[lit-ideas] Let's Face The Music (And Dance)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:03:02 EDT
Newyorkrican
In a message dated 6/10/2009 4:42:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
This from Camille Paglia.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a
wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment
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She has elsewhere said,
"I'm not a _mere_ Hispanic. I'm not Mexican. I'm not Puerto-Rican: I'm a
Rican-Yorker. We have to distinguish between Puerto-Ricans born in Puerto
Rico, Puerto-Ricans born in NYC, and me, born in NYC but of _parents_
emigrated during the second world war. Quite a difference."
Oddly, Josefina Scaglione, of Argentina, is playing a Puerto-Rican in
"West Side Story" as I write this. She said, "I can't do the accent; but then,
I've never been to Puerto Rico, nor do I intend to!" (She is from Trelew,
Welsh Argentina -- almost).
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Who am I? I am a "Newyorkrican." For those of you on the West Coast who do
not know what that term means: I am a born and bred New Yorker of Puerto
Rican-born parents who came to the states during World War II.
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Oddly, Paglia, means 'hay' in Italian, hence 'pagliaccio', the hay-man. But
I'm sure she does not identify as 'dago'! (I don't use the term
offensively, I just quote it! and it's so old-fashioned it hurts).
Astaire was great, but my love goes for "Adele"! She _was_ the one, before
she got replaced by that Rogers girl.
The Aster siblings tripped London so often...
J L Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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