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30 de Abril, 2007

¡Somos América!


TOMORROW IS MAY DAY, or International Workers Day. Despite the fact that the United States has tried to neutralize the day and ignore the history, it remains an important and widely recognized event, nonetheless. For Mexican Americans it has significant resonance, and we all remember what last year was...

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Say My Name.


I MAY HAVE MENTIONED how burdensome my LegalWhiteFather's last name has become over the last couple of years. I've carried the Irish sur-misnomer since I was legally adopted by him at eight years old, and that was back when I informally changed my own first name to "Jack." All...

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Gettin' Cheeky in the Zócalo


I WAS A STUDENT AT NYU when Spencer Tunick shot a series in Manhattan. (Was I in the pic? You'll have to get a print and take your time with it!) Looks like he's doing his latest work in good old México. And it seems la gente are down...

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Compuspanic


BAD NEWS FOR LOU DOBBS and those who dream of a culture with no flava. After all, it is an illusion that the American market won't keep responding to the growing Hispanic [as in "Spanish-Speaking"] population. Because it will. The latest sign that you cannot possibly hope to curtail the...

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The Freedom to Lie, Cheat, and Steal


GEE, I'm so surprised! This is why I laugh when people call suspicions of American government's covert and criminal agendas "conspiracy theories." There is far too much proof (and just from what we know) that such suspicions are well-founded in fact. And that those who would invalidate them are...

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The Bee at the Heart of the World


YESTERDAY, I posted on bees. Of course they have been on my mind lately because of the widespread phenomenon that is being called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). If you haven't read about it, there is a mysterious dying out of bees taking place all over North America, and concentrated...

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29 de Abril, 2007

966 Bees in the Shade


WHOA. Maybe colonies of bees move around this time of year, and I'm unfamiliar with the whole idea. But I just had quite an exciting moment. I remember when I was about 10, and there was all this talk of Killer Bees from Africa that might land on our...

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Phone-y Standards


BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND how very important it is to the DC bigshots, the mainstream pundits, and the rest of the world, I will give my opinion on this current Sex Scandal about to blow wide the doors of human disbelief. You know those doors that like to stay closed,...

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Sand Creek Massacre Site Memorialized


THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE of 1864. It was not only an atrocity, but one that symbolizes many others. The day is a particularly cruel and bloody chapter in the narrative that has brought the current America into existence. The country that some modern-day Americans claim (oh so haughtily) is...

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Idiota. Cobarde. Asesino.


I UNDERSTAND that I will be stating the obvious here...but sometimes, even in the midst of all this whirl and tumult and hail of deception and gut-curdling corruption, the "obvious" becomes a thin mist that is no longer even felt by the vulcanized hull of our habituated defenses. The...

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28 de Abril, 2007

High Mime Time


CLICK to laugh. It especially tickled me because of a conversation between Darkblack and myself on an old post, where I mentioned killer mimes running for office. But I think it's just damn funny anyway. sombrero tip to scarshapedstar at correntewire...

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Drivelling For Change


NOW WHAT ON EARTH would convince Nez to respond to an email with this?: Read more for some Saturday entertainment, courtesy of the wiley mind behind rhnichols@btinternet.com:...

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27 de Abril, 2007

Esta mi obsesión para viernes. Escuche.


EL GENERAL has me racking my brains for "love songs" so I bring this one over here to set off this very warm friday evening. Perhaps not a typical "love" song, more about, well...obsession. And being drawn into it, even despite consequences. And the hesitation or admonishment not to....

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I'm Skeered Now.


GEEEZ, I don't know. With all these sudden developments, maybe we should take our mind off the Democrats' debating points and just back the Republicans. You know?...

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The Cheese-Hefting Footsoldier of Pollen Town


HMMMM. I use "Truth" an awful lot. The front page of the blog becomes...extraordinarily pretentious. When every third entry has "truth" in the title. For crying out loud. I can't help but feel. Perhaps I will slip in some other words a bit more to help counter the balance. I...

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You Can't Deport the Truth


BIG GOLD-TOPPED PROPZ to mis amig@s sech as XicanoPwr and Marisa at Latina Lista and mi güero blo'migo at Mexfiles, and Migra Matters and No Más Muertes and all the other soldader@s who stare the border issue in the face day after day after day after day. I read...

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Truth Accidentally Slips Into Candidate Debate


I REALLY, REALLY like this cat. Mike Gravel (D), Senator representing Alaska. Damn. Not only is he the man responsible for making the Pentagon Papers public—and that is no small thing—he kicked ass in the debates. Of course for simply telling the truth (along with some other gems about...

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Just Like a Woman


NOW, THAT'S TWO TIMES women have assumed that I was a woman, from my writing. What can I say to this? I never would have guessed. I must be getting healthier.......

