Interviews from Havana - Blacks in Cuba

[@cemetarymama]

You cannot have cuban culture without africans. They gave so much to our culture. Our spanish ancestors didnt deserve it but im so thankful to be a beneficiary. There is unbelievable pain in the past that should be recognized and talked about. Im trying to learn everything i can. Thank you Gloria for everything you do.

[@aprophetnazareth1748]

I never knew why I loved Salsa dancing, Bachata until I realized this is just something handed by our Hebrew or Black ancestors that just happen to reach the European population. I what was the name of the dance before they got the latin names.

[@folvier9122]

@@aprophetnazareth1748 I agree 100% Hosea 1:10 ...and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God."

[@belvedere92]

You can't have American culture without Black Americans. They define the culture.

[@luissmith8559]

@@aprophetnazareth1748 Those are not Latin dances, those are African dances, and it is the way of dancing of the African gods. We black Cubans do not need to learn to dance. Afro-Cuban music is played on the frequency of the African gods, the spirit of Africa dances, we don't have to try hard. My father is black from the US who came here in 1950. I grew up in Santiago de Cuba in a community where we are all children of foreigners, especially from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. Our foreign parents and grandparents never had to flee from any government before Fidel. She has lied somewhere. Remember this is a horrible dictatorship for white people. (Now the racism is 1000 time much worse against our black women and us). Fidel has been the most racist of all governments. Batista was black, so he did everything possible to help blacks to fill administrative positions in politics, the police, and high positions in congress and the army; that's what the 1940 constitution was about. When Fidel came to power, blacks lost all their rights. We are Cuban. No Afro-Cubans, because the whites here are not racist. Here the racists are the government officials and above all the black policemen (Uncle Tom indoctrinated by Fidel Castro). They hate non-communist blacks, especially artists, because they have a better economy and Cuban and foreign white women. We are also better educated, the black policemen are illiterate that they bring from the jungles of the eastern part of Cuba, the mountainous part of the eastern part, where I am from.

[@nosceteipsum-mw7nj]

Cemetqrymama….our hispanish ancestors sid t desrve it…..THEY MIXED WITH EVERYONE IN TEH COMTIENT…..what the hell you sayinggg

[@jddominguez17]

No one believes me when I tell them I am Cuban because they don't understand Cuban isn't a race.

[@jamesmorton8224]

There are no races we all come from Africa. Cultures exist, however race is largely an ideological expression used to divide and subjugate.

[@thespaceram2879]

@115894998372541332349 not everyone comes from Africa. the whole humanrace descends from middle eastern Asia. Adam and Eve were middle eastern. Eden was in Iraq. So was Babel and Babylon. Adam and Eve were in Eden until they sinned ,and Lord Jesus Christ sent them off. Adam and Eve later settled in Canaan. Modern day Israel. In Hebron where their tomb is located. Even God=Jesus Christ is middle eastern. So is Noah and his three sons. Where the three races descend from. And they were white. before the flood there was only one race, one language.

[@jamesmorton8224]

thespaceram2 That is your view and your theology. My science and my theology gives me a different interpretation. The book your refer to says nothing about Eve or Adam being white. It does say the Christ you may or may not worship had hair like unto lambs wool and his feet were like bronze in a oven. This does not make him white. I will further add that his phenotype is non priori as far as I am concerned. I am a trained scientist and as such I value logic, facts and IQ above theological interpretations. My veiw of Yeshua, The Messiah would not change if he exhibited the phenotype of a purple Martian . I think that your world and theological views would devastated if he exhibited an African Phenotype.

[@thespaceram2879]

James Morton i rather believe God=Jesus Christ's word in the Bible than the ignorance of men. especially science. after all Lord Jesus Christ has saved me time and time again like whoever believes in Him as well. 2 Peter 1:16 Eyewitnesses of His Majesty 15And I will make every effort to ensure that after my departure, you will be able to recall these things at all times. 16For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. Matthew 10:33 Confessing Christ 32Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven. 33But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven. 34Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.… Colossians 1:16 The Supremacy of Christ 15The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.… Romans 10:9 The Word Brings Salvation …8But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.…

[@thespaceram2879]

Noah and his sons were from Iraq. The Ark after the flood rested in a mountain there. Eden, Babel and Babylon were also in Iraq. Adam and Eve later settled in Canaan after Eden. Canaan is modern day Israel. That is not in Africa. It is in middle eastern Asia.

[@holyroncg]

My Grandma was a proud Afro-Cuban, I miss her dearly.

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

Te acompaño en tu dolor 😭.

[@holyroncg]

@@JudithSanchez-ht6jn thank you 🙏🏽

[@MadeinDade47]

🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺

[@jaybrown3341]

remember Latino people,when you dance,your dancing to my African ancestors rhythms...ok by..

[@CrowdPleeza]

+James Brown What does that mean? Africans are the ancestors of those Latinos who have African ancestors also.

