I guess it will always be this way

I read this bullshit today and now I can’t function.  Every so often I get crushed by someone else’s opinion of my hometown.  Why should I care?  I should let it go, realize that there are a lot of ignorant assholes in the world, and ignore them, right?

But I can’t help thinking that the more you repeat a lie, the truer it becomes.  I feel so much anger inside myself when I feel compelled to defend New Orleans, and I hate that feeling.  I’m tired of it.  I’m pretty powerless to stem the tide though.

I get the impression that the majority of people in the United States hate New Orleans.  That’s hard to take when where you’re from is wrapped up so tightly in who you are.

I think this will be the first election in which I don’t vote.