El Libro De Recuerdos Preface

Post date: Aug 30, 2016 7:28:17 PM

PURPOSE--

God commands at times for certain things to be written. Many times the Children of Isreal forgot what God had done for them. When they forgot, sin entered their lives. Also, as father’s, we need to leave a heritage and record for our children. “Lest they forget”:

Deu_4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

Pro_31:5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

I write under the inspiration of God, a Book of Remembrance for my children and others.

Lest I forget Gethsemane,

Lest I forget Thine agony;

Lest I forget Thy love for me,

Lead me to Calvary.

http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Lead_Me_to_Calvary/

--What is my name?

My name is Reynaldo Olabarria Rodriguez.

Reynaldo as defined being Counselor-Ruler.

Olabarria, is general a place in Spain, wherein we can trace back part of my ancestry.

I used to write my name Reynaldo, as I grew up. I remember doing so until High School.

The English version is Reinaldo.

My mom’s used to write her name as ANNA Maria Olabarria.

But, then at some point in time, she changed it to Ana Olavarria.

Rodriguez is my Mom’s heritage.

Arce-Olavarria is my dad’s.

The English version of Olabarria is Olavarria.

--Country of Birth

The country of my birth is Puerto Rico.

The town is San Sebastian.

Pepino soy.

A cucumber picker at heart, with island blood in my viens.

--Disability at Birth

I was born with Cerebral Palsy.

I do not know if it was lost in translation, but I do remember my mom always telling doctors I had “Meningitis”.

At the time of my birth, eugenics laws[1] were still on the books[2] in my country of birth[3]. The existence of those laws leads me to believe my disability was not an accident, but an intentional cause/result of a hostile attitude towards my people. Hence, can I blame my mom’s or dad for the condition; no; I can show that more likely than not my disability is the result of government workings against people of the island.

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“I did not Raise her Like That”, that is what she said.

In an email I received from my ex-wife, she wrote:

“whatever you got from Lashonna who is angry at me because I wouldn't allow her to use me for her future plans to get engaged/married to Raekwon and the change of direction as far as her education. She beleives her becoming a Dancer/Stripper for money is the way to getting money.” https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwHGYck_H8PlMWt0Qk54a3lwNGc

And, during a conversation on 7/20/2016, at 10:13 AM, she said, “I did not raise her like that”.

It was about 2006, she was living at a shelter/transitional housing through Pan Lutheran ministries. And, Tom was at the computer, watching porn, with Jenise by her side. Lala was exposed to porn then. I had to remove all that porn stuff and viruses from the computers then.

As the years progress, the sleep-overs at their aunt and uncles house always involved exposure to that type of life style. At Aunt Donna’s house, Lala would go for walks with Tom, and they talked about going to the clubs to meet men. Meanwhile, Tom was actively involved in gangs and stripping, while Jenise too was a stripper and taking up after her sister. They would go to a stripping place on 70 that burned down. LKQ is there now is nearby.

At about 13 years of age, the porn stuff hit home here. I tried to stop Lala from watching porn, while, as a mother, Theresa encouraged such. I put blocks on the network against FB and porn, and, she, Lala, would sit naked looking at that stuff and chatting on FB, while her mom fought with me when I said that was not right,

So, when she said, “I did not raise her like that”; hum, that does not make sense. All in her life, you provided that type of lifestyle, as Lala watched. The multiple men at the Kings Charles apt. I came into your life to help you change such and provide help and support for Lala. The porn as a child. The exposure as a child; and then, leaving the marital residence to take up with a man. Wow, And yet you do not understand.

“She wants tattoos all over her body”, and, has one on her butt, and works in the ghetto, with all those types of men and lets her body be used as an advertising for the porn. Wow.

Lala’s side is she does not want to be in the house with that guy you got from the homeless shelter. That was her take on it; another guy and a fornication relationship. Another guy from the shelter, another “former friend” met there.

And, “I got back up with Robert just because I needed someone to watch her.” She, returned to an adulterer, whom you left your husband for; and, whom she left because he cheated on her, and, she does not understand the decision of her daughter, Lala. Wow.

As an adult, you have to be a role model. When someone is looking at you, and decide to follow your footsteps, then, how is it you are not sure how they can have changed.

You left the marital residence to get that tattoo on your back. And, so, you introduced that tattoo and lifestyle stuff. That is up to you. I objected when you took LALA for her first tattoo, and she was following the steps of Tom and Jenise, whom got them illegally and underage.

Sometimes, sociopaths and psycho paths are not born that way. They are raised and created. You have to be able to look at the scenario and see if you “created the monster”, that you now “complain of”.

God Bless.

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[1] A 1965 survey of Puerto Rican residents found that about one-third of all Puerto Rican mothers, ages 20-49, were sterilized. To put this figure in context, women of childbearing age in Puerto Rico in the 1960s were more than 10 times more likely to be sterilized than women from the United States. These shocking findings suggested that systematic bias influenced the practice of sterilization, not just in Puerto Rico, but in the United States as well.

http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/forced-sterilization/

[2] In 1937, Puerto Rico enacted Law 116, the last eugenics sterilization law passed under United States territorial jurisdiction. It was not repealed until 1960. Yet the conditions for, and outcomes of, eugenics in Puerto Rico were established and assured not merely by Law 116, but by US colonialism. By 1925, owing to the 1898 US invasion and the subsequent devaluation of the peso and the dispossession of ranchers and farmers by US sugar interests, 70% of the Puerto Rican population was landless with 2% of the population owning 80% of the land. As they had elsewhere, US eugenicists seized on the resulting poverty, blaming overpopulation, and targeting poor women for sterilization and pharmaceutical experimentation.

http://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/connections/530ba18176f0db569b00001b

[3] Laughlin’s Model Eugenic Sterilization Law spread throughout the US between 1907 an the 1930s. By 1933, US sugar companies owned 13 percent of Puerto Rico and forced large numbers displaced farmers into migrant agricultural labor and urban centers. The glaring poverty rates motivated a government intervention in line with the dominant eugenic discourse of the day. In 1936 Law 116 entered into force making sterilization legal and free for women in Puerto Rico while offering no alternative methods of birth control. The prevailing wisdom was that denial of motherhood was a more effective means of incorporating women into the workforce than affordable childcare. The Puerto Rican government and the International Planned Parenthood Federation ran a sterilization program with US government funding, and by 1968 the program had sterilized roughly one third of Puerto Rican women. Numerous studies have shown that misinformation about the procedure caused high rates or regret among sterilized women. Many women were unaware that the procedure was permanent, due in part to the euphemism of “tying tubes.” Additionally, many women had no alternative affordable contraceptive methods, so they opted for sterilization.

http://stanford.edu/group/womenscourage/cgi-bin/blogs/familyplanning/2008/10/23/forced-sterilization-in-puerto-rico/

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization