His novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was just awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
I am OOZING with pride and happiness and just WOW!
A Pulitzer Prize. That is the dream right there, baby. I'm so happy for him you'd think he and I were homies or something!!
So I'm at a bodega buying some cold-cuts for Papi, right, and when the guy behind the counter didn't understand me in English I had to give my order again in Spanish. His stupid ass crony then approaches me and says [in Spanish], "Oh, you speak Spanish? Where are you from?"
ME: Dominican Republic
HIM: What part?
ME: No part... I was born here
HIM: But where's your family from?
ME: the capital
HIM: Oh, yeah, I figured because the capital is full of black people.
[insert close-up shot of me with my jaw on the ground]
He said it with this stupid Cheshire-cat grin and this tone, that all I could think at that moment of shock was:
Did this maldito, imbecil, cretino, cabron son of a bitch just call me a City Nigger??
And just for the record- ALL of those assholes up in that bodega were my same complexion... WHAT THE FUCK? Have you SEEN a mirror, pedaso de mierda?? You ain't exactly John Q. Whitey, okay?? YOU'RE BLACK, TOO!!! Sorry to have to break it to you, you fucking racist, self-loathing motherfucker!!
And who talks like that? WHO TALKS LIKE THAT?
I mean, I should consider myself lucky to have lived almost 33 years without ever having been discriminated against, but I never thought it would be at the hands of my own freakin' people!!! What is really upsetting is that he's obviously ignorant, but I let him get to me! Like right as I type this I want to go back there and beat him with the Hostess pies display. I really do!!!!!
They were seriously lucky that I'm the person that I am and not some ig'nant ghetto bitch who ain't scared to cut a muthafucka and go to Rikers... they are sooooooo lucky I got some damn sense because that whole situation could have ended really badly...
Needless to say, I'm boycotting their racist ass! The DELI GROCERY on the corner of THROOP and DEKALB will never see another half a penny from me or mine EVER again!!
*smooches...for Señor Diaz on his 'Wondrous' occasion, but not for his country-ass brethren!*
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I hate that Junot's special news had to be tainted with that ish, but what can I do? I need to report the news while I'm still angry enough to write a good post.
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Title courtesy of Lily Allen, "Everything is Wonderful"
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Tuesday's "One Thing Different"-- I didn't eat anything after midnight. and I STILL didn't visit Perez...
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14 comments:
Oh no he didn't!
See, if that had been me, I would have said something quite rude. Actually, I would have made him cry. But that's just me. you have a lot more self control.
What ass-hats!
lol, I'm adding the term "City Nigger" to my vocab.
Homer needs to credit me.
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!!!!
Thanks for the info, im gonna have to chk it out now
@irene- oh yes he did! And the look on his face when he said it... I should've just let loose with the right hook, but no, for once the voices in my head steered me in the right direction, you know, the one that DOESN'T end with me in the back of a squad car... lol
@homer- that's basically what he called me. some Dominicans who hail from the countryside (Santiago, El Cibao and the like) have this superiority complex over us city folk- I don't know why but they do.
@jack- that was such a good phrase I just HAD to use it LOL
@torence- you will really enjoy Junot's book; I highly recommend it! Also, check out his collection of short stories "Drown" 'cause those are equally awesome!
Oh Rocky - Rocky ... Only you Girl! ha ha.. Now why you trying to Blow up my Grocery Store!?! Thank goodness I never had one of those fools say anything to me!! Well then again I hate going to grocery stores!! That's why I sent You... hee hee.
@tita- NO YOU DIDN'T!! LOL
That's right I'm blowin' up your store! BOYCOTT!! I'm calling Radio Raheem n EVERYBODY (but NOT Al Farton) to boycott them fools!
you got three other bodegas by you; go to them instead :P
Your post went from one extreme to the other. lol. I like that. Please don't beat dude with the twinkies rack. But yeah, sometimes it's our own people who treats us the worst.
Ignant! That's all it iz
Every brother...aint your brother just because of their color.
As always...good one, girl
Wow, you're very much right at getting angry. It's pretty messed up to completely ignore someones sense of self-identity. I know some Spanish speakers who identify themselves as African rather than hispanic/latin/etc., but your not even dark skinned! I mean I've seen some Dominicans that were like charcoal... so if you're black then I don't know what they would be... jet?
And I still say you should have put the guy in his place, ghetto b*tch or not!
I feel like Dominicans use of the_word is, like, ten times higher than brothers. Junot did a great job with portraying that in the book, btw.
@don- the Twinkies are safe for the time being...
@qucifer- I've heard the ignorance before, you know, in the family, but never in my direction and in such a hateful manner. Maybe this is my punishment for laughing all those times
@12kyle- someone forgot to teach this fool that lesson... maybe I *do* need to go back there...
@pan- even if I were dark-skinned, I'm more mad he thought he wasn't black and could hurl that at me as an insult. But you know, maybe he never went to school and learned his history...
@raafi- yes, we are guilty of that, I've seen it in DR with my own eyes. But I suppose when it happens to you it becomes real.
And thanks for stopping by :)
You did not give out the corner location! LOL
I like me some you.
eclectik-relaxation.com
...hilarious.
Don't beat 'em with the rack...just maybe throw a ding dong his way...or better yet a nutter butter for good measure.
DeKalb and Throop...in the memory bank...not that I am in BK much...but I'm down for boycotting.
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