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Jose Jones
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A coonass (coon's ass) is a perjorative expression for "Cajun." In the early 20th century, when they discovered the riches beneath the swamp and the oil and gas people came, they called the strange (different) folk they met on the bayou "coon asses" meaning that the natives were, well, to put it simply, "nigger asses."
My dad had to learn English in school. If the nun's caught anyone speaking french, they made them carry bricks around the schoolyard.
Mom came from a respectable family, not dirt-poor coonasses like my dad. She didn't have to carry no bricks. Her daddy was the county agent (except that in Louisiana, we got parishes- still call them county agents, though), his daddy was just a cotton farmer.
My dad had to learn English in school. If the nun's caught anyone speaking french, they made them carry bricks around the schoolyard.
Mom came from a respectable family, not dirt-poor coonasses like my dad. She didn't have to carry no bricks. Her daddy was the county agent (except that in Louisiana, we got parishes- still call them county agents, though), his daddy was just a cotton farmer.