‘Payin a price twice as expensive as white kids’ — Big Punisher Mexican, wet back, spic, those Bridgeport kids, that Puerto Rican, thugs, trouble makers, those niggers. Mothafucka, I even heard sand nigger. You know, I’m sure there was mad other shit they called us behind our backs. …

206 bones in the human body. 14 in the hand. 26 in your foot. I relish in the macabre, my brand is the darkness. A ghetto geek from the projects, a hood ass nerd. Who woulda thought this dumb Boricua would be living in a world of magical realism. The…

Bridgeport's Black Rock Neighborhood Offers Cultured, Affordable Seaside Living When Courtney Hartl and her husband Matt looked at a potential space for a coffeehouse in Bridgeport's Black Rock…www.connecticutmag.com I wrote these words in response to Connecticut Magazine’s article about Black Rock, CT entitled “Bridgeport’s Black Rock Neighborhood Offers Cultured, Affordable Seaside Living”. The article is an example of cultural violence which I will explain below. Images and Words have hidden meanings. Those subliminal meanings can be used to…