Created by: Eddie Zapata ‘14
Wrote a poem and directed a video to go along with it. I wanted to address my perception of being Latino at Dartmouth College, as well as to go against a few stereotypes.
(Source: youtube.com)
June22012
12PM
Cui cerca, trova.: While We're At It...
The rambling screed in response to my last post is a typical liberal argument for several reasons:
- It’s whiny.
- It’s entitled.
- It demands fairness while resting on a completely unfair premise.
- It is first in the discussion to play the race card.
- It misses the point.
The…
Read this for La—Serena’s brilliant response.
June12012
Hey fellow journalists: DROP THE I-WORD!
3PM
They will not be banned!
3PM
For my mami and my sister.
1PM
Mexican Mitt believes in a better #AMERCIA too! ¡AJUA!
haha :)
May312012
Openly gay Latina wins Texas state house seat
(Courtesy Mary Gonzalez)
Mary Gonzalez told them she was the best candidate to represent them and El Paso voters agreed, but along the way, the 28-year-old doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin broke her share of barriers.
3PM
“Illegal immigrants are just hard-working people who want a better life.”
This argument is stupid and insulting.
I, too, am a hard-working person who just wants a better life. The difference is: I don’t break federal laws to do it. I don’t trample the sovereignty of any nations in my quest for middle-class status, and I certainly don’t expect sympathy or scholarships based on my criminal status.
Obviously, America is the best place to live. Unfortunately, we can’t accommodate everyone. There is a process in place for people to come here if they so desire. If they are not able to comply with that process, well, sorry. There’s a process in place for me to get into Harvard Law, too, but I accept that I probably wouldn’t make the cut. We don’t all get the best life we can possibly imagine.
Just admit you want a flood of illegal Democrat votes and be done with it. No other argument holds water.
(via jocecavanaugh)
Oh, shut your holier-than-thou face. You are not some sort of superior being because you mother’s vagina came from a long line of vaginas that happened to be geographically placed within the imaginary borders that are the United States. Your “legality” in this country is simply because of luck, nothing else. Quit acting as if you are more deserving of the right to live because of that luck.
This country has made a fortune raping the resources and exploiting the people of Latin America. And soon after this countries picked all the Chiquita Bananas it could pick it replaced all the deforested land with the American maquiladora. With treaties like NAFTA, American corporations reaped the benefits of the exploitation of women and children. Yet, I see no American citizen that is outraged about immigration complain about the wrong-doing that this country has done to Latin-America (or that world for that matter).
The job market in Latin America does not exist. You cannot support entire families with the little money American corporations pay their employees. THAT is why people migrate to the US because they need to work shitty jobs and put up with racists like you in order to survive.
get off your high horse kid.
(via thereverseracist)
Just to make it clear, I agree with thereverseracist.
(via talkativequietkid)
12AM
Dear Sara Bareilles: “Gonna Get Over You” Music Video Just Doesn’t Feel Right
I am so glad Latino Rebels posted about this video, because I lived in Eureka for awhile. So I know the environment of that area, which is why I didn’t like that a woman from that town made a video like this. Thus, I REALLY HATED this music video with a bloody passion. I feel like my feelings are now justified.
May302012
Arizona school plans to apologize for “catastrophe award”
Cassandra Garcia showed KGUN9 her completed homework assignments. (Photo/KGUN9 News)
The director of Desert Springs Academy in Tucson, Ariz. plans to apologize to the mother of Cassandra Garcia, who received a “catastrophe” award by her teacher.
“Desert Springs is a good school and we apologize,” says director Mary Statola. “We, as a school, are going to send a letter of apology,” she adds.
Are we really shocked this happened?
As if an apology will fix this…
(via rscspokenword)
1PM
#strongmujeres Dolores Huerta + Toni Morrison
(via fuckyeahxicanapower)
May282012
I just watched this movie and really enjoyed it. I thought I would post it, in case anyone thinks the trailer is interesting and wants to see it. It’s on netflix instant play at the moment.
11AM
Young Women of Color in Mattel’s American Girl(s) series:
- Addy: Addy Walker was the fifth Historical Character of the American Girls, representing the Enslavement and Civil War Era. Addy’s series of books was released in Fall 1993.
- Josefina: Josefina Montoya was the sixth of the Historical Characters of the American Girl Dolls, representing the history of New Mexico under Mexican Rule (prior to ownership by the United States after the Mexican-American War). Josefina was introduced to the American Girls Collection in September 1997.
- Kaya: Kaya’aton’my was the eighth Historical Character of the American Girls, representing early Native America. Kaya was released in 2002. Her stories are set prior to permanent settlement of the area by Caucasians. The stories are post-Western contact, as evidenced by the fact the tribe has horses and her grandmother has pock-marks from prior contact that has led to disease.
- Cécile: Cécile Rey was the eleventh Historical Character of the American Girls, representing 1850s New Orleans. Cécile was released in 2011 along with Marie-Grace Gardner.
- Ivy: Ivy Ling was the fourth Best Friend released; she is the “Best Friend” of Julie Albright. Ivy Ling (nicknamed “Poison Ivy” by Julie) is a ten-year-old Chinese-American girl who wants to make her family proud. She loves gymnastics and hates to mess up in front of a crowd. Although Ivy seems to have a deep connection to her Chinese heritage, Chinese school is somewhat boring to her and she doesn’t like to eat Chinese food every single day. But by the end of her book, Good Luck, Ivy, Ivy learns the value of having Chinese background.
- Marisol: Marisol Luna was the third Girl of the Year doll released by the American Girl Doll company. She was released in 2005. Marisol Luna is a Latina girl who, at the start of the book, lives in Pilsen which is a neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. She lives with her father and mother in the very Latino-influenced neighborhood. She is bitterly disappointed when they choose to move away from her neighborhood to Des Plaines, a suburb. Not only will she be leaving her home, but her new neighborhood does not have a dance studio for her to practice at.
- Kannai: Kanani Akina is the ninth Girl of the Year released by the American Girl Doll company. She was released in 2011. Kanani is a ten-year-old girl living on Kaua’i, the geologically oldest island of Hawai’i. She helps her family run a popular shave ice shop and is passionate about helping people by sharing the Aloha spirit and protecting Hawaiian wildlife, such as the Hawaiian monk seal. She has a rooster named Jinx, a dog named Barksee, and a goat named Mochi.
- Jess: Jess Akiko McConnell was the fourth Girl of the Year released by the American Girl Doll company. She was released in 2006 and is of Japanese-Scottish descent. Jess Akiko McConnell is the ten-year-old daughter of two archaeologists from Michigan. Her father is of Irish and Scottish descent and her mother is of Japanese descent, although both sides of the family have lived in the USA for several generations. She is the “baby” of the family.
I used to love this books! Especially Addy, I had the box series signed by the author
They’ve added more girls since I was little. I still have my Addy books. I would still have the Addy doll but my sister messed her up.
(via blackgirlblues)
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