english it means disaster it was our disaster people from africa so on this show we have some pictures of things to show you of the trip we recently made but before we start rather benjamin would you down there for the essence festival essence music festival and where they have a lot of entertainers they have different things they have things that the mercedes benz  superdome they have things at the convention center there and a few other outlets so their course music all kind of difficult to music they have stuff in the superdome and the big main stage they call it then they have what they call the super lounges where other entertainers are doing their musical whatever so you might have let's say mary j blige on the main stage and then in the super lounges you mean they might be somebody else you want to to the bar i think for superman just so you can go see somebody there then during the day they have things at the convention center that you can and they have of course food they have things on business all kind of different things so there's a lot of things to do but one particular day and i believe this was to you know when you're traveling things going i think this might have been oh it was on  thursday july th matter of fact they had me off and it's where we go in under the ancestors of all the things that they went through and the english meaning is disaster so it was our disaster you know how the jews have the holocaust so this would be you know you could call it our all holocaust and so forth so i could talk to you about it but we want to get into some of the pictures that we took and make some comment on that so if you would go to the pictures and we'll just kind of give you a description so this is a picture of the plaque there congress square and  on the plaque there you can read to the audience there you can read it and kind of self explanatory there a place where the native americans the native americans oh it's behind us thank you thank you very much we have to monitor as i look authentic west african style this rich legacy of african celebration is the foundation of new orleans unique musical traditions including jazz and then it was dedicated in all right we thank our technician for telling us to turn around to look at the thing where we could really see it the other monitor of the about twenty feet away and hard to see so we think our technical director ok moving on to to take a picture of that that was very very well and so you must have been on this as we stated earlier bus but on the sunday the day that they gave us off as slaves you know i think that was the one day they gave us up is that correct you normally all right so this was you can see the artwork of this is very very good this is also where before africans came to this particular square i was very sacred to the native americans so this this place this space you know very spiritual and spiritual place all right so if you have any comments or anything doing that just just let us know so let's go to the next pitcher and this is also all of this is that the louis armstrong part this is the mahalia jackson theater for performing arts so that's a picture there and then there so we didn't get a chance to go inside but we just saw the outside so it looks like a st class place all right let's move to the other picture so this was a picture and i should have did the video on  orleans is you know famous famous for this and this was it was interesting because when this other there's another state that you can't see to the right of that picture where you know how the deejays do the people came and rolled and they were rolling in hard so that was that was a beautiful thing so let's go to the next picture now we're starting going to get into this to the serious stuff so we're doing this procession starting from  louis armstrong park congo square and we're going down block different blocks in new orleans so this is where this is at st augustine church and this was outside the church and this is were the slaves were hong to be auction or whatever else the slave master decided to do and you can see how big the ideas because to the right you can see somebody somebody is in a costume and somebody has their hand on one of the chain so you can just imagine that your arms stretch out and so when i st saw that and thinking of a human being on there i thought about well that african american people have been crucified they're the ones who've been put on the cross the european person they put on the cross the claim that was jesus that was someone else we were put on the cross and that's what that's what i saw when it when i saw that i just saw our people were being crucified you know and that goes into a whole another thing about somebody else  of the people in agony on this thing hang in there and we were there it was hot and if they but we had the water and everything but these people didn't have any of these luxuries they were just out there and if somebody gave him water they were lucky to get that so let's go on to the next pitcher so this is solomon from twelve years a slave that you know of the movie that was made and this is you know located there on the street there in new orleans and this was the actual street because you know he was a free man and then they brought him back down in a brown bag down to new orleans and this was the actual street that he was brought to like there was a free man of color from new york and was sold into slavery in eight hundred and forty one stories chronicled in his eight hundred and fifty three memoir twelve years a slave and in the award winning movie by the same name so this was the actual street that he was and this was just as was just you know really ok all right let's move on to the next one so this so