February 2012
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that last video reminds me of the argument I’ve had over and over with my brother who truly believes that all of Puerto Rico’s problems are due to population. His solution is always the same, ‘birth control’.
NYC population 8+ million
209 homocides, 2011
Puerto Rico population around 3.9 million
1,000+ homocides, 2011
the landmass of Puerto Rico is over 3,000 square...
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Anonymous asked: What do you think of jlo?
rebloggable response to: do you think Latin...
lati-negros:
do you think Latin America will/should do something about it..?[it being images of christopher columbus in their countries]
djehutiarts
thanks for your question. this is bianca answering, the other team members may respond and have other comments so i’ll also make this a rebloggable response.
i think spain has a different connection to columbus than other central and south...
oh god.
liquornspice:
unaguerrasinfondo:
the olmec head thing has returned…
Yeah…this was always shady reasoning to me. I mean, I am all about seeing evidence that Africans traveled to the Americas long before white Europeans. And there’s definitely not enough scholarship done on the cultural exchange between Amerindians and Black folks even during or after the transatlantic slave trade. But saying...
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oh god.
the olmec head thing has returned…
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I gotta say
I think it is completely bizarre that so many in the USA treat black latinos like its a ‘new thing’ when most of the most recognized latino figures are black. I’ll just drop two big names, Celia Cruz and Roberto Clemente. At one point in time Roberto Clemente was the most recognized Puerto Rican in the entire world. -and it wasn’t a secret to the sports world! nearly all of...
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if that massive text post ruins your day, just remember. una guazabara sin fondo don’t care.
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*Quisqueya
Quisqueya.-La regíon oriental de la isla de Haytí. Significa: Lurgar de tierras altas. Quis (kis, tic), altas; que (ké), tierra; ya por yara, sitio, lugar. Ya Pedro Mártir (Dec. 3.0, libro Vil, cap. 1) recogío la idea de que los indios querian significar con este vocablo una cosa grande
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DICTIONARY : TAINO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE...
Abá.-Arbusto de la isia de Pinos. (Pichardo.) Abacoa.-Nombre boriqueño del río Grande, de Arecibo. Conservado el vocablo en el Informe dado al Rey en 1582, por el Bachiller Santa Clara y el Pbro. Juan Ponce de León, nieto del Conquistador. Abey.-Arbol silvestre de Cuba. (Poepigía exelsa.) Abuje.-Insectillo que pica y provoca comezón. En las cercanias de Holguin (Cuba) según Pichardo, se le...
If woody tells rosie to shut up one more time, I’m going to track him down and slap him in the face. I don’t care if its a movie. u don’t talk to queen rosie like that
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I suck at etsy.
I wish I was back in NYC… selling vintage to the dummies in brooklyn was easy.
giragiragirasol said: Definitely looking forward to this. I’ve been meaning to send in a comic of a group of POC laughing with a caption “…and he said he couldn’t be racist because he I was his ‘friend’.”
CANT WAIT! I remember a few issues ago there was a comic with a bunch of white punks living in a squat and then getting evicted by police. I really wish someone would make the real version where...
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baddominicana:
are we so far gone that we hear foot stompin and negro spiritual humming and harmonizing and refuse to call it “black music” because it may be unfair to the white people stealing singing it?
are we?
^^real talk just happened
Today in black history
rockycreepskate:
2.23.1868 WEB Dubois (activist) is born
2.23.1942 Haki Madhubuti ~ is born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is an author, activist, and the founder of the Third World Press
2.23.1979 Frank E. Petersen, Jr ~ becomes the U.S. Marine Corps’s first Black Brigadier General
2.23.1989
ethnomusicologist/musician/internet sensation/cat behavior expert and pizza enthusiast Dorothy...
vampirefinch replied to your photo: NEW BOOK!
Do you think you could post pictures of the table of contents? As a puertorrican and a poet, I would be extremely interested in seeing what this book covers.
I’ll write out the table of contents a little later. If any of the poems interest you let me know and I’ll scan or transcribe them for you.
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The 13 Point Program of the Young Lords →
malheureuxmarxist:
I’ve been making posts about organizations that focused on organizing the lumpenproletariat this week, with several posts on the Young Lords and Black Panthers. I wrote a comparison of the Young Lords 13 point program with the Black Panthers on my blog, as well as a short history of the role of women in changing the program:
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I keep noticing grammar errors
#FUCKPROOFREADING
…seriously, tho. if you notice any please tell me before reblogging. cause then everyone will think UGSF is a dummy.
Anonymous asked: I hate it that American people seem to have recently "discovered" that there are Black Latinos. And they act like this is some important new information that needs to be explored. The recent interest in Black Latinos is so exoticizing and exploitative.