Comrade Chad

One drop of the torrential rain of shame from the Amerikkkan hegemonical heavens is the systematic oppression of the innocent and culturally colorful American (Shacha Runa in Quechua). Like a Bush bomb slamming into an orphanage, I collided with this reality during spring break in Acapulco. The sight of waiters and waitresses obsequiously serving my roommates, one of whom supports the rape of Latin America by voting...Republican…(there, I said it; his dad sprang for the rental- what could I do?) while the other one hardly attends any rallies or teach-ins, sickened me. Only I could accept the margaritas and little tacos (made with maize which the mighty called “corn” to prevent people from learning that they stole the crop from the aboriginal population) with a free conscious because I made a point of raising theirs: instead of blood-stained sheets known as Amerikkkan dollars, I gave them copies of my Latin-American thesis: Amerikkka: how Neo-Colonialism and Everything Else We’ve Done Has Made Latin America Poorer Than Us. You should have seen their faces! I’m planting the seeds, brother.

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