This was a response I wrote to a woman who thought that because she was Dominican she couldnt also be considered to be Black. And Dominican chick, I ve been reading your posts back and forth with the nutjobs here. You re basically debating with the race hating guys who sit home and wonder how come white girls dont like them(when these guys have no redeeming qualities, its all race this and that. And dont be fooled there ar some women talking that same shit. The black guys always talk to them, why? I mean we all like big butts but if you look like a burro what the fu....?). But DB, I think you r black. I think most Dominicans are black, even the mixed ones(I have the same sentiments for Porto Ricans-who I consider the most mixed up people with respect to identity and pride in themselves, but I ll save that for a future rant.) I mean, I m black and you are darker than some of my cousins, and I m sure that your sister/s are darker than some of my family members also. I think you like most Dominicans & Boricuas deny being black because of the derogation you place on it. Oddly enough Cubans dont do that. Thats why i understand it. My wife is Dominican. She could pass for white, her mother was white. I mguessing like a Polish or Eastern European type of white women. Who knows? My mother in law is like 78 years old, but shes white. They live in Provincia La Vega, Ayuntamiento Moca por los Montanas Ciabo. OK, so my wife could pass for white, but her brothers(9 of them) couldnt. They are the same color my cousins that live in Boston are. Actually the same color my son is, when he was born, a sort of high yellow. Now my brother in laws children couldnt pass for white no matter what. They are most assuredly black, light skin black(lets say, like NELLY), they are DOminican also, like yourself, born here with Dominican parents. But my sister in law as light skin as she may be, apparently had dark eggs(thats a rhetorical euphemism, I dont mean she had DARK eggs, but the complexion of their children isnt reflective in their skin color). So basically, here in America, you can be what you want to be. You dont want to be black, thats cool. You want to be Hasidim? OK. The curly locks, 9 kids and beat up minivan and no deodorant dont work for me, but its love you know? Now about the work ethic of black people dont be misconstrued. Thats what you see in NY and other large cities. In the suburbs its the other way around. People who dont have any established networks dont have the same emphasis on labor participation. You know this is true. Look at the Pennsylvania boards. The same way you fel about the black people in NYC, however you feel, those white people in those small old cities despise you just as well. They hate you for changing the workforce, the housing market and also putting poverty and complexity of community in their faces. They had an essentially all white community with no crime(subjective statement at best), standardized school system(weak and uncompetitive), pretty houses(weak and uncompetitive), and jobs(same as the 2 prior). Dominicans, Porto Ricans, Ecuadorians move in change the atmosphere of the neighborhood, even though being legal(some may be illegal, except PRs) they bring a lot of cultural differences with them. Them white people dont want to deal with it. If they did they would have moved or stayed in Philadelphia. ANyway, to these people they would conceive you to be black, but a black person speaking spanish. You would tell them your Dominican, but thats like telling them you re a Lutheran. They would have no idea where the hell that place is or what it means. Is that a religious sect(it is)? A location(it is)? Whats Dominican? My aunt thought Santo Domingo was in Colombia? My good friends wife never heard of Santo Domingo(and she claims to be Porto Rican-tells you how stupid she is). I try not to get into this conversation because i know how YOU want to be perceived, but this is how you will be perceived by people outside Dominican or Caribbean neighborhoods. In Los Angeles, I m sure they would see you as Dominican, Latina and Black. I think if more Dominicans were to see themselves as black it could lead to more prosperity and better political alignment. But by denying the "Blackness" so to speak, I just think it will lead to cultural, financial and political isolation. Dominicans are the largest immigrant group in NYC right now and it is projected than within the next 20 years they would be the poorest(that was projected during the 2000 Census, but with the influx of Mexicans who knows right now). Areas like Washington Heights, Bushwick, Jackson Heights and the South Bronx are subject to gentrification as owners KNOW that white people will pay more for housing than other groups can even consider. If you cant afford to stay, whatcha going to do? You can go to Jersey, for a minute. But when it happens there what s next? Think about it? Places in Union City, Jersey City and North Bergen are just as expensive as places in Midtown. Then where? Upstate? Albany? Syracuse? Pittsburgh? It can be done, but more than likely you will lose your identity as a Dominican(this is my beef with Porto Ricans. They have so much pride about being Porto RIcan but know nothing about it.)

