I love my Puerto Rican 🇵🇷, Black Americans, Caribbean, Central/South American & of course my African people's. We are one. Don't you ever forget this. Salud.
This was my father childhood friend 😢 he was the reason my pops join the young lords back in the day 🙏 ❤️ wow 👌 👏 he really came so far I wish my father in heaven can see this 😢
I am Boricua. I am everything and nothing at the same time. Cannot be categorized or ignored, but how we are listened when we roar. A mix of 3, that coalesce into one. Taino, Black & white, there really is no divide, but the space we create ourselves within our own minds.
MY DAD TOLD ME THIS POEM WHEN I WAS 8.HE EXPLAINED IT TO ME SO I WOULD NEVER FORGET IT, AND HAVE PRIDE. ,I'M BIRACIAL, MY DAD IS FROM PR, PUERTO RICAN DAD, MOM FROM VIRGINIA. I LOVE ME, MY MOM TAUGHT ME THAT. MISS MY MOM & DAD. RETIRED DISABLED VETERAN STANDING TALL
Many thanks/Muchas gracias for sharing your voice, experience and insight with us, so, that we may learn and carry this torch for freedom-justice-bliss!
Bro what he is saying in terms of the USA mind set, we're all traditionally Jibaros. The beauty of Puerto Ricans is that we are a mosaic mix of Black, Taino, Spaniard and Europeans and don't let the many who are trying to fool you as not being a Boricua...
damn, i remember a poem from when i was young; one part/or the last line is "to be called negrito(lil black boy/child) is love"; not sure if it was sonia sanchez or another but i remember an elder holding my hand when i was 3-4 yrs old in the bronx(found a pic but it was from the back) of me and her walking down a hill in the bx; and unfortunately since all my elders are gone i forget her name but she was one of the darkest in the fam(i'm one of the lightest; mom liked light; abuelo liked light, so u get me and she used to call me her negrecito and how i miss her and all the elders etched in my soul...siempre(always); if someone happens to come across this and knows the poem please 3X, let me know, thank u
@SocietyScarred It's obvious the poem deals with issues of longing and belonging, using cultural background as a symbol. It has nothing to do with tracing one's personal geoanthropological history.
in many ways boriqcuas and blacks are very similiar im not sure but maybe the majority of puertoricans have black blood in them but even if they dont boricuas share the oppression of the blancos enslaving them . youcan see that even up until today with the prison industrial complex
Divide and conquer was the strategy but in the end we will rise and come back to God as 1 people 🙏🏽 Ezekiel 37:19 “Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.”
All He is saying whites in America try to separate latinos and blacks but Afro Puerto Ricans are blacks in our country. Americans they try to separate us like we different status, but we are the same black in Puerto Rico and Black in America a language doesn't make us less black, and we will stand the same in America For blacks as we do in our own island cus we are black..
he is saying that there is no difference between black and latin. so while latins speak Spanish many of them are of African decent making them as black as the blacks in America. clown
Flamenco is not black, man. Gypsies aren't black. Their origins are in India. And after that, Eastern Europe. Then some travelled through Northern Africa to the Iberian Peninsula, and in Spain, they created Flamenco.
Then everyone is a 'subspecies' lol In general people get better as we evolve. Also people do not posses 'natures' according to their ethnicities that is purely circumstantial.
A german came up with the race classifications. However, I would disagree that there is not a pure Black person somewhere on this planet...and not just a couple. Subspecies is a tough word....but genetically it may be an appropriate catagorization for those who are so far from original so as to possess different characteristics and a different nature.
We speak the language of the Europeans who colonized us...This is why black people some version of English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Read up on the Atlantic Slave Trade.
This is nothing new or unique. For example, Englishmen speak a language that largely derives from the French dialect of the 11th century Norman conquerors. A variety of peoples and races from the Atlas Mountains to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers not only speak the language but have adopted the culture and religion of the Arabs of the 6th and 7th centuries.
Thank you! I thought I would be the only one. I’ve always been ultra sensitive with the N word. I have cringed each time, I’ve heard it on the streets, movies, music and beyond. And, I’m Puerto Rican.
@@Onecobbo Since, you don’t seemed to be bother by it, give us your interpretation of the poem? I find it repulsive & insensitive to portraying the N word, in such a crude manner. Seriously, the mere fact that the word is used so loosely, as a means of expressing his views, is downright offensive.
@SocietyScarred genetic variation humans do, in fact; quite a few people are a couple mDNA codons away from being identical twins. All the things that people map to "race" are polygenic, independent, and have frequencies based on geographic location. Physical geovariation does not a subspecies make. What people use to classify as "race" is completely arbitrary, because there would be infinite "races." "Black people" are no more a "race" than "people with big ears." Now, sociopolitically, races
While he speaks Spanish... the Libertos found the Taino... the sounds of Caribbean are not black ,they are from the melding of our people.. Libertos, yall were free compared to the taino.. and not unified by a language or place .. convenient to forget about the indigenous ... and proclaim yourself so much a victim that everything is yours ... based on skin shade?
