What's good everybody? I used to stay on here back in the day but it's been years. I was one of the resident Dominicans that was always in the anti-dominican threads defending my people. I used to really believe that racist Dominicans that denied their blackness was a minority and that ya shouldn't judge all of us for it. As a Dominican who grew up in Harlem and had 90 percent black friends, my world view was very narrow and I thought the other Dominicans from Harlem that I grew up with and myself represented a larger part of us. The ones who were more aware of this country's history and identified more with the black culture of our neighbors in Harlem, Brooklyn, Queens, Philly, Boston etc.
I was born in DR, but I been here since the age of 2. The first 29 years of that were spent in the same 4 or 5 block radius in West Harlem in the vicinity of 3333 Broadway Housing complex. My classes growing up going to school there were 80 percent ADOS and Dominican. There are so many half ADOS and Dominican people around that area that if you meet one somewhere it's a good chance they from Broadway. Every Dominican I knew was pretty much just a light skinned moreno. We kept our Spanish for home and the shyt was strong, but we weren't listening to no fukking bachata like the DRs in the heights, our cousins who's family's arrived more recent. We was bumping Nas, Big, R&B etc.
My grandpa immigrated here illegally in 1967. My grandma followed in 1971. They left my pops and uncles behind and ended up living in a tenement building in W 135th st. In 1972 my oldest uncle passed away in DR at 9 years old and my grandparents were undocumented so they couldn't even fly back to bury him. Didn't even find out until after shorty was in the ground, their oldest baby. I'm too familiar with the sacrifice people have to make when the come illegally. So I'm a proud grandson of illegal immigrants and I'll fight you tooth and nail to defend the honor of any kind of immigrant.
Growing up in Harlem I had some super proud black teachers. I didn't like one of them, but they all left a huge imprint on me. Nelson Mandela became president one of those years and we learned about apartheid and civil rights. We was getting CRT and anti American education all the way back in the early 90s
. They even took our little asses to see Malcolm X when it came out in theaters. I was maybe 9! You know the impact that shyt left on me? Malcom is one of my favorite people that has ever existed because when I read his book I started to believe in changing yourself being possible. And I reread it every once in a while to reacquaint myself with raw American history.
I loved the coli I loved engaging with the culture that I grew up involved in more than my own. I left because it was exhausting always arguing to defend my nationality from people who I always felt I identified with the most in this country, my black brehs.
But man I feel so fukking stupid about that now. Latinos ain't shyt, Dominicans included.
You know the level of betrayal that it was to me personally to see how many of my own family members and my wife's family members and friends and Latinos in general voted for fukking Donald Trump? I still feel sick when I think about the day after the election. Motherfukkers that don't even speak English yet wearing fukking Maga hats. My own father and brother in law and sister in law for sure voted for him though they won't say out loud. Everybody worried about the few dollars they managed to scrape together getting stolen my immigrants from their own fukking communities. I get mad as fukk when I think about it ya don't even know. People who couldn't tell you shyt about shyt when it comes to American history and even basic politics and civics falling for propaganda that demonized their own.
This whole Trump thing, and the amount of Latinos that signed up for that, is wild to me. I almost fell for it too in 2016. I started off as a Bernie bro and got disillusioned with him losing. The whole anti Hillary thing was an easy gateway drug for me into the maga bullshyt. I just could never get past Donald Trump being their guy. The dude just screams con artist. I wouldn't buy a used car from this motherfukka and I'm supposed to believe he wanted to run for president to fix my life? I'm stupid but not that stupid. Still, I was listen to a lot of Rogan and that led me to Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson. I found myself arguing with my progressive pops and little brother about shyt that I didn't really know much about. I would just keep going back to dumbass talking points. But it didn't take long seeing trump in action before I spit that red pill out. I voted for Biden in 2020 and when I saw the insurrection I said good this is gonna be the last we see of this nikka. Nope.
All one has to do is have a true understanding of this country and how it works and the history of what it's done to people in order to see exactly what's happening. When I went back to history, real history, all the talking points crumbled. It was easy to see the propaganda machine for what it was, but now that I see what it is I have a hard time believing it myself and saying it with conviction because the amount of people under its spell is straight scary. Almost like it's a fukking movie really. And they believe it so fervently, I bet you have a bunch on the coli. But it made me realize not everybody had teachers like mine. This is why they want to erase black history, because black history kills their propaganda. Latinos, 54 percent of us judging by the election results, don't know shyt about black history and likely never cared about it anyway. Even if you hate black people, at least have the intelligence to know your own history because the history of US involvement in Latin America is enough to make you propaganda proof.
But anyway I've been writing a lot more in journals and shyt and decided to take a trip to one of my favorite forums I've ever been on. Maybe I'll become a regular again and share some of my writings. I'm even delving into making videos now just talking shyt on social media but trying to deprogram people with some lessons on how to spot propaganda. Might just be screaming into the void honestly but I feel the urge to do something even if in my own circle.
Much love to ya brehs and if you see old borderline racist posts or stupid corny shyt I said here in the past please dont hold it against me too much
