Another video that details race and racism in the homeland of my parents… If you’d like to subscribe to this blog, click here

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Colorism from Jennifer D. on Vimeo. Link: Colorism Documentary This short documentary focuses on Colorism. The topics include Wale’s video “Pretty Girls” which was criticized for it’s absence of women of color (dark-skin women), as well as Sammy Sosa’s skin lightening. The featured speakers are myself, Webcaster Joy Daily, and NYU Professor Ed Guerrero. The [...]

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Two weeks ago, I was eating dinner with a group of neighborhood friends. One of my friends is Dominican and he was talking about the color issues amongst us. We spoke for a bit and it was an interesting conversation. But he used one word that has puzzled me forever: ‘Cocolo.’ He said: ‘I’m a [...]

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I know a lot of my readers don’t speak Spanish, so I’ll give you the cliff notes, translated version. #1 I’m shocked Univision got a Black Latino person to interview him. Really, I’m shocked. But I hear the guy who interviewed him has been with the station for a while and is pretty good. #2 [...]

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Well, as you keep reading you’ll see what he thinks about them. But it’s not what people usually say about our mujeres. It doesn’t have to do with them being passionate or extremely jealous as “some” like to say. Its a totally different term and one that I hear a lot when I talk to [...]

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Applaud this woman. Obviously, she has no shot of winning the race, but to see an intelligent, ambitious Dominican woman running for such high public office is inspiring. “A mother of two, a student and political activist, she wants to give a voice to those who don’t have one.” More info on her I am [...]

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I come from a family of wine drinkers – serial wine drinkers. From the Alvarinho’s, Concha Y Toro’s, and Sangiovese’s, I try to get a few glasses in of different wines a week. I don’t do the whole daily glass thing. I know many who do, but that’s just a bit much for me. But, [...]

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I’m really looking forward to seeing this movie because the whole hair issue is extremely interesting to me. Growing up, I even dealt with it and I don’t even know why because my hair was never flowing like Banderas, but it wasn’t as coarse as you’d expect from someone my complexion. There were times I [...]

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For educational purposes. *Don’t think everything that is said here is factual, but I just put it up as I’ve talked about this issue in the past* If you’d like to subscribe to this blog, click here

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Recent conversation… Lady: Your name doesn’t sound like a name a regular American Black person would have. Me: Well I don’t know how to really answer that because I don’t assign names to certain groups. I mean, there are certain name types that I’d think belong to certain groups. But Claudio Cabrera doesn’t strike me [...]

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