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Dan Tres

Ganga Zumbi's father... ask my son

About Me

A son, husband, father, mentor, friend, writer, capoeirista, universal magnetic b-boy, veteran of the old school, bibliophile, lover of martial arts...I devour books at an alarming rate. My poor eyesight is subject to about 100 pages of reading per day. Gotta stay sharp.I still b-boy (at 34) I am a cowboy on the boat of RA (thanks Ishmael Reed for that one), I eat racists and shit out piles of gold.I am a freelance writer who finally got his first paid gig after 12 years of hustling that pen.I have two blogs: http://selfra.blogspot.com and http://darkjeedai.blogspot.comI am a member of the mighty Universal Zulu Nation.

My Interests

Culture freedom, Reading, Writing, Hip-hop culture , capoeira, and Star Wars

I'd like to meet:

The rest of the Young Lords, Queen Afua, for now....

Music:

Fela Kuti, Johnny Ventura, Susana Baca, Ozomatli, Antibalas, Femi Kuti, Tony Allen, Wale Oyejide, MF DOOM, De La Soul, Immortal Technique, Jurassic Five, Erykah Badu, Zap Mama, Ray Barreto, Mongo Santamaria, Wilfrido Vargas, Antonio Crespo, Aquakate, Martin Luther, Bad Brains, Jill Scott, Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire, Black Moon, Brand Nubian....

Movies:

Sankofa, Once Were Warriors, Juice, Le Heine, City of God, Star Wars Ep I - VI, Wild Style, Style Wars, The Freshest Kids, The Corporation, Down in the Delta, X, Do the Right THing, Brother from Another Planet, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Crooklyn, Like Water for Chocolate, Raising Victor Vargas & La Familia.

Books:

"The Spook Who Sat by the Door" by Sam Greenlee, "Assata" by Assata Shakur, "Complimentarity" by Mwalimu Baruti, anything by Octavia Butler, "Lion's Blood" by Steven Barnes, "Down These Mean Streets" by Piri Thomas, "Drown" by Junot Diaz, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Haley, "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" by Jeff Chang, "Bomb the Suburbs" by William "Upski" Wimsatt, "Master Style General: Dondi WHite" by Zephyr and Michael White, and "Revolutionary Suicide" by Huey P. Newton.

Heroes:

Young Lords Party, Don Pedro Albizu Campos, Bruce Lee, El Hajj Malik Shabazz, Paul Robeson, Huey P. Newton, Ella Baker, Ganga Zumbi, Johnny Ventura, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Keidi Obi Awadu, Hon. Marcus Garvey, Assata Shakur and Lolita Lebron.

My Blog

Im A Bettin Man: Love Triangles that fall Apart Pt. 6

  > @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> At first, Sheila would sit down with Pam and myself during the last five minutes of my break. It would just b...
Posted by Dan Tres on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:55:00 PST

Im A Bettin Man: Love Triangles that fall Apart Pt. 5

--> @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> I thoroughly enjoyed Charlie. She was funny and it was obvious that sex was on her mind. She never even mentioned ...
Posted by Dan Tres on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:01:00 PST

Marching Party III

........ <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> As usual, I arrived early. There were a few other recruits standing around who like me, did not k...
Posted by Dan Tres on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:47:00 PST

Consumption: Filling our bellies until we die...

Omi's Note: This post originally appeared on my blog, http://selfra.blogspot.comOne of the problems I have with the mainstream media and the general public (there is a legal definition for that term: ...
Posted by Dan Tres on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:32:00 PST

A Marching Party II

In almost all boot camps, there is this thing called "mashing." When someone's drill sergeant or company commander makes a group of fresh recruits do several series and repetitions of calisthenics to ...
Posted by Dan Tres on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:48:00 PST

A Marching Party Part I

Boot camp is definitely an experienced that cannot be paralleled any where else in the world. You have to have gone through it to understand. For me, I went to boot camp 18 years ago but it is somethi...
Posted by Dan Tres on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:39:00 PST

The Father of Osiris

We were raised in a single parent home. As a youngblood, our family lived in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At that time it was called Loisaida. Now it's called LoHo (of all things). We were fortun...
Posted by Dan Tres on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:39:00 PST

When we get by....

when we get by, we'll make it by, when we get by with lovei look in your eyes, i look in your eyes They're pretty as the skies above Everything, everything, everything is okaywe could make l...
Posted by Dan Tres on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:24:00 PST

Negocios con un Metrayadora or Sometimes you have to be gully to be a father

Every year for Father's day, I like to big up a few brothers who are doing their thing. I could easily say how bad of a father my own father continues to be (as if I expect him to be one at this point...
Posted by Dan Tres on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:43:00 PST

Flavor of Love and Fatherhood

I watch Flavor of Love. There I said it. In my defense, I missed the entire second season and had the chance to watch a few episodes while I was sick. I know I should have been reading and writing. A ...
Posted by Dan Tres on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:15:00 PST