OK this is a call and response thing. First I ll post the leading argument then my response. Only the relevant parts though:

Vigilante Darwinism Current mood: deviously evil
There are too many people on the planet today. Wait. I take that back. There are too many stupid people on the planet today. I don't know exactly where they come from. They are ninja-esque in their assault upon intelligent society; everywhere, yet nowhere. You could be walking along, minding your own business, and then...BAM! Face to face with a person who would do better in a padded room surrounded by a bunch of board games than out of the streets causing mayhem.Consider rats if you will. They actually eat their own kind. While this is a rather disgusting practice, it does elude to a higher plane of existence. When the world is submersed in nuclear warfare and we humans are struggling to survive, they will be happy and cozy in their little dens. Why? Because they had the good sense to kill off the weak and feeble of their species; leaving the strongest and most capable to survive. Ingenious.I am waiting for mankind to wake up and smell the coffee, but I grow weary. In fact, it appears we are going the other direction and actually encouraging the retarded of our species to procreate. Take for example, welfare. If you cannot support yourself and your family now, what makes you think you can handle one more child? Not to sound harsh, but the day after you receive your first welfare check, a doctor should show up at your front door for mandatory sterilization. True, people are sometimes dealt a bum hand, but a majority of the time the person is either too lazy to work or too stupid to get a better paying job. Either way, the genetic line should be obliterated.

Now here was the response I posted:

Why do people insult the welfarians? You know, most people in the US are only 2 checks from destitutions themselves. And more over its not like Pennsylvania is doing that good with job creation and population overflow. They lost 2 seats here in the last Census due to people LEAVING the state. No one is leaving because of the weather. I declare they are leaving because of the lame economic situation. But we persist on insulting welfare recipients? Thats nice. It s easier to insult offend poor people than the CEOs who shifted your jobs to lower wage area while taking a massive pay bonus for themselves. Not to mention the war-mongers who overbill the Defense Department for mayhem bound weapons. Mandatory Sterilization? Public Assistance is not meant to be permanent. If you are on it now, who is to say you ll be one 5 years from now? So why would you sterilize someone? And dont jump to a conclusion that being wealthy makes you a better parent. It makes you able to afford the shit that children need BETTER. AND, just because you re doing good now does not mean that you will always be. I mean, in this area 50 years ago everyone had a job in a factory(mostly steel production). When was the last time 200 tons of steel left Pennsylvania? 1983? Hmm, that more than 20 years ago? Lets not go so far back. Ford has to fire 30,000 people. GM also. So now you lost your job and new ones aint quite the same. What do you do? Do I neglect your need for food? Housing? Why do think the largest employer in the Northeast is the government. Of some sort, state, local, towns hire more people than they need to be productive but it keeps unemployment levels lower than they would be without it. Following your example no one should reproduce, because people who worked for Enron thought they were on easy street, but some one pilfered the company from under them. Now what? Should they kill their children as opposed to asking for welfare? What about the people who died in the World Trade Center? Many of them were major bread winners or led households. Not all of them multi-millionaires. There were janitors and cashiers and receptionists and window washers and electricians among the bondbrokers and financial traders. Now what? Kill them off as opposed to asking for government aid? How about putting orphans in wood chippers instead of group homes?
You say the majority of the time the person is just lazy. I ask you: Do you know that many people that you can determine that the MAJORITY of them are lazy? How many do you know? Or are you guessing and presuming that this majority is an actual factual quantity of people whom you oddly dont know? You have interviewed all 300,000,000 people in the USA? But tell me mama, how good does a family of 2-3 live on $694/month? Hmmm, but look at this a missile from the Raytheon Corporation costs $1,000,000...each. It takes 4 missiles to make a battery. So a battery costs like $4,000,000. And let us not forget the truck that it mounted on. Then you say too stupid to get a better paying job. That statement is so biased, I m sorry it doesnt even....you know, are you sure you re not one of these people who should be obliterated?
Rats eat their own kind, sure that s good. But they also eat their own shit so what do they know?