[@nissij.c.9121]

James Brown exactly tango and every other Latin American dances and rhythms came from the black populations the beats are very similar to afro beats

[@jaybrown3341]

No doubt....truth to power..

[@Abstract.Noir414]

Well let an latin american person whos black tell it. Not an American-black American blacks can act like they understand the african elements in various latin american countries all we want. We do not identify with it because it is not our culture. Theres a reason why black americans have different cultural attributes from blacks from south america, central america caribbean Excluding: Gullah Geechee peoples

[@KSmall109CAB]

There are a lot of Black Americans who are Gullah Geechee descendants, especially those of us who have family from the modern day North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Sadly, much of the richness of the Gullah Geechee culture has been lost. I salute Ms. Gloria Rolando for telling the African story and documenting its contribution to Cuban culture.

[@Marchoupi]

I brought my black buddy to Cuba a couple of years ago. We had so much fun, he looked right at home

[@gusteree]

I’m Nigerian and just learned about our cousins in Cuba. I love you all and you’re always welcome to your other home

[@rapitup45]

Cuba is the BEST country i have been to. I hope to go back again. Love from🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@markwilliams3174]

Great interview. Gloria Rolando is certainly a culturally iconic figure. The history of African survival in the Caribbean and the Americas is vitally important.

[@benajminpadilla6360]

Ms Gloria Rolando is a class act. May she continue to render fruits from her much undervalued scholarly work and ever continuing studies. I would count it as a privilege to one day have an opportunity to personally meet her. The interviewer Ms Escobar wss very engaged and showed a demonstrably sincere interest on this subject.

[@1988Cubanito]

I'd love to see more interviews like this about the Cuban culture and the people in Cuba. I'm Cuban myself but left when I was little and feel like a huge piece of me is missing because I'm not there or am closely connected. Thank you!

[@PHlophe]

miami and is the cuban alt right Eldorado. that's why you are not aware of history

[@ruthmorr9501]

You are european descent me african

[@johnpinto1216]

Thank you TeleSur English, for this excellent documentary.

[@goldenheart751]

This video was from 6 years ago and it is a very good video. Gloria is a queen. (Reina)

[@ericstrickland7589]

Love Gloria she's gifted and great historian and loves black people

[@badformatuk]

Such a good interview, i'll never forget this woman. She is extremely culturally informed.

[@traceyholland9882]

My Grandfather was an Afro-Cuban and proud to be a Black man, I was born in the United States, So I am African-American, but I often tell people, I am American of African decent, but I am also proud to be a Black woman.. How come Black people in Latin America always negatively criticize Black people in the U.S. for saying we are African Americans? No one reacts negatively when Italians say they are Italian American, or Irish say they are Irish American, or Germans say they are German American. Let me clear this up for all the Black people around the world. We are proud to be Americans, we have a strong national identity and we believe even with all its problems that the U.S., is still one of the greatest countries in the world. So, when you ask us what we are, why do we say we are Black first, (Black, meaning a descendant of Africa), then American, we do this because it is what is commonly done all across America, no matter what ethnic group you belong to, because America is a melting pot of many nations. People came from other countries to help form and shape what the U.S. is today, so when you ask anyone what they are in America, it is a very common practice to say the country your forefathers came from first, then American. If you study our history, our history books and the people in the books refer to the country they, or the grandparents or forefathers came from then America. I went to school with many Italian Americans and Irish Americans. In the city I live in, German Americans settled in one part of the city, and it is called Germantown. People of all ethnic groups live there, but it is an historic part of the city, and definitely spot to go visit. So when you come to the United States, ask any White person what they are, and the will tell you, I'm Irish, Italian, German, Polish, Greek, Russian, etc., they will even tell you what they are mixed with, so please stop bashing us for saying that we are Black, telling people what you ethnic group you belong to is commonly done here.

[@resilience4lyfe331]

Tracey Holland I have come to believe the problem is African solidarity. There and abroad. Everyone else subscribed to the newly coined term “white “ to show solidarity. People stopped using reference to their countries of European origin as an ethnicity. It’s only an issue if Black people show any unification.

[@Robert-ur8mi]

You’re not cuban!!

[@SenorRioSalsa]

¡Saludos! Primero, Soy Cubano Segundo, Soy African Gracias ~ Thank You Gloria Rolando for an excellent interview on our home,Cuba. The island of Cuba was first inhabited by indigenous tribe of the Arawak and Tiano Indians long before the Europeans set sail for the Americas and created the fusion of Native Americans,Europeans and African. Yet, while we have come a log way in race relations, we still have a long way to go for total equality in Cuba.

[@MrSivram28]

EL Cubano SenorRio Africans were in Cuba first

[@SenorRioSalsa]

So you say Africans were in Cuba before the Arawak or Taíno,tribes? And before Columbus too right?

