Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation

[GeoWilliam750]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/travel/ghosts-of-segregation.html

"The six faded letters are all that remain, and few people notice them. I would never have seen them if a friend hadn’t pointed them out to me while we walked through New Orleans’s French Quarter. I certainly wouldn’t have realized their significance.

On Chartres Street, above a beautifully arched doorway, is a curious and enigmatic inscription: “CHANGE.” Now part of the facade of the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, the letters mark the onetime site of the St. Louis Hotel & Exchange, where, under the building’s famed rotunda, enslaved people were once sold."

[madaboutharry]

1. Thank you for posting.

[Claire Oh Nette]

2. In the architecture....

And they say there is no systemic racism. Rightio.

I'll look at those doors to no where very differently from now on. Once you see it, you see it everywhere.

Sigh.

carry on.