I can't remember if those were the exact words of the guy, but this was said to me at Wednesday's Blogging and Politics event and, well, I am still shocked at the comment.

Why? Because he said it after I commented "when was the the last time you saw a Puerto Rican black woman being part of the political discourse?"

This guy for some reason found it necessary to call me a shrill because I am a Puerto Rican black woman being part of the political discourse. That somehow, the only way a Puerto Rican black woman can only be part of the process if she is shrill or offensive or part of an echo chamber. That somehow there is no merit to what I as a publisher am trying to accomplish with my blogs because of the kind of mentality that will rationalize, "if no Puerto Rican black woman made it before, then there's a reason for why you shouldn't be here now".

I was shocked and I am still shocked that this guy said what he said.

BTW : If you were there, please feel free to correct me in the wording of this asshole

This photo spells everything that's wrong with Puerto Ricans and their relationship with the United States. It's particularly depressing to me because it's so emblematic.

I'll come back to break it down for you after a couple of mojitos.

En la red, nadie sabe si eres un perro, aunque todo el mundo se entera que eres una perra. On the web, nobody knows if you're a dog but everybody finds out you are a bitch.

Por eso cuando oí que el 1ro de mayo será la huelga "un día sin immigrantes", me pregunté : "¿Cual es la versión en la red de este evento?" That's why when I heard May 1st is the "day without an immigrant" strike, I asked myself : "What's the net version of this event?"

Bueno, en el caso de un blog ... en vez de desaparecerme es imperante entonces el reaparecerme comjo ... ahem ... la bitch latina que soy. ¡Ja! Well, in the case of a blog, instead of disappearing it's imperative that I reappear as the perra latina I am.

This blog has jumped the proverbial bilingual tiburón.