[@MrSivram28]

Yea they were

[@SoLNaTaL555]

EL Cubano SenorRio: Yo primero soy Africano porque mis raices dominates, son de ese gran continente. Despues soy Afro-Caribeño-Americano.... Yo nunca remplacere un gran continente tan antiguo, rico y diverso como mi Africa, por una nacionalidad y identidad formada por una adoctrimacion traumante colonial!

[@LilliLamour]

EL Cubano SenorRio Naw, we are not Cuban without Africa. She is always first.

[@wadek798]

It's the same history all over the diaspora! Great video!

[@globalgogetter4469]

Basically.

[@dejakeith2291]

Beautiful accents

[@respectknuckles428]

Yup

[@charlesjordan2837]

SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU should be focusing on the west African accent of your ancestor dummy

[@PDro11]

What's the contribution of blacks??? Everything!

[@MrSivram28]

DRO NOYB The contribution is that you exist. Without the black race you wouldn't be here

[@PDro11]

MrSivram28 What on earth are you going on about? Re-read my comment. I clearly stated the word "Everything".

[@keeplearning5374]

VitaSineLibertatenih I think the question was pertaining to the contribution of blacks...not whites.

[@stanbryant1299]

Africa is the "Mother of Humankind"!!!

[@satukhtems1143]

Civilization...we had government on both sides of the water. What did the pilgrims bring....they didn't know how to plant food. We taught them everything they know. The constitution was plagiarized. The constitution came from the Iroquois,they took out the matriarch side of it.this is why the pale woman has no rights to equality in his u.s.corporation today. He called her a minority. A minor in the mental state. This club is only for boys........can u say Rome and Greece....that's what it's based off of.......

[@lacijoseph8011]

this lady is so insightful - thank you for your work Ms. Rolando

[@devotion1100]

Thank You, Muchos Gracias Director Gloria Rolando !!!! Thank You for Posting !

[@rashidaokolo2893]

My Dear Sister Gloria, Thank U 4 speaking thecTRUTH! Much Respect 4 U my Sister!Medase'Ashe O '🌴😌💜🌞🌙⭐️🌍🌊🐚✊🏾👍🏾🇨🇺🌹

[@nancycotto6736]

Amazing. Thank you!♥️ Embrace our African culture.

[@patandersen4271]

Love your video. appreciate it, thanks for posting.

[@Coconut_Stacks]

Very good interview. I found this to be informative.

[@davgar4241]

She is right alot of our jamaican people went to Panama canal. This lady is exceptionally well informed.

[@elongreen8566]

This woman is brilliant, a great roll model blessed.

[@SonoranTel]

I love this. 💯 respect 🇨🇺 🇬🇾 🇨🇺 🇬🇾

[@hinckson]

Do you still make Guyanese Spanish music? I’m Guyanese and want to know more fusion stuff

[@SonoranTel]

hinckson I have not made music in a while, though I still help people write, I thought about doing another small project though. Just email me. [e-mail]

[@johnnysahsa885]

love from sierra leone

[@MrShukri45]

Who is this smart cuban genius being interviewed

[@dfaro4582]

MrShukri45 she have done her research and she clearly care about her country. I am not Cuban but she’s doing a good job to closing the differences between the poor blacks in the rest of the population in Cuba through information and education.

[@sasupo5277]

Lots of Black people don't know who they are they don't know that we are a special and we have contributed our intelgent and sweat and blood though out the world. We are the chosen ones.

[@beshert77]

The documentary and discussion was done well. Many times over not just 'other' Cubans are unaware of their full history; but other people from Latin american countries of African descent tend to forget that there were others like the Afro-Cubans who also contributed to their African cause. Of all Latin and Caribbean countries, most will identify themselves as personnel from the their countries. This I think is very important. At least the director is making some strides in her country. I wish it could be the same here in northern america.

[@LowellBDennyIII]

Lovely interview, but when she says Cubans of African descent call themselves Cubans without any qualifier, this is problematic. Her own evidence in the interview shows this: she is fluent on the history of racism from the forced labor camps [slavery] to the republic and to the current times. Their relation to the state is the same as her brothers and sisters throughout the diaspora, including the US. Our social exclusion and dealing with institutional racism is the same. We might be raised to react to it differently - ie. like Blacks in the Dominican Republic refuse to acknowledge their Blackness or African heritage. It comes down to me agreeing with the Pan-Africans, who are from all over the diaspora, who say we are, simply, Africans.

[@Sankofah]

+Lowell Denny That poor woman like most Afro Cubans, is in denial. Only Black people have been made to hate themselves and where they came from. All other people have a sense of a motherland. She says they are Cubans, but where did those Black people in Cuba come from, if not Africa, then where?

[@davidcollegerosemont]

+greenfaceman All the people who say they are not Blacks, are they all Whites? All mixed people want to be Whites. That's crazy. They forgot what the real Whites did to their ancestors in the past.

