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Cory McBrown: Year 2 - Chapter 3

16th of December, 2002

First day of the last week of school before Christmas break.

Sam, John, and I go into English class. We all got A’s on the book reports we did last week. Our new assignment is to write a five page essay on what our parents mean to us.

I don’t know what to do with that. My mum is the only parent who’s really been there for me. Edward is my stepdad. I suppose he counts, but I’ve never really thought of him that way. He’s basically just Mum’s live-in boyfriend to me. He is Jenny’s father, but he’s not mine. My own left when I was six so I don’t know what he means to me, or what he might have meant to me had he stayed. Bart has sort of been a half parental half sibling figure to me since my dad left. But in the context of this essay, I don’t know if he counts.

And what about Sam and John? Their parents died when they were three. Since then they’ve had numerous foster parents. I think the Conways are their sixth.

We discuss this at the lunch table. “I just don’t know what to do here.” John says. “I don’t have any memory of my parents.”

“Really?” I say.

John shakes his head. “I guess I could write about the Conways, but I don’t really think of them as parents. Actually, your Mum is more like a second parent. To me, at least.”

Sam nods. “I know how you feel. I remember our parents a little, but not much. I don’t know that I remember enough to fill an entire essay.”

Trudy comes to our table. “Are you guys talking about the assignment?”

John nods. “I don’t know what to write, because I don’t remember my parents at all.”

Trudy rubs John’s shoulders. “I know.”

“I don’t know what to write because I really only have parent to write about.” I say.

Trudy nods. “Aye, me too. Ever since my mum ran off with that guy to Argentina, I really only feel like I have one parent.”

Sam looks at everyone. “Wait a minute… What if we wrote about what we were just talking about?”

“How do you mean?” John asks.

“Write about how we don’t have conventional situations with our parents.”

“Is conventional anyone’s reality?” I say.

“‘70s sitcoms would have you believing that.” John says.

“I think you have a really good idea, Sam.” Trudy says. ‘I can even write about how my Da showed up for me when Mum left.”

Sam nods. “I could write about what little I remember about Mum and Da. I remember them being good parents. They were loving and attentive.”

“Maybe I write about how I feel about our different foster homes.” John posits.

I sit there, thinking. “What’ll you write about, Cory?” Sam asks me.

“I don’t know. My Mum is the parent I feel is always there for me, but Bart has sometimes held a parental role in my life.” I say.

“So write about that.” Sam suggests.

I nod, musing as we finish lunch.

That night, I attempt to write my essay, but nothing’s really coming to mind. Why did my parental life have to be so complicated? Mum and Dad divorce, Mum gets remarried. Dad isn’t even in the picture. Older brother takes on a parental role.

This is why I do not want to get involved in romantic relationships. I don’t want to create a situation so tangled and messed up for a kid. Maybe I’ll meet someone one day who’s willing to donate their sperm and that’ll be it. Or I’ll go to a sperm bank. I’ve always wanted to be a mum. Like, since I was four. I actually pretended to birth one of my stuffed animals. It was a girl. The animal was a moose. I still have it. If she were a real kid, she’d be nine. If I could have that without the messy relationship part, that’d be my ideal.

17th of December, 2002

Yikes! It’s cold today! It’s so cold that as I write this in my math class (aye, I know, I should be paying attention to the class), I’m literally wearing my coat over my uniform and my mittens on my hands. I’m literally just doodling words because math is so boring!

Whoops! I missed something important, I think. The teacher’s calling on people…

False alarm. They didn’t call on me. The bell rings, and I rush out. Math is just not my subject.

In the hall, Bart meets up with us. “Hey guys, I gotta do some errands today, so I can’t walk home with you. You guys okay walking home today?”

“What kind of errands?” I tease.

“Nothing to do with you.”

I nod sarcastically. “Uh huh.”

“It’s not. I’m shopping for Mum. Now shush. Are you guys okay to get home?”

“Aye, Bart. We should be fine.” Sam says.

“But it’s cold!” John says.

Sam gives him a funny look. “Do you think it’ll be any less cold if Bart walks with us?”

