Meet The Future Leaders At Harvard Who Elected Daddy Yankee Latino Of The Year
9 May 2008, 10:30 AM. By Guanabee Staff
The footage from Harvard’s 2008 Latino of the Year award show is finally here and, like any good Latino college event, it’s chock full of horrible slam poetry with umbilical cord, tortilla and grandmother references. There’s also an awkward, on-the-spot interview with a student trying to recall anything interesting Daddy Yankee might have said and, of course, Daddy himself posing with all the barely legal ladies. Enjoy!
Earlier: Harvard Students Honoring Daddy “Gasolina” Yankee As Latino Of The Year
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No offense to Daddy Yankee but really……..is he the best that we got?
Yeesh. It’s as if some Hispanic institution working to better the youth of the nation elected Wilmer ‘Fez’ Valderrama as its role model of the year. Oh, wait: that actually happened.
Who’s next, Daniel Mauser?
Shoot my sombrero-adorned bald cholo head, please. Jesus. Really? Ugh.
wow… just wow
“Passing tradition through umbilical cords like whispered secrets.”
In my family, many have tried and all have failed to keep a secret. But we kinda count on that so that traditions are passed on by stories. And whispers? Please. We all talk at volume 10 all the time. But that’s just my family.
disgusting, this will be talked about on Rock y Roll Radio for sure…What a joke…
Saucido,
Let me know beforehand when you’re going to discuss it, cool? At least when it’s going to be broadcast.
Que wevada. Daddy Yankee? As much as I hate to say it, I think I prefer Junot Diaz. This fucking video is one of the reasons I find it hard to relate to a lot of Latinos that are in my age group (the ones born in the states, anyway). Instead of celebrating the culture, they unknowingly (and knowingly) exploit it–I mean, I love tortillas and Aztecs as much as the next cat, but that doesn’t mean I have to read a reference to them in every single poem or story churned out by Latinos. It’s like they’re a bunch of Alisa-Valdes Rodriguez clones who’ve been culled from the assembly line (appropriately housed on the American side of the border). It’s sad, really, that in the hands of hacks and hucksters, cultural bywords have become cliches. Thanks for embarrassing us, assholes.
To me, the Latino of the millennium will always be Charlton Heston. May that vato rest in peace.
here’s my theory: the term latino (the idea latino) was created in this country to mash a bunch of people from different cultures into an easily swallowable, easily marketed unit. it’s when people started internalizing the ridiculous umbrella term as a legit identity marker that we get idiotic broken record tortilla-abuela-things that come out of your vagina references.
plus, you know.
disney isn’t helping.
(see?? little issues! big issues! related!)
They should just admit it was a ploy to meet Daddy Yankee.
Hey Soledadenmasa, you got it! if you have any thoughts on it give me an email, I was thinking of getting that Gupta gal to call into the show to defend the groups actions, sound good?
Saucido,
Comment on my blog, then I’ll email you.
So much for “Best School in the World”
te quiero mi amor
estoy 31 anero antes ti y 31 ano como tu ahora imposible de olvidar en vida estoy enferma de ti
hasta la muerte ahora estoy llorar por ti te quiero mi amor
YO VOY ME MATAR POR TONO AMOR
ESTOY SINCERO CUANDO YO DIME TE QUIERO