Peace to the Main Source and BioChemical Slang.
I was up in Harlem this weekend and I noticed how all the beisbol diamonds are occupied by little Dominican boys from el campo, while all the morenitos are on the basketball courts. The kids are totally segregated socially and culturally. I remember just a few years ago when I was a kid and we had Cuban boys in my neighborhood and they played baseball, basketball and football. Their language didn’t seperate them and neither did their upbringing.
Sports in America has always been the barometer for how we relate to one another across all kinds of lines, real and virtual. No sport has been of greater influence to the working class people of this country than baseball has. It has served as recreation and meditation, it has helped assimilation and upward mobilization.
I wonder if the parents of the Dominican kids tell their children not to fuck with the Black kids because of the supremacist fate that will await them? In a few more generations the quote unquote Black population of America will be overtaken by the Blacks from the Carribbean, South America and Africa. These peoples do not readily accept the designation of Black as neither do the mulattos, quadroons, octaroons, etc. There will come a point when urban housing projects act like the Indian reservations of the Midwest do. They will house a Black population that is totally disenfranchised and dependent on social programs for their subsistence.
I won’t be surprised then when I see a professional sports team named the Carolina Coons. I already have their fitted caps in home and away Bloods and Crips colors.
