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#1 Mar 13 2006 at 10:51 AM Rating: Decent
/bow to the natural latina moves! My little brother got married over the weekend to a brownie. I've fallen in love with the music and the dances. I had soo much fun out there on the dance floor. My legs STILL hurt from all the dancing. Soo much fun. I had no idea what the songs were about but those beats just begged you to dance.
#2 Mar 13 2006 at 10:53 AM Rating: Good
So how does it feel to finally be related to Flea'lo?
#3 Mar 13 2006 at 10:57 AM Rating: Decent
*Mos Def singing* 
[Mos] 	Brown skin lady, hey hey 
[Talib]	Yes 
[Mos]	Where you goin 
[Talib]	This goes to the brown skin ladies 
[Mos]	Brown skin lady 
[Talib]	Yo, indigineous women of the planet Earth 
[Mos]	What you doin? 
[Talib]	Givin birth to the brown skin ladies first 
[Mos]	Brown skin lady 
[Talib]	For what it's worth, from me to you 
[Mos]	How do you feel? 
[Talib]	From me to you, watchin you 
	I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the 
	way you walk, yes, I live the way you move 
[Mos]	I like the way you walk, when you walk on by 
	I like the way you move, I like the WAY you move 
[Talib]	I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the 
	way you walk, please, won't you do that dance 
[Mos]	I like the way you walk, when you walk on by 
	I like the way you move, I like you baby 
 
[together] 
And everybody on the avenue, I know, when they see us sing 
Everybody on the avenue, I know, when they see us sing, there she is 
 
[Talib] 
Fresher than Tony Rebel's vestibules at African street festivals 
My incredible women is, plentiful 
Over the years I met a few, none of them compare to you 
Preparin you to make food bearable, somethin terrible, let's see: 
you fruitful, beautiful, smart, lovable, huggable 
Doable like art, suitable to be part 
of my life, Coppertone, oh you copyright infringement 
Pay you bidness ten cents, way back in the day 
It's like I'm standin there you know appreciatin God's design 
and then you showed up, it's like you read my mind 
DAMN SHE'S FINE, I think I add the R-E, in front of that 
and see if she D, to get, with a cat like me 
 
[Talib]	I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the 
	way you walk, yes, I live the way you move 
[Mos]	I like the way you walk, when you walk on by 
	I like the way you move, I like the WAY you move 
[Talib]	I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the 
	way you walk, please, won't you do that dance 
[Mos]	I like the way you walk, when you walk on by 
	I like the way you move, I like you baby 
 
[together] 
And everybody on the avenue, I know, when they see us sing 
Everybody on the avenue, I know, when they see us sing, there she is 
 
[Mos Def] 
Ooooh!  Daring me girl, look at you! 
Comin on the block lookin fresh and brand new 
Ooooh!  Headwrap cover your hairdo 
Pretty feet peekin through open-toed shoe 
Ooooh!  No limit to what I would do 
Make love to you like long interview 
Whooh!  Is she for real, me like you 
Good look champion, win the title 
True, many man try invite you 
Shot down lyric each time they cyph you 
Jewel, what man you get all insides you 
Feet they walk way and just that sheik posture 
Ooooh!  Can't be a next one like you 
Famous like tapes made by DJ Clue 
I tighten up my game as I approach you 
Yo check her she the nectar the bee get close to 
 
... 
 
[Talib] 
I don't get many compliments, but I am confident 
Used to have a complex about, gettin too complex 
You got me, willin to try, looked me in the eye 
My head is still in the sky, since you walked on by 
I'm feelin high, got my imagination flickerin like hot flames 
it's how it seems, you make me wanna ride the Coltrane to A Love Supreme 
My brown lady, creates environments, for 
happy brown babies, I know it sounds crazy 
but your skin's the inspiration for cocoa butter 
You provoke a brother we should get to know one another 
I discover when I bring you through my people say TRUE, all I can say 
is all praise due I thank you God for a beauty like you 
 
*Mos Def singing* 
[Mos] 	Brown skin lady 
[Talib]	Yes 
[Mos]	Where you goin 
[Talib]	This goes to the brown skin ladies 
[Mos]	Brown skin lady 
[Talib]	On the planet Earth today, yes 
[Mos]	What you doin? 
[Mos]	Brown skin lady 
[Mos]	How do you feel? 
 
