Red Revolution Tales

While American media might make it seem like the Afro-Latinx identity has only existed since debates over Cardi B's race, we've always been here, we've always been speaking about our blackness, we've always been the ones forced to defend our latinidad at the hands of white and mestizo latinx. While American and Latino media will homogenize the "latin" ethnicity with light-skin white and mestizo latinx, we've been the ones on the ground underrepresented and erased. Here are Afro-Latinx who have led movements and combated injustices that you already know about. Susana Baca - Beyond being one of the most prominent Afro-Peruvian figures and a two time Latin Grammy Award winner, Susana Baca uses her platform to advocate for the justice of the 2.5 million Afro-Peruanx in Peru. Baca had served as Peru’s Minister of Culture and Arts. Her album Afrodiaspora is a poetic composition of the struggles of afro latinidad.   source: ANDINA (2012). Cantante ...

So I'm currently working on a piece of the brief history of communism which actually isn't brief at all. I'll have to divide it up into Pre-WWII and Post-WWII: Imperialism and it's taking F O R E V E R. In the meantime, here's a play list of some angsty and moody jams stuck in my head this winter. Calla - "Custom Car Crash" The B-52's - "Dance This Mess Around" Hinds - "And I'll Send Your Flowers Back" Donovan - "Season of the Witch" Black Lullabies - "Black Lullabies" Japanese Breakfast - "Jane Cum" Cookin' On 3 Burners - "This Girl" Sunflower Bean - "I Want You to Give Me Enough Time" The Zombies - "Time of the Season" The Doors - "Light My Fire" The B-52's - "Rock Lobster"  A CLASSIC Mina - "Un anno d'amore" Radiohead - "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" My Bloody Valentine - "Sometimes" The Gl...

From Toussaint Louverture to Celia Cruz, from the Haitian revolution to Peru’s recognition of Afro-latinx officially, Afro-Latinx have been the backbone of Latin American liberation and the dominating force in Latin American culture. Yet in American culture, it may seem like recognition begins and ends with Afro-Latina Cardi B’s chart topping hit, “Bodak Yellow”. A great deal of this is due to the homogenous representation of Latinx people in media, which is very anti-black, and the lack of knowledge of Latin American culture in general. A key point to understanding who we are and our history is that being Latinx and/or Hispanic is simply an ethnicity composed of people of many races. The Latin American region is the South-Western Hemisphere of countries formerly colonized by the Spanish, French, and Portuguese.  When Toussaint Louverture and the enslaved people of Haiti raised their fists against the tyranny of the French colonizers, they blazed with the strength of Ogun and swpt...

In the United States, there is a two party system, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, that dominate and manipulate the public’s interests and issues. Despite the colonist “Founding Father” George Washington’s resistance to any sort of political party, quickly after his departure grew a dual system and has evolved and continued this duality to the present. This is not to say that other parties do not exist, but these two parties are considered the only credible ones as they’ve maintained their position as dominant parties through policy and sabotage. This system has created a false polarity in United States politics so that many think you must be one or the other. This narrative has made it so that the GOP and conservatives call anyone who is a Democrat a liberal, socialist, and communist. The Democrats have called anyone who isn’t a Democrat, a Nazi, Fascist, etc. The argument I am making today is that Liberalism is not too different from Conservatism and both are plagues t...

I've always loved The B-52's, great punk rock band from Washington, but this was my first time watching "Rock Lobster" the official video. AMAZING CINEMATOGRAPHY TRULY A WORK OF ART. HERE YOU ALL ARE STAY BLESSED

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I feel as though I am at a cross-roads in my career, which is pretty presumptuous considering I have over a year before I get that Bachelors (God willing). I just got a job at the working families party doing canvassing. Despite my experience, I still took this job because I'm sure that by the time I graduate, I'll be out here being a canvass director. However, the conflict lies in this: the Working Families Party works closely with the Democrats, but beyond that, they have gotten themselves into a position where they are at the Democrat's mercy. They, unwillingly, endorse establishment democrats for fear that these well-known figures will destroy their reputation if they try to go against them. I am everyday growing less trusting of the system. I'm at a cross-roads in my career whether I believe the system can be changed from the inside, or if the system was inherently created to oppress the workers and marginalized communities. I know that as long as we are a nation...