Rise Of The Latin Africans

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I'm not going to even address some of the stupidity of these comments, but do know this. The reported numbers in this article may very well be false. Why? May AfroLatinos simply do not identity themselves as Black or African, so yes, the number of AfroLatinos in many of these countries is MUCH higher. There are about 50 "types" of black that I can name (many more depending on where you go), but on a typical census form you check: black/white/asian/etc. For example, a woman who is lighter-skinned, maybe due to a grandparent being white/european, in many say she is inter-racial or white. Why not black? Because black simply isn't cool. Africa and African history is even taught in many of the school systems in these countries, other than that is where slaves are from. That's it.
This isn't news to many AfroCaribbean/Latinos???it's always been this way. Many of these countries never had anything close to a Civil Rights/"I'm Black and I'm Proud" moment in their history, so it is WONDERFUL that it is happening now. I always tell my friends that when you travel to these countries, you will get a taste of what the United States could have been had we not chosen to usher in desegregation and the like.

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Posted By: yojacobs @ 06/26/2008 9:57:19 AM

I was with this article, totally, until it introduced toward the end, Western involvement. Anytime Western influence provides anything in the way of "resources," movements are misdirected, distorted and, eventually, moot.
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Posted By: xxPeter @ 06/09/2008 10:05:11 AM

You are right, that is why I praise Mugabe for expelling the white settlers off the Blacks Land the whites stole years past. The same should be done in South Africa also, whites need to be remove like the Garifunas in Honduras.
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Posted By: JBaker/ParlourMag @ 06/09/2008 6:07:50 AM

I'm not going to even address some of the stupidity of these comments, but do know this. The reported numbers in this article may very well be false. Why? May AfroLatinos simply do not identity themselves as Black or African, so yes, the number of AfroLatinos in many of these countries is MUCH higher. There are about 50 "types" of black that I can name (many more depending on where you go), but on a typical census form you check: black/white/asian/etc. For example, a woman who is lighter-skinned, maybe due to a grandparent being white/european, in many say she is inter-racial or white. Why not black? Because black simply isn't cool. Africa and African history is even taught in many of the school systems in these countries, other than that is where slaves are from. That's it.
This isn't news to many AfroCaribbean/Latinos???it's always been this way. Many of these countries never had anything close to a Civil Rights/"I'm Black and I'm Proud" moment in their history, so it is WONDERFUL that it is happening now. I always tell my friends that when you travel to these countries, you will get a taste of what the United States could have been had we not chosen to usher in desegregation and the like.