John doesn’t answer right away. “I guess not.”

Bart nods. “Alright. I’ll see you at home, then.”

Bart starts to leave. “Wait, but we have one more class,” I say.

Bart looks back. “I know, but I��m not gonna see you when you get out. I’ll see you later.”

He leaves. I look at Sam and John. They shrug. And off to Civics we go. It’s better than math, but it’s not my most favorite subject.

We get out of school, and the three of us bundle up tight.

John shivers. “I think you should’ve called your Mum to come get us.”

“She’s working.” I say. ‘She had an evening class.”

“Speaking of which, do you want to go home or to the Health Center?” Sam asks.

I think for a moment as we walk. “Well… Home has hot chocolate.”

Sam nods. “Good choice.”

“Besides, I’m not in the mood for doing yoga today. I’d rather curl up with some hot chocolate and A Very Merry Pooh Year.”

John perks up. “Ooh! I love that movie!”

“Then let’s get home and watch it.” I say.

We continue to walk through town near our neighborhood, and when we’re a few minutes from home, something- rather someone catches my eye. A boy of about 14, maybe, leaning against the outside of a liquor store across the street. He looks a little worse for wear. His clothes are dark and disheveled. He looks kind of thin, too, and his dark hair is messy and in his eyes. He’s struggling to keep warm in the baggy coat he’s wearing. I see him light up what looks like a joint, which is confirmed when I catch a whiff of it in the cold, December air. Despite all this, there’s something that makes me want to go over to him. He looks like he needs help.

“You see that boy over there?” I say to Sam and John.

Sam looks at him. “Aye, I do. I think we should keep walking.”

“I want to go see if he’s alright.” I say.

“Cory, when Brienna said to keep an open mind about relationships, I don’t think she meant a stoner on the street.” Sam argues.

“Sam, he can’t be more than 14. He’s a kid. What kid who isn’t troubled would be on the street smoking weed?”

“None, you’re right. But it’s not something you should get involved in.” Sam still tries to talk me out of it. “Right, John?”

“What if he’s packing heat?” John says.

Sam looks at him. “You’ve been watching too many cop shows.”

“Okay, maybe not that. But he could have a knife. This could be dangerous.” John reasons.

I sigh. “I think you’re both wrong. I’m going over there.”

Sam and John try to protest, but I’m already walking across the street. I approach the boy, slowly and cautiously, cause I don’t know how he’s gonna react.

He’s in the middle of a drag when I reach him. “Hi.” I say. “Are you okay?”

He glares at me, distrusting. “What do you care?” he says, taking another drag.

I decide to be kind to him anyway. “Because I care about people, especially kids. You look like you could use some help, so I want to help you.”

Now he looks confused, still frowning, but softened from a glare. I notice his maple brown eyes, which look sad, but still sparkle, especially in the Christmas lights. “Why?” he asks. “You don’t even know me.”

I smile at him. “I could. What’s your name?”

He takes another puff of the joint. I think I made him uncomfortable. “I don’t want to tell you my name.”

I try to make him feel more at ease. “I don’t have to tell you my real name if you’re more comfortable that way.” I say. I try to think of an alternative, then say: “Some people call me Brownie.”

He continues to frown in confusion. He looks like he’s thinking deeply, like I’m the first person who’s ever been kind to him. “Why?” he asks.

I shrug. “For fun.” Actually, no one’s ever called me that before. I just made it up. His eyes made me think of it. I was thinking about maple syrup, which is sweet, and so are brownies. My name is McBrown.

He stares at me for a moment. It seems like he’s looking me over. As he does, my stomach flutters. Was that-? Was that what I think it was? My heart feels funny, too, and I feel a wave of heat go up my neck. Is this what blushing feels like?

Finally, he smiles. “I like you… Brownie. You’re cute.”

I smile. He called me cute! Wait- why do I care?

He continues, ignoring his joint. “My last name is Smith, so I guess you can call me Smithy.”

