Puerto Rican's Nationality=American Ethnicity=Puerto Rican Races=Black-White-Native American-Asian; however, some Puerto Ricans are of pure European descent and some blacks are from pure African descent, but the percentage is very low. Most of Boricuas are mixed.
The Olive I I agree with you that Caribbean or more familiar and have an older history of slavery then in the United States which, is not known are even talked about in the United States. I am retired military and I really became familiar with Americans from other countries in the Americas that have a much large population of American of African dissent then the US states. And I met quite a few of them while serving in the military and I finally realize why so many Hispanics I met in the military who thought I spoke Spanish and that I was trying to deny my Spanish heritage and would even speak to me sometime in Spanish, so I just give up on it. They were always very proud of their heritage as I am of mine. After over 400 years in the Americanos I’m very aware of the fact that the majority of my DNA is from Africa ,but I also realize and except the fact that I am not the same person that my ancestors were who came here In the 16th century. The America that you and I are familiar with is changing .Whether you speaking of North,South,or Central America ,The biggest difference I see is that in the United States we speak about that history on almost a daily basis where in the rest of the Americas you very seldom hear anything about it at all from a historical point of View. Thank you for letting me share your video with you.
I’m Boricua born in PR. Growing up I never saw a difference between one Boricua to another and the different shades of skin within the Puerto Rican community. We were and still are all Boricuas, one people. The USA and it’s white and black racism is retarded. Do us Ricans a favor and keep us out of the discussion of race and differences because in Borikén we are one. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼🇵🇷💯
These African Americans wants us fighting each other like they do here in the states...I don't know why they are so worried about what we call ourselves or the shades of our skins. You see them in all the Puerto Rican DNA testing result videos trolling and harassing people - oh and in the DOminicans' DNA results too! They are even more aggressive towards Dominicans. They are annoying. They need to worry about themselves and their community.
As a Puerto Rican, growing up I never felt like I was one with my Puerto Rican people, they always treated me different, cause I am dark, even though I am not that dark.
I struggle with this daily; when I explain my family to people they look confused. People look like how can you be Puerto Rican and black smh 🤦♂️. The biggest issue for me right now is learning our Spanish because I am extremely rusty. But no matter how people laugh or joke; I AM PROUD OF MY PUERTO RICAN HERITAGE!!!!
@@RPFLives99 I’m black puerto ricnan and hatian🇵🇷🇭🇹 from my dads side but my moms fully African 🇳🇬even tho I’m a quarter of it I proudly claim iam black Puerto Rican
I am Puerto Rican...with light eyes..Red hair in my bread...My grandmother was a beautiful Afro Rican woman..The beauty of my culture is the we come all different shades shape and size.
im 100 % Puerto rican and dark skin..people think im Dominican or indian or Arabic and they mock me or laugh when i say im PR . Its fucked up but being unique is everything
The only thing that's 100% in the Americas is native Indians and most them have been killed off and diluted.. If you're 100% Puerto Rican why are you a US terror y. The last time I check Puerto Rican is a nationality and not a race.
Realtalk MyBrother right it's a nationality. So if you were born in Puerto Rico or have Puerto Rican parents or even grandparents you are 100% Puerto Rican you idiot.
I'm black and my wife was Puerto Rican from Isabella . She took me to the Festival De Loiza to a lot of people i look Latino a black Latino . I got a lot of love from there, Every one was hugging me and giving me "frias" beer . I learned a lot about the culture i see many parallels between Boricuas and African Americans , from the expression to the way we both think . If your talking New York , Philly , Jersey , Connecticut you'll find alot of mixed black and Puertorican people .
Really? Then why did Bernard Hopkins go to Puerto Rico and stomp on the Puerto Rican flag? Why don't they ask you if you are PR or not before attacking you in Miami because they think you are white or Cuban? How come if you Travel away from the East Coast in the USA and they begin discriminating you even more than the Anglos do? How come they killed my uncle for a mere fifteen dollars, and threaten to kill my mother on a bus cause they tagged her as Cuban, and attack me when they tagged me as white even though they knew I am Latino? Why did they repeatedly refuse to serve us a fast food counters? Why was I repeatedly told to go back where I came from out of the clear blue by Afro Americans who were total strangers and without any provocation? Why did my kids have to spend entire sweltering summers stuck indoors because Afro American kids threatened to beat them up because they were Latino? Why were Afro American kids allowed to dance on my car and shout racist anti Latino things in front of our living room window? Why the persecution at the jobs and friendship with Anglos while snubbing. Why did an Afro American father oppose my courting his daughter because I am Latino? Why did an Afro American woman at my church enumerate everything she detested about Latinos just because her daughter spoke to me? Why do Afro American comedians joke about the horror of coming home and finding out that a daughter has just become engaged to a Puerto Rican? Why the APPLAUSE AND approving laughter from the Afro American audience? Why did Afro American nurses happily team up with Anglo American nurses to torture my mother who had Alzheimers? How come they discriminate me at the local YMCA so that I cannot go there? Why the constant looking for a violent confrontation over TRIVIA? Why this: NSIONS MOUNTING BETWEEN BLACKS AND LATINOS NATIONWIDE www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2005/tensions-mounting-between-blacks-and-latinos-nationwide Sorry but my personal experiences and observations don't jive with your opinion.
Man people in these comments, this man is an Afro Puerto Rican. No difference from an Africa American. Afro Jamaican, Afro Dominican, so on and so on. YOU CANNOT BE MIXED WITH PUERTO RICAN. That is a NATIONALITY. AND NOT ALL PUERTO RICANS ARE MIXED WITH AFRICAN AND SPANISH ANCESTRY. STOP MAKING IT SEEM LIKE ALL PUERTO RICANS/ LATINOS ARE THE SAME. YOU HAVE BLACK PUERTO RICANS, WHITE, ETC.... PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF.
Yo conozco mi gente y ese negro es 100% puertorriqueño lo se por la forma de la cara y los ojos nacio alla pero ambos padres puertorriqueños compatriota 100% 🇵🇷 *PUERTO RICO LA PATRÍA AMADA*
And I'm light skinned and of Puerto Rican descent as well. Why? Because we are Mutts and as such we come in all the skin colors of the spectrum. From dark skinned like the gentleman in the video to native American looking to white skinned and blue or green eyed.
I enjoy our dialogue and your responses. You are right I would say that some people would expect to see brown people in Puerto Rico. Although you have Puerto Rican’s such as my wife who share the same parents as her sister but my wife is brown skinned her sister white. You have white Puerto Rican’s with kinky hair and dark ones with curly to straight hair. Let’s take Loiza Aldea for instance I know you know where that is. A great majority are Black or of African descent.