[@miguelbrito4553]

yes my friend but the thing is that we the latinos in spite of we are dark skin not celebrate our african heritage as the afroamericans because latinamerica is one culture result of the mix of three ethnical groups. It is true, we need to be in contact with our african heritage but also we our indian heritage besides all latinos no matter what skin color we have we share the same culture and language as family, our origin is one mixed and beatiful origin

[@teresaguerrasalazar]

Well said! I'm Mexican with all three mixtures. Also in all Latin America birth certificates do not identify their citizens by racial origin, because we are mixed. When I came to America in 1969 as a Teenager, the Black student girls used to ask me if I was mix of Black. I answered no, they whispered to each other "look at the kind of hair she has" I then remembered that in the 4th grade in Mexico we studied about our History and the population of colonial Mexico. We are in fact taught that African slaves were part of our admixture. I recently did my DNA study. My Indian percentage is 49% my African ancestry is 13% my White percentage is 37%. However, I do see African remains in me such as my loose curly hair of Afro texture, my muscular, well delineated proportioned body, my sense of rhythm, which I inherited from my Mother who had Chocolate skin and which according to research, the state of Mexico where she was born Durango, had mines where African slaves worked. I have travelled all over Mexico and I have seen people who clearly have African features in the states of: Tabasco, Yucatan, Campeche, Chiapas. Veracruz, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Morelos, Guanajuato, Puebla, Mexico city, Michoacan, Jalisco( the whitest of all states in Mexico)Nayarit, Durango. Chihuahua. In reality all over Mexico. Once I have lived outside of Mexico and have been exposed to various races and racial mixtures I have developed a discerning eye. According to a Mexican Anthropologist who published a book in the 1940's The Black Population of Mexico, he asserted that Latin American people were the mixture of Black, White and Indian. He stated that by the end of the 1800s the population of Mexico had 2/3 of African admixture.

[@miguelbrito4553]

***** Actually not, cause as a latino my roots are not defined, so i´m not hebrew israelites because of my mixed heritage beside i´m catholic by religion.

[@user-jz9jw3xf3q]

What a brilliant and humble soul. Please post a link to where we can find her films.

[@MJ-hg1mk]

She's spot on; gender is being used to change the subject. Not just in Cuba.

[@nissij.c.9121]

Trinidad and Tobago 😍😍

[@kennethfranklin5475]

Nissi J.C. My family is Trini too. Much love 😎

[@majihabana825]

Gracias Hermana por todos los esfuerzos. Palante necesitamos nuestra historia siempre.

[@sasupo5277]

Love this Lady great interview.

[@belvedere92]

Good to hear that the history of people from other Caribbean islands is being put together and saved. I am from St. Vincent, never went to Cuba but my father's side of the family has members who still reside in Cuba. As a matter of fact the great Cuban boxer Theophilus Stephenson's father was cousin of my father, and during WW2, my father briefly migrated to Cuba but found it quite difficult and soon returned.

[@eliek2014]

I really wish blacks in America understood that America is as much theirs as it is whites. Our forefathers fought in every major war and have been here since its founding. I love that she has so much pride as a Cuban and disples the "Black Cuban" label.

[@narutostyleworld3379]

shout out to my cuban cousin

[@mikeaman2008]

I don't really care for the reference to the Yorubas as .." a bunch of people." The Yorubas are a Nation. Some time ago, members of that nation were kidnapped and sold into slavery. Some ended up in Cuba. My ancestors ended up in Jamaica.

[@tytaylor8525]

I'm a PROUD AFRO-CUBANO!!!

[@thehuemanimal3626]

Am I the only one who noticed the interviewer's fecklessness with her questions? She continuously made a distinction between 'black' people and 'Cuban' people, so much so that she had to be corrected at the 23:50 mark.

[@jasondavila8318]

You forgot the natives that were already there.

[@BrentStrathdeePehi]

Jason Davila good point

[@jazmynbrown6820]

Yeah the Tainos right?

[@cuscotransport6013]

@@jazmynbrown6820 Gosh the tainos were very few and killed off. So no one in the Caribean have taino blood. Get your info correct.

[@jazmynbrown6820]

Why so hostile? It was a question. Get a life! 😂

[@yolandacomito]

@@jazmynbrown6820 yes but in Cuba the Spaniards sterminated them all

[@watchulla]

Afro Americans do feel we are a part of the nation we have black president. We just want to be proud of our history. We must know where we come from (not slavery but Africa) to know where we can go.We are finding out more about ourselves very generation.

[@tyrone-7794]

We come from Israel...the chosen people of the bible.

[@SuperHtownswag]

Tyrone - israelis dont feel the same about you shinebone

[@jls0037cslewis1]

your cursed as a Jew hater Tyrone

[@sunnubian]

I understand about who the TRUE Hebrews are, but we cannot dismiss the fact that the Africans in America came from more than one part of Africa, so while some African Americans are descendants of the original "Jews" that had already migrated to this continent centuries before Columbus, et. al, even knew the earth was not "flat", and were already here when Columbus did arrive, they are not the ONLY Africans African Americans/Black people in America descended from. We descended from many African Tribes, cultures and religions.