I giggle, and he smiles even bigger. He has a wonderful smile, wide and genuine. There’s that flutter again. What is happening to me? Is this what Sam meant? We lock eyes for a moment, and I feel very nervous all of a sudden. My heart skips a beat and my hands get clammy in my mittens. “So you said you wanted to help me? How?” he asks.

I forgot I had said that. It’s like I looked at his eyes and my brain short-circuited. I take a deep breath. “I want to give you love, and care.”

Uh oh. That made him frown. I may have gone too far. “What does that mean?”

Maybe he just doesn’t know what it’s like to be cared for. I put my hand on his shoulder, and my heart flutters. He looks at my hand. He looks scared. “Emotional love. Like, friendship. I’m saying I want to be your friend.” I realize I sort of flubbed what I probably should’ve said. But I’m suddenly very nervous.

He looks at my hand for a moment but then brushes it away. “What makes you think I need that?” he still looks scared.

I try to keep smiling, even though I feel like things are getting tense. “Well, I’m very good at sensing people’s energy. You have a very sweet, but pained energy.”

His shoulders tighten. “Okay, first of all, I don’t believe in that energy crap. And secondly, you’re treading on ground that’s none of your business.”

He starts to walk away, taking another drag. My heart sinks. For some reason, I put my hand on his shoulder again, trying to stop him from leaving. “But I want to help you.” I say.

He turns around. “I don’t want your help. Leave me alone!” He pushes my hand away, a little firmer, and Sam and John come up and get between me and him.

“Come on. Let’s just go home.” Sam says.

The boy, Smithy, and I just stare at each other for a moment. I feel like I’m gonna cry. I know I shouldn’t let it, but it kind of hurt when he pushed me away.

Except he looks like he wants to cry, too. I hesitate, but follow Sam and John back across the road. Looking back, he’s still watching us, and I can see the tears roll down his face. Before we round the corner, I see him stare at his joint for a moment, then back at me, and then he takes another long drag.

I actually cry as we round the corner. “Are you okay?” Sam asks me.

I try to shake off my tears. “Aye, I’m fine.” It doesn’t work. They still fall.

Sam doesn’t say anything else until we get home. While John makes hot chocolate, Sam talks to me. “What did he say to you, and do I need to kick his ass?”

I lean against my hand, resting my elbow on the couch. “Nothing… I mean nothing that deserves an ass-kicking.”

“I know you wanted to help him, but sometimes there are people you can’t help… Or, shouldn’t if you’re only 13 and have no training,” Sam continues.

I’m silent for a moment. Then I look at her. “I guess you’re right.”

Sam pats me on the arm. “I love you for wanting to help people in need, though.”

I nod silently as Sam gets up to put the movie in. I’m quiet for the rest of the movie. Somewhere between jingely-bells and Tigger hiding under Rabbit’s bed, Bart comes home with Mary. I tried to be talkative, but I wasn’t feeling like it, and Bart could tell.

After the movie, he tells us. “Mum told me to make you dinner cause she’s gonna be a little late.”

I nod. “Are you okay?” Bart asks me.

I look at him. “Aye, I’m fine.”

Sam looks at him, too. “She saw this kid on the street outside a liquor store, smoking a joint, and tried to help him, and he pushed her away.”

Bart raises his eyebrows. “He pushed you?”

“He pushed my hand off his shoulder. He didn’t push me.” I say.

Bart gets up and goes to the door. “Where are you going?”

“I’m going to go tell him off.” Bart says.

“You’re going to what?” I say. “Bart, no!”

“Cory, people don’t get to push you around without answering to me.” Bart leaves.

Mary follows him. “I’ll make sure he doesn’t do anything he’ll regret.”

I slump in my chair.

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Catch a falling star

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George Lopez faces Twitter's rage for an anti-black joke and lashing out at audience member

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By Martha Tesema2017-02-08 18:14:02 UTC

George Lopez is trending online in 2017 and no, it's not because there's a George Lopez Show revival in the works.

The comedian is in the middle of a heated Twitter debate after footage was released by TMZ of Lopez telling racially charged joke from his stand-up performance in Phoenix—and his retort to an audience member's reaction was not the most pleasant.

