| # | Full Name | Comments |
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| 651 | Christopher Curry Breakfield | |
| 652 | Anonymous | I AM NOT A CREOLE BUT MY BOY BREAKBEAT IS...POWER TO DA CREOLES! |
| 653 | Anonymous | |
| 654 | Michelle Hawkins | |
| 655 | Anonymous | we have had help disapearing |
| 656 | Sara Lucas | I may not be considered creole but that is what Louisiana is based on |
| 657 | Lynette Sheila Anne porche' | Lets make this happen ! I want my Creole Heritage to be fully recognized. |
| 658 | Coopama Godoy | |
| 659 | Rosalind Nations | Creoles are Alive and Well. |
| 660 | Urjani C Mickle | The Heritage Genocide Stops Here!!!! |
| 661 | Steve Mickle, Sr. | |
| 662 | Lyn Balthazar Mickle | |
| 663 | Leona Duplain Taylor | I am from the Duplain/Duplant ancestry |
| 664 | Wilhemina Harper Williams | |
| 665 | Dale Thomas Mickle | |
| 666 | Nicholas Wilson | |
| 667 | Maria Theresa De Rouen | |
| 668 | beulah renard sorapuru | i am very proud of my creole heritage. i had know idea this petition existed. this guy richman has no idea what being creole is all about. |
| 669 | Michelle Jacques | |
| 670 | Natasha | |
| 671 | Diamond Deshay Williams | |
| 672 | Kenya Najer Courville | I am astounded! I am a proud Creole woman who took great difficulty in making a decision to leave Louisiana for fear of being seperated from my culture and possibly loosing some of what makes me who I am. I can't believe I've found this. Thank God for the internet. Ironically enough I have been working to put together a body of work (visual art) that expresses and commemorates the creole heritage. I am creole through and through on both my mother and father's side. Courvilles, Ladets, Ardoins, Guidry's; the list goes on. I am insulted at this attempt to make us mythological. I fly my creole flag and live my creole life and tell everyone who meets me here in Houston that seem to be a little confused by race PROUDLY that I am creole of Ville Platte, Eunice, Opelousas; born in Lafayette and raised in Lake Charles by beautiful CREOLE parents! The parents who taught me to be proud of who I am. So for all of us I will develop and show this body of work in homage to who we are! This millenium aren't we supposed to be more evolved. If we are not, there is no excuse, there are many avenues to learn about things. Mr. Alan Richman, anytime you want an education on creoles I would love to TEACH you. I even have living examples and documented lineage for your new found "findings". You can even come for a visit, I'll take you on a tour. I hope somehow you get to read this. AMAZING! |
| 673 | Anonymous | Both of my parents are Creole but my father looks so much darker than me.
People see me talking to him and ask who that black guy I'm talking to is. They DON'T BELIEVE ME when I say he's my dad.
I am a PROUD Creole. My culture and my ethnicity is not my skin color. |
| 674 | Cecilia Wilson | |
| 675 | betty monette ashton | am a descendant of a large family of monette's that reside in the state of louisiana, |
| 676 | Beverly A. Rachal | |
| 677 | Oliver Roque Jr | The creole culture and heritage must be accepted and acknowledged by our legislators and the country. |
| 678 | Guy Gregory Gaines | |
| 679 | Darlene Balthazar | Keep the history of Creole Heritage alive, it's noteworthy and well represented in the United States. If the people do not learn their past they will never have a future. |
| 680 | Bernadette Balthazar -Crawford | Wow! All my life I've had to defend who and what I am because I don't look like the average black and now to know that this is how people preceive the Creole culture is amazing. I guess this is the way the world is. I love who I am and I am Creole. |
| 681 | Anna | |
| 682 | melicia rachal-edwards | |
| 683 | Pam METOYER-Edwards | As priorly stated, more research needs to be done before something is published inaccurately. The Creole culture is alive and well, and we do EXIST. There is a Creole Event at the Pheasant Run in St. Charles Illinois beginning on the 31st of July and ending on the 1st of August. Please join us for a better understanding of our culture. |
| 684 | Brenda Metoyer | I am very interested in seeing that this petition is carried out. I applaud the originator of said petition. Some one has to do it! Why not us?! |
| 685 | Mary Sue Metoyer | |
| 686 | Deborah Metoyer-Beaudion | |
| 687 | Carmelita | I'm a creole full blooded, so maybe this person could contact me so that they could me a real creole in person. I'm outraged that they even let this run! |
| 688 | Lisa Fremouw | |
| 689 | Marie Estelle Merl-Hall | |
| 690 | Anonymous | |
| 691 | Ms.Terry L.Gaspard | Metairie,Louisiana Creole, here.I am proud to be Creole. |
| 692 | Shirley Prejean Malonson | The creole culture is unique and I am proud of my heritage. |
| 693 | Shirley Prejean Malonson | The creole culture is unique and I am proud of my heritage. |
| 694 | Shanda Perkins | Keep the Creole Culture alive. |
| 695 | JoAnne LaCour | Any word that can carry such self-hatred behind it, should clearly never be a choice for a race and/or a culture. It saddens me when I read this petition that I am related to many of these people, but I myself define myself as being black. I hope that one day "WE" as black people can just learn to embrace being BLACK and not continually find more ways to further divide ourselves. |
| 696 | Sharif Parker | I have to say I whole heartedly disagree with Alan Richman's view. However I believe Creole Heritage has to do with a certain culture of people that were born in the New World. Some how or another those people have a combined African, French, Indian, or Spanish lineage. However to classify that rich culture as a race i don't agree with.
My mothers side of the family is full of French surnames, some of gens de couleur, some of afranchis from Haiti, and some of black slaves of Frecnh Louisiana. I am not one who supports the idea of an Aristocratic mentallity that some believe is the birth rite of Creole Lineage. I am black, and my heritage is Creole. Some of you who support the results of PLACAGE, and those gens de couleur who felt the need to PASE BLANC, are perpetuating the racist establishment which caused those things to come into exitance in order to escape the harshness of slavery. French, Spanish, and African are not races. Because they are all different shades of people who claim those cultures currently. Have pride in your culture, background and history. I know mine and it includes a colourful history, great food, and an almost extinct dialect. Teach your children, and make sure you know yourself. Because to be honest, most people of Creole descent didnt care about it not to long ago. Especially when families left in droves from Louisiana to places like Chicago and Los Angeles. The babyboomers infact were not even concerned about speaking Frecnh or its cousin Creole. So if you are going to petition this man, do it for the right reasons and not jump on something because Coin Coin's story has been made it popular. P.S. I love my Gumbo, Jambalaya, Shrimp Creole, Crawfish Etouffe, Beneigts, Calas and Grits, red beans and rice, dirty rice and a whole bunch of other Creole Dishes. Born in Chicago, raised in NYC, and have family still in New Orleans, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, and Natchitoches. Cant get much more Creole than that. |
| 697 | Calandra Payne-Preston | Creoles absolutely exist. I can trace my genealogy to the first French settlers in the early 1700 in Louisiana and their mixed blood or African concubines and placee`s. I live in the Creole community of Prairie Laurent. |
| 698 | Stephens Deculus | Creole and proud of it. |
| 699 | Anhwar LaCour | It's crazy for anyone to say that we don't exist, yet the entire southern region of this country has been strongly impressed with our culture, |
| 700 | Anhwar LaCour | It's crazy for anyone to say that we don't exist, yet the entire southern region of this country has been strongly impressed with our culture, |