[@Abstract.Noir414]

African changes, the culture of said people changes, we cannot claim every modern african culture. There are alot more ethnic groups in africa than there were around the slave trade of africans into the new world

[@cubachang]

Good interview!

[@RickyCespedes]

Cuba is a very special place.

[@goldyempiremusic]

get up stand up don't give up the fight BOB MARLEY SAID THAT THANKS YOU FOR THIS VEDEO

[@nicolejackson7212]

Hello there I am black and Cuba myself my grandma told me that my great great auntie and my great great uncle is Cuba one day I want to go to Cuba I love it

[@elsiemartin9302]

This lady is a great interviewer.

[@rjgamble2551]

LOVE this video, best on YOU Tube

[@josephschaumberg4136]

I learned a lot from this interview

[@1017squirrel]

My dad iz from Cuba!

[@fredschwentafsky6993]

Really interesting.

[@haatpraat2993]

My Dad's uncle left Jamaica as a young man to cut cane in Cuba in the 1940s. He never came back. I must have some Cuban relatives.

[@kathaiti]

I really love her necklace. I wonder if her ancestors were from Haiti.

[@Abstract.Noir414]

There are many cubans who have ties to haiti

[@jeremyarroyo360]

Ram THom real cubans are not hatians.

[@johnathanclark1]

Nice interview but the reason blacks in America say African Americans instead of Americans is so people won’t write us off saying we don’t have a racial problem we’re all Americans like they do in Cuba.

[@zarario4444]

Blacks in America don't like the term African American.

[@DesireeGoddessISIS]

Oh my God I just found out the most wonderful news my great great grandfather was Cuban this is exciting news

[@stevebaker9679]

As an African-American, we claimed both, our African ancestry, as well as Americans because we have built America and had a presence before the country American was formed.

[@yellow61ful]

She spoke about Cuban's as one, but you can sense the racial divide between the two women.

[@cdale211989]

frank stinson.... because just like the white people here in America white Cubans are in denial. In America we're saying "black lives matter "while the "whites say all lives matter" like all of our lives have equal value in America.

[@ashlyrutheckels7114]

frank stinson I thought it was just me.

[@bobbye.wright4424]

frank stinson she has to carry the party line

[@jaysonbiggs8979]

I sensed not much a racial divide. Unlike here in the U.S. where race is a constant issue

[@MsDragonfly58]

Indeed I thought her question at the end of the interview .. ' do you have a problem with white people ? ' was both crass and inappropriate

[@Travelingwithabbc]

She’s very interesting to listen to. Gloria Rolando knows a lot about her background

[@Soulpatrol-zu7ry]

Excelente interview

[@TRAVELINGYOURWORLD]

Definitly, I will visit this place

[@BoqPrecision]

Looks alot like my mom!

[@Bigsmoove7112012]

that's not a true statement it was people here before the slaves of West Africa came here the indigenous people was here and they wasn't from Spain

[@MrSivram28]

Judah Ben Israel Africans have been visiting Cuba and Americas for thousands of years before slavery self hating delusional black man.

[@Bigsmoove7112012]

Jews have been visiting here also the real jews not those white people on Israel today

[@exiledbantuking]

Judah Ben Israel lolol untrue !

[@Bigsmoove7112012]

Everyone black aren't African

[@IkesLionsDen]

Black Cuba is very "African" ..some Cubans represent and celebrate African religions like Santeria more than Africans on the continent...

[@afshar110]

Great video viva cuba

[@davgar4241]

I have always wondered why Cuba, which is our closer neighbor but has never been apart of caribbean community

[@tonywalton1052]

Cubans in Miami love this content

[@wadek798]

I dont thinks blacks in America want to separate from the U.S. so I disagree with that thesis! Black in the U.S. historically have fought for human rights and civil rights and are still struggling as a people to be treated fairly in that society. Other than that, I love this video!

[@wadek798]

Shadowedblinds True!

[@Flex60369]

+KENNETH WADE Things are changing. More American Blacks are leaving the country than ever before. Going to East & West Africa, Brazil, Asia, and Latin American & the Caribbean. Inexpensive Air Travel, and International business is changing that.

[@cdale211989]

KENNETH WADE.... hello to you from west Florida, USA (aka the panhandle, close to the state of Alabama). some of us blacks do want to separate ourselves. If things don't get better here in Usa 🇺🇸 we will have to eventually. Our problem is resources and community. In the past when blacks were separating and were prospering the whites were scared /jealous and burned their cities. Learn more from the black wall street documentary. We are not complacent here we do not like how we are being treated. Make sure you turn your tv to international news every now and then to check up on us in 2017 and the next couple of years . We're going through a lot of stuff right now and things are either going to change for the better or worse time will tell. It would be nice for blacks all over the world to come together. We have more in common than we may think.

