Thursday, December 11, 2014

Lugubrious Lubrication

"Sikiliza, Cheko (Listen, Cheko), Who're these white Hispanics and black Caucasians?"
"Ah, my Mzingativu, you wanna chat, wanna track this gritty squeaking, sivyo (right)?"
"Ndiyo (yes)."
"Well, the people in Spain call themselves and are called Spaniards, not white Spaniards.  They are of the Caucasian race, white.  I don't know how we tell the difference between a Spaniard and a white Spaniard if they'er both Hispanics."
 "Cheko, the same is puzzling about black Caucasians.  How can they be black and Caucasian at the same time?  Whichever race they're trying to identify with the other is tugging at them and they can't feel free with either race.  They're just out there blowing in the wind without a race."

"Some blacks call  themselves Latins, but Latins are of the Caucasian race -- there's no Latin race.  Just because an Englishman or a Spaniard impregnates a black woman that doesn't make either baby a Caucasian.  Blacks who want the identities of people who don't identify as black hate themselves.  That's why they're self-destructing with these identities, with illiteracy, drugs, alcohol, crime, murdering each other, and filling jails and prisons.  They can't conceive of speaking Swahili, an Afrikan language."
"Were you born in the United States, Cheko?"
"Ndiyo."
"Why are you not like the others?"
"I avoid them wherever they are -- Afrika, Europe, the United States, and countries  south of  the U.S. border.  They honor the people whose identity they have.  I honor our ancestors who got off those slave ships."
"I think that those who call themselves white Hispanics don't want to be identified with the blacks and Indians among them.  Doesn't that make them racists?"
"They have a culture, they have a culture that puts them in charge, but the blacks and Indians among them don't seem to have a culture.  If you watch Hispanic TV shows and movies it's extremely rare that you see an Indian or a black in charge of anything or doing anything -- and with that I hope that I've  answered some of your question.  Kwa heri, Mzingativu (goodbye, Mzingativu)."
"Kwa heri ya kuonana, Cheko (goodbye until we meet again, Cheko)."
"Amani iwekwako (peace be upon you)."

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