I grew up in Puerto Rico and I lived there for 20 years , one thing in Puerto rico is that there’s no discrimination for the skin color as it is here in USA !! You can walk into any gas station with no problem or discrimination!!
@@langevincamacho7517 I'm glad you made this statement, cause I have a question for you. By what I studied, generally speaking, Western Puerto Rico is the lighter side of the Island, while Eastern Puerto Rico is sorta darker in complexion. So, if a person is of darker complexion visits Puerto Rico, would you suggest they go to places like Loiza, Carolina, San Juan, etc., or should they go where ever they want to go?
@@langevincamacho7517 Thank you so much for the feedback. So, here's the deal. My fiance is Puerto Rican. We both took DNA test. I on the other hand grew up Black American, and that's all I ever knew. I look like the average BA. Her DNA test indicated she is from the Northwestern region of PR. Matter of fact, her sole genetic community consist of three areas in the Northwestern region of Puerto Rico. About a year later I took my own DNA test. I had three genetic communities. Two are in Black American regions here in the USA. My "Additional Genetic Group" shocked the mess outta me: Puerto Rico. I contacted the company to confirm this and was sent an email back that said, "You have ancestors in Puerto Rico". I So, I asked you that because at some point we would like to visit PR (she went several times already growing up), but I don't want any nonsense. Just a nice visit. Last thing, I guess the central regions being further away from the coastline airports would be more pricey I imagine. Well, that's my story....
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Black Puerto Ricans aren't only in Loiza they are all over the island especially in Mayaguez, Ponce, Guayama, mad towns...even the flag of Guayama the color Black is for the African...and everyone in Puerto Rico has someone in their family background that is of African descent...we from the Caribbean it comes with the territory...but Carolina, Canovanas, Bayamon, Rio Piedras, San Juan especially Santurce...Bro all over the island there are Black Boricuas ... every BORI knows this tho...Loiza is popular because of it's African traditions but Plena came from Ponce and Bomba came from Mayaguez
My dad was half pr and African American however I never got to know him. I never spoke Spanish. I was adopted but over the time of my life people came up to me and asked me am I mixed with or or dominican republic? I was raised up in an African American family. I did a dna test and it revealed I have family in parts of Spain, Ecuador amd I'm also 50 percent Nigerian with other stuff.
Bro if you go to Puerto Rico there is a lot of Puerto Rican dark skin people just stereotype they way they see most of thrm there is a lot of dark skin Puerto Ricans
THIS INFORMATION IS NEW TO PEOPLE WHO DO NOT TAKE TIME TO STUDY. U DON'T EVEN HAVE TO HAVE SPANISH IN YOUR DNA TO BE A LITE SKIN PUERTO RICAN ETHER. PEOPLE WILL NEVER KNOW UNLESS THEY TAKE TIME TO STUDY. INDIGENOUS NATIVES COMES IN MANY DIFFERENT BEAUTIFUL SHADES.
Unfortunately I had to edit this video down more than the other videos because I didn’t initially know how to make a video longer than 10 minutes. It was my second video, and I still had a lot to learn about editing. Thanks for watching!
Im half cuban mons from bay area People said to me i dont look african anerican tease by african americans in high school for looking african i just say im cuban because im in the middle i guess. :(
you're spitting image of Jennifer Lopez and sound like her too wow amazing you're both black. You don't represent Europe you represent Africa and you're not jewish
Sushu...yeah, that's it all right...now get back to your stereo-types and stupidity...you apparently don't handle intelligent information well. Presenting accurate information is not insecurity...not comprehending it is YOUR insecurity.
Greg Medina You're sooo proud of your European heritage. lol lol...the anti-black sentiment is so pervasive. Colorism is a HUGE problem in the PR & the DR. You forgot Tito P....JAZZ, BLUES, CREATE BY BLACK AMERICANS AND TAUGHT TO PR & DR people. Never forget that! I love how you mentioned all of those wonderful people that were afforded the opportunities, rights and privledges of civil rights on the BACKS OF black people in AMERICA. Black people set the trends in music, foods, arts & education around the WORLD. We are copied and imitated ever nano second. They have, still and continue to fight for racial equality over 600 years. lol lol lol Amazing!! Thank you for clarifying. I'm so glad I avoid the tourism spending my black dollars on the anti-black islands in the Carribean. Thank you so much!
Mona...thank you for your afro-centric stupidity. So keep beating your bongo with a wooden spoon and telling us how significant that is to the overall cultural imprint in Puerto Rico which is UNDENIABLY European: In the meantime, please consider the following: *** European language legacy…Spanish/English (no one speaks Zulu) *** European legal matrix (Napoleonic, like in Louisiana, USA and France) *** European marriage tradition (no trading a virgin for cheetah skins or elephant tusks) *** European marriage dissolution (divorce, not stoning ex-wife to death) *** European city design (ALL 77 towns with central Mediterranean plaza) *** European entrepreneurial tradition (no trading shrunken skulls for bone necklaces) *** European inheritance tradition (property goes to family, NOT to invading tribes) *** European-;tradition of dress (no one wearing animal skins or grass-skirts EVER) *** European banking tradition (no trading Indian beads like Manhattan Island was) *** European mercantile trading tradition (no waiting for a fish to spear on the beach) *** European tradition of housing (no one lives in caves or trees) European MAJORITY cultural imprint in Puerto Rico is not up for interpretation on YT. It really does exist...you just have to get past the Hula-Hula dancing "Porto-Rican" dolls at the airport gift shop and the Black-faced Grass-skirted dashboard bobble-heads sold in the tacky gift-shops at the Marriot hotels. And OF COURSE i am proud of my European roots...should I be proud to be an Eskimo? A Maori cannibal? An Amazonian python-wrestler? Get over your afro-centrism ignorance.or better yet take it to Haiti or Jamaica where it would be more realistic and honest. Here are a couple of family members of mine from Puerto Rico who you will NEVER hear about in your afro-centric BS brainwashes...Why? Because they were: *** white *** successful on a world-wide scale *** didn't cry "oppression" 'cause they were too busy WORKING! ** * they existed in a time BEFORE ghetto brainwashes of Puerto Ricans in US Mainland ghettoes existed. 1. Estevan Antonio Fuertes...(he FOUNDED Cornell University’s College of Engineering in the 1800s) ***en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estevan_Antonio_Fuertes ***www.everipedia.com/Estevan_Antonio_Fuertes/ ***www.it1me.com/learn?s=Estevan_Fuertes ***coursewiki.astro.cornell.edu/Fuertes/EstevanFuertes His son... 2. Louis Agassiz Fuertes...(world-renown ornithological artist equal to John J. Audubon) ***en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz_Fuertes ***rmc.library.cornell.edu/Birds/ ***www.pbs.org/harriman/1899/1899_part/participantfuertes.html ***rmc.library.cornell.edu/Fuertes2000/fuertes.asp.html Now get back to the Porqueria Day Parade YT videos and applaud the "real" Tainos wearing Apache War Paint, screaming Comanche War Cries, doing Hopi Rain Dances, jumping through burning hoops of fire and sliding under a limbo stick...just like NO ONE in Puerto Rico EVER did!