“There’s still two rules in the f*cking Latino family,” Lopez said on Sunday night during his set. “Don’t marry somebody black, and don’t park in front of our house.”

When a women stood up amongst the laughing audience to flip Lopez off, the comedian had some choice words for her.

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“Sit your f*cking a** down. I’m talking, b*tch. Sit your f*cking a** down,” Lopez yelled. “You paid to see a show. Sit your ass down. You can’t take a joke, you’re in the wrong motherf*cking place.”

"You have two choices—shut the f*ck up or get the f*ck out," he said, tweeting the same sentiment a few days after the show.

You have 2 choices , have a good day or get the fuck out #gacho

— George Lopez (@georgelopez) February 7, 2017

While the event happened on Sunday night, TMZ released footage from the performance on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, Lopez had become a trending topic on Twitter and the center of a discussion around anti-blackness in comedy.

Many people who tweeted their thoughts were not impressed by the joke—but even more frustrated by the aggressive nature in which Lopez handled the situation

"if you can't take a joke, you're in the wrong place." -george lopez, while not telling jokes for a full minute.

— El Flaco (@bomani_jones) February 8, 2017

George Lopez isn't the first, or last to make a joke about race, but the lack of respect he has for women is awful & sickening.

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You seriously stood up there with your corny ass and called the one woman in the audience who schooled you a bitch? Tf @georgelopez?

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The only way REPUBLICANS can WIN is by CHEATING, CORRUPTION or SMEARING other people. They CAN'T DEBATE or BATTLE IDEAS because they have none. This campaign against Elizabeth Warren will fail miserably. BEWARE OF the group #AmericaRising and #DefinersPublicAffairs

HEDGE FUND-BACKED GOP GROUP IS DIGGING UP DIRT ON ELIZABETH WARREN, DOCUMENTS SHOW

Lee Fang | Published November 12 2019, 6:00 AM ET | Intercept | Posted November 12, 2019 |

IN OCTOBER, documents surfaced that appeared to contradict a key story told by Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail. In her telling, Warren’s “dream job” as a public school teacher ended in 1971 when the school principal noticed she was “visibly pregnant,” a form of employment discrimination that was legal and common during that era. On October 7, a conservative website presented archived documents that appeared to challenge that narrative, including the minutes of a meeting in which the school board had voted to extend Warren’s tenure and another in which the board notes that Warren herself resigned from the job.

The story spread like wildfire, moving from conservative publications to major newspapers. Even Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to President Donald Trump, weighed in on the controversy to suggest that the Democratic candidate had lied about her life story. More records seeming to challenge Warren’s narrative emerged, including a 2007 interview in Berkeley, California, in which Warren appeared to say that she left teaching on her own accord to raise her child and seek additional education credentials, as well as a contemporaneous newspaper story about Warren leaving the school “to raise a family.”

Warren has stood by her story that she was “shown the door” because of her pregnancy. “When I was 22 and finishing my first year of teaching, I had an experience millions of women will recognize. By June I was visibly pregnant — and the principal told me the job I’d already been promised for the next year would go to someone else,” Warren said on Twitter last month.

But how did these documents surface in the first place? According to the results of an open records request, an opposition research group known as America Rising had requested documents from the Riverdale Board of Education in New Jersey just weeks before the news appeared. It asked for “Warren’s employment records,” as well copies of other records requested from the school board from the previous two years.

In response to the request, a school official provided America Rising with the school board minutes that became the basis for the story that erupted the following month, along with emails from a Wall Street Journal reporter, who had requested similar records in April.

America Rising — which is affiliated with a political action committee, a public relations firm, and a for-profit research company, as well as several news websites — has been backed over the years by Republican donors, including hedge-fund billionaires Paul Singer and Ken Griffin, private equity investor John Childs, and banker Andrew Beal.

America Rising did not respond to a request for comment. The organization did not claim direct responsibility for the Warren story, but touted the documents as soon as they appeared online via an allied conservative website called the Washington Free Beacon. Free Beacon is also funded by Singer.

