Articles By: Ramon Chaparro

Ramon Chaparro is an AfroNuyoRican wanderer. He aspires to someday play jazz saxophone, speak 10 languages, and help bridge the yawning chasm of hostility and misunderstanding that often exists between Muslims and Christians. He blogs at http://bornintobecoming.blogspot.com/

Change Can Happen, Change is Happening

Photo of defaced Hosni Mubarak poster posted by Twitter user @alasmari. Reposted at FastCompany.com (Editor’s Note: Ramón Chaparro has written for Burnside before. He hails from Arkansas but a lot of us in Oregon claim him as family too. He currently lives overseas. It’s simpler –...

February 1st, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More

A Long Week, by Ramón Chaparro

I want to give the world a foot massage “Take a load off,” I’d say “You’ve had a long week” I want to buy backpacks for crack babies Teach them E=mc2 Sing them the theme to Fat Albert Show them the correct dosage of sugar for kick-ass Kool-Aid Tell them their mothers’...