Medina, with all those GREAT PUERTO RICANS you mentioned. How come your island is still lacking electricity, food and the basic necessities? Oh my bad those good old WHITE/ Spaniard Europeans will rescue your white Puerto Rican very soon. Again, thanks for reminding me to never travel to the PR. You're correct Haiti & Jamaica need my money and so does Mother of all mothers AFRICA! Thanks for your input.
there's no such thing as Puerto Rican descent. it's an island of immigrants with only 40% out of 100 having indigenous ancestry . that means 60% have no Taino ancestry. Puerto Ricans are descendants of various people , Europeans - Spain and it's different ethnics groups, Basque, Portuguese, French, Irish, Scottish, Italians and others Africa- mostly west African countries, Nigeria, Ghana, and Angola , Cameroon and others and each countries different tribes. native indigenous people- mostly from the Arawak Nation - Taino people , meso Americans as well. Jewish, Arabs Muslim and Christians . and migrants of today . every Puerto Rican has different ancestry ,as one can see. they don't all share the same ancestry . the true Boricua is the 40% that has the native DNA .
@@ericadaniel3710 it's actually not s race, hispanic talks about language. Originally Latinos were identified as Latinoamericans by europeans. Because we were admixed with Native Americans (back then American was a classification only given to Native Americans) now US wants to claim it's exclusivity but America entails continent not a country. Hispanic countries are those who speak spanish nothing to do with an actual "race"
but he has that look. he has the PR look. Yeah he’s black but he has these features that most Puerto Rican’s have. I can’t describe it but you can tell that he’s mixed with Puerto Rican
He's not African-American. His parents are Puerto Rican, there are people of African descent everywhere. He 100% Puerto Rican. He isn't mixed with it, that's all he is, a dark skinned Puerto Rican, a human being. I'm Haitian and someone thought I was Puerto Rican. A woman said to me she thought for the longest that I was Puerto Rican and said I look like one, this is the man she were referring me to, a dark skinned Puerto Rican.
+Brandon Ramirez "Mixed" with Puerto Rican lol? You are ignorant. His parents are from Puerto Rico. You mean mixed with European (Spanish). All Puerto Ricans have mixed-race ancestry.
I am not at all surprised. I am a Black American married to a Puerto Rican lady. Growing up I wanted to know about PR so I traveled to Puerto Rico for the first time in 1985. I know Loiza Aldea is predominantly a Black town but I’ve seen Black Puerto Rican’s in different towns across Puerto Rico like Aguadilla or where ever there is a coastline. As a Black American I experienced racism in RR. My wife and I arrived in Puerto Rico and rented a car. I asked her to stop at a gas station somewhere near Lares because I needed to use the restroom. When I got out the car and approached the window to ask for the key to use the restroom this guy working the window who looked mulato or half black himself shouted out to me oh we don’t like Black people over here Ice Tea and his bitch is suppose to be coming here to Puerto Rico. I believe that guy was probably Dominican and not Puerto Rican.
Phil Jones slot of Dominicans live in Puerto Rico so I wouldn't doubt it. my family is from Bayamon,puerto Rico. my grandmother says she is black and my grandfather is pale. my family has never said anything negative about black people because we are mixed with African heritage.
Phil Jones, when you talk about racism, then it is universal, I'm a Boricua and being neutral between whites and blacks, I've heard racial comments/slurs coming from both sides of the aisle. I lived 4 years in Africa and I can tell you how racist "some" Africans are, even toward there rival tribes. I'm a "triguegno" (brown skin, mixed race) and in Africa I've been called m'zungu, half-breed, half-cast, etc. I've had racist comments thrown at me from African Americans, and White Americans (not as bad whites though). I was raised in PR and in my time living there I never experienced no racism; however, this is not to say that there was social prejudice. I didn't even know what racism meant until I got to the states. When you went to Lares, your wife was the one who could tell you whether the guy was Dominican or Puerto Rican since we have the same mix of races but we do have a different dialect/accent.
Please provide the publication or statement from any Puerto Rican that has claimed that black Puerto Ricans are located only in Loiza Aldea. I have personally never seen such a ridiculous comment. But since you have, what indeed is the source.
American and Puerto Rican is a nationality it is not a race or an ethnicity. It is a nationality. African people outside of the US tend to hide behind they're nationality than to admit being black. In their country they'll relate as black, come to the US it's I'm Jamaican, I'm Dominican etc ESPECIALLY when their African is evident dark or light skin!. What is wrong saying I am a black from .... I hate when people question where in from. They become embarrassed because they know how bad people of color are treated in this country. So they look for acceptance. I'm a black American, we are the same as you. We have admixture too. We will have different looks so don't assume someone black is not black. Remember black is the ethnicity the nationality is where you were born.
My goodness, there are so many things wrong with your comment, first of all, PR is not a country but a territory of the USA, thus making Puerto Rican's nationality American, his ethnicity is Puerto Rican because he belongs to a certain group of Americans, his race is black, and he doesn't have to state what is obvious. Another example: If you're African American, then your nationality is American, your ethnicity is African American, and race is black.
Puerto Rico is not a nation, it is a territory of the USA, thus making Puerto Rican's nationality American, Puerto Rican is an ethnicity. If a black Dominican, Cuban, Jamaican, etc. tells you that he/she is Dominican, Cuban, Jamaican, etc, well, they are not going to tell you what is obvious.
