I was on a work trip from Monday to Thursday in New Orleans, or as the locals call it "N'awlins". Quite the interesting place. Had a good time, but I'm glad to be back home.
Anyways, I wanted to share something with all, y'all here. First off, read the whole paragraph before jumping to conclusions. I'm white, for those who didn't know that already (hey, I haven't met everyone here yet). During the conference we had several catered meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner x 3 days) serving about 2200 people every meal. That's a lot of people, which required a lot of servers. The thing that bothered me was that every single server that I saw in there was black. Every single one. Not that there's anything wrong with that (because *obviously* there isn't), but it just felt wrong to me. Like stuff like this wasn't supposed to happen any more. It was a job for these people, not like they were slaves or anything, but it just felt wrong. It could be that there just aren't very many white people that far to the south, or a bazillion other mitigating circumstances, I don't know. I just left feeling sad about that.
My two cents, anyways.