OK, so the new book by Bob Woodward "State of Denial" hits the stands manana. And there it is folks. The War in Iraq is bonkers! But to hear it being sung, it’s a cakewalk. I m still waiting to be greeted with jelly beans and Ju Ju Bees’ as a liberator. That’s the world we live in where the people who start wars never went to fight in one themselves. And this America.
Saw the news today, Congress passed an emergency appropriations bill to fund this war and other(s) at a cost of $440 Billion. Let me give you the zeros there just in case you thought it was small:$440,000,000,000. That’s half a trillion dollars, or 50% of $1,000,000,000,000. Where the fuck is this money coming from? Your people have sold you the fuck out! I now some of you motherfuckers don’t even have $1,000 in the bank so you cant picture the enormity. This money is BORROWED. And it has to be repaid. I know some of you don’t even have bank accounts, so….But for those of you with children who thought that you might be able to send them to college, you can hang that up. For those of you that thought that your kids in public school would have a fighting chance, you can quit now. The chances of success for YOUR children are now like a midgety dude fighting a 20 year old Mike Tyson. The funding for this albatross has to come from somewhere. Cuts in education, cuts in health care, cuts in transportation. Cuts in everything except military spending and prison building. I can guarantee that last part. Bailouts for none, except multi-national corporations. Yea, I can guarantee that. I know some of you don’t care, but fuck you, I don’t want to know you anyway. You’re like a fucking sheep. And sheep ain’t worth shit. Personal opinion.
So with less support from the federal government and unfunded mandates coming out of Congress, states will have no option but to raise revenue through increasing property taxes, and fees for services. Motor Vehicle fees, sales taxes, business taxes will have to increase(which you should know by now will only hurt small business operators, because big businesses have mucho write-offs, tax loops, off shore accounts and subsidies to dissipate their tax liabilities. Now I know of you corn-holers, will say that big business creates a lot of jobs so they deserve it. To that I say "Fuck you" , that’s bullshit. Small business creates more jobs and they should receive the same benefits that big business does.). No federal government matching dollars for community programs means no community programs. No child care, no senior centers, no summer camps, no job training programs.
And for those of you that believe in Karma I just want to say that you are full of shit. Who gets Karma? Its not the soldier dying for the acts of the zealots who sent him to die. The zealots get a big house in the suburbs and a refrigerator full of food. Zealots get fruity colored sweaters and fancy new cars for their 18th birthday. Poor people fill the jails looking for a better day. Only the poor people die, haven’t you noticed? Karma should affect the rich, greedy and corrupt but oddly enough it only pains the poor, hopeless and desperate. That’s how you know its bullshit! You don’t mean Karma, you mean witchcraft don’t you?
For those of you that don’t vote, once again "fuck you". When they institute the prison work camps and indoctrination facilities, I’ll see if I can get you a good job picking out radishes on the "liberty" farm. Either that or turning tricks in the state sanctioned brothel-arium.
And with that, folks I m off to Afghanistan next week. I had to go by the firearms store and pick up my own sidearm. Berettas are nice, but I m going to buy a CZ maybe a Hi-Point…. I’ll see you when I get back…hopefully in one piece. Now, you know ain’t no fat bootie babes in Afghanistan, so what’s a guy to do? Was that sexist? Yep, but once again, "fuck you", if I got to go to some shit-hole where some dude wearing a robe and sandals riding a donkey is going to shoot surface to air missiles and rocket propelled grenades at me then I get the right to say I like big butts. To me big ole asses make the world go ’round. Its like cigarettes, if you got it, share it. Wink-wink. Now, what are YOU going to do about it?
Some songs on the MP3: "What A Fool Believes" Doobie Brothers, "I m qualified to satisfy you" Barry White, "Freaks come out at night" Whodini, "Too hot to handle" Heatwave