I keep seeing African American v Afro Caribbeans v Afro Latinos v Africans. Tbh the only thing that disgusts each of us are the negative stereotypes. Personally the only problem I have w/ Afrolatinos esp the obviously black ones is alotttt of them don’t claim their African ancestry… it’s nothing to be ashamed of in fact be grateful for the melanin and athletic genes. I’ve literally seen black asf Cubans, PR, Dominicans say they’re their nationality n not black it’s like I’m looking at ur dark ass skin and nappy hair but ok😂, also when other blacks that look like us move to America they act like they’re better than us when y’all should respect us bc African Americans are the reason y’all can come live comfortably in the U.S. w/civil rights. If we didn’t fight for equality, no matter how much y’all like to disassociate yourselves from us y’all would be on the back of the bus w/us, drinking out the colored only fountains n not being able to be educated properly. Y’all will come n judge a whole people based on media when most of us grew up in faith based homes. Most of us aren’t thugs, a lot of us grow up with good fathers and strong black mothers and grandparents, most of us have jobs and a lot have jobs that pay cash so hiv can’t even track it 😂. We experience systematic and outright racism bc yes it is a thing. And we do realize a lot of people don’t experience racism as we do, but alot of Latinos are racist asf to blacks esp the older more predominantly white n native ones. I dated a pr, who clearly had black ancestry he looked like a biracial guy w/nappy curls n his parents thought that he shouldn’t be w/an African American bc we’re “dumb and lazy” baby black women are the most educated group of Americans. Also our strong character and not taking shit from anybody shouldn’t be dubbed as the angry black woman. N all black women are over-sexualized it’s annoying. African Americans are intelligent and in fact w/o a lot of our inventions, the modern world wouldn’t exist as we know it. Carribeans aren’t all rastas w/dreads either n they arent bums who smoke all day, and Afro latinas aren’t exotic oversexualized toys for African American rappers or white sugar daddies. Anyways I’ve alr said too much I just hate we’re always fighting so just added my 2¢.
Black Americans use the term “Black” because of the oppressive history and dehumanizing terminology they are described by. They are a “color” (albeit inaccurately) and that became the ethnicity with pride. This is why Latinos are not “Black.” They are their own ethnicity and nationality. We all suffer from colorism and discrimination but just as Black Americans, now called African Americans, are not continental African - cannot claim a specific African nationality - Afro Latinos, Caribbeans and Africans are not ADOS/FBA Black Americans and all are distinct from each other. It is not solely a ohenotypical determinant but national and cultural. Some take it too far in saying they have no African heritage in their history and often that is the result of the varying racial or physical characteristics identified in Latino culture. Yet, others make no claims due to alienating themselves to rise up socially.
PR people say they have Taino mixed, did you know Dominican, Haitian, Cuba, Dominica, Quadelope, St Kitts, ST Lucia islands all had Taino as well, what makes PR more Taino ???? that's hypocrisy…….all the other islands mixed with the Amerindians as well as PR.....its bigotry!
You are right in that there are those who have Taino roots all throughout the Caribbean. We typically don’t hear much about this unfortunately. I think for the most part when people hear Taino it’s almost sononomous with Puerto Rican heritage. Most people don’t realize that Jamaica for example has Deep Taino roots as well. Possibly because the African phenotype is statistically more prominent.
To be Puerto Rican is a nationality, not a race. You can be a black Puerto Rican or a white Puerto Rican.
Naja Akua it takes few races to make a puertorrican doug
Naja Akua I'm sorta stuck in the middle
Puerto Rican's Nationality=American Ethnicity=Puerto Rican Races=Black-White-Native American-Asian; however, some Puerto Ricans are of pure European descent and some blacks are from pure African descent, but the percentage is very low. Most of Boricuas are mixed.
The Olive I I agree with you that Caribbean or more familiar and have an older history of slavery then in the United States which, is not known are even talked about in the United States. I am retired military and I really became familiar with Americans from other countries in the Americas that have a much large population of American of African dissent then the US states. And I met quite a few of them while serving in the military and I finally realize why so many Hispanics I met in the military who thought I spoke Spanish and that I was trying to deny my Spanish heritage and would even speak to me sometime in Spanish, so I just give up on it. They were always very proud of their heritage as I am of mine. After over 400 years in the Americanos I’m very aware of the fact that the majority of my DNA is from Africa ,but I also realize and except the fact that I am not the same person that my ancestors were who came here In the 16th century. The America that you and I are familiar with is changing .Whether you speaking of North,South,or Central America ,The biggest difference I see is that in the United States we speak about that history on almost a daily basis where in the rest of the Americas you very seldom hear anything about it at all from a historical point of View. Thank you for letting me share your video with you.
That's what non Puerto Ricans always say.
I’m Boricua born in PR. Growing up I never saw a difference between one Boricua to another and the different shades of skin within the Puerto Rican community. We were and still are all Boricuas, one people. The USA and it’s white and black racism is retarded. Do us Ricans a favor and keep us out of the discussion of race and differences because in Borikén we are one. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼🇵🇷💯
For real! Agree 100%
These African Americans wants us fighting each other like they do here in the states...I don't know why they are so worried about what we call ourselves or the shades of our skins. You see them in all the Puerto Rican DNA testing result videos trolling and harassing people - oh and in the DOminicans' DNA results too! They are even more aggressive towards Dominicans. They are annoying. They need to worry about themselves and their community.
glad to know its different in Puerto Rico ,outhere in Massachusetts they steer away for claiming their African roots
Seldom to see a black rich portorican. They call them “blanquitos”.
As a Puerto Rican, growing up I never felt like I was one with my Puerto Rican people, they always treated me different, cause I am dark, even though I am not that dark.
I struggle with this daily; when I explain my family to people they look confused. People look like how can you be Puerto Rican and black smh 🤦♂️. The biggest issue for me right now is learning our Spanish because I am extremely rusty. But no matter how people laugh or joke; I AM PROUD OF MY PUERTO RICAN HERITAGE!!!!
J3 Culture amen
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I’m black and I’m full Puerto Rican !! African Americans aren’t the only black people!!!!
I love the fact that you are also proud black Puerto Rican
Awwwwwwwww ❤
@@RPFLives99 You him to say Black to feel happy? Nah fuck that. We ain't Black just how like Black Americans claim they are not Nigerian/African.
@@RPFLives99 I’m black puerto ricnan and hatian🇵🇷🇭🇹 from my dads side but my moms fully African 🇳🇬even tho I’m a quarter of it I proudly claim iam black Puerto Rican
@@steezbekillinyou are Haitians! You have to have two Puerto Rican parents to be Puerto Rican
I’m a dark skin Puerto Rican queen born in Orlando fl to a Puerto Rican and Dominican Jamaican dad and a Ethiopian and Somali mom
I am Puerto Rican...with light eyes..Red hair in my bread...My grandmother was a beautiful Afro Rican woman..The beauty of my culture is the we come all different shades shape and size.
im 100 % Puerto rican and dark skin..people think im Dominican or indian or Arabic and they mock me or laugh when i say im PR . Its fucked up but being unique is everything
Same bro
The only thing that's 100% in the Americas is native Indians and most them have been killed off and diluted.. If you're 100% Puerto Rican why are you a US terror y. The last time I check Puerto Rican is a nationality and not a race.