[Talib]	I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the 
	way you walk, yes, I live the way you move 
[Mos]	I like the way you walk, when you walk on by 
	I like the way you move, I like the WAY you move 
[Talib]	I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the 
	way you walk, yes, please do that dance 
[Mos]	I like the way you walk, when you walk on by 
	I like the way you move, I like you baby 
 
[together] 
And everybody on the avenue, I know, when they see us sing 
Everybody on the avenue, I know, when they see us sing, there she is 
 
[Mos]	There she is, she's a brown skinned lady 
	Such a brown skinned lady 
	She's a brown skinned lady 
	She's a brown skinned lady 
	She's a brown skinned lady 
	She's a brown skinned lady 
 
[Talib] 
You know what some people put themselves through 
to look just like you? 
Dark stocking, high heels, lipstick, alla that 
You know what? 
Without makeup you're beautiful 
Whatcha you need to paint the next face for 
We're not dealin with the European standard of beauty tonight 
Turn off the TV and put the magazine away 
In the mirror tell me what you see 
See the evidence of divine presence 
Women of the, Carribean, they got the, golden sun 
I know women on the continent got it 
Nigeria, and Ghana, you know they got it 
Tanzania, Namibia and Mozambique 
and Bothswana, to let it speak 
about latinas, columbianas 
... 
Tallenas, of course the Brooklyn women walk that walk 
And the Bronx women walk that walk 
Honies from Queens walk that walk, NYC, ATL, LA 
Cincinatti, the Bay Area... 
#4 Mar 13 2006 at 10:58 AM Rating: Decent
Speaking of being instantly related to everyone in town... there were people coming up and talking to me like I'd been family forever. Saying hi and bye to me as they were coming and going like I should know them. I thought I had a large family, I was wrong. These were second, third, or fourth cousins once or twice removed and so on here.It was crazy! I am now related to half the people in Abilene.


Oh! Another good thing about now being related to mexicans. Any time there is a get together, there is a TON of alcohol and they are not adverse to sharing it. I was well lit when Mr.Katie and I finally got out of there. Thank goodness he's my designated driver always.
#5 Mar 13 2006 at 11:01 AM Rating: Decent
Living in Texas and it took you this long to discover their spice o' life?!

Congrats on your new found friends! May your dishes now always be clean and your lawn manicured.

Smiley: yippee
#6 Mar 13 2006 at 11:05 AM Rating: Decent
Meh, in my single days I had a thing for mexicans. There were usually so much more romantic and protective than white boys. Their families were always the sweetest and nicest too. I just wasnt willing to do the whole life style I saw going on. There was alot of the "female submission" I saw that I'm just too bull headed to put up with.

#7 Mar 13 2006 at 11:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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The One and Only Katie wrote:
My little brother got married over the weekend to a brownie.
Does the Girl Scout Council know about this?
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#8 Mar 13 2006 at 11:39 AM Rating: Decent
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they are quite musical creatures, are they not?
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#9 Mar 13 2006 at 12:03 PM Rating: Decent
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bow to the natural latina moves! My little brother got married over the weekend to a brownie.


Mmmm they don't care that you call them BROWNIE? Well good for you Whitie or Honky or cracker, races is still alive in well here.

Brownie my ***, call a black a brownie around here they will hand you back your liver.

#10 Mar 13 2006 at 12:06 PM Rating: Decent
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bow to the natural latina moves! My little brother got married over the weekend to a brownie.


Mmmm they don't care that you call them BROWNIE? Well good for you Whitie or Honky or cracker, races is still alive in well here.

Brownie my ***, call a black a brownie around here they will hand you back your liver.
Do you prefer n[Aliceblue][/Aliceblue]igger or porch monkey in place of brownie?

When I was a kid, I read a book that refered to black people's kids as nigglets. My how times have changed.
#11 Mar 13 2006 at 12:07 PM Rating: Decent
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Tomii wrote:
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bow to the natural latina moves! My little brother got married over the weekend to a brownie.


Mmmm they don't care that you call them BROWNIE? Well good for you Whitie or Honky or cracker, races is still alive in well here.

Brownie my ***, call a black a brownie around here they will hand you back your liver.




she's talking about brown people, not black people.

Smiley: schooled


I think otherwise she would have said "darkie".

Edited, Mon Mar 13 12:10:13 2006 by Kelvyquayo
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#12 Mar 13 2006 at 12:10 PM Rating: Decent
Tomii wrote:
...races is still alive in well here.




Explain yourself.

Edited, Mon Mar 13 12:13:34 2006 by Barkingturtle
#13 Mar 13 2006 at 12:10 PM Rating: Decent
Actually brownie is perferred to Mexican for some of these people I've met several who tell me they are not Mexican they are Spanish. So here I call them brownies. Plus its an old Asylum joke.
#14 Mar 13 2006 at 12:12 PM Rating: Good
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races is still alive in well here.


baby Jessica....
#15 Mar 13 2006 at 12:17 PM Rating: Decent
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The One and Only Katie wrote:
Actually brownie is perferred to Mexican for some of these people I've met several who tell me they are not Mexican they are Spanish. So here I call them brownies. Plus its an old Asylum joke.


Actually I think they like the term "Wet back" over brownie.

Filthy Mexicans

Edited, Mon Mar 13 12:18:22 2006 by Aegis
#16 Mar 13 2006 at 12:22 PM Rating: Good
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The One and Only Katie wrote:
Speaking of being instantly related to everyone in town... there were people coming up and talking to me like I'd been family forever. Saying hi and bye to me as they were coming and going like I should know them. I thought I had a large family, I was wrong. These were second, third, or fourth cousins once or twice removed and so on here.