@SocietyScarred do exist. But such classifications are fluent from region to region. Ex: A woman like Halle Berry who would be considered "black" in the UK (or US), would not be in Brazil. Just like a Puerto Rican who is considered "black" in the continental States may not be in PR. Race may exist socially, but it does not genetically. This is because it's a socially construct. GTFO if you don't know what you're talking about.
This isn't poetry, this is nothing but mealy mouthed whining from someone who refuses to take responsibility for how he and his associates entered this life.
I love my Puerto Rican 🇵🇷, Black Americans, Caribbean, Central/South American & of course my African people's. We are one. Don't you ever forget this. Salud.
Felipe Luciano the one of the original Last Poets and one of the Young Lords of El Barrio NYC. thank you URP for posting .
Felipe Luciano is the reason why the Bronx has a new Lincoln hospital 🏥 👏👏🏽👏🏾
The Last Poets! The Young Lords! Pioneers one and all 👍🏾
This was my father childhood friend 😢 he was the reason my pops join the young lords back in the day 🙏 ❤️ wow 👌 👏 he really came so far I wish my father in heaven can see this 😢
I am Boricua. I am everything and nothing at the same time. Cannot be categorized or ignored, but how we are listened when we roar. A mix of 3, that coalesce into one. Taino, Black & white, there really is no divide, but the space we create ourselves within our own minds.
🙏🏽Amen mi hermano!💪🏽🇵🇷
When I was a little girl mother would recite this poem to me with such passion.
Your mother sounds amazing i'm going to do the same when i have a child now
MY DAD TOLD ME THIS POEM WHEN I WAS 8.HE EXPLAINED IT TO ME SO I WOULD NEVER FORGET IT, AND HAVE PRIDE. ,I'M BIRACIAL, MY DAD IS FROM PR, PUERTO RICAN DAD, MOM FROM VIRGINIA. I LOVE ME, MY MOM TAUGHT ME THAT. MISS MY MOM & DAD. RETIRED DISABLED VETERAN STANDING TALL
can actually smell this poem!!! it's insane how amazing this is. the rhetoric is so beautiful
As a Queens NYC native.....
I was born and reared on this type of late 60,s early to mid 70,s Urban Culture!🌆🎉🎊
Love this guy FELIPE FOR MAYOR!!!
Me too.. lol
I remember this from Eddie Palmieri's Album recorded at Sing Sing in the early 70's.
Yeah i got it vol.1
Yessss
ive watched this video at least 5 times in the last 10 hours... me encanta!
One of the greatest, ever!
LeslyeJoyAllen - JazzMaestra You Ain't Lieing👏👌🤔😇👍👏
Many thanks/Muchas gracias for sharing your voice, experience and insight with us, so, that we may learn and carry this torch for freedom-justice-bliss!
Jibaro, no matter where you were born, no matter what land claims you as their own.
Ooh and his Spanish is good! This one is special.
hes afro-latino
Yes he is.
Ayesha Karim yes
people are racist black is about culture u can't make it up or pretend to be black people are very ignorant man
Classic and timeless I remember this when I was just a kid.
A Gem!
Respeto Maestro!
APTA for this brother and the Last Poets
OMG...Did he just say Beaufort SC thats where Im from!!!!
Right on Felipe!!!!
Powerful
I love this Thank you
Bro what he is saying in terms of the USA mind set, we're all traditionally Jibaros. The beauty of Puerto Ricans is that we are a mosaic mix of Black, Taino, Spaniard and Europeans and don't let the many who are trying to fool you as not being a Boricua...
Amen🇵🇷💪🏾
damn, i remember a poem from when i was young; one part/or the last line is "to be called negrito(lil black boy/child) is love"; not sure if it was sonia sanchez or another but i remember an elder holding my hand when i was 3-4 yrs old in the bronx(found a pic but it was from the back) of me and her walking down a hill in the bx; and unfortunately since all my elders are gone i forget her name but she was one of the darkest in the fam(i'm one of the lightest; mom liked light; abuelo liked light, so u get me and she used to call me her negrecito and how i miss her and all the elders etched in my soul...siempre(always); if someone happens to come across this and knows the poem please 3X, let me know, thank u
Puerto Rican Obituary, by Pedro Pietri!
@SocietyScarred It's obvious the poem deals with issues of longing and belonging, using cultural background as a symbol. It has nothing to do with tracing one's personal geoanthropological history.
Pa'lante
Intense ❤️🤟🏽🔥
heard the original in the 70s by The Last Poets... you have NO idea what his was about!!
He is from the last poets 🤔😂🤣
@@BoricuaNyc I know!
"Recent research has revealed a major influence of Sub-Saharan African music on flamenco's prehistory."
¡Este bato es la mera piola! This dude is the beezz-neezz!
in many ways boriqcuas and blacks are very similiar im not sure but maybe the majority of puertoricans have black blood in them but even if they dont boricuas share the oppression of the blancos enslaving them . youcan see that even up until today with the prison industrial complex
Beautiful
Pretty Hybrid spanish here 🇵🇷
Boricua🇵🇷✊🏾✊🗽
Wonderful piece my brother. #BlackandBrown
✊🏿🇵🇷✊🏾🗽
I heard this poem on a deep house track, but at the end he says "Querida".