Realtalk MyBrother right it's a nationality. So if you were born in Puerto Rico or have Puerto Rican parents or even grandparents you are 100% Puerto Rican you idiot.
You are still of African decent. There's no such thing as dark skin white people.
Iambuffer thanyou, what 100 % Mullatos?
Love the variety of looks that we Puerto Rican’s have!
we come from really light to really dark
We Puerto Rican people come in all colors..
That concept is unacceptable in the USA.
@@radrook4481 who cares
@@radrook4481 yes in us where you have 4 grandpa white but 1 Great grandpa black🤔🤫🥱✍
I love you Latino Brothers and Sisters.🇨🇺🇵🇷
I'm black and Dominican and proud of it. 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
Soy dominicano hasta la tambora
I'm black and my wife was Puerto Rican from Isabella . She took me to the Festival De Loiza to a lot of people i look Latino a black Latino . I got a lot of love from there, Every one was hugging me and giving me "frias" beer . I learned a lot about the culture i see many parallels between Boricuas and African Americans , from the expression to the way we both think . If your talking New York , Philly , Jersey , Connecticut you'll find alot of mixed black and Puertorican people .
Hey Scott, what part of Isabela is your wife from?
scott stout hope you return soon to our Island my brother
Really? Then why did Bernard Hopkins go to Puerto Rico and stomp on the Puerto Rican flag? Why don't they ask you if you are PR or not before attacking you in Miami because they think you are white or Cuban? How come if you Travel away from the East Coast in the USA and they begin discriminating you even more than the Anglos do?
How come they killed my uncle for a mere fifteen dollars, and threaten to kill my mother on a bus cause they tagged her as Cuban, and attack me when they tagged me as white even though they knew I am Latino?
Why did they repeatedly refuse to serve us a fast food counters?
Why was I repeatedly told to go back where I came from out of the clear blue by Afro Americans who were total strangers and without any provocation?
Why did my kids have to spend entire sweltering summers stuck indoors because Afro American kids threatened to beat them up because they were Latino?
Why were Afro American kids allowed to dance on my car and shout racist anti Latino things in front of our living room window?
Why the persecution at the jobs and friendship with Anglos while snubbing.
Why did an Afro American father oppose my courting his daughter because I am Latino?
Why did an Afro American woman at my church enumerate everything she detested about Latinos just because her daughter spoke to me?
Why do Afro American comedians joke about the horror of coming home and finding out that a daughter has just become engaged to a Puerto Rican? Why the APPLAUSE AND approving laughter from the Afro American audience?
Why did Afro American nurses happily team up with Anglo American nurses to torture my mother who had Alzheimers?
How come they discriminate me at the local YMCA so that I cannot go there?
Why the constant looking for a violent confrontation over TRIVIA?
Why this:
NSIONS MOUNTING BETWEEN BLACKS AND LATINOS NATIONWIDE
www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2005/tensions-mounting-between-blacks-and-latinos-nationwide
Sorry but my personal experiences and observations don't jive with your opinion.
@@radrook4481 mi
Man people in these comments, this man is an Afro Puerto Rican. No difference from an Africa American. Afro Jamaican, Afro Dominican, so on and so on. YOU CANNOT BE MIXED WITH PUERTO RICAN. That is a NATIONALITY. AND NOT ALL PUERTO RICANS ARE MIXED WITH AFRICAN AND SPANISH ANCESTRY. STOP MAKING IT SEEM LIKE ALL PUERTO RICANS/ LATINOS ARE THE SAME. YOU HAVE BLACK PUERTO RICANS, WHITE, ETC.... PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF.
What are you talking about ?!!! Black Puerto Ricans aren’t the same as black Americans we have different culture and language from them.
Yo conozco mi gente y ese negro es 100% puertorriqueño lo se por la forma de la cara y los ojos nacio alla pero ambos padres puertorriqueños compatriota 100% 🇵🇷 *PUERTO RICO LA PATRÍA AMADA*
Un negro fino🇵🇷
And I'm light skinned and of Puerto Rican descent as well. Why?
Because we are Mutts and as such we come in all the skin colors of the spectrum. From dark skinned like the gentleman in the video to native American looking to white skinned and blue or green eyed.
I know every color is beautiful but....Honey them dark Puerto Rican’s are whew..😍🙏🏾🤎❤️ Yes
I love you Latino Brothers and Sisters I Salute 🇵🇷🇨🇺🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💯🗽🇨🇴🇨🇱🇪🇨🇪🇸🇭🇳🇳🇮🇻🇪
I enjoy our dialogue and your responses. You are right I would say that some people would expect to see brown people in Puerto Rico. Although you have Puerto Rican’s such as my wife who share the same parents as her sister but my wife is brown skinned her sister white.
You have white Puerto Rican’s with kinky hair and dark ones with curly to straight hair.
Let’s take Loiza Aldea for instance I know you know where that is. A great majority are Black or of African descent.
My dad was born in Puerto Rican he is afro Puerto Rican
I grew up in Puerto Rico and I lived there for 20 years , one thing in Puerto rico is that there’s no discrimination for the skin color as it is here in USA !! You can walk into any gas station with no problem or discrimination!!
This is EXTREMELY inaccurate. I’m Puerto Rican too, afroboricua specifically, and this is an extremely ignorant statement!
@@langevincamacho7517 I'm glad you made this statement, cause I have a question for you. By what I studied, generally speaking, Western Puerto Rico is the lighter side of the Island, while Eastern Puerto Rico is sorta darker in complexion. So, if a person is of darker complexion visits Puerto Rico, would you suggest they go to places like Loiza, Carolina, San Juan, etc., or should they go where ever they want to go?
@@langevincamacho7517 Thank you so much for the feedback. So, here's the deal. My fiance is Puerto Rican. We both took DNA test. I on the other hand grew up Black American, and that's all I ever knew. I look like the average BA. Her DNA test indicated she is from the Northwestern region of PR. Matter of fact, her sole genetic community consist of three areas in the Northwestern region of Puerto Rico. About a year later I took my own DNA test. I had three genetic communities. Two are in Black American regions here in the USA. My "Additional Genetic Group" shocked the mess outta me: Puerto Rico. I contacted the company to confirm this and was sent an email back that said, "You have ancestors in Puerto Rico". I So, I asked you that because at some point we would like to visit PR (she went several times already growing up), but I don't want any nonsense. Just a nice visit. Last thing, I guess the central regions being further away from the coastline airports would be more pricey I imagine. Well, that's my story....
