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World-class American Latin: Indigenous, European & African Culture

Elegance is elimination”


Cristóbal Balenciaga (Spain, 1895-1972)

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Dream Together

“Dream Together,” Yoko Ono, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2020

Met Museum Reopens so we can "Dream Together" Yoko Ono 2020 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Met Museum Reopens so we can “Dream Together” Yoko Ono 2020 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Dear Rev. Dr. King: we are having the same dream together.

#BlackLivesMatter

“La rumba no tiene raza, Pa’la rumba no hay color.
La rumba se baila en paz, aunque hay frío o calor…
…Ay, Ay, Ay, que bueno suena, la rumba”

“Nadie se salva de la rumba” by Siro Rodríguez🇨🇺 (1899-1981)
Ray Barretto🇵🇷 and his Orchestra with Celia Cruz🇨🇺& Adalberto Santiago🇵🇷 (1984)

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Biden ~ Harris 2020
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Es muy importante que cada persona y sus hijos y hijas son contados en el censo…No hay una pregunta sobre la ciudadania.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explica en NY1 Noticias August, 2020

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The New York Renaissance Has Begun

September 3, 2020 ~ New York City is always changing. It is the world’s most literal expression of culture, the unending cycle of life and death, but also of death and life.

The COVID-19 Pandemic is playing out exactly like the Spanish Flu of 1918. When that pandemic ended after two years, life changed and a period of intense creativity was unleashed. It was the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age.

The same thing happened in the 1970s when New York hit bottom. Out of that tough moment, 1970s New York gave birth to salsa, hip-hop, disco and punk.

The fundamental thesis of Colombian Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez is that history repeats itself in unending cycles. It’s going to happen again. Actually the New York Renaissance has already begun. ~ Keith Widyolar

Continuing

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Cuando en el alma se siente un dolor
por la traición que te brinde un amigo
En ese momento piensa que todo es posible
que con la sangre nueva esta la fuerza indestructible.”

Ray Barretto 🇵🇷 🇺🇸 “Indestructible,” (1973)

New York

“When you’re here, you’re a New Yorker,” and the entire world is here. Living, loving and working together, New Yorkers witness our common humanity every single day. It’s what makes our city work.

New York leads the country in bad times and good, so let’s get together and make Our City work for everyone. Together we help make the American Dream work for everyone too. Isn’t that why you’re here? We are #AllInNYC

New York City

NYC, New York, Nueva York, Nova York, whatever you call it, New York City has been Latin since the first immigrant, Juan Rodriguez, arrived in 1613. He was a multilingual African…

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Latin

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.”

Sonia Sotomayor, Bronx-born, New York Puerto Rican, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Latin

To be Latin is to be mixed. In the Caribbean, South America and North America: Indigenous, European and African, but also Oceanic and Asian mixed into our Latin thing,…

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Things to do in NYC

Things to do in NYC in October 2020

REGISTER TO VOTE BY October 9 – Filipino American History Month Italian-American Heritage Month – 3 Panamanian Parade (YouTube) 4 Blessing of the Animals – 5-11 New Yorker Festival (Virtual) 8-11 NYCWFF NYC Wine & Food Festival (Virtual) 9 Register to Vote (Deadline) 9 Indigenous/Columbus Weekend 11-12 Redhawk Indigenous Peoples Day NYC – 12 Indigenous…

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Everyone Gathering Together in Peace

African drummers (Jakezc/Dreamstime)
Jembe drummers. “Jembe” is a Malian expression that means “everyone gathering together in peace.”

Colonizers (human slavers) feared the drum because they understood that rhythm talks. They were afraid we would use the drum to rise up, and do to them what they were doing to us.

To justify their own violence and thievery, colonizers dehumanized and demonized everything that wasn’t their own. They said we were not human, devil worshipers who practice magic and a bunch of other nonsense. Colonizer priests played along because it enriched them too. Politicians gained power. Hollywood made money. This colonial point of view got into our heads and became part of our American culture.

One of the things the colonizers didn’t realize is that there are no demons, only demonizers. To dehumanize others, you must dehumanize yourself first and that eats you from the inside. That’s the trouble in our country now. We’ve become the very demons that we so feared.

The colonizers got the drum wrong too. The drum is a healing instrument. It’s true that it talks, but “jembe,” the Malian word for drum, says “everyone gathering together in peace.”

Regardless of your heritage, it’s time to start the drum again. It’s time for everyone gathering together in peace.

Jembe”

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