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Hola MG! Que lo que? Allow me to introduce myself. I am one of Migente's first members, like, ever! check my "member since" date ;)

Nowadays I am a cultural event organizer (check out CapicuPoetry.com) and recruiter at Hunter College.



What makes me who I am today? Simple. The philosophy of Edutainment (shout out to KRS-One!).
I dont remember the exact moment it happened, but there came this grand idea, an epiphany perhaps revealed in a series of dreams, expressing to me that we need to celebrate our peoples similarities and collective history since they are much more powerful than our socially constructed differences. Some elements that added to this idea were:

*The work of psychologist Carl Jung- who believed that the world had a collective unconscious, which accounts for the universality of many themes, stories and images around the world.

*The book Soul On Ice by Eldridge Cleaver- A marker of the 60s Civil Rights era which lays out the blue print of racist American society and its proponents in media and government. Strangely enough many of the themes written about 40 years ago still apply to day.

*The book Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevera- written when he was not yet a controversial icon, but a common man who was just coming across the idea that borders were meaningless; the struggles of the people are one and the same.

The point is that i came to realize that as far advanced as we have been blessed to become, many of us are still trapped in racist, sexist, and otherly prejudiced grudges of the past.. many of these grudges having no palpable origin, except for the idea that this is the way things "should" be or "have always" been. We work to break these molds of an oppressive yesterday in order to allow growth for a progressive tomorrow.

Sign my book! :)