@@langevincamacho7517 Thanks so much for the feedback. I'll further communicate later. ✌🏾
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Your eyes and swagger gives you away. I can tell you are a Black Puerto Rican. Please read my story below. I am also a Marine Corp Vet.
Please make another video.
Thank you for your service!
I am a black Dominican by decent and I was born in Baltimore md raised by a beautiful black women! I am also a Navy Vet!
I love the musica !!!!!!!
Proud people borivuas
Black Puerto Ricans aren't only in Loiza they are all over the island especially in Mayaguez, Ponce, Guayama, mad towns...even the flag of Guayama the color Black is for the African...and everyone in Puerto Rico has someone in their family background that is of African descent...we from the Caribbean it comes with the territory...but Carolina, Canovanas, Bayamon, Rio Piedras, San Juan especially Santurce...Bro all over the island there are Black Boricuas ... every BORI knows this tho...Loiza is popular because of it's African traditions but Plena came from Ponce and Bomba came from Mayaguez
My dad was half pr and African American however I never got to know him. I never spoke Spanish. I was adopted but over the time of my life people came up to me and asked me am I mixed with or or dominican republic? I was raised up in an African American family. I did a dna test and it revealed I have family in parts of Spain, Ecuador amd I'm also 50 percent Nigerian with other stuff.
Bro if you go to Puerto Rico there is a lot of Puerto Rican dark skin people just stereotype they way they see most of thrm there is a lot of dark skin Puerto Ricans
He has European and Taino blood as well. Que viva Puerto Rico and all of its beautiful colorful people!
How do you know that? His parents could have immigrated from Africa to Puerto Rico just recently.
Great Start! I am staying tuned.....SDG
Damn he's fine...
THIS INFORMATION IS NEW TO PEOPLE WHO DO NOT TAKE TIME TO STUDY. U DON'T EVEN HAVE TO HAVE SPANISH IN YOUR DNA TO BE A LITE SKIN PUERTO RICAN ETHER. PEOPLE WILL NEVER KNOW UNLESS THEY TAKE TIME TO STUDY. INDIGENOUS NATIVES COMES IN MANY DIFFERENT BEAUTIFUL SHADES.
The cast system.wake up.
Any idea what he said @ 5:27- 5:31 ? What is "Lower Eastside" , "Loiza" or something else ?
Yo soy Boricua!! Bayamon P.R.
Loiza
@lram tej thanks for your encouragement! Can't to hear more feedback ( ;
Any idea what part of Puerto Rico one would travel to find Dark skinned Puerto Ricans ?
Good questions
Thank you!
What the fuck, white, taino, yellow, orange....we all will die and go six feet under...and do not argue down there.
He don't know his history at all of Puerto Rico Wowwww
I am Puerto Rican I am more Spanish 28% and taino 21% African 3%
i am,a black puerto rican
Why they cut a lot of what he said in this video?
Unfortunately I had to edit this video down more than the other videos because I didn’t initially know how to make a video longer than 10 minutes. It was my second video, and I still had a lot to learn about editing. Thanks for watching!
I see a black man born in Puerto Rico who likely speaks Spainsh.
Karon G your point????!!!!
Me too Karon G all I see is a black man from Puerto Rico
I see a Puerto Rican..and that is what he is!
@Nolberto Cales Tell it!
Yes he is black it's cool he represent his culture. But you black bros
Im half cuban mons from bay area
People said to me i dont look african anerican tease by african americans in high school for looking african i just say im cuban because im in the middle i guess. :(
You are a true Israelites brother so seek The God of heaven and earth.
mack black187 Shut up
Jose Caraballo why are you easily offended?
Lmao
ssme ws talkin points . don't u hate that
Ricky Martin approves
you're spitting image of Jennifer Lopez and sound like her too wow amazing you're both black. You don't represent Europe you represent Africa and you're not jewish
C puerto Ricans can b dark I'm part p.r. people think I'm lyin cuz I say I'm p.r. cuz I'm brown skin😒
Danielle Darden I ALWAYS get that!! Ppl are like prove it, speak spanish.. smh
Don't feel bad same here!
Afro and Anglo Americans prefer to tag all Latinos as BROWN. It's a USA Afro/Anglo thang!
Right
Why u gotta talk about race? Your skin color?!?! Man I love u not for ur skin color cuz you haven't seen yet..... Go deeper brother
Newyoricans have way more style than Puertoricans.
Define style please.
@Christopher Dinguis regular Puerto Ricans are ghetto to
Puerto Ricans are obssesed with race..so is this channel
I thought all puerto Ricans are white
try gooling sometimes!
Sushu...yeah, that's it all right...now get back to your stereo-types and stupidity...you apparently don't handle intelligent information well. Presenting accurate information is not insecurity...not comprehending it is YOUR insecurity.
Greg Medina You're sooo proud of your European heritage. lol lol...the anti-black sentiment is so pervasive. Colorism is a HUGE problem in the PR & the DR.
You forgot Tito P....JAZZ, BLUES, CREATE BY BLACK AMERICANS AND TAUGHT TO PR & DR people. Never forget that! I love how you mentioned all of those wonderful people that were afforded the opportunities, rights and privledges of civil rights on the BACKS OF black people in AMERICA. Black people set the trends in music, foods, arts & education around the WORLD. We are copied and imitated ever nano second. They have, still and continue to fight for racial equality over 600 years. lol lol lol Amazing!!
Thank you for clarifying. I'm so glad I avoid the tourism spending my black dollars on the anti-black islands in the Carribean. Thank you so much!
