A Not so BIg Bad Biker (revised)

            “There is nothing I regret more than my tattoos… if I could go back in time I would have never gotten any.” At first glance Oscar Martinez is everything a big bad biker is, he rides a Harley and wears big leather boots with a leather jacket and has big beard and is ALWAYS wearing black sunglasses, but to me he's just my silly uncle Oscar who has some seriously scary looking tattoos. Today I finally got to know the meanings behind them. 
His tattoos as a whole has a very negative meaning, to show that he the tattoos are don in black with no color. His right arm is used to represent all the negative/evil he has gone through. The whole right piece has a lot of skeletons and he uses that to show that everything eventually dies. The smoker is being killed by the Aztec Indian whose wearing a whole head piece is to show that power is not always a good thing. It is also to show that where your are from is important but its not always something to be proud of.

The gypsy is blowing a magical dust that shows a beautiful women is coming back into his life but that she may not be a good thing, he uses this to show that not everything fate brings you is a good thing.

The last part is skeleton praying is to show that sometimes it is too late to ask for forgiveness.

  While the right arm is used to show the bad things his left arm is to show all the good. There is a portrait of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to show that God is always there and he can always find good in religion.

 
I always thought that this specific tattoo he got just to get he has so many others that he got for no reason at all, but this piece has so much meaning behind it, it is hard to see why some one would regret it so much.

 When I asked my uncle why he regretted his tattoos so much he told me that for so many years he was looked down upon, and discriminated against, and that there was so many limitations that he wishes he would have listened to what everyone said. He was looked down upon because he had so many good things going on in his life, he had a good job and as soon as he got the tattoos he was automatically a different person. He said " because I  had visible tattoos I became less of a person". Being discriminated against set so many limitations on him that after losing his job because of the tattoos he was unable to find another one. Now he feels like "the stereo typical Mexican that has been to jail and has tattoos and can't really get a good job". He faced so many challenges because he was young and stupid. He played into what media said he was, just a dumb Mexican with dumb tattoos and no job. He saw tattoos on t.v. and got them because "they were cool".