classification for their own agendas.

N.O.T.T.=New Orleans Trailer Trash

I can tell you, that Africans, settled no neighborhoods in antebellum New Orleans.  There is not one shred of evidence that will prove that claim from any official documents.  This is not only a disservice to the public ,who would like to know the real history of New Orleans and to Creoles but to African Americans who are having their history altered to portray a concept that simply didn't exist. African American history in New Orleans means plantation bondage and nothing more! So, do not let these N.O.T.T. fool you into thinking that Africans were walking around buying up property and were considered Creoles. Not true. Never will be true no matter how much it is repeated by idiots. New Orleans, Louisiana was one of the most notorious African slave ports in the new world! Almost every African-American of today has had an ancestor who was dumped off in New Orleans and then transported up river to the slave plantations of America.  In fact, the U.S. imported African slaves after slavery was supposed to have been abolished by the constitution!  In parts of Louisiana and Texas-Africans were kept in slavery into the 1900's! (Lets keep it real) The Anglo-Protestant Americans just couldn't let slavery go in the South. The Library of Congress sealed these records for almost 100 years-before they were released about 8 yeas ago. I will refer African-Americans to buy a collection of rare recordings from the last living slaves.  It is called "Remembering Slavery" and published by The New Press. Get these tapes, read these books and NO ONE can lie to you about what it meant to be an African in Louisiana when it is coming from the mouths of Africans themselves!Creoles of Color were usually of a majority portion of French/Spanish and Native American ancestry with maybe a strain of African ancestry. With Creoles never marrying outside of Creoles-you didn't have too many Creoles having off spring with Africans or even whites. They were not Africans-trust that! Everyone has the right to know their culture's true history and get out of denial about what is really honest history telling.  There's to many authors and Universities who are floating bullshit out to the public. I am a Creole of Color but also of African-American descent being that my family is about 40%(happened in the last 40 years) African-American and I have no reason to lie about historic facts or cover anything up but the truth must be realized and the racist can not use Creoles of Color as being interchangeable with Africans during the 1800's or antebellum South.

The reason that the state and media called African-American refuges during Hurricane Katrina was everything to do with the fact that African slaves were only supposed to "pass" through New Orleans to other parts and not stay.  Creoles, Cajuns and Italians were as ethnic as Southern Louisiana was supposed to be! They knew what they were doing when they said refuges-it was their knowledge of the history of New Orleans.

Many of the Creoles didn't have any African blood-some were Creoles of Color but simply of French/Spanish and Native American ancestry.  It is incorrect to say that a multi-racial Creole was the same as an African in New Orleans. That is so far from any truth and is just straight up Science fiction.  A Sally Reeves, who is some author of lies-is using the term "African-American Creole." Laughable! Even as I write this term (I have never heard of this term even used in Louisiana)-I am laughing. She knows that this term doesn't exist. She cant produce one authentic record that says "African-American Creole!"  BECAUSE IT NEVER EXISTED. A CREOLE WAS A CREOLE AND AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WAS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN.

NEW IN HISTORY (This is what Sally Reeves and F.Q.Com is calling accurate New Orleans history.  Anyone that think this is anything more than tourism people trying to exploit the culture of Creoles for their own financial gain-I have some ski resort property for sale in the Fisher housing developments!)

The historic Faubourgs sit just beyond the French Quarter like old Parisian quarters. The story of these "suburbs" is the story of the Creoles both white and African American, and immigrant French, Irish and German Catholics who found a home in these quirky neighborhoods.

(Another thing is that they over contribute white Europeans to the building of Marigny and Treme areas of New Orleans. They came in later after Creoles of Color has already built this area.)

Thie N.O.T.T. named Sally Reeves, who knows that she is historically incorrect to say that African-American Creoles were settling parts of the city and owning property.  That is not true! I challenge anyone to produce any records that say African-Creole!  Free People of Color, FPC or Creoles of Color were not Africans. 

How can you just change history and pass it off as facts? When anyone can access public records and pull up that Creoles of color or Free People of Color are listed as that and Africans are listed as Africans or simply slaves. Now if thats not a difference than I do not know what is!  Strangely, they accurately report on white folks and their history. They get white history correct without a doubt!

These people do not have the slightest clue about New Orleans or the historic ethnic history but attempt to spread alternative racist lies.  Pure ignorant N.O.T.T. and this includes the tourism industry, school history books, local media, official state tour guides, politicians, professors, state websites, the current Catholic establishments in N.O., and historians! All knowingly slanting history for their own needs or cover ups.

GENS DE COULEUR LIBRE-Being Left Out of History(N. Duplessis)&MOTHER HENRIETTE DELILLE(BEING DENIED HER HERITAGE BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH(by Mrs. Marion I. Olivier- Ferreira)

FPC OR FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR

This is the group of mixed-race Creoles of Color that ranged in appearance from red haired, freckled lite skin people of color, olive, red, or yellow skinned people of color to rich brown Creoles of Color. This is the group of people that used the Afro Iron smelting methods to design and build the French Quarter.  Most historical accounts will deny the importance and contributions that this community  made to the over all development, growth and what is now present day New Orleans.  Most current real estate websites will give these supposedly in debt descriptions of New Orleans historical neighborhoods but will leave out (what can be proven from Census records-(the ones that the U.S. government and state of Louisiana didn't destroy in the late 1800's and early 1900's anyway) that FPC owned and occupied most of the real estate of what is now the French Quarter, 7th ward, Esplanade, Bywater, and Marigny areas. 