Mona...thank you for your afro-centric stupidity. So keep beating your bongo with a wooden spoon and telling us how significant that is to the overall cultural imprint in Puerto Rico which is UNDENIABLY European:
In the meantime, please consider the following:
*** European language legacy…Spanish/English (no one speaks Zulu)
*** European legal matrix (Napoleonic, like in Louisiana, USA and France)
*** European marriage tradition (no trading a virgin for cheetah skins or elephant tusks)
*** European marriage dissolution (divorce, not stoning ex-wife to death)
*** European city design (ALL 77 towns with central Mediterranean plaza)
*** European entrepreneurial tradition (no trading shrunken skulls for bone necklaces)
*** European inheritance tradition (property goes to family, NOT to invading tribes)
*** European-;tradition of dress (no one wearing animal skins or grass-skirts EVER)
*** European banking tradition (no trading Indian beads like Manhattan Island was)
*** European mercantile trading tradition (no waiting for a fish to spear on the beach)
*** European tradition of housing (no one lives in caves or trees)
European MAJORITY cultural imprint in Puerto Rico is not up for interpretation on YT. It really does exist...you just have to get past the Hula-Hula dancing "Porto-Rican" dolls at the airport gift shop and the Black-faced Grass-skirted dashboard bobble-heads sold in the tacky gift-shops at the Marriot hotels.
And OF COURSE i am proud of my European roots...should I be proud to be an Eskimo? A Maori cannibal? An Amazonian python-wrestler?
Get over your afro-centrism ignorance.or better yet take it to Haiti or Jamaica where it would be more realistic and honest.
Here are a couple of family members of mine from Puerto Rico who you will NEVER hear about in your afro-centric BS brainwashes...Why?
Because they were:
*** white
*** successful on a world-wide scale
*** didn't cry "oppression" 'cause they were too busy WORKING!
** * they existed in a time BEFORE ghetto brainwashes of Puerto Ricans in US Mainland ghettoes existed.
1. Estevan Antonio Fuertes...(he FOUNDED Cornell University’s College of Engineering in the 1800s)
***en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estevan_Antonio_Fuertes
***www.everipedia.com/Estevan_Antonio_Fuertes/
***www.it1me.com/learn?s=Estevan_Fuertes
***coursewiki.astro.cornell.edu/Fuertes/EstevanFuertes
His son...
2. Louis Agassiz Fuertes...(world-renown ornithological artist equal to John J. Audubon)
***en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz_Fuertes
***rmc.library.cornell.edu/Birds/
***www.pbs.org/harriman/1899/1899_part/participantfuertes.html
***rmc.library.cornell.edu/Fuertes2000/fuertes.asp.html
Now get back to the Porqueria Day Parade YT videos and applaud the "real" Tainos wearing Apache War Paint, screaming Comanche War Cries, doing Hopi Rain Dances, jumping through burning hoops of fire and sliding under a limbo stick...just like NO ONE in Puerto Rico EVER did!
Medina, with all those GREAT PUERTO RICANS you mentioned. How come your island is still lacking electricity, food and the basic necessities? Oh my bad those good old WHITE/ Spaniard Europeans will rescue your white Puerto Rican very soon. Again, thanks for reminding me to never travel to the PR. You're correct Haiti & Jamaica need my money and so does Mother of all mothers AFRICA! Thanks for your input.
Hey! I'm a proud dark skin Puerto Rican female...and I love it!!!!
So you're a blk American female..
Puerto Ricans we come in all colors and shapes! There’s one type of Rican Spaniard, Black, and Taino!
You don't know that Puerto Rican is a nationality? LOL!
I'm Puerto Rican and all my family members are white skin color. Not everyone is of those roots. My family members move to Puerto Rico in the 1930.
I'm Puerto Rican to my grandma's half Puerto Rican and black American so I'm like 25 Puerto Rican and proud of it too LOL.^😎
@Marshfield and yeah okay got you I remember that for next time. :-) gracias amigo
there's no such thing as Puerto Rican descent. it's an island of immigrants with only 40% out of 100 having indigenous ancestry . that means 60% have no Taino ancestry.
Puerto Ricans are descendants of various people , Europeans - Spain and it's different ethnics groups, Basque, Portuguese, French, Irish, Scottish, Italians and others
Africa- mostly west African countries, Nigeria, Ghana, and Angola , Cameroon and others and each countries different tribes.
native indigenous people- mostly from the Arawak Nation - Taino people , meso Americans as well.
Jewish, Arabs Muslim and Christians . and migrants of today .
every Puerto Rican has different ancestry ,as one can see.
they don't all share the same ancestry . the true Boricua is the 40% that has the native DNA .
So you're a Blk American or Afro American
Or on applications Blk of Hispanic origin
It's like saying you're from Hawaii or FL...
Puerto Rican is not a race
maisen santiago
Hispanic is a race
True that.
@@ericadaniel3710 No it's not...
Dwayne Arroyo
Ok. Language? I am running out of choices Dewayne lol
@@ericadaniel3710 it's actually not s race, hispanic talks about language. Originally Latinos were identified as Latinoamericans by europeans. Because we were admixed with Native Americans (back then American was a classification only given to Native Americans) now US wants to claim it's exclusivity but America entails continent not a country. Hispanic countries are those who speak spanish nothing to do with an actual "race"
Thank you so so much for sharing your story, and educating the closed minded🙏🏾
#BORIKEN
In the context of this interview, freedom means to me to be respected and treated as a human, no matter where you come from.
In Loiza, most Puerto Ricans there look like him.
but he has that look. he has the PR look. Yeah he’s black but he has these features that most Puerto Rican’s have. I can’t describe it but you can tell that he’s mixed with Puerto Rican
Brandon Ramirez I'm 100% I don't have any look Puerto Rican has a lot looks ..
Brandon Ramirez How is he “mixed” with Puerto Rican? He just said both of his parents are Puerto Rican.
He's not African-American. His parents are Puerto Rican, there are people of African descent everywhere. He 100% Puerto Rican. He isn't mixed with it, that's all he is, a dark skinned Puerto Rican, a human being.
I'm Haitian and someone thought I was Puerto Rican. A woman said to me she thought for the longest that I was Puerto Rican and said I look like one, this is the man she were referring me to, a dark skinned Puerto Rican.
+Brandon Ramirez "Mixed" with Puerto Rican lol? You are ignorant. His parents are from Puerto Rico. You mean mixed with European (Spanish). All Puerto Ricans have mixed-race ancestry.
+Slick Gzzz Let me rephrase that. All Puerto Ricans with more than six generations on the island are genetically admixed.
I am not at all surprised. I am a Black American married to a Puerto Rican lady. Growing up I wanted to know about PR so I traveled to Puerto Rico for the first time in 1985. I know Loiza Aldea is predominantly a Black town but I’ve seen Black Puerto Rican’s in different towns across Puerto Rico like Aguadilla or where ever there is a coastline.
As a Black American I experienced racism in RR. My wife and I arrived in Puerto Rico and rented a car. I asked her to stop at a gas station somewhere near Lares because I needed to use the restroom. When I got out the car and approached the window to ask for the key to use the restroom this guy working the window who looked mulato or half black himself shouted out to me oh we don’t like Black people over here Ice Tea and his bitch is suppose to be coming here to Puerto Rico. I believe that guy was probably Dominican and not Puerto Rican.