[@wadek798]

cd2189 I don't mean to imply that all Black people in The USA are complacent. I'm stating that most are and very few will venture outside this country for a better life or standard of living. I recognize that that don't like how we are being treated and I have been beating that drum for 2 decades, so I'm well aware of our struggles for fair treatment and equality. I'm also aware of the documentary that you write of and have seen it many times and have read many books over the years on that subject among many other pertaining to our history. With this current election I would hope that it will serve as a wake up to the rest of us that we have to unite as a people and that's we expatriate or remain here. I'll stop here for now due to time restraints but thank you for your input and I hope to have further dialog with you in the future.

[@davidelliott1594]

+Jugadero! I agree with you. I am an African American traveler who has lived in three different countries outside of the United States, and while I am very happy in my travels and what I have learned in them, at the end of the day, I am still American and could never leave that behind, because the simple fact is regardless of race, by comparison to much of the world, there are advantages that come with being American that MANY other nations do not have. Even when an American moves to another country, there is a "benefit" in being an American even in foreign countries. For example, in Brazil, a black American who immigrates there is not generally treated the same way a black Brazilian who is born and raised there. It's a monumental difference. They same can be said for most places in the world. I've lived in a few countries that if I were not American, or did not speak English, I would have suffered greatly. There are too many places in the world that if you are born poor (and developing country poor is generally far different than US poor), you will stay poor for life, because they society literally provides almost no social mobility. For all the flaws of the United States and the things we need to change for the better, at the end of the day, the opportunity to grow is still here. I know many other black American travelers, who love to leave the country whenever possible, but at the end of the day, only a comparative few would actually live permanently outside of the United States.

[@winstondonald3979]

And yet White Cuba treat Black Cubans sobad.

[@manewalew2845]

Beautiful black people with Spanish accent something hard to believe Eropean whites devastated our continent and world they have to be responsible for what they did on Africa but still Cuba I respect Cuba just forget about past let's work together on future please

[@gwencarter2892]

Powerful thAnkh U Goddess 💯

[@mcamara488]

Respect to my auntie Gloria.

[@merckcory65]

Blacks in Cuba? Cuba is Black! Cuba is like a little Africa. In fact, the caribe, South America, the South Pacific, Central America, etc...all of these areas origins are based in Africa

[@richardlaurent2670]

Haiti is little Africa

[@petersonremolien9770]

We have so many ignored people's around. Take notes brothers and sisters, you might lean some if you have a spiritual mind to understand.

[@fonzisalgado512]

Que honor ...to have come across this video well done,i had heard about the treatment of Haitian sugar wokers in the camps of Cuba run by the private companies ,History Black History needs to be discoverd and told.

[@donthompson1930]

She is Deep!!

[@roselimonta]

61 looking 45 wow

[@gatheringleaves]

My great grandfather Thomas who was from Jamaica, moved to Cuba and had several children with a woman there, I wonder if she was Afro-Cuban?

[@2002fresnes]

+Infinite Sky You may find your relatives in or near Santiago de Cuba.That,s were 90% of Jamaicans are found because it is the closest main city to Jamaica. I lived in Jamaica 25 years and visited Cuba many times up to present day

[@gatheringleaves]

C.S. Jr thanks for that

[@rdenHotEd]

The inverse is also true. There are many persons living in Jamaica with ties to Cuba. I guess there was once a time where a lot of migration occurred between the two countries.

[@gatheringleaves]

+Kristoffer P Well they are very close in proximity

[@KSmall109CAB]

A lot of it had to do with sugar and what was happening with the sugar market at various points in time.

[@sirachbenisrael1839]

Respeito, respeito para video. Muito obrigado

[@MrHmjg]

remember when Yugoslavia started to break up and people could talk about their differences. this could also happen in cuba. hope it will be peaceful....

[@bushybrow06]

I think the issue is that Afro-Cubans wants to be known as Cubans and not separate but African-Americans want to the be separate. that is not a true statement about African-Americans. We hyphenate just like Irish-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Italian-Americans, etc. We hyphenate to be inclusive of our historical culture the way others do but when black people in America do it it seems to be a problem and obvious even amongst others in the African Diaspora. We would love to be viewed as a real part of the prevailing culture but as we know the was and is resistance to us being viewed as "real" Americans. So we unashamedly hyphenate to our identity recognition of a culture, religion, people, language that was literally and physically taken from us. Maybe someday America will be there. But it does appear that Cuba is there yet either.

[@macman9689]

Olaorun67 you on point

[@Abstract.Noir414]

The problem with the American identity is that there is really none...You go to other countries in the americas and see everyone as said country. Although inconsistencies exist in those societies. When those people come to the US and if they are born here they do not call themselves americans. They call themselves their mother country. You're right though we fought to be seen as equal americans or as americans in general.