The FPC had the first publications, developed trading systems with other Creoles living down river in lower Parish's like Plaquemines (my home Parish), had businesses ventures with elites of French society, took in many poor Cajuns, Irish, Italians, and freed or run-away African slaves, and also monopolized all of the daily operations of this city.  Before FPC, New Orleans was a basic harsh swamp that many Europeans from France found unbearable and not livable. 

My great grandfather could build a Creole Style shotgun house or Creole cottage with his bare hands.  My great, great grandmother owned her own Creole cottage in the French quarter and she was a Creole of Color but many current writings on the French Quarter will leave out the fact that many Creole women of Color owned much of the real estate in the city's most sought after attraction and center of tourism.

The Vieux Carre' FPC owned the first beauty shops, Coffee houses, carpentry shops and publishing houses.  This history always seems to be strangely missing from Louisiana history books and tourism guides for the state of Louisiana.  What is mentioned is usually (on purpose) called Cajun.

While FPC or Creole of Color were not as well off as their relatives the White Creoles who owned huge plantations that surrounded the city and were French and aristocratic-they did make up the upper-middle class and were often very educated and creative people who maintained a higher status than most newly arrived whites from Europe.  This drew alot of jealously  and fear against FPC from newly arrived whites and also the African-Americans who were being ushered in as slaves, mostly from the English and Anglo-Americans on top of the ones France ans Spain held. France and Spain were enemies and not as many Creoles have Spanish bloodlines as some may think! Spain and France were like oil and vinegar-they just didn't mix. African in the Anglo-Americas were converted to the Protestant faith (the Catholic Church didn't convert the Africans in the Americas)-with the promise of full U.S. citizenship-and as we know that full citizenship didn't happen until the 1960's!What the white Anglo Protestant found in African-Americans that they couldn't find in Creoles of Color-were that the Africans were loyal and contempt with their third class human status. Creoles,were never a people to take a back seat to anyone.

The state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans has been misclassifying Creoles as African-American when they know this is inaccurate or they attempt to attribute Creole accomplishment and history to other ethnic groups or even worse they just write Creoles of Color out of Louisiana history books.  The current history books offered by the state of Louisiana make no mention of Creoles of Color or their rich history.  That needs to change. Ignorant isn't bliss!

It is this selective and slick racism that has Creoles feeling a need to write the Real history and not the Reel His-story that isn't about telling historical data and facts correctly but about pushing FPC under the rug.

Acknowledgment of Creole heritage from Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu-Creole heritage needs to be state recognized just as the state of Louisiana has recognized (officially or unofficially) Cajun heritage, Black Heritage and Southern White Heritage-all of which came to the state after Creoles.http://www.nsula.edu/creole/documents/landrieu.pdf   

(Mrs. Marion I. Ferreira)

CREOLES LAST STAND ON THE CANONIZATION OF MOTHER HENRIETTE DELILLE

Nolan Melonson, Vice President of International Organization for Creole People, after having gone to Seychelles for a Creole Convention, visited the Vatican in Rome, Italy in Ocober, 2005.  While there when he was in the Square and was a visitor of Pope Benedict XVI, he was able to view a picture of Henriette Delille which was about three stories high and wide.  Out of curiosity, he asked an Italian visitor who was the lady and his answer was “She’s the Black Nun”.  He was surprised at his answer since he wasn’t sure how the people there were identifying her.  He was also perplexed since there was no indication that the very large picture of Mother Delille  portrayed a woman who appeared Black nor African-American, but the appearance of a multiracial woman.

We, as bona fide Native Born Creole Americans cannot stand idly by and let this catastrophy continue without putting up a last fight for Mother Delille’s true identity.

This letter comes as a request to ALL CREOLES to write a letter of protest addressed to Pope Benedict, XVI and the Vatican Sainthood Canonization Committee informing them that Mother Delille was not just and only “Black”.  That her ancestry comprised of French, African-American, Italian, and Spanish.  Her great grandparent was Claude Villars Dubreuil who was French,  along with her maternal great  grandparent, Nanette, who was African; her grand parents were  Nanette’s daughter with the Spanish man, Diaz, and her parents were their daughter, Maria Diaz with Jean Baptiste Delille Sarpy, who was French and Italian..

That should Mother Delille be canonized with the incorrect identity, millions of Creoles all over the world will be forever disenfranchised in history.  In light of the fact that the One Drop Policy was outlawed in the United States with the Loving case in the ‘70’s, it is a sad state of affairs  that the Archbishop Alfred Hughes and the Sisters of the Holy Family, Delille’s founding organization, have not come up to the times and took this into consideration when ethnically identifying Mother Delille. That this whole attitude is all inspired for political and financial gains for the Roman Catholic Church.

Sincerely yours,

Mrs. Marion I. Ferreira

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Marrion Ferriera is the Founder of the Associates for the Preservation of the Creole Cultural Heritage. The organization is based in Los Angels and is still active. Marion was awarded the people’s award last year by the Creole Heritage Centre of Natchitoches for her militancy and devotion and dedication for the defence of Creole culture. Marion  is a proud descendant of the Metoyer/Dupres of Cane River and on her mother’s side from the Oliver/Decuir/Ferdinand. Marion holds a bachelor degree in Sociology from the State Domingues Hills University. For the past 24 years Marion has devoted her life to saving the Creole Culture. She regularly attends Creole heritage events in order to promote the gathering of creoles in the

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as well as all over the world. Marion and her organization are engaged in a battle with the Catholic Church to recognize that Mother Henriette Dellille was a Creole of color and not an African American, which is totally different. Other members of the group are- Richard Augustine Comeaux, President, of San Jose, Calif. - Ronald Vidal, Vice President of Cypress, Calif. - Alfred E. Smith, Treasurer of Los Angeles, Calif.