Phil Jones You know I have trouble believing you man sorry, any one can get fired for that.
Phil Jones slot of Dominicans live in Puerto Rico so I wouldn't doubt it. my family is from Bayamon,puerto Rico. my grandmother says she is black and my grandfather is pale. my family has never said anything negative about black people because we are mixed with African heritage.
Phil Jones, when you talk about racism, then it is universal, I'm a Boricua and being neutral between whites and blacks, I've heard racial comments/slurs coming from both sides of the aisle. I lived 4 years in Africa and I can tell you how racist "some" Africans are, even toward there rival tribes. I'm a "triguegno" (brown skin, mixed race) and in Africa I've been called m'zungu, half-breed, half-cast, etc. I've had racist comments thrown at me from African Americans, and White Americans (not as bad whites though). I was raised in PR and in my time living there I never experienced no racism; however, this is not to say that there was social prejudice. I didn't even know what racism meant until I got to the states. When you went to Lares, your wife was the one who could tell you whether the guy was Dominican or Puerto Rican since we have the same mix of races but we do have a different dialect/accent.
Please provide the publication or statement from any Puerto Rican that has claimed that black Puerto Ricans are located only in Loiza Aldea. I have personally never seen such a ridiculous comment. But since you have, what indeed is the source.
As a white Puerto Rican I experienced racism from blacks on NY. So I understand
He’s very appealing, handsome, great personality
People dnt think I’m Puerto Rican since I’m more black they think cuz I’m brown Ian part latino
American and Puerto Rican is a nationality it is not a race or an ethnicity. It is a nationality. African people outside of the US tend to hide behind they're nationality than to admit being black. In their country they'll relate as black, come to the US it's I'm Jamaican, I'm Dominican etc ESPECIALLY when their African is evident dark or light skin!. What is wrong saying I am a black from .... I hate when people question where in from. They become embarrassed because they know how bad people of color are treated in this country. So they look for acceptance. I'm a black American, we are the same as you. We have admixture too. We will have different looks so don't assume someone black is not black. Remember black is the ethnicity the nationality is where you were born.
My goodness, there are so many things wrong with your comment, first of all, PR is not a country but a territory of the USA, thus making Puerto Rican's nationality American, his ethnicity is Puerto Rican because he belongs to a certain group of Americans, his race is black, and he doesn't have to state what is obvious. Another example: If you're African American, then your nationality is American, your ethnicity is African American, and race is black.
Puerto Rico is not a nation, it is a territory of the USA, thus making Puerto Rican's nationality American, Puerto Rican is an ethnicity. If a black Dominican, Cuban, Jamaican, etc. tells you that he/she is Dominican, Cuban, Jamaican, etc, well, they are not going to tell you what is obvious.
He looks like Martin Lawrence.
I keep seeing African American v Afro Caribbeans v Afro Latinos v Africans. Tbh the only thing that disgusts each of us are the negative stereotypes. Personally the only problem I have w/ Afrolatinos esp the obviously black ones is alotttt of them don’t claim their African ancestry… it’s nothing to be ashamed of in fact be grateful for the melanin and athletic genes. I’ve literally seen black asf Cubans, PR, Dominicans say they’re their nationality n not black it’s like I’m looking at ur dark ass skin and nappy hair but ok😂, also when other blacks that look like us move to America they act like they’re better than us when y’all should respect us bc African Americans are the reason y’all can come live comfortably in the U.S. w/civil rights. If we didn’t fight for equality, no matter how much y’all like to disassociate yourselves from us y’all would be on the back of the bus w/us, drinking out the colored only fountains n not being able to be educated properly. Y’all will come n judge a whole people based on media when most of us grew up in faith based homes. Most of us aren’t thugs, a lot of us grow up with good fathers and strong black mothers and grandparents, most of us have jobs and a lot have jobs that pay cash so hiv can’t even track it 😂. We experience systematic and outright racism bc yes it is a thing. And we do realize a lot of people don’t experience racism as we do, but alot of Latinos are racist asf to blacks esp the older more predominantly white n native ones. I dated a pr, who clearly had black ancestry he looked like a biracial guy w/nappy curls n his parents thought that he shouldn’t be w/an African American bc we’re “dumb and lazy” baby black women are the most educated group of Americans. Also our strong character and not taking shit from anybody shouldn’t be dubbed as the angry black woman. N all black women are over-sexualized it’s annoying. African Americans are intelligent and in fact w/o a lot of our inventions, the modern world wouldn’t exist as we know it. Carribeans aren’t all rastas w/dreads either n they arent bums who smoke all day, and Afro latinas aren’t exotic oversexualized toys for African American rappers or white sugar daddies. Anyways I’ve alr said too much I just hate we’re always fighting so just added my 2¢.
Black Americans use the term “Black” because of the oppressive history and dehumanizing terminology they are described by. They are a “color” (albeit inaccurately) and that became the ethnicity with pride. This is why Latinos are not “Black.” They are their own ethnicity and nationality.
We all suffer from colorism and discrimination but just as Black Americans, now called African Americans, are not continental African - cannot claim a specific African nationality - Afro Latinos, Caribbeans and Africans are not ADOS/FBA Black Americans and all are distinct from each other. It is not solely a ohenotypical determinant but national and cultural.
Some take it too far in saying they have no African heritage in their history and often that is the result of the varying racial or physical characteristics identified in Latino culture. Yet, others make no claims due to alienating themselves to rise up socially.
Que q ai MI
PR people say they have Taino mixed, did you know Dominican, Haitian, Cuba, Dominica, Quadelope, St Kitts, ST Lucia islands all had Taino as well, what makes PR more Taino ????
that's hypocrisy…….all the other islands mixed with the Amerindians as well as PR.....its bigotry!
You are right in that there are those who have Taino roots all throughout the Caribbean. We typically don’t hear much about this unfortunately. I think for the most part when people hear Taino it’s almost sononomous with Puerto Rican heritage. Most people don’t realize that Jamaica for example has Deep Taino roots as well. Possibly because the African phenotype is statistically more prominent.
who said that though
I don't think he proud of his blackness because some of the cues he gives off says alot
My family is from Loiza......... this man looks a LOT like my dad
It does not break off into 3 areas.
Same
I'VE NEVER IN MY LIFE SEEN A BOX FOR LATINO.
johan sebastianbach Apparently, you have never filled out government forms