00:00To the official anthem of Carnival here in Mardi Gras.
00:07If she's the queen, this would be one of her ambitions that she's achieved.
00:16I want it. I just do it. I don't know what it is inside me, but there's something burning to be queen.
00:24When you're seen in public, we want you to be the Consum Adept because you represent us, we represent you, you represent the city of New Orleans, and you are black.
00:52The original Illinois Club is the oldest, the most selective, the best of the best.
00:59You're getting into that French heritage and the Caribbean part where you introduce girls to society, and it was called making their debut.
01:10We started planning on how to do this since she was 11 years old.
01:17What we do is present alternatives. The primary base for here is the tourist industry.
01:29But what we have is a large percentage of our black population below the poverty level here.
01:36So the Carnival organizations, we have got to show our young people you have more to offer than to clean up a hotel room here in the city of New Orleans.
01:48One, two, four, six, eight.
02:14I marvel every year to watch the young ladies as outgoing, poised young women.
02:28If you're dead and it's
02:36I marvel every year to watch the young women.
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