![]() ![]() But I also want people to know that this is not the norm. We go all out for the celebration of life because we want to remember them in a good way. We have a party - we have a second-line band, T-shirts with everybody’s pictures. When we lose loved ones, it’s hurtful and hard, but we celebrate the people we had in our lives for the time they were here. I have a documentary called Freedia Got a Gun that explains about the violence that we face here in New Orleans and in the Black community, trying to get attention from local leaders and national leaders. We are faced with so many adversities and so much death. I think our community was so strong because of all the things we had to face, in the Black community especially. People don’t want to get involved these days, but back then, a lot of people had your back and had your parents’ back. My community was a safe haven and didn’t allow you to do things that kids shouldn’t be doing. If I was doing something that I had no business doing, a neighbor would definitely give my mom a call and say, “Freddie’s doing such and such,” so it was nothing that you really could get away with without your parents finding out. Growing up, the community was really looking out for each other and watching out for each other. ![]()
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