![]() ![]() I was chased by cowboys in Ford trucks and shot at with BB guns, the sting in my arm pit and nipple hurt for many weeks. I was so use to being called the N word since 1980 as a little kid when I first moved to California I had no idea the 2 words related. As the years went by I found out it was a racist word. I was always an artist so I started making a cartoon character called Mooncricket who resembled me and looked like a cricket that was cool and hip-hop looking. At the time I thought they meant I look like a cricket jumping to the moon like Jordan gets lots of air. As I would go up some racist person would say "Mooncricket!" every time. In 1986 when I was in 6th grade during my basketball games I would fly to the hoop like Jordan or at least try to. Or they may think I'm Puerto Rican with my hat on and I seem to feel like family in New York as long as I don't speak. So why do I use the name Mooncricket you ask? Well I am half black and half Mexican but most people see my nappy hair and not know I'm half Mexican until they know my name Beto Lopez. So to the white man when they sang at night under the moonlight like crickets under the moonlight waking them up like a chirping cricket. They would dance under this moonlight and that would wake up and annoy their master. When the full moon and the last days of the moonlight they would be up late at night playing their African tradition music of drums or some of the slave songs of how they are living. They worked hard for many long days and nights and no power after bed time as it would be dark while the master would sleep. Also the real meaning of Mooncricket was what the slaves were called when they would sing and dance under the moonlight after a long day of working for their master. Just enough light from the moonlight and dark enough to hide. Because as run away slaves they used the moonlight to guide them through the night for their freedom. In the history it is said mooncricket was a name toward blacks in the slave days. ![]() THURSDAY, JANUWhy I call myself Mooncricket ![]()
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