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26 de Abril, 2007

Coke Ranch Logic


If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings, we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory." —"President" George W. Bush SOME STATEMENTS are so stupid (not to mention sociopathic) that to attempt to unpack them is to toy with your own...

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The Barely Concealed and Uncongealed Rage of McCain


JOHN MCCAIN, as I've said before, is a man strapping a lid on top of a cauldron of rage. Remember, what we see of him now is utter restraint. Here is a man who has been a prisoner of war and tortured for taking his part in the Vietnam...

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Indian Killer Day


As many of you know, this is the 100th anniversary of the designation of Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado, the birthplace of the Columbus Day holiday. Also, as many of you might know, several of us from TCD/AIM have been working with State Senator Suzanne Williams...

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A Decidedly Loyal Readership


I GET HITS from some strange areas, no doubt. This screenshot from my stats shows that The Unapologetic Mexican has readers who are compelled to visit and read even from beyond the grave....

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Why We Do


ONE OF THE BLOGS I used to read one day sported an essay that essentially summed up the author's ongoing growing feelings that—in his opinion—blogs don't achieve much of anything and that the writer felt his blogging time only ate up time they could be using for other more...

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25 de Abril, 2007

Mexico City Passes Abortion Law


MEXICO makes an important step, recognizing the autonomy and needs of las mujeres: Mexico City legislators passed a ground breaking abortion legalization measure Tuesday that moves the nation´s capital into the vanguard of Latin America's nascent pro-choice movement. The law allows women in the Federal District - Mexico City´s...

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Toking About Truth


POPPING IN briefly to ask you please to read this story, and digg it. It would be great (and important, I think) if everyone also took the action JC suggests in the post. But you read it and do what you are moved to. Gracias....

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Love and Violence


Love and Violence, properly speaking, are polar opposites. Love lets the other be, but with affection and concern. Violence attempts to constrain the other's, to force him to act in the way we desire, but with ultimate lack of concern, with indifference to the other's own existence or destiny....

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24 de Abril, 2007

Let's Have Nexus


THE NON-MAINSTREAM areas of the blogosfero—the Brown™, the Feminists, the disabled, the marginalized—bring us many intelligent, hopeful, restless people finding the ways in which they want to grow, to reach for their own light, their own right, their own path away from the cramped vessel of personal servitude or...

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23 de Abril, 2007

Feed on Me. When You're Not Strong.


FOR THOSE WHO access this site via a feed, here is a headsup on a change I am making: I am going to pull the plug on the index.xml file (the "old" feed before I used FeedBurner). If you are connected to this feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/theunapologeticmexican, then you are okay,...

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Freedom (On the March)


CLICK the image to download (or right-click and "Save as") the new single from an EP I am working on called Xolagrafik. The song is called Freedom (On the March), and it is by (of course) NLXJ. username=guest pw=porfavor Update: lyrics behind the cut....

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22 de Abril, 2007

Secret Superheroes


SOME OF YOU ARE AWARE of the latest "outing" of real-life identity, and round of threats leveled on a woman blogger, DeviousDiva. I'm glad to say that at the least, the person who put her information out there has removed it. But of course, the dynamic remains, and we...

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Truth is My Law


IT IS EXPECTED that we take the laws seriously in this land. That we integrate them into our personal moral systems. We tell our children to do this, to trust us on our superior ability to filter out what is good and what is bad. And we hand them...

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Sunday Skillet Blogging #4


BREAKFAST is served!...

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21 de Abril, 2007

The Art of Saying Nothing


#1: WHO is this man? (username="guest", pw="porfavor") #2: What the hell is he saying? (Optional) Winner gets a dream-colored tamale. Update: The fun of the game is to see who knows, remembers, or can figure it out! Which means someone who can guess or who knows without Googling the...

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20 de Abril, 2007

A Voice That Lives On


HEY HEY HEY it ain't Friday Night until we bust out the YouTube and get celebratory with some sweet música. Last time we featured Argentinian rebel-hearted artist Mercedes Sosa, it was to listen to a beautiful, beautiful tune called Gracias a la Vida. Today we open our ears and...

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Bang, bang.


WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS THAT everyone still has the right to a gun, though. Oh, and that we have live streaming coverage of violent events like this: April 20, 2007, 5:38PM 2 dead in JSC hostage standoff A gunman and one hostage, both men, are dead after a violent incident at...

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The Age of Garudacoatl


FROM NAROPA U. AND THE AGE OF GARUDACOATL: Join in a one-day conference celebrating diversity and examining racial issues through eastern practices and talks Friday, April 20, as Naropa students present Floricanto Naropa on the Arapahoe Campus. Floricanto Naropa includes several guest speakers including: Juan Felipe Herrera, Naropa Associate...