[@myname9810]

When will you lose your violent tedancies and parasitic behaviur? It up to you

[@MsAppassionata]

@@myname9810 Wtf are you talking about? When are white people in America going to lose their violent tendencies and racism toward blacks? You’ve done nothing but murder us and mistreat us since we got here. Smh.

[@abrahamisaacmuciusiii9192]

The Blacks of Cuba who have English and French surnames (last names) are the descendants of Afro Caribbean migrants from the British West Indies and the French Caribbean. Also, Sugar and Fruit companies from North America, specifically the USA, traveled to the Caribbean (Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic) and Central America (Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, and Belize). Upon establishing themselves and their in these countries they contracted Caribbean Blacks from the British West Indies and to a lesser extent the French Caribbean (this was due to what I believe was the American businessmen getting into contact with businessmen from France). Third, these Caribbean workers suffered an immense amount of racism, prejudice, low payment, and just plain mistreatment. For instance, many the Caribbean migrant workers who constructed the Panama Canal have died in numerous accidents. There are I think two videos here on KZbin that discuss that particular topic.

[@emilioquintana5506]

I am puerto rican .my grandma was black n my other india .

[@creolatina]

My grandfather was born in Cuba & lived there until is was 10 years old. Then he & and my greatgrandmother where deported to Haïti.

[@IkesLionsDen]

why was he deported?

[@yacobisrael6955]

We are Israelite Kings and princesses Daughters of Sarah

[@darrock747]

At 24:07 the reporter said neither of us are white. What?

[@Abstract.Noir414]

The reporter is probably an idiot from the U.S thats why hence since the term latino is used people think its a race to white, black, etc

[@KSmall109CAB]

I think that the interviewer is Cuban. I think her point is that Cuban culture is so African tinged that it has touched all Cubans, regardless of how they appear phenotypically.

[@martinj1009]

Blacks in Cuba lived a completely different experience than the ones in the USA. Slavery in the Caribbean island, although still a bad thing, was far more tolerable and allowed far more freedom, for instance, all slaves brought from African countries brought their folklore with them, however, as oppose to the USA, in Cuba slaves were allowed to freely practice their folklore (music, religion, etc.). i.e. The Yoruba religion is a good example, this religion which has survived in the island throughtout centuries was completely eradicate in the USA since the slave owners forced their own religious views on the slaves. Another example is Cuban percussion which we owe to African slaves, as opposed to the USA where slaves percussion instruments where banned on many plantations when the plantation owners discovered that African slaves were using drums to communicate among themselves.

[@SmoothMentality93]

You sound crazy go look it up how the French and spaindards treated African slaves in the carribean..... putting them in barrels with blades inside rolling them down hills ...I study history you know nothing *I'm half carribean

[@TS-cn7jz]

One point i disagree with you. In the USA american music originates from african american music , slave songs. The blues is american. Slavery was probably more difficult in the carribean because they replenished the slaves who lasted about seven years. 90% of all the slaves in the haitian revolution were born in Africa. This led to a need continual replenish with slaves from africa which continued to reinforce the african culture. Cuba and Brazil where the last countries to abolish slavery. Colorism is just as prevalent in the carribean and latin American. The dominican republic rarely show darker skin tones in their advertisements. The sugar can business was brutal to the africans. The majority of all Africans went to Brazil and the carribean. I think the identity issue is a way to make the people accept their inferior position in those countries. All Cubans( Latin Americans, or Carribean) are not treated equally. The darker skin tones have less rights.

[@raijongriggs126]

We got folklore lol

[@sunnubian]

African Americans calling themselves 'African American' has nothing to do with 'not feeling like we're part of the country[America], because African American do feel like we are part of this country, that America is just as much our country as it is any other American. Why else do you think African Americans have fought so hard and for so long for their Rights as American citizens. In calling ourselves "African American" we are acknowledging that we are the same Race as the indigenous people of Africa, and that our present nationality is America, i.e., 'African' denotes our race, 'American' denotes our nationality. However, if the Black people of Cuba were smart, they would not want their accomplishments, achievements, creations, etc., to merely be Cuban, because that will only cause it all be be absorbed as by the dominate population as theirs, which in turn will make the Black Cubans look as if they made no contributions to Cuba/Cuban society at all.

[@sunnubian]

Amadi Chi From what I've read about Cuba and Cuba's history, racism existed just as much in Cuba, but, people were not allowed to speak about racism, which meant that racism existed while people pretended that it did not In America, not many people are pretending that it does not exist. It is so sad that Black Cubans have been socially conditioned to live in such a fantasy world about racism, especially since Cuba is now opening itself up to the world, which also means Cuba will be wide open to Racist America. America/Americans are going to immediately descend on Cuba with America’s vile Racist Propaganda Machine to destroy ANY racial cooperation and/or indifference that exists in Cuba, and to exacerbate any racial ignorance or animosity, to create a racial climate that will be most vile and deadly to Black people in Cuba.

[@amadichi1291]

sunnubian CRG True

[@MADNEWYORKER914]

sunnubian CRG, if Trump allows the U.S. to work with Cuba your statement will be 100% true!!!

[@bobbye.wright4424]

G C militant integrationist mindset isnt going to gain acceptance we will never be accepted as a real amerikkkan and thats our problem we wanna be accepted by white people instead of going on our own

[@SmoothMentality93]

@@bobbye.wright4424 I say this all the time

[@Indefenseoftheafricandiaspora]

This host is hearing what she wants to hear and putting words in Ms. Rolando's mouth, which she seems happy to repeat! Most of the conversation seemed to be about how discriminated against and left out, Blacks are in Cuba, yet the host wants to make sure Ms. Rolando still sees herself as only Cuban? Why can't she do both? If you wanted Blacks to feel all Cuban you should have treated them as such!

[@mistyred403]

black americans atleast myself and those I know feel a part of our nation USA.

[@ninatravis7791]

I don't know why, but I am annoyed that this young girl is calling this elder by her first name. Maybe it is just an American southern thing, but it is getting on my nerve.

[@bennettstephenson9090]

she speak good English. for an Cuban

[@frankstipes4114]

What an excellent and brilliant interview... How much still has to be uncovered about the true abuses the "colonialists " perpetuated over so many, to the benefit of so few.. Its time to wipe out all the ignorance on our history, so full of misconceptions , lies and hidden truths... This woman interviewed is in an intelectual class of her own...God bless her.!!!

[@jamesmorton8224]

Batista was blacker than Castro. My point is that culture has little to do with race.

[@GustavoRodriguez-qr5po]

James Morton in skin or race? Because the dictator of Dominican Republic was a quarter hatian

[@jorlocuba9289]

Once I saw Castro in person and what call my attention was that he was very white almost pale and his hands were like lady hands and I can tell right away that he never worked one day of his fucking life.

[@natividadsalomeeramosvasco8705]

Primero:Humanos Segundo:Cubans Tercero: Religiosos cual escojamos practicar.Cuarto:Principalmente La Cubania no se debe dividir ni por politica ni religion ni sociologias ni por indisincracias.;ni psicologias;ni complejos;ni preferencias

[@zava34]

funny thing is both of them would be minorities in the united states! LOL that "white" Cuban women would be seen as latina in the US and not white.

[@ManuelRodriguez-eg2xs]

The fact of the matter is that ignorance is a time ticking bomb for every individual who ignores what is to be Latin and or white, first, the word Latin, Latino or how ever you want to phrase it is not a "RACE" in reality being Latin does not pertain to anyone who's main language is Spanish either in Central, South America or the Caribbean, Latins originated in Latium, Italy during the Roman era, its just that the new world people who spoke and speak Spanish where given the identity of being Latin, why? Just because we speak Spanish.

[@ManuelRodriguez-eg2xs]

We live in a country were ignorance is mass, people still don't realize that in other countries were Spanish is spoken exist "white" people, being white does not mean you have to be blond with blue eyes.

[@cdale211989]

zava34.... I understand what you are saying. She will be lower on the totem pole here in the USA. People here are ignorant yes, and they group people together. They would probably group here in with Mexicans.

[@terrinyc29]

Manuel Rodriguez but white in the USA is different than what it is in Latin America. In usa white has to be pure, 100% it is assumed that "white" Latins have some drop of African blood no matter what they look like..as long as one has a Spanish surname they will thought of as non white.

[@ManuelRodriguez-eg2xs]

terrinyc29 I for one do not have a speck of Black in me, I had my DNA tested and I did my family tree search. My ancestors are Galicians Amd Basque, they pertain to the Visigoths a Germanic tribe which today is known as Germany, they roamed all through Italy, France, Northern Spain and other Europen countries as well. Most Spanish surnames either come from Germanic tribes/ Visigoths, Galicians, Basque, Portuguese, Latin, don't confuse Latin with Latinos or Latin Americans, You need to educate yourself not by doing research with American writers when it comes to race, there are too many people with inferiority complex issues that are making up crap and feeding it to the ignorant crowds. Remember if you are going to do research on race and ethnicity you need to look up Europe and it's people and info written by Europeans writers. I can tell you that I know too many white Hispanics that do not have black in them, take care.

[@thesaltwaterchef5344]

And What is the name of the lovely journalist?

[@nestum23]

+TheSaltWater Chef Her name is Cristina Escobar; she's great! Cheers from Venezuela!

[@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada]

"....beautiful. (I don't know anything about them either...whatever you say.)

[@MJ-hg1mk]

Are there no Taianos left in Cuba? Even inside some of the Mestizos? The lady said Cubans are an African & Spanish mix. No mention of the people the Spanish found there when they arrived.