“Hablemos dos puertorriqueños aquí apoyando a Charlie Rangel,” said Luis Gutiérrez, standing with fellow US Representative José Serrano as they entered a press conference to announce their support for the ageless Rangel, who is facing a serious challenge to his Congressional seat in an upcoming June 24 Democratic Primary. The symbolism was palpable: two Puerto […]
Read moreToday, Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican nationalist who has been in prison for 33 years after being convicted of seditious conspiracy, released a moving statement about his homeland’s continuing colonial status, the ways he finds to celebrate his life, and the continual struggle for independence. Last night, Edward Snowden, a former NSA employee who […]
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If there’s one thing Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s banal discourse on race reveals is a fundamental dynamic in our “post-racial” society. Much of mainstream America virulently denies it is racist, while simultaneously having racist attitudes and beliefs. Of course the mainstream media will deny this, and call for Sterling’s head, if nothing else […]
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Yesterday was a beautiful spring day in the Bronx, and I spent part of it with South Bronx Unite, a group that has lead the pushback against the relocation of Fresh Direct from Queens to a public waterfront in the Port Morris section of the Bronx. About 100 people were there, singing and chanting to […]
Read moreI know, March Madness is about college basketball, but well, this post is about Living in Spanglish, which means Noche Latina in the éne-bé-a. You might remember my somewhat incoherent, yet visionary story about Pablo Prigioni and the Rise of Latinos in the NBA last year, or well, maybe you don’t. Anyway the awkward éne-bé-a promotion […]
Read moreWhen I got wind last month of the unexpected passing of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, I was of course, saddened, and then contemplated it as another New York tragedy about a Downtown artist with great talent whose death garnered headlines because he had managed to break thorough into Hollywood celebrity. In other words, a story close […]
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Spike Lee’s now-famous rant against gentrification is a mixed blessing. As an extremely high profile New York voice, Lee commands headlines and brings even more visibility to an increasingly hot topic. But his unfortunate characterization as a racial lightning rod, as well as the contradictions raised by his own profiting from the New York real […]
Read moreWe found out two things from George Zimmerman’s interview broadcast on Univison’s newsmagazine “Aquí y Ahora” tonight. One is that Zimmerman is a delusional sociopath who is bent on manipulating the media to project his paranoid fantasies as truth, and the other is that “Aquí y Ahora” has no journalistic credibility or integrity. The interview, […]
Read moreI’m starting to get bummed out here. Too many good people are dying. The Knicks are terrible. The weather is deteriorating into some Blade Runner perpetual thunderstorm shit. Polar vortexting, tweeting, and Instagramming in a vacuum, searching for meaning. Puerto Rico is a sinking ship but now that the New York State Attorney General has […]
Read more[Yesterday, I called for the mainstream media, and/or the news section of the New York Times, to make amends for its Deal Book section’s inhumane assessment of the island’s economic problems. Deal Book’s take was that Puerto Rico’s collapsing fortunes was “of outsize importance to the rest of the United States because its debt is widely held […]
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