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03/06/2004 Entry: "Thursday 3-4-04"
The Rev Pedro Pietri died on his return trip from Mexico on Wednesday. Of course all of you reading this know this already, there's only a handful of you. I had planned to say something about the Rev and do a piece of his in memoriam at the Filatino feature at Columbia University. I had the two pieces laid out on the table. I didn't do them. It was a strange crowd. They didn't respond to anything very much. Sometimes college crowds are like that. It really tends to throw me off, I spent the whole feature trying to get them to react to something. It made me distracted and I forgot the Rev's pieces. I feel like an ass. I'm not sure that he would have cared since he did not know me and I am not a Nuyorican, but still I wanted to acknowledge the tradition that is inherit whether consciously or not.
Other than that thank you all who came to the feature. Thanks to Omar for the great feature partnerness. Thanks to Columbia, who I later found out was really Barnard College. Thanks to the people who brought us out and supported the AAWW.
Todays song of the day is "thank You" by the Dreaming.
Replies: 2 comments
Sortaricans reprazen. Thanks OB you blazin a trail.
Posted by Ed garcia @ 03/06/2004 06:06 PM EST
not a nuyorican? well, there are a whole bunch of boricuas that WISH they could do with their words all that you have done!
sorta-ricans... represent!
Posted by o.b. @ 03/06/2004 04:41 PM EST
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