Felipe Luciano Jibaro, My Pretty Nigger

[MrJonzzJonn]

He murdered the kid who gave his brother a black eye and a swollen lip and that was told by Felipe Luciano himself on TV.  That was self defense?

[MrJonzzJonn]

He said NIGGER in this video more times than Mark Fuhrman, Michael Richards and F. Lee Bailey but that's OK because he's a NIGGER, you dig??!!

[MrJonzzJonn]

He's a cold-blooded murderer!! Don't forget that amidst his jive talk!!

[MrBull419]

@MrJonzzJonn Manslaughter is not murder. Honestly I don't know the details of his conviction but he was a teenager when he killed someone, I don't know if it was in self defense or what, so to call him a cold blooded murderer is a very strong statement unless you know what happened in detail I wouldn't use those terms.

[ciphagreen]

I didn't know jibaros were black, I thought they were tainos that escaped from spanish slavery and lived in the hills or something.

[MrBull419]

@ciphagreen There are some Jibaros who are black but there are in the minority, most Jibaros are white or tregueno, at least that's been my exp within my family which comes from the mountain region of Puerto Rico, a strong european dna influence. I think what felipe is saying that it doesn't matter what color the Jibaros are they are all his people, from Puerto Rico.

[guiqui5]

In the same poem that he recited 1n 1972 at Sing Sing prison, he started off by saying that in the south, it was said that when you love someone, that's my nigger

[SocietyScarred]

They're are only three races in this world and the rest of the people are just made up of these three African, Asian, Or Caucasian there is no other races so what people need to understand is they derived from one out of those three. But being that the first man was found in Africa I'm going to go with that one. So people that's having these identity issues need to search for their history.

[AppleBlacke]

@SocietyScarred His interest in race isn't anthropological, that's ridiculous.

[AppleBlacke]

@SocietyScarred It's obvious the poem deals with issues of longing and belonging, using cultural background as a symbol. It has nothing to do with tracing one's personal geoanthropological history.

[SocietyScarred]

@AppleBlacke Uh, Fact of the matter is I wasn't talking about the poem I was talking about people. But thanks anyway.

[SocietyScarred]

@AppleBlacke What part don't you and this other mentally flawed individual that keep commenting me understand. I'M NOT talking about the POEM I'm generally speaking. Stop trying to debate on the sake of debating it's irritating you're talking to talk. Do me a favor and stop talking to me. Thank You.

[Wolfsrain90]

@SocietyScarred Actually no. That's completely off. There are no races at all.

[SocietyScarred]

@Wolfsrain90 Actually Yes there is. Don't be oblivious to try to prove a point that you can't. Please stop talking to me you're starting to get on my nerves for the lack of better words of this whole conversation BYE.

[Wolfsrain90]

@SocietyScarred Actually, no there aren't. The "three races" thing you just spewed is literally quite ancient. When "Asian," "Caucasian," and "Negroid" race classifications were dreamt up, they were a way of cataloging subspecies (and were scientific racism at best). There ARE no human subspecies. There are no markers in all of one "race" that there aren't in all others. There is more difference between individuals of the same race than there are between races. Fruitflies have 20x the amount of

[Wolfsrain90]

@SocietyScarred genetic variation humans do, in fact; quite a few people are a couple mDNA codons away from being identical twins. All the things that people map to "race" are polygenic, independent, and have frequencies based on geographic location. Physical geovariation does not a subspecies make. What people use to classify as "race" is completely arbitrary, because there would be infinite "races." "Black people" are no more a "race" than "people with big ears."

Now, sociopolitically, races

[SocietyScarred]

@Wolfsrain90 AND yet you're still trying to talk to me. I'm done with you, you're dismissed GET LOST. Tell someone who actually care. I didn't read your comment I just seen your name you're waisting your time SORRY.

[Wolfsrain90]

@SocietyScarred Because you can't even defend your argument. Just STFU already. It's clear you know nothing about race and genetics.

[Wolfsrain90]

@SocietyScarred do exist. But such classifications are fluent from region to region. Ex: A woman like Halle Berry who would be considered "black" in the UK (or US), would not be in Brazil. Just like a Puerto Rican who is considered "black" in the continental States may not be in PR. Race may exist socially, but it does not genetically. This is because it's a socially construct. GTFO if you don't know what you're talking about.

[soulshower]

I heard this poem on a deep house track, but at the end he says "Querida".

[mgalore]

in many ways boriqcuas and blacks are very similiar im not sure but maybe the majority of puertoricans have black blood in them but even if they dont boricuas share the oppression of the blancos enslaving them . youcan see that even up until today with the prison industrial complex

[Sumumba]

DOESNT matter what others say or think or even 'we' do YES we are ONE people!...we dont DEFINE ourselves based on ignorance ...A SINGLE ROOT can SPROUT differences...but it's STILL based on the same ROOM....

[Deerych]

No we are not one people today. That's a fact. But there are some similarities. The jury is still out for me on this one. Cubans and Puerto Ricans turn their nose up at African Americans, the direct descendants of African slaves in Amerikkka. Just saying.

[Dferd777]

@Deerych You need to start a church.

[mushiyrah]

The point is, we are of the same blood line, the same torture, same history. We will always be bonded. We are one people.

[mushiyrah]

"The history of African people in Puerto Rico begins with the immigration of African free men who came with the invading Spanish Conquistadors. The Spaniards enslaved the Tainos (the native inhabitants of the island),& many of them died as a result of Spaniards' oppressive colonization efforts"-Wiki(African Immigration to Puerto Rico. The jibaro is the ancestral farmer in P.R.(endeared symbol of PR history)-not much unlike the sharecroppers after slavery striving to make a future post slavery.

[MsAyanna57]

heard the original in the 70s by The Last Poets... you have NO idea what his was about!!

[rock9859]

It is all about Africa our beginning. Black and Latino Puerto Rico is just an Island

[cutesestra]

it's very prowder, very kind, thanks for you very much)))

[misscutie238]

i'm unclear on what he's talking about, i think its an area which i have never looked into, could someone give me a low down on what he's talking about, and like the history of it? i love the passion he has.

[malcaraz3]

This is one of my favorite Last Poet's poems. It is a recognition of the diaspora and the bloodlines that connect African and Puerto Rican people. Listen closely.

[CoffySarai]

I just saw him as a young man in the movie Badge 373 the other day. Good movie

Not feeling the poem

[sticksandstones1991]

wtf... i dont get it....

[SovereignOfSpice]

I dont get it

[LilBlitz116]

lol latinos were offended at the beginning thinking."we're not niggers."

[chsn09]

Interesting video!

[CallMeiRo]

" Oppression makes even God smell foul. "

[kookiemag]

LIve On!!! My Pretty Nigger!!! Long Time since "Stony Brook" Miss you my Brother!!!

[vivascargill]

I remember seeing him with the Last poets God I'm gettin old!

[dixielatino]

Felipe Luciano  the one of the original Last Poets and one of the Young Lords of El Barrio NYC. thank you URP for posting .

[dal4018]

@dixielatino He was the man who STARTED THE LAST POETS!!!!!!!!!!!

[jujuman23]

My man...memories from the late '60s and early '70s. Young Lords, Last Poets and listening to Felipe's radio show on Sundays playing EVERYWHERE, especially Orchard Beach, where he played music and taught the people to love and respect Machito, Graciella and Mario Bauza.

Thanks for posting this and thanks to Felipe.