1. GFunk

    GFunk Well-Known Member

    Naw, he's upset. He gave you that ice grill!!!

    That's the look Prince gave Charlie Murphy when he cracked on his blouse.
     
  2. pettyofficerj

    pettyofficerj New Member

    the charlie murphy skits were legend

    :smt029

    they dont make comedy like that anymore
     
  3. orejon4

    orejon4 Well-Known Member

    You Mexican?
     
  4. Frederick

    Frederick Well-Known Member

    "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).
     
  5. orejon4

    orejon4 Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  6. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    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
     
  7. Frederick

    Frederick Well-Known Member

    Really? You telling me that this dude is black?

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    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.
     
  8. orejon4

    orejon4 Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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  9. orejon4

    orejon4 Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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  10. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    I know you're right but you can't tell them that. They get angry as fuck if you call them black
     
  11. orejon4

    orejon4 Well-Known Member

    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.

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  12. suzieb

    suzieb New Member

    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.
     
  13. KWillo

    KWillo Active Member

    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.
     
  14. JamahlSharif

    JamahlSharif Well-Known Member

    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
     
  15. Blacktiger2005

    Blacktiger2005 Well-Known Member

    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#####.
     
  16. JamahlSharif

    JamahlSharif Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  17. Blacktiger2005

    Blacktiger2005 Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  18. JamahlSharif

    JamahlSharif Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  19. FRESH

    FRESH New Member

    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.
     
  20. JamahlSharif

    JamahlSharif Well-Known Member

    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
     

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