À propos I'm a proud Bronx/Soundview-born Spic.
For the politically correct: I'm a NUYORICAN - that's a New Yorker whose parents were both born on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico.
For Rican kids who grew up in The Bronx during the crack era that was the '80s through the '90s, that's short for Spanish Person In Control. (ahem...) Wepa, nena!
The origin of that typically derogatory word? Something along the lines of turn-of-the-century Latinos new to the country being hiSPanIC (uh, get it?) and not yet possessing the ability to "spic the english." Stupid. I know. I'll stick with Spanish Person In Control!
I've got the chiselled body of LL Cool J and the brilliant theoretically tortur