Die Honky Die Night

Last Night I caught "Walk Out," "Edge of America," and the beginning of "Secuestro Express"--which I finished this morning. Yes it was a triple threat of people the white man has fucked over in its domination of the western hemisphere.

"Walk Out" is the docudrama of the 1968 East LA walk outs in the High Schools, Chicano kids weren't getting the same type of education as the Gringos and they decided to do something about it. It was great propaghanda that had you hissing at the LAPD, which I do anyway when during my freetime.

"Edge of America," however, was for more intersting. Strangely earlier in the day I had watch the Martin Lawrence middle-school vehicle "rebound," which was a black NCAA millionaire coach coaching a shitty team that had never gotten to double digits. "Edge of America" was about a black man from Texas who goes to Idaho to teach on the Three Nations Reservation. He ends up coaching the girls' Basketball team, it was interesting having the Black coach, anger and all, trying to size up the Indians and the Indians sizing him up a bit to. There's this one poignant part towards the end where the assistant coach--a lovely Indian woman--asking him why he's mad all the time, he askes her why she thinks he's mad and she says "Because you're a black man in America, but get over it you're talking to Indians here."
The film was really about how a lot of minority groups place against the system by keeping themselves down, the Three Nations people have this thing in their culture where mistakes and imperfections keep their soul open--meaning it's ok that you never leave the Rez and don't go to college to make something of yourself.

In the Rez, the Barrio, the Ghetto, the Projects we see this, it doesn't matter if you're Indian, Latino, Black or Irish there's something in these cultures that says "I'm jsut some dumb *insert slur here* the system's against me I can't do shit I'll jsut gangbang, sell drugs whatever and never make anything of myself.

I think if you trully want to see equality it's this mentality that needs to be broken. Red, Black, Brown, White; doesn't matter the race-- it's the Ghetto Mentality that needs to die.

P.S. "Sequestro Express" was about a rich couple that gets kidnapped in Caracas, so one thing we all have going for us is that even if we live in Camden, at least we don't live in Caracas. Jesus, this guy is being forced to empty money from an ATM for his kidnappers and another dude runs up and tries to mug him at gun point, then the kidnappers kill him for fucking with their deal. Latin America is no fun when it comes to crime--but they're women, Mon Dieu!

P.P.S. They also had little hints of a racial thing going on where the kidnappers were of a slightly darker skin tone but referred to themselves as "Negro, or Nigger" yet there were dudes who really were black. Its interesting how in South America (not including Brazil) they have their own race thing only an average joe from the US wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two.