24 de Marzo, 2008

Bethesda and Oaxaca [The White Lens 8.5]

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Foto , Historia , La Lente Blanca , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Format, iPhone, Mestizaje, Mexico, MTV, Oaxaca, Obama, Oregon, race, racism

AND NOW A STEAMING MUG OF COFFEE and a big wave from Nezua and all others in la casa—and by the way, big thanks to my weekend warriors, those that showed up and bloggedeth, adding their stones to the scale, daring to brave a hungry and discerning readership that...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 4:25 AM.
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22 de Marzo, 2008

I was in the room when....

Categorized under Aprender , Character Study , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Historia , Invitados , La Lente Blanca , Política Estados Unidos , Preguntas , Race for '08 , Rafael , Raza , Religión , Stories , Terrorizing la Gente , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: consequences, Obama, pastor, race, religion, truth

I was in the room when... a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic...

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rafael is a student, a writer, a blogger, a podcaster and above all else a dreamer. This post sent into the airwaves at 7:52 AM.
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15 de Octubre, 2007

There's Death in the Passing Lane [The White Lens IIX]

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Español , Hipnotismo , La Lente Blanca , Mi Familia | Tags: Adoption, assimilation, familia, Lou Dobbs, mestizo, Mexicans, pundits, racism, Tancredo, The White Lens, Xicanos

WHEN I MET THE WOMAN who is now mi novia, I told her about my mexican ethnicity as if it were a religion I could choose to practice—or not. As if it were something I didn't have to be. And I guess that's exactly how I felt for so...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 7:07 AM.
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18 de Abril, 2007

Double Vision [The White Lens VII]

Categorized under La Lente Blanca | Tags: Bob Marley, music, My Life, The White Lens, YouTube

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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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:52 AM.
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13 de Abril, 2007

The Kind Supremacist [The White Lens V]

Categorized under La Lente Blanca | Tags: brown pride, The White Lens, White Supremacy

WHEN I THINK BACK to those times in my youth when peers would let slip Spic jokes or drop down derision on my kind without thinking about the fact that I might mind, or not knowing I was Mexican one thing really sticks with me: how much the standard...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:39 AM.
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10 de Abril, 2007

Your Standard Sucks (The White Lens VI)

Categorized under La Lente Blanca | Tags: hypocrisy, Imus, Soul of the World, The White Lens

HERE'S THE THING about Imus' tapping into the well of White Supremacist thought and using the White body and hair growth standard to judge others: Your standard sucks, bro. And Imus, here's why YOU suck when you feed these memes: Using "nappy" as an insult is saying "Being what...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:11 AM.
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22 de Marzo, 2007

The White Lens IV [The White Idea]

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , La Lente Blanca | Tags: Adoption, My Life, racism, The White Lens, White Supremacy

YOU CANNOT BE HALF-WHITE because "White" is an idea. It is not a lineage. It is the idea of being both untouched by the Brown™—unmixed with the dark beast of Other—as well as guided by notions of White Supremacy. The "One-Drop" rule kept White slaveowners from having to be...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 12:00 PM.
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26 de Febrero, 2007

Our Hidden Hands [The White Lens III]

Categorized under La Lente Blanca | Tags: brown pride, racism, The White Lens

FOR THIS INSTALLATION of my The White Lens series, I give you algunas palabras de una private journal I've kept for a few years. This was written just as I was starting to surface from out of the White Magik Spell that had a hold of me for years....

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:05 AM.
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11 de Enero, 2007

The Invisible Race (The White Lens II)

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Hipnotismo , La Lente Blanca | Tags: Mexicans, Mexico, racism, The White Lens, White Supremacists

WHEN I WAS A BOY, I LIVED ON ANOTHER PLANET. This planet looked a lot like the United States of America, but in this land I lived in, Mexicans were invisible. You didn't see them in gardens, you didn't see them in stores, in catalogs, on the corner, in...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:17 AM.
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27 de Septiembre, 2006

The White Lens

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Hipnotismo , La Lente Blanca | Tags: The White Lens

LET ME TRY TO SKETCH OUT what I mean with all my talking of White vs. Non-white, and what that means to me. Because I'm stepping on some toes. And if we're going to bump into each other, let's make it nose to nose. When I say "White,"I don't...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 6:27 AM.
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