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October 7, 2010Dear Editor,
Our long, stressful summer is at an end. Fall promises cooler temperatures and a dwindling threat of hurricanes. Now, with BP’s final demise of the Mocando well and the New Orleans Saints on Monday Night Football, life is sweet.
The Saints football team sustains us, enrages us, elates us, frustrates us and fulfills us.
The racial ambiguity of the phrase “Who Dat?” is significant. The chant has African-American provenance that has been embraced and claimed convincingly by people of all hues.
The “Who Dat?” chant vernacular origin and the way the word “Dat” is inserted in a variety of other formations bespeaks aspect of Cajun character that fans wish to promote: working class, casual, playful and colorful.
The “Who Dat Nation” is a term for Saints fans. Paradox: wanting to be true blue American as well as a member of the “Who Dat National” (black and gold). Louisianans love being different, but no so different so as not to be considered American.
The fleur de lis (flower of the lily) logo of French royalty and the adapted logo of the Saints football team symbolizes hope, pride, faith and love.
Laissez de bon temp rouler – let the good times roll.
Alice Fields,
Houma, La.