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Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Detainment Center


WE SEE NOW how ousting Imus has moved us forward as a nation and will clearly have beneficial results upon the dialogues on race in this country. His replacement? The thoughtful pundit Michael Smerconish. The Big Talker 1210 AM morning show of Daily News columnist Michael Smerconish is to...

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black men playing basketball


TAKEN FROM a fantastic book by Derrick Jensen, called The Culture of Make Believe. I have to admit I'm glad I was born white. Very rarely have I received stares of hatred due to my race. When I was a teenager, I spent a summer at the University of Southern...

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19 de Abril, 2007

The Useless Figurehead Blamer Sellout, Pt 2.


WHAT A PATHETIC, SNIVELING, EQUIVOCATING, SMIRKING, DUPLICITOUS, DISHONORABLE fool. I suggest you just head on over to the muckraking joint and watch the whole series in a row, if you want a feel for how the questioning went. What a disgrace. What a whiny, lying disgrace. Though at least...

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How to Create a Rape Victim


I WAS WAITING FOR MY SANDWICH at Subway®, and I heard a woman on the phone with her daughter. I knew it was her daughter because she was on the phone from the time my bread was cut in half to the time it was slid into a wax...

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Filters and Lenses


THE LATEST ISSUE OF NEWSWEEK tells us that Imus the Titan fell because "power in America is shifting." But the cover shows us that Newsweek is not about to go quietly into that brown night....

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Searching for Michael Patrick Vaughn


FOR THOSE ON THE WEST COAST, please keep your ears and eyes open for a black male named Michael Patrick Vaughn. I don't know if he goes by any nicknames aside from Mike, but please see below the cut for a picture and contact information. He is the brother...

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18 de Abril, 2007

Double Vision [The White Lens VII]


THE IRONY OF LIFE is such that I end up thanking my LegalWhiteFather for the strong presence of Bob Marley's philosophies early in my life. I can think of no single artist heard more often in my childhood home. His albums were almost always spinning, in the house, and...

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17 de Abril, 2007

The Perfect Ratio


• Just because you have a name with which to denigrate or even properly "describe" a thing does not necessarily mean you properly understand it. • Just because you believe in a mythical land doesn't mean it will be there for you when you die. Live as if your balance...

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16 de Abril, 2007

31 Dead, and counting.


MAN. I don't even know what to say. Horrible. As if we haven't been watching enough senseless death lately. Of course we like it much less "over here" than "over there." I'm guessing the reaction and news cycle will be furious and intense and massive, and overwhelm the spectre...

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15 de Abril, 2007

Ka-Ching, Ka-Boom.


ANOTHER TAX DAY comes and goes. Between our typing against the war, and even our protests in the street, we pause to shell out the money that will continue to make it possible. Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to...

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King Koz the Kold


AS WITH EVERYTHING, there are a few ways we can look at Mister Moulitsas' brief press release shrugging off (for the second time) the Kathy Sierra incident. This is how I see it: What we talk about with each other out here; what we hope for one day; why...

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Sunday Skillet Blogging #3




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Shortly After We Removed the Editorial Lobe


IT IS AN AMBITIOUS LEAP, isn't it? From Self to All? I wonder what that thing is. That thing that fuels the jump from feeling I know what is best for me to what is best for others. True, we are sometimes called upon to assume as much. When...

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14 de Abril, 2007

Construction on the March


OR..."COLONIAL CARPENTERS." I couldn't decide between the two. I pick both of them, we all win. Carlos Mencia for those who can bear it....

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Virtually Clean


I NEED to take a day just to clean out and organize the rapidly growing stacks of virtual folders on my computer. I'm actually surprisingly organized on my computer. Folders, subfolders, customized icons (because my mind remembers visuals better than anything else) and logical systems for everything I store....

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13 de Abril, 2007

Who Has Loved Like We Do?


MEEEEEENWHILE let's get on with nuestra tradición de viernes, our friday tradition. Once again chilling with the amazingly talented and stunningly beautiful Estrella Morente, we groove on ¿Quienes se Amaron Como Nosotros? (Who Has Loved Like We Do?) A soothing and yet inspiring way to ease into your Friday and...

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Womanism and Related Hot Topics


I FEEL LIKE THIS POST (or the thread, actually) could use some women's analysis. I don't know how right or how wrong I am about my part in the comments, but either way, it seems odd to have two guys going back and forth, as if we could ultimately...

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Lavish Promises


UNCLE SAM IS A PIMP. Overseas recruiters lure guest workers to the U.S. with lavish promises of permanent residency, high-paying jobs and better living conditions, charging thousands of dollars in “processing fees.” Guest workers are usually deeply in debt by the time they arrive in the U.S., where the...

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