That's like Filipino families. My husband has long given up on trying to figure out who's who with my relatives. Anyone who is not my father, mother, brother or grandmother, he just smiles at and says hello.

Grats to your little brother getting married Katie. So, onto the girlie question: Whaddya wear? Smiley: grin
#17 Mar 13 2006 at 12:29 PM Rating: Decent
Well for the actuall wedding I wore a nice pants suit and these awesome 4 inch heels! Nothing special. Before the reception though, I went home and changed into a pair of comfy blue jeans and a peasant blouse. I was going to wear these rockin boots but for as sexy as they are they are PAINFUL. So I settled for a comfy pair of tennis shoes and danced the nite away.
#18 Mar 13 2006 at 1:56 PM Rating: Decent
The One and Only Katie wrote:
Actually brownie is perferred to Mexican for some of these people I've met several who tell me they are not Mexican they are Spanish. So here I call them brownies. Plus its an old Asylum joke.


I once knew someone that would not call someone from Mexico "Mexican" because she thought of it as a racial slur. In my mind, "Mexican" has nothing to do with race; it is all about being from Mexico. I think she had heard people talk negatively about Mexicans for so long that the term had become a racial slur to her.
#19 Mar 13 2006 at 2:15 PM Rating: Good
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Isnt this the stupid lazy chit you were yammering on about who was about to ruin your brothers life.
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#20 Mar 13 2006 at 2:37 PM Rating: Good
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That was when she was one of those brownies.
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#21 Mar 13 2006 at 4:48 PM Rating: Good
I really thought this thread was going to be about Condoleeza Rice Smiley: laugh
#22 Mar 13 2006 at 5:16 PM Rating: Excellent
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Tomii wrote:
Mmmm they don't care that you call them BROWNIE? Well good for you Whitie or Honky or cracker, races is still alive in well here.

Brownie my ***, call a black a brownie around here they will hand you back your liver.


Not if you're one of us we don't. What makes you one of us? Trying to speak our language and dance our dances. (We really are that welcoming.)

Glad to hear you liked it, Katie. When I first came to the US I had a hard time with what Americans considered a "party". I showed up ready to dance and it was a bunch of folks watching football and drinking beer. Imagine my shock.


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I once knew someone that would not call someone from Mexico "Mexican" because she thought of it as a racial slur. In my mind, "Mexican" has nothing to do with race; it is all about being from Mexico. I think she had heard people talk negatively about Mexicans for so long that the term had become a racial slur to her.

The Meixcan community is a lot more complex. There are Mexicans, who are the recent immigrants or people that were born in Mexico, Tejanos, which are people from the North (think belt buckes) which are usually Mexicans by birth, and Chicanos, which are Mexican-American children who were raised in the U.S. but have a strong cultural identification with both their parental and American cultures. I'm guessing the person you were speaking to was a Chicana, and to her, the word implies that she's not American.

Edited, Mon Mar 13 17:20:20 2006 by Atomicflea
#23 Mar 13 2006 at 5:59 PM Rating: Decent
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I'm guessing the person you were speaking to was a Chicana, and to her, the word implies that she's not American.


She was actually caucasian and born in the US. She avoided using the term Mexican in any context out of fear that she would offend someone. It isn't that she thought there might be more complex heritage in play that would cause someone to be offended. She actually though the term Mexican in and of itself was offensive. I actually had the impression that she thought being a Mexican would be a bad thing, so calling someone Mexican would probably hurt their feelings. It was a really strange thing.

The funny thing about it is that any time she ran into a situation where she feared that referring to someone as Mexican would be offensive, she referred to them as Spanish. For a long time, I thought she was talking about people from Spain. Smiley: laugh
#24 Mar 13 2006 at 6:08 PM Rating: Excellent
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When I first came to the US I had a hard time with what Americans considered a "party". I showed up ready to dance and it was a bunch of folks watching football and drinking beer. Imagine my shock.


I considered a party getting nekkid and having lots of sex. Imagine my shock when I got invited to a party where they sat around playing card/board games and drinking beer. And imagine their reaction when I walked in wearing buttless chaps with a holster packing vibrators and flavored lubricant.

I've never seen so many old ladies faint in succession like that.



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#25 Mar 13 2006 at 6:11 PM Rating: Good
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Mexican isn't offensive, if you're from Mexico. If you're from Spain you're Spanish. American, German, Swedish, Candadian, etc. Whatever. I think the problem with calling people Mexicans is when people assume anyone south of the border of the border is mexican. The same thing when people call anyone from asia chinese. They're asians. Europeans include english, french, etc. You could call them South Americans. People are just stupid when it comes to geography.
#26 Mar 13 2006 at 7:31 PM Rating: Good
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Whatever. I think the problem with calling people Mexicans is when people assume anyone south of the border of the border is mexican.


What!? There's something south of the border (of the border) that isn't Mexico? And that goes for folks living in Canaduh as well! ;)
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