Naw, he's upset. He gave you that ice grill!!! That's the look Prince gave Charlie Murphy when he cracked on his blouse.
"Latino" ain't a race. Some Latinos are black or part black (although a lot of them will try to deny accept when it's inconvenient, which is most of the time).
Nearly every Latino has at some some African and indigenous ancestry, as well as Iberian, whether Portuguese or Spaniard. What varies is the degree to which one of the three primary racial groups is expressed in an individual's phenotype.
But even in those who are as dark as me, and I'm hella dark, will claim they are strictly Hispanic in a minute. The one thing I've learned is in this world being black is the last thing anyone wants to be if they have a choice and that's pure fact
Really? You telling me that this dude is black? Get real. Many Spanish countries had little or no history of African slavery, and even in countries that did, not everybody mixed with the darkest of the dark.
I did not say he is visibly black. And yes, there are examples of Latinos who are descended from Germans, Irish, Poles, Lebanese, Japanese and many other groups, as well as individuals who are solely African, indigenous or Iberian with no mixture. But the standard overwhelming majority of Latinos are people who are a mix of those 3 primary racial subgroups. I'll stop commenting now. I see the hyperbole is such that people are beginning to grossly overstate/misstate other's comments in the effort to make a point.
They can be blue-black and be strictly Hispanic. That's an ethnic group, not a race. That just means that they have no non-Spanish speaking ancestors, i.e. all of their ancestors were African slaves brought to Spanish-speaking countries. Don't let them blow smoke up your ass. There was African slavery in nearly every Ibero-American nation: northern Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay, Brasil, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Surinam, Guyana, Nicaragua, Honduras, eastern El Salvador, the Veracruz region of Mexico, PR, DR, Cuba and on and on... This was primarily because most of the indigenous people that migrated to urban areas around Spaniards and Portuguese ended up dying due to disease and working conditions. That is why most purely indigenous populations are in isolated rural areas and the primary racial stock of the "average" citizen is 'mestizo', a mix of the three groups, with more or less indigenous or African mixed with Iberian depending on the particular nation.
I'll just say the refrain used in Puerto Rico by people who are clear about the history when addressing people who deny the African contribution to 'Latin-ness': "And where are you hiding your grandmother?" Also, in all fairness, some people think the word "black" means you are calling them "black American" and, largely because of the way black Americans, African-Americans/whatever are portrayed in the media, they are trying to distance themselves from that. You will probably get a more accurate answer if you ask the question "Is there anyone in your ancestry of African origin?" And it includes people as pale as Ruben Blades, all the way to cats who are visibly African, like the late Diego Corrales, Bebo Valdes, etc. [YOUTUBE]fT9KHRiwqFE[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]zAbZbLGzLwY[/YOUTUBE]
ah ok, well he was only telling me to say it because he thinks its cute how much I can't say that word. He wanted me to ''break the curse'' lol.
So true.What's funny about it is that they act like just like, if not, worse than the "blacks" they try to look down on.It's the literal version of the pot calling the kettle black.
The Moors still reigned in those mofos though. The word Latino, actually originates from the word LADINO, which described the mixed race people, who were a product of mixing between the Moors from North Africa and the lighter nations of the Mediterranean (Ladino Moors, who more times than not, actually practiced Judaism.) So not only do most Latinos deny their African ancestry, they also have no clue of their Jewish history either #justonetogrowon
It amazes me on how the human mind works, especially when it comes to denying what oneself truly is and what one is envision to be, in order to co-exist with their enviornment, and the larger world in general. No wonder so many are so unhappy with their lives. Mental slavery is motherf#####.
It's crazy man. I tell Noah all the time, embrace who you are, and be proud of it. Society may put him in a box as black, but he is multi-racial, and damn well better love every piece that makes up the whole.
My job as father to my son is to prepare him early to be so strong in mind, body, and spirit that he will be able to stand on his own two feet and be able to compete with "anyone" in this world. I will succeed in him. I'm programming him to see himself as being everything and anything.
This was my reasoning for giving both of my children nationality neutral names. Noah and Jordyn. They're not going to be pigeonholed because somebody saw a name on an application or a resume and thought "eh? nah...sounds to ethnic" and throws the shit into the shredder without even weighing their qualifications.
I was always grateful for my neutral name, it has come in handy career wise more than I can count. I have literally walked into interviews and seen white jaws drop...my alst name especially gets them because it is from my white ancestors three time removed.
Well being a big black guy named Jamahl has had the opposite effect for me. But it just made me try harder, and I've been fortunate enough to be pretty successful career wise thus far. My next logical jump should be director or c-level executive...but we'll see how welcoming they are of a Jamahl-Sharif :smt087