we're in this pretty per session and i say we started louis armstrong park so we went a long walk it wasn't a short walk it was a long walk and this is the st louis hotel this is the plaque out side the st louis hotel it was hotel included a bank a ball room shopping arcade and a trading exchange six days a week under the hotel's dome rotund auctioneer sold off land and goods as well as thousands of enslaved people so this was at this hotel so you had a hotel everybody is having fun upstairs then underneath slaves you know people were being sold all right so that's like i said that's the st louis hotel let's go on to the next in slave afghans to losing an account colony their voyage marked the beginning of a transatlantic slave trade that continue through french spanish and american rule forcing approximately twelve thousand documented and untold number of undocumented men women and children to slave ships bound for louisiana and then it talks about the different countries that they came from from africa so this was you know just seeing that and before seen the st louis hold that louisiana was involved in in slave trade big time ok let's move on to the next picture so the new orleans and the domestic slave trade and benjamin when we have you read that can you read that within a one block radius of this marker orleans slave trade you know have you heard much about it you know so you don't hear that much you know you figure it existed in louisiana but you just didn't hear much about it ok so let's go on to the next one so this is  the brothers were holding this this banner so we're walking off through from louis armstrong park through different parts of new orleans we went through the french quarter see there they're posted they're holding the people in white so most of the people who went on this procession that we were at war white and if you didn't have white you could still come on the procession so i said that's the mississippi river in the background and let's go to the next li around the country and so i know some people saw it in the coalmines of riding it a chance to see it but we saw it there so i just took a picture of it from the big screen there because we were way up way up high but she was a highlight there it was very good to hear her words and you know she didn't go too much back you know she was interviewed by gail i forget the lady's name was on c b s morning show used to be with oprah winfrey is a picture of louis armstrong he has his handkerchief in hand i think that's what it is and then his horn and this park was named after him let's talk you know some things about louis armstrong and you know people just think he was the background he's playing his trumpet for us wife pretty cool pitcher yeah yeah that's mo is all right ok let's go to the next one so we were at so fun things we did some light moments to it and then so then the serious things to do so i wanted to kind of bring a little bit of everything to it so yeah it was a very nice trip while i'm thinking about it we got out of there just before the floods came because we were on canal street today and on canal street and at you we left about two days later if you saw those floods the floods came there so we we left just in time and then a few days after that they got a storm so we got out just a time so let's go to the next l completely destroyed they destroyed us but they didn't completely destroy so we're still here still trying to do better what was interesting at the start of this in the park they had people from different fa very good trip you know we went there for you know for the music everything else but then august th august th so we found out about you know this is happening so when people said let's do it and you know people were there was there was a god he was giving us all the information that you saw on the different pictures you know about what was taking place there what was happening there and it's something i didn't know about nor and i've been there before once before but i you know i kind of knew play big sister there but not like this in a different checkpoints and different things that that we did and so forth on that but it really made you think in the ponder that with people know we're still here and we know we did we have to do better we've got to do better because it's it's an insult to our ancestors if we don't  better as as a people you know and know their psychological scars of this that still happens you know we talked about where this show the one thing where they would put a slave like this i said it reminds me of you know that we were put on the cross as a people you know and the thorns in the head that was through our brain we didn't have our own minds anymore things in our hands think the nails in our hands we couldn't move putting out the freedom to move things our feet we didn't have them the freedom to move so these are these are symbolic things you know that really happen to us as  people you know and i'll just let you comment on that well it's all about being so you take a dead person and move a dead person he can't complain or anything you could dress  personalities with our people you know who keep the banner going and try to keep us moving forward when everything when all the odds are against us but you know we've had  just like you know the hebrews prayed to god you know we've prayed to god and if we listen you know we were rise we will can we were rising continue to rise so with debt you know i think our audience hope we were able to share some things with you we tried to show you some you know some history down there so you know a little bit a lighter moments and as you know talk about things that are in the atmosphere and to not not to give up hope to keep on with it a curtis may