If you know the name of the track, please share 😊
Black n Brown.
🇵🇷💪🏾
United Ricans & black America's we love you
can someone please explaain what this poem mean. I seen him on a documentary on Netflix about the black Panthers
Young Lords✊🏾✊✊🏽
Divide and conquer was the strategy but in the end we will rise and come back to God as 1 people 🙏🏽
Ezekiel 37:19
“Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.”
I love this- now, what the hell was he talking about?
All He is saying whites in America try to separate latinos and blacks but Afro Puerto Ricans are blacks in our country. Americans they try to separate us like we different status, but we are the same black in Puerto Rico and Black in America a language doesn't make us less black, and we will stand the same in America For blacks as we do in our own island cus we are black..
Queen Tamara Poetry right. So relevant now, more than ever. ✊🏽✊🏽
@@Tamara-hn2fp Thank you
Dope
"Jibaro, My Pretty NIGGA..."
he is saying that there is no difference between black and latin. so while latins speak Spanish many of them are of African decent making them as black as the blacks in America. clown
Poeple need to let go of things..is not a color thing anymore...Is a human thing. :):):)
Tell that to WHITE PEOPLE
Moodymanc - Word (To The Masters Original Mix)
Jiver
Hmm...interesting. Some of these comments are interesting as well.
Flamenco is not black, man. Gypsies aren't black. Their origins are in India. And after that, Eastern Europe. Then some travelled through Northern Africa to the Iberian Peninsula, and in Spain, they created Flamenco.
Flamenco is of moorish influence. The moors came from the African continent.
Tiempo es una cosa comica. Temporidad en el moderno Jibaros existencia.
I know I spelled temporary wrong but I'll fix it later.
nothing but the truth!!!!!!
Then everyone is a 'subspecies' lol In general people get better as we evolve. Also people do not posses 'natures' according to their ethnicities that is purely circumstantial.
I dont understand it .
@SocietyScarred His interest in race isn't anthropological, that's ridiculous.
A german came up with the race classifications. However, I would disagree that there is not a pure Black person somewhere on this planet...and not just a couple. Subspecies is a tough word....but genetically it may be an appropriate catagorization for those who are so far from original so as to possess different characteristics and a different nature.
We speak the language of the Europeans who colonized us...This is why black people some version of English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Read up on the Atlantic Slave Trade.
This is nothing new or unique. For example, Englishmen speak a language that largely derives from the French dialect of the 11th century Norman conquerors. A variety of peoples and races from the Atlas Mountains to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers not only speak the language but have adopted the culture and religion of the Arabs of the 6th and 7th centuries.
I just saw him as a young man in the movie Badge 373 the other day. Good movie
Not feeling the poem
Thank you! I thought I would be the only one. I’ve always been ultra sensitive with the N word. I have cringed each time, I’ve heard it on the streets, movies, music and beyond. And, I’m Puerto
Rican.
I’m just curious. Do you know what the poem means?
@@Onecobbo
Since, you don’t seemed to be bother by it, give us your interpretation of the poem? I find it repulsive & insensitive to portraying the N word, in such a crude manner. Seriously, the mere fact that the word is used so loosely, as a means of expressing his views, is downright offensive.
@SocietyScarred genetic variation humans do, in fact; quite a few people are a couple mDNA codons away from being identical twins. All the things that people map to "race" are polygenic, independent, and have frequencies based on geographic location. Physical geovariation does not a subspecies make. What people use to classify as "race" is completely arbitrary, because there would be infinite "races." "Black people" are no more a "race" than "people with big ears."
Now, sociopolitically, races
Ok
what?
@Deerych You need to start a church.
While he speaks Spanish... the Libertos found the Taino... the sounds of Caribbean are not black ,they are from the melding of our people.. Libertos, yall were free compared to the taino.. and not unified by a language or place .. convenient to forget about the indigenous ... and proclaim yourself so much a victim that everything is yours ... based on skin shade?
@SocietyScarred do exist. But such classifications are fluent from region to region. Ex: A woman like Halle Berry who would be considered "black" in the UK (or US), would not be in Brazil. Just like a Puerto Rican who is considered "black" in the continental States may not be in PR. Race may exist socially, but it does not genetically. This is because it's a socially construct. GTFO if you don't know what you're talking about.
social discourse.. its all cultural...
wtf... i dont get it....
I didn't know jibaros were black, I thought they were tainos that escaped from spanish slavery and lived in the hills or something.
Nick M Correct 👍👏
😳🤔
nope...
@@roberthouston8463 nope
Flamenco is not black... its Romani influenced
@SocietyScarred Actually no. That's completely off. There are no races at all.
this is the reason why you don't know anything about poetry.
This isn't poetry, this is nothing but mealy mouthed whining from someone who refuses to take responsibility for how he and his associates entered this life.
What is poetry my friend?
Man foh with that
If it wasn’t for this man and the Young Lords✊🏾✊✊🏽✊🏼we wouldn’t have Lincoln Hospital 🏥 and TB testing for minorities who are becoming Majority
Like you know how to do anything without Mommy & Daddy