I Don’t Need to Work Harder
I Really Don’t
The audacity! Stop being lazy, and work has become the comment heard worldwide. And with so much tragedy and injustices currently going on, that comment is as tone-deaf and out of touch as tone-deaf, and out-of-touch comments can get. It’s ridiculous.
To say that comment stayed with me is putting it mildly. It tattooed itself right on the hypodermis where I can’t scrub it off. Furthermore, watching The Dominican Dream on Amazon Prime brought forth resentment I didn’t know I still had about that comment. Obviously, I hadn’t exorcised every emotion still lingering in my body about this tone-deaf comment. The documentary helped me get it all out. The Dominican Dream is a documentary published in 2019 that has to do with a then-rising Dominican basketball star Felipe Lopez.
You see, Felipe Lopez quickly rose through fame in the ’80s and ’90s after immigrating from the Dominican Republic, joining the local and high school basketball club. He became a star, a rarity. Usually, Dominicans in sports fill baseball positions. This is as much as I can say about this. I don’t consume sports in a manner where I can eloquently talk about history, various positions, and what is considered good or bad. So seeing a Dominican holding it down in basketball became a phenomenon.
