aozora13 wrote:E, I thought you were Brazillian? Are you going to apply to get another Passport? I have a Brazillian friend who did that and has two Passports. He can be avoid having to pay the high Tourist costs to travel to Brazil. Also, it is good that you hurried to get your Passport. I have heard things are going to change soon where it will be hard for people to get theres and also a better RFID chip.
My great-grandparents were Brazilian after I did research. I used to think I was partially Puerto Rican because of family member Jim (he was 50-something at the time and I was 5-7 years old) whom lived there and spoke Puerto Rican Spanish forwards and backwards until I did research on my genealogical roots. I found out that my late Jimmy had a Puerto Rican father and my grandmother and he had the same mother (Brasilian) but not the same father. Both of my parents are American of Brazilian ancestry going back to the 60s when my great grand parents and grand parents came here from Salvador, Brasil (with some retro Portuguese geneo-side and retro Irish blood (via proxy of Brasil) from my papa's geneo-side). Remember, Brazil is crazily mixed before they come to America.
If you didn't know my parents, you would assume that my mother was Creole and that my father was a light-skinned Black dude. Similar to how R&B singer Elle Varner's parents look.
I came from money; that's why they were able to afford to immigrate to America.
Then the money trail "curtailed" itself when great-grandparents had passed in the early 80s, then in 1989, both sides of the family's grand father's passed, then a few months later in 1989 my parents divorced and my father split and my grandmother stopped giving my mother and father extra spending money and now gave it to my aunt, whom my grand mother favored more (personal long a.ss story so you will be spared). Luckily, I was 15 when this happened. I had a spoiled childhood when it came to the latest video game systems..Vic 20, C128, C64, c1541, c1571 dual density double sided hard drives, Atari boxes, Coleco VIsion, Super NES, you name it, Icepic BOOTLEG FLOPPY GAMES, all the Transformers: all the Stunticons, all the Aerialbots, all the Constructicons, Mega Supreme the Autobot City, Ultra Magnus, Rodimus Prime, Hot Rod, MegaTron, The Sweeps, The Skarkicons, all the Go-Bots, all MUSCLE action figures, all GI Joe figures with different legs from different GI Joes strapped in by the rubber band and hook in their pelvic area (LOL), Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Andre The Giant, Ted DiBiase dolls. Ate Sun Country cereal (it had been taken off the market because it was so fattening and so tasty YET not wildly-popular), Entermann's, Freidhoffer's, Orange Donuts, NERDs cereal (you spring chickens have no idea how good American junk food was in the 80s and early 90s!!) ate 4-5 meals a day and laid around the house (when I was 380 at 14-16 years old) - AND this was before buffets became popular in NYS/NYC/NJ/CT!!!!
I grew up as a Black man due to how my mother wanted me to assimilate in America. It didn't work for me. I ended up fighting Black boys monthly - especially - my size and bigger and/or dark-as-midnight; Black girls used to "throw me under the bus" and call me "Heavy D" and yell when walking by "Ah bwih-bwih-bwih-bwih-uh-bwih-uh-deeeeeeee", then when I lost weight right after high school, I was "a fake-a.ss Al B Sure" and "Kid's brother from Kid N Play"..."hi yellow a.ss ni.gga". They mocked me for being an "uppity n.igga" like they were Stephen calling me that if I were Django just because I NEVER SKIPPED A CLASS IN SCHOOL. But I act why "whiter" than Django ever did.
Dark-skinned Black girls would always say I got "gud hare"; overweight Black BBWs (which wasn't common at the time) used to smile at me and my mother sometimes would notice when dropping me off to school and she'd say, "_____, why don't you talk to her? She would be a good girlfriend!" (Just because my mother wanted me to marry a dark-skinned Black obese woman so badly! I KID YOU THE F.UCK NOT). Maybe that's why I love fat women so much. Psychological issues I guess.
So since my mother and father listened to a lot of R&B growing up e.g. The Ohio Players, The Isleys, Shalamar, Minnie Ripperton, Donny Hathaway, Michael Jackson, Booty's Rubber Band/Parliament/Funkadelic, Lionel Richie/The Commodores, etc., The Doobie Brothers feat. Michael McDonalds, Chicago feat. Peter Cetera, I became an R&B junkie.
That's when hearing Alexander O'neal, Toto, Genesis, Journey, REO Speedwagon, The SOS Band, Andre Cymone, The Time, The Deele, Dynasty, Atlantic Starr, Cameo, Starpoint feat. Renee Diggs, I lost my f.ucking mind and my soul was replenished with all the hurt I had experienced growing up.
Yes, I guess that explains it.
