This edition of Living in Spanglish Radio features an interview with Amilcar Priestly, co-director of New York’s Afro-Latino Festival. In our conversation we talk about the growing need for and efficacy of expressing an Afro-Latino identity and even talk a little about its connection with Black Lives Matter. I also play music featured at the […]
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 moreListening to Randi Rhodes earlier today I was reminded of this particular story, which was extremely disturbing when I read it, but, because of the modern miracle of disallowed testimony, it seems most of us have forgotten about it. The story reported by Trymaine Lee, who was on staff at the New York Times before […]
Read moreThe strangely contradictory world of Eric Holder and the US Department of Justice continues to get stranger and more contradictory by the minute. Just today, for example, he is being lauded as a hope for bringing civil rights charges against the acquitted George Zimmerman (something that may prove difficult, if not impossible), while also speaking […]
Read moreIt’s easy to think that this is the look of a man who just got away with murder, but rather than get carried away with the negative emotions associated with that, there are many larger issues surrounding George Zimmerman’s acquittal that are troublesome for what is left of America’s fraying social fabric. While there was […]
Read moreA few things come to mind re: the recent fallout from George Zimmerman murder trial witness Rachel Jeantel’s use of the word “cracker.” Jeantel, clearly not comfortable in the courtroom scenario, seemed caught up in multiple emotions: sadness over the death of her friend, Trayvon Martin; guilt over not having attended his funeral; annoyance over […]
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It’s not easy to warm up to George Zimmerman as he sits silently at his trial for second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin. How do we read his expressionless, stoic frumpiness, stuffed into that gray suit? HIs eyes dart around the courtroom, at the witnesses, the jury, then down to a sheet of paper where he […]
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