America Rising is known for attempting to dig up dirt on politicians, journalists, and activists on behalf of donors’ interests. The group went after journalist Jane Mayer, shopping negative information about the New Yorker writer following the publication of her book “Dark Money.” In 2016, America Rising focused on environmentalist Bill McKibben, dispatching its team to obtain thousands of documents from McKibben’s past and to follow the Vermont-based writer, filming him at public events, as well as while grocery shopping and sitting in a church pew. This year, Definers Public Affairs, an affiliate of America Rising that shares the same staff, decided to rebrand following revelations that the company had been retained by Facebook to orchestrate a campaign to smear its critics.

The current America Rising research effort on Warren appears to be part of a broader dive into the Democratic field, which is being coordinated with America First Policies, the nonprofit arm of Trump’s Super PAC. The effort involves research on Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Michael Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Cory Booker, and other Democratic candidates.

Election narratives are often crafted in part by research efforts financed by partisan interest groups. The board documents surfaced by America Rising don’t necessarily undermine Warren’s version of the events, but they did add to speculation that she embellished her history by opening up a line of questioning that doesn’t have a clear answer.

Politifact, after reviewing evidence of the controversy, did not reach a conclusion one way or another regarding Warren’s claims and her critic’s efforts to unravel them. The principal of the elementary school at the center of the story, Edward Pruzinsky, is deceased.

Still, Warren has argued against some of the claims. The minutes from the April 21, 1971, meeting show that the board unanimously approved a motion to extend Warren’s employment contract as a speech pathologist for the next school year. Another set of board minutes, from June 16, 1971, show Warren’s resignation “accepted with regret.” It is unlikely, as many have pointed out, that Warren showed visible signs of her pregnancy in April of that year. She gave birth to her daughter Amelia in September 1971. Further, if Warren was let go for showing signs of her pregnancy by the summer of that year, it also seems unlikely that the board would highlight that justification in its official set of minutes.

Trudy Randall, a retired teacher who worked at Riverdale Elementary School for three decades, backed up Warren’s account in an interview with CBS News. “The rule was at five months, you had to leave when you were pregnant. Now, if you didn’t tell anybody you were pregnant, and they didn’t know, you could fudge it and try to stay on a little bit longer,” said Randall. “But they kind of wanted you out if you were pregnant.”

That didn’t stop an array of outlets from declaring that Warren had told a lie. “Report disputes Elizabeth Warren’s claim she was let go from teaching job over pregnancy,” claimed the New York Post. The Daily Signal reported, “Records contradict Warren’s claim she was fired for being ‘visibly pregnant.'” On Fox News, the story blared with the chyron, “Warren Facing New Credibility Questions,” with a pundit roundtable that discussed how the documents highlighted a “character issue.”

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Culturally Complex Scenario # 1

You and your interpreting classmates are attending a conference and during breaks, they insist on speaking English quietly amongst each other. What would you do? You have a few options: speak back to them in English, which the Deaf will not like, ignore them and not talk to them at all, or respond to them in sign language, hopefully encouraging them to sign and not talk. I, personally, would probably sign in response to them to get them to sign, but you can decide for yourself which is the best option.

Proposing this scenario was incited to me by reading Trudy Suggs’ A Deaf Perspective: Cultural Respect in Sign Language Interpreting,

“I noticed, almost immediately, a specific group of interpreters who whispered to each other without signing. Participants in the first workshop had been extremely respectful about signing at all times. The conference organizers had also clearly stated that one language was to be used. I naturally assumed that for workshops led by Deaf presenters, all present would sign.”

Presumably similar to Trudy’s experience, I often find myself troubled with my fellow ASL interpreting classmates whispering around me during breaks and while socializing. I seem to be one of the few who is uncomfortable with talking around others who I am fully aware are capable of signing. Perhaps I take the ‘no-talking policy’ a little too seriously, but it is suggested for a reason; to facilitate and support ones’ efforts toward fluency. As Chouc & Conde would agree with the statement in Enhancing the learning experience of interpreting students outside the classroom, “Research on interpreting has already shown that ‘learning takes place when the learner is actively involved in situated action;’ this can be achieved through the use of authentic materials in the classroom.”

