Castizaje, Race, and Skin Color

A brief exploration of Spanish caste systems pre- and post- conquest of the Americas.

I read from the following text:

Before Mestizaje

Muhammad, E., (1965). Message to the Blackman in America. Muhammad's Temple. Chicago, IL. pp.110-122 (*reading is directly from these pages of original text)

What can a pet, in this case a hypothetical "dog", symbolize once it becomes entrapped beneath your home's hard-word floor? In this case, we examine the film Amores Perros (love is a bitch) by Alejandro González I��rritu , and explore this symbolic significance.

In Springfield, Oregon crazy shit happens all the time. There's lots of tweakers, bad-asses, and all kinds of survivors of abuse running around like cockroaches--half scarecrow, were-humans. If you find yourself in Springfield Oregon at night, and you happen to bend a corner, and then in the shadows you see a scarecrow-looking tweaker on a mountain bike, with torn jeans shorts, a mesh tank top, and high-top Reeboks with no socks, run...run, or get in your car and cross the bridge back to Eugene. An old friend, Flying Dante, called to tell me about our old acquaintance Trouble Troy, who had to be talked out to safety, from some home by a crisis negotiator in Springfield, Oregon. Today, nobody knows what happened to Trouble Troy.

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In this episode, we explore the power dynamics present in the In-school Suspension room--a close kindred to the alternative school, the juvenile hall, and the State prison. The State As Nation/Family/Home is made most perverse in its very nurseries, the free public schools. It's easy to get in, but it's hard as hell to get out.

Kev Mac was not the "Golden Child" in his family, and his early childhood was impacted by trauma--shootings, hauntings, and a different kind of sociopolitical, linguistic knowing--graffiti, gangs/sets, drugs, and moving fast throughout greater Los Angeles. In this interview, Kevin tells some tales of his process through childhood, into adulthood, and how his attraction to communication, creativity, and Crippin' helped to generate a specific niche in this world...AllHood Publications & Kev Mac Videos. The Kev Mac Videos channel on YouTube is easily the best Southern California Black-Gang History resource we have going, living and breathing--meeting 21st century's technological standards. Kev Mac Videos is a resource that fills in a kind of hidden matter, an unspeakable, and unknown--what we all long to know and to hear from the mouths of the real G's who were there in the streets of Southern California, from the late 1940's, and to date. The mystique of the Crips & the Bloods is distinctly Western--born out of a push and pull, from a restless, refuge-seeking mass, moving from points Southwest, Deep South, and beyond. The symbol of the "West" is now synonymous with 'white', and with that, murder is ever rampant, bloodshed, trapping, and captivity present; Los Angeles, specifically, became the highest form of "Western" experimental racism. If an end-point is sought--a kind of source-domain for the L.A. Black-Gang History imagined, in the collective consciousness of America--questions of 'Why?', and 'Who was the first one?', or 'Where did it first start?' and 'Why did it first start?'--answers will be found at Kev Mac Videos.

Isaac sits down with Legend Already Made (LAM), and they discuss DMX' death and legacy, including other recent, relevant topics.