Burnt carne asada. That’s what I feel like after this summer. We’ve had
some kind of heat record broke again, but there are so many records for
heat each summer, no one has time to keep up with them—we just turn
in to burnt carne asada, all crispy like jerky except we taste like charcoal.
Then we accept it, plead for cooler days and an endless list of football
games to watch.
Besides the heat though, this summer will never be forgotten because of
the tragedies. With the deaths of Mike and Tina Careccia in the middle of
the summer, and just recently, young Luis and Mercedes Garcia—our community has been hit hard. Even if people have been unaffected by the local
tragedies, everywhere you turn, people are on edge, watching national news that seems America in
terms of race relations, is going through the 60s all over again. It is hard to ignore it, and I would say
you shouldn’t. It should all be confronted, open and honestly. The beginnings of an election cycle
does not help the dialogue much—but the train has left the station and either we are going to get all
riled up by accepting all the bully trash talk as truth, or think of it all as just a bunch of posturing by
political pundits and politicians, huffing and puffing a lot of hot air that will
eventually deflate.
We are not going to back away from any of it for this edition of The Copa. We have our positive and
our laughs, but we’re not taking it easy for this go round. You’ll just have to go through it, read it,
and if you would like to send me an email of appreciation or objection, it’s all good as long as I can
get a little bit of Tapatio. That’s all any burnt carne asada needs.
Producer:
D.J. Poppa Smurf
Album Design:
David “D-Love” Burk
Contributing rappers:
Evelyn “Snaps” Fuller
Juan “On the Run” Beltran
Denise “Copa Strong Mom” Flores
Photography:
Victor “V-Diddy” Moreno
Raquel “M.C.Tottie” Saspe
MERRY GRACE
John Stapleton
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Senior Executive
Accounts Rep.:
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Scott-Machovec
Guest appearance:
BizMarkie Montgomery
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