There is further evidence that signing amongst interpreting students as opposed to speaking English is suggested as ideal or optimum conditions in efforts toward fluency, given the fact that the student should be expected to meet a standard level of expectation provided they are within the same grade level of instruction, in Brooke Macnamara and Andrew Conway’s Working Memory Capacity as a Predictor of Simultaneous Language Interpreting Performance, during related research they asked the question, “What is the relationship between working memory capacity and skill acquisition among American Sign Language (ASL)-English simultaneous interpreter trainees?” They “found that amount of training, working memory capacity, and initial simultaneous interpreting performance positively predicted final simultaneous interpreting performance” demonstrated a very important relationship.

A language learner must be fully immersed in their newfound language; I, personally believe we do not need practice with our English skills in that we are already fluent, but we severely need all the practice we can get in hopes to become successful interpreters. In the world of ASL where a vastly fewer percent of people are likely to be aware and fluent within the general population than most other spoken languages, interpreting students essentially have limited time with one another to get the utmost practice time in, in addition to the mandatory socialization with Deaf people. This concludes my rant portion of the blog for the day, thank you for reading.

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George Lopez told a racially charged joke and people are not here for it

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George Lopez is trending online in 2017 and no, it’s not because there’s a George Lopez Show revival in the works.

The comedian is in the middle of a heated Twitter debate after footage was released by TMZ of Lopez telling racially charged joke from his stand-up performance in Phoenixand his retort to an audience member’s reaction was not the most pleasant.

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Theres still two rules in the f*cking Latino family, Lopez said on Sunday night during his set. Dont marry somebody black, and dont park in front of our house.

When a women stood up amongst the laughing audience to flip Lopez off, the comedian had some choice words for her.

Sit your f*cking a** down. Im talking, b*tch. Sit your f*cking a** down, Lopez yelled. You paid to see a show. Sit your ass down. You cant take a joke, youre in the wrong motherf*cking place.

“You have two choicesshut the f*ck up or get the f*ck out,” he said, tweeting the same sentiment a few days after the show.

You have 2 choices , have a good day or get the fuck out #gacho

George Lopez (@georgelopez) February 7, 2017

Many people who tweeted their thoughts were not impressed by the jokebut even more frustrated by the aggressive nature in which Lopez handled the situation

“if you can’t take a joke, you’re in the wrong place.” -george lopez, while not telling jokes for a full minute.

El Flaco (@bomani_jones) February 8, 2017

George Lopez isn’t the first, or last to make a joke about race, but the lack of respect he has for women is awful & sickening.

Kodi Gaddis (@KodiGaddis) February 8, 2017

You seriously stood up there with your corny ass and called the one woman in the audience who schooled you a bitch? Tf @georgelopez?

Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) February 8, 2017

George Lopez getting away with such hateful anti-Black jokes just shows the normalization of anti-Blackness amongst NB Chicanxs/Latinxs.

Esperanz (@TheRadishBabe) February 8, 2017

It’s not the anti-Black “joke” George Lopez made but the visceral disgust and sheer hatred in his voice for over a minute that sickened me.

Trudy (@thetrudz) February 8, 2017

George Lopez embarrassing the woman was more disrespectful than the actual joke. Lol

Boogie. (@SignedLK) February 8, 2017

There were those who were just baffled that George Lopez was still doing stand-up….

How does one end up at a George Lopez show in 2017? http://pic.twitter.com/3mMeJK2xHo

Ahura Mazda (@PutinistaJonez) February 8, 2017

Who is pressed about this George Lopez thing? I’m only mad y’all made me watch 90 sec of George Lopez in 2017.

Sara-Ann George (@SaraAnnGeorge) February 8, 2017

…and those who had different priorities altogether.

I know y’all r ready to argue about George Lopez but did y’all know that mcdonalds will put a hash brown on your mcgriddle if u ask

Chanticleer (@TheLessTerrible) February 8, 2017

BONUS: Here’s a clip of Kellyanne Conway’s previous (and mercifully brief) career in stand-up comedy