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The Sugar Cain Manong: Rapping with 20,00 Carabaos in the Dark. Maurice Passion.
Date: 5/10/1985Call Number: CD 478Producers: Al RoblesCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Maurice Passion talks of many subjects that a usual Manilatown manong has gone through in his life. Maurice begins with telling Al Robles about how when he was young there were no Filipino women in San Francisco. Maurice explained his experience dating white women and how white men were suspicious of him and often threaten to beat him up. He also described Filipino men of the time having big hearts and they would buy and offer many presents to their women. This often attracted many white women of San Francisco. Maurice says love was dangerous and worth the gamble. He then goes into explaining love in the Islands. Maurice explains arranged marriages and trends of infidelity with Filipino men. Towards the end of the interview, Maurice describes vanishing Filipino businesses in Manilatown and the hardship after the eviction. Seven years after the eviction it is still a hole in the ground.
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