Hmm, you guys are starting to piss me off now, man. Why is it that people who claim to like and KNOW music so much are misinformed about so much of it. Did I or did I not just spend 3 whole days with guys who kept telling me: That they stole that record from that guy? How did the O’Jays steal the melody for Backstabbers from Angie Stone? One record came out in like 1976 and the other in 2002. How did Teena Marie steal "Ooh Lalala" from the Fugees? Come on people. One record came out in 1996 and the other one in like 1988. How can you steal a record if the you recorded it first? Now I m not totally against sampling sometimes you can get a nice new record out of it. Kanye West prove me on this. For example he took Distant Lover by Marvin Gaye and make Graveyard Shift, also Spirit in the Dark by Aretha Franklin and made a nice record with it. But sometimes it s just a lack of creativity. I ll give it to the Southern rappers for not using samples that much and making their own music, but I ll take it away because the lyrics are mostly DOO DOO Du Jour. And sometimes the music isn’t that tight.
I don’t think the tirade is out of entirely out of place. I mean in all forms of music its not that good. And what is good is hard to come across. That’s why most of us spend so much time digging in the crates. You know DITC, right? Listening to vaulted records by masters of music. In my case it’s the 1970s, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Barry White, Al Green, Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight et alumni. Why or how could people still be interested in records made essentially 30-30+ years ago? It’s the melody, rhythm sections, the lyrics, the arrangements. Some of the new guys today can get there but its like comparing the Grand Canyon to a sinkhole in your backyard. Its something like it but…I can mention some of the new guys that are doing it well, but I wont because this is a tribute to the greatness of the musicians who came before.
Man, don’t get me started on Spanish language music. There hasn’t been a fresh idea in Tropicale since 1983. Everyone reveres the sound of Fania even though the artists of Fania left the decade broke as fuck. Some Jewish guy made off with all the masters which he owns to this day. And every royalty generated from radio airplay goes to him not the artist. Its one of them chicken home roosting things though. They were presented with the option of going to Gamble in Philadelphia International or Gordy at Motown. They chose not to be affiliated with a Black Label or the "Black Sound" and got robbed by someone who had their "best interests" in mind. And by the middle of the decade had to backtrack because the only guys paying were Casablanca and Salsoul in NYC, PI and Philly Groove in Philly, and Motown and 20th Century now in LA. Don’t think so? Listen to the arrangements on the disco records and the arrangements on "Calle Luna, Calle Sol" and "Smarty Pants". You can hear the similarities only real difference-stronger percussion section in "Smarty Pants" and stronger piano section in "Calle Luna, Calle Sol". Still call and response vocal section with strong lead vocals. People know. By the end of the 1970s the Philadelphia Sound was killing them out there. It had the same dance rhythm as Fania but lyrics that could be generally understood by most. Along with the harder percussion and short horn interludes it made the record easier to extend and mix in the danceteria. I know most latinos don’t want to hear that but cant prove otherwise. The premise is that Tropicale(Salsa) has been improved on since 1983, while it hasn’t. Musicians still use the same melodies that they were using 20 years ago with changing only the chord structures barely. Any Spanish language musician that attempts to progress the music is charged with selling out. And then came Reggaeton. Oh lord! Need I say more? This isn’t even good reggae. While in reggae they used dub plates so many artists could record a record using the same rhythm. OK, OK. But dammit every one in a while a guy cuts a new plate and they start over again. Why is it in Reggaeton every record sounds the same? And why are the lyrics so DOO DOO Du Jour? What can save Reggaeton? Easing its way back to rap en espanol. There are radio stations that program reggaeton all day. Here is a plug to 2 cool radio stations: WDAS 105.3 and WRNB 107.9 FM, Philadelphia. To date I know they have competitors but no does it better, which is odd because DAS is a Clear Channel unit and RNB is a Radio One operation. Usually these corporate stations can screw up anything with focus groups and marketing surveys. If you know a good station let me know.

Bien, je n'avais pas projeté sur signaler au jour mais j'ai juste pensé que je pourrais transmettre par relais une partie de continuer mongering de crainte dans notre temps. J'ai entendu le président des Etats-Unis dire, avec son secrétaire de la défense, que si nous critiquons leurs efforts en Irak nous permettons les terroristes. En outre c'à ne pas interférer en Irak serait comme apaiser Adolf Hitler. Étrange. C'est tout que je peux dire. Étrange. Je veux dire, ces personnes suis si énergique pour aller faire la guerre mais recruter jamais activement leurs propres enfants pour le faire.
Maintenant ils voudraient intervenir militairement en Iran ? Qui et que sont-elles les personnes qui pensent que ceci disparaîtra mieux que l'Irak ? Bruits à moi comme si nous avons quelques intrus fanatiques juifs dans les affaires du gouvernement des Etats-Unis. Nous avons vu les affirmations diaboliques qu'elles ont joué dehors en conflit avec Hezbollah le mois dernier. Les ressembler à quelqu'un ont eu leur âne remis à elles dans une cuvette de Cheerios.

Oh de peur que je ne pas oublier, ceci soit un 70s en retard Cadillac DeVille. Très assez, oui ?

Ok , I havent posted in a few months. I cant say I v been busy. I have and I havent. I m trying to close the deal on this move back north and its more unnecessarily complicated than it needs to be, so I ll keep this short.

Here we have a Chrysler Imperial. Actually during this time the Imperial was a stand alone make which was to be ultra-luxury. The official Fat Cat CEO car. Mr. Big Business in the flesh. This plan worked out for a while until Chrysler had problems in the 1970s and it didnt make sense to economically to spend so much on alterior development of a car that share almost every underpinning with cheaper models and that had sold very few models. Mind you this was an incredible car but it usually placed itself above the fold because it cost about 30-40% more than the top of the line Chrysler product. But man, this car could put you on gossimer wings.

Our problem here is this: the current outrageous price of gasoline makes these retro cars unfun. Not sure if unfun is a real word but let assume it is for this exercise. Imagine yourself in this plush beauty plotting with Telly Savalas to take over The Operation from your archnemeses'. Your villian is played in todays episode by James Coburn as Mr. Big and his henchman a young Lee Majors. Now you and Telly(in this episode, your link to a secret government enclave called the Guardian Good Guys) have to go to Mr. Big's outfit to settle the score on the big horse race doping scheme that going down(isnt this 1970s TV at its best). Every one around is dressed to kill in odd colored 3 piece polyester suits. You, yourself, you re in an orange suit, brown loafers and a tan cap. Telly, well you know, he has to look good and he has a better contract than you do, so he s dressed in a dark blue 3 piece and a fedora with a red feather.

Bet you never seen 1 of these before? It is a Cadillac Deville Station wagon. It is some good construction. Although I m not sure if it was factory built or aftermarket body shop concoction. It has the Sedan Deville chassis with what appears to be a Chevrolet Impala wagon cargo section. But this car has vented windows in the glass, so it may be more closer to the Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser wagon. Although you cant see it here it does have the sedan taillights on this car. When you see the inside it has the tailgate window switch on the dash panel(making me think its factory built), but the lines along the roof make me think its a body shop car. Either way, it s still a nice car to look at.

Ok, man, I m angry now! I heard it said that FEMA is a bumbling organization. But it doesnt matter nonetheless. I m pretty sure that any state Office of Emergency Management at random would be just as ill equipped to deal with any disaster or terrorist attack. I think all the states are ill prepared. The problem here to me is that we are COMPELLED to pay taxes. But as a result we are assured NOTHING in return. You cant tell me you have to pay this tax and this user fee and then maintenance tax(all of this to support the government and its expenditures) and when you need them to be there for you they say "if a disaster strikes, you are on your own". How bullshitty is that!!!!!! I was in Miami last October when Hurricane Wilma came through. Me, I was ok. I had access to potable water and had some staples in the house. After the storm receded up the coast I was able to make it to the market on the emergency power generators they had. My area lost power for a week, but I was able to still prepare food, using old timey campstyle methods(I ll go into detail one day, when all things are better). The problem here is that the officials seemed to be out of touch with life as it lived. People were running out of emergency provisions A DAY after the storm. OK, the storm came through on Sunday night, and Monday. By Tuesday afternoon people were running out of food! What! They live in a hurricane prone area but never prepared for it? I dont think so. I think people are caught in a vice there that they think check to check and hope it wont be so bad. But this time it was. People in Broward County were told to boil there water because the Water Management Board didnt prepare. Power was out going up the Eastern seaboard. Which was why I didnt leave. I d rather be out of gas in Miami than in the middle of some bunghole in some retard county. But the situation is that people who cant prepare are left to plotz at the discretion of the government to govern their well being. And the talking heads never understand(or refuse to understand) the issues. "People arent saving anymore". "The increase in gas prices wont affect consumer spending". "This war in Iraq will be a good thing for democracy". "The US economy is creating more jobs than ever before in the past 8 years". "Illegal immigrants take jobs Americans dont want to want to do....." Oh I m so riled up, I must take a Root Beer break. But I just wanted to get the point out that even with this year being an election year, the same morons will be elected and the cycle will continue. We need to Corey Booker-ize this election and freshen up the voices of the people. "....No more backward thinking, time for thinking ahead" 'Wake up Everybody'-Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.

Life is too serious, Love is too mysterious. "Hahaha!" heard those words from Gwen Guthrie. Are they true? I dont know, but she looks good to me, my silky words are sweet, but my pockets sure look empty! How much oatmeal does one have to eat to lower your cholesterol several points? I just thought I d post something today, the weather is pretty nice and I read some post about heteropatriarchy and womanism. I thought it was a bunch of bullshit, but that s just me. I m sorry to make this accusation but there is nothing special about being a woman. Especially in a 1st World country. You got it better than almost any other woman on the planet in the history of the planet. Am I anti-woman now? Get the fuck outta here! It s like people make up boogeymen to assuage the fact that they have nothing else to talk about. I mean come on, Heteropatriarchy? What have you known to ever have been different?