French Quarter POV

Looks like the Ritz-Carlton hotel is in for some free publicity tonight.

The mayor of New Orleans is being presented with an award this evening. It’s supposed to be the “The Excellence in Recovery Host Committee’s Award of Distinction for Recovery, Courage, and Leadership” award, one that most people can’t believe C. Ray Nagin is getting. (More on that HERE.)

To say that people are upset is an understatement of epic proportions. The local photosphere has been lit up with calls to protest, calls which many are heeding. Supposedly.

Yours truly will not be there, not because I think the mayor is doing a super dandy job.

<soapbox> This protest will not change anything. Some people seem to be born with a placard and a marker in hand, ready to write their slogan and march at a moments notice over just about anything.

The mayor knows the people are upset. If he doesn’t care enough to do a better job, do we really believe that one more protest will get through to him?

I plan to say my piece in the voting booth, as the city did when they re-elected Nagin in the first place. Let’s see that energy channeled into a voting drive or hell, a blood drive, and really make a difference in New Orleans.

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