Racism Is Also a Latino Issue: Puerto Rican Protesters Speak Out | NBCLX

Afro-Latinxs at a Black Lives Matter protest in San Juan, Puerto Rico, spoke out about the racism they’ve experienced, and about what White Latinxs can do to be better allies. NBCLX storytellers Bianca Graulau and Isa Gutiérrez explain the complicated reality of racism in the Latino community and discuss their own privilege as white-passing Latinas in the United States.
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[@lazarocedeno5270]

I am 83 years old black or African ancestry person from Cuba. This conversation we are having now, is the answer to my tears.

[@MzCrayKray]

I can't imagine the things you have been through.

[@piedramultiaristas8573]

Acts 2:38 bless upci

[@Keepskatin]

@Lazaro Cedeno How do you think Blacks got to Latin Americas in the first place..... slavery by the Latins. If people were properly educated in America ,you would have already known Latins are just as racist as the French and British, who enslaved Blacks. Every Latin nation had Black slaves. Every Latin nation owes the Black Latins reparations. If you disagree, you are a denier of historical facts, and a RACIST ❗☝🏾

[@uriyahbonafide4194]

I hope everyone who treated you bad because of your skin color get back the evil they did to you.

[@serin7318]

Awww. It is just sooo heartbreaking. Love love love to you

[@td3141]

One of my childhood friends is Puerto Rican and was disowned by his family for marrying a black woman. We grew up together, slept at each other’s houses and my mother treated him like one of her own. I even talked to his parents about it and asked, “what if I was marrying your daughter?..They were very up front and told me, “we love you, but would never let you marry our daughter if that were the case”...It didn’t matter that I’m successful, a good person, and our families are close. They just couldn’t get past the Color of my skin. There’s a lot of bigotry and superiority complexes in the Latin community towards black people.

[@moshenewsletter4620]

Remember the dark skin Afro Puerto Ricans are the original inhabitants of the island right, they never looked anything like the colonizers from Spain and Portugal...that's what your not understanding.

[@td3141]

@@moshenewsletter4620 what is there “to not understand?”...

[@KamalasNotLikeUs]

And you let these vultures in your home...

[@maddymadd6500]

@Bryan francis Its cause it was inbed on down in their head that being white is beautiful. They say don't mess up the Puerto rican race. The Puerto rican nationality has been mixed up since the day Spain and Portugal invaded Puerto Rico. Our once Rich Port. Look up on the Atlantic slave trade. Your DNA will tell you too.

[@maddymadd6500]

@Bryan francis How old are you?

[@karlas4446]

As a Mexican living in the US, some of the worse racism my family and I have experienced have been from other Latinos; and most just as dark skinned as we are.

[@izphilly1]

Same here. Once upon a time I met a latina and was gonna go to a party. When I walked in that backyard and everyone eye balled me , I never felt so out of place in my life. Eventually everyone got over the shock and began talking to me but not the parents of my ex latina. That’s when I experienced that Latino on Latino hate which my naive butt thought it did not exist. Now a days I go out of my way to approach all latinos not just my PRicans but all latinos as if they were family. Mexicans come in my house....guess what ....the guest gets the first plate of dinner before my family. Going old school with the love.

[@staysolid5542]

Well im also mexican but i do whats hispanic or latino because in whats known as mexican community in fact 20 % of the mexican population in the USA in solo is european descedant just like in mexico theirs 20 % of the mexico population is white dedcedant and that teach you that what yall see as same people do to nacionality are two different things ,you will notice when you learn the difference when you learn to analize,distinguis and identify humans because we not all the same as mexican ,some are actually white ,mite not be the OMG WHITE but yes the ODIOS MIO type of white or frensh or mama mia white aka italians ...me im a nativo descedant mexican and my people been discriminated by those white “mexicans” ...me i dont identify ad hidpanic or latino.becase im native by descedantsy & by blood as is cery significante and majority in my fam and me ..so we are native descedants mix with some white not a europeandescedant mix with nativetheirs a difference.and many lf yall dont know this for the lack lf knowledge

[@laylowxalex]

I'm Puerto Rican and I live in a state where theres mostly mexicans and there most them are racist towards me and how I speak etc it's weird because they dont like when Americans treat them like crap. But they treat me like I'm inferior.

[@radrook4481]

This brotherhood idea based on common race, culture, ethnicity or nationality is just plain nonsense gullibly believed by people who as yet haven't been forced to face the bitter reality that human devils come in all races, nationalities and colors

[@Militantreturns]

Lol

[@carlosnumbertwo]

I’m Puerto Rican and I asked my father why it’s “bad” to date a black girl. And he said to me we “have to whiten our race”. There’s racism EVERYWHERE.

[@BoricuaNyc]

I’m Boricua🇵🇷and my parents look Taino and African and our siblings come in different shades✊🏾✊✊🏼🇵🇷

[@jorgepadilla7859]

60 percent proven look it up pr are European

[@oneldelorbe1413]

@@BoricuaNycyour denialism is exactly what perpetuates the racism in Puerto Rico

[@javiercales5019]

I think Puerto Rican social identity is a complex one, being in general more European than neighboring populations, and most significantly a US territory which makes it unique within Latin culture. With all the pitched conflict over racial politics in the States, i think Puerto Ricans take an element of pride in their mixed heritage. It gives the culture a sense of being more advanced, without the stratified conflict we see in the States. Granted, PR and Latin America have their own issues with race and colorism, but I think in general that this legacy of mixed heritage gives us Puerto Ricans something to be proud of.

[@goonister14]

As a black person in Cuba it is very difficult…and its strange because most times its from black ppl that I’ve received the most hateful comments….then they go on to say “Racism does not exist in Cuba”

[@ContrarianExpatriate]

As a black executive living in San Juan, I had to endure being ignored at restaurants on occasion while others where coming in and being served. At one place, I was waiting to be seated and a woman handed me her keys because she assumed I was the valet. PR was a mess with regard to racism and colorism. Don’t let anyone tell you different.

[@daddygrace253]

And it still is.

[@BoricuaNyc]

And the Spaniards and AmeriKKKans started this mess

[@Abstract.Noir414]

I plan on going to puerto rico to explore the island in december im American black, where should i NOT go to AVOID racism i do plan on staying near the yabacoa (Sp?) region

[@RicardoBubel]

@@BoricuaNyc They gone and Latinos are keeping it for what?

[@MichaelOBrien71]

@@BoricuaNyc keep on being a victim

[@djbhe]

This world is sick. SMH

[@hassanrodriguez6075]

Now you admitted thank god. I have been dealing with this for the last 65 years. Only because my hair not my Skin my hair . I was told by my own white uncles how will never be successful. Because of that. Thank you for sharing with us the elephant in the room among latinos

[@BiancaGraulau]

Thank you for watching and sharing your story. We’re glad this resonated with you. We hope to keep telling more stories like this one.

[@isagutierrez1845]

I second Bianca, thank you for sharing this with us. So glad the story spoke to someone.

[@izphilly1]

Stop !!!! I grew up in PR and black hoods here in the states. My dad Afro Latino protestor for black n brown rights alongside with the black panthers told me that racism is alive and well here in the states and always talked about going back because there was none of that nonsense. My pops had the Afro with the power fist pick wore African dashiki shirts .....yet the minute he spoke ......he was no longer a brother in the streets but rather a “ mira mira “ wannabe. I asked my dad as a kid and he told me there is hate but he said it was on both sides of the fences but to never pick sides because at the end of the day when you die ....you can’t bring that skin color with you on the other side.....you can not bring the riches with you either.

[@Monae310]

Definitely the elephant that people pretend is not there. What's insane is that you have non-afrolatinos trying to argue that afrolatino experiences are invalid or a fairy tale. Yet, the racism as well as colorism is prominent in Tv, music, politics, social media, and self-hate phrases like "mejorar la raza" o "que pelo malo" etc. The people who choose to ignore these things are on the same level as any other racist or white supremacist in my book.

[@izphilly1]

@@Monae310 Life without struggles is a life not worth living. If you live life as a victim then your struggles overwhelms your views on life then your perception becomes blurred. It adds disdain or even a lack of appreciation for your own creator whether you hold religous views or not. All that you mentioned in regards to imbalances is something that has endured since the very beginning of time yet we as a human species still exist and had eventually evolved. So must you evolve and overcome. I do not want to be that person that sat back and cried so others can approve of me or my views by force. Then you will have folks that will give you that fake love in order to be approved by you. You end your statement with a prejudicial view to the point of almost extreme because now your grouping people that do not share your views into a box and labeling them whatever it is that makes you feel good. Kind of like that little girl who had a box of crayons and because the box did not have the one color in her box she throws a tantrum and throws all crayons on the floor in her frustrations. So your last statement in itself shows your character attribute of victimization. I do not want to insult you because I love all my sisters black brown white etc but you have to take a look back and reflect. I used to share your views with a black friend of mine here in the states. My friendship with this would be friend was it cost me good friendships with innocent white folks who turned out to be the opposite of the demons my would be friends made them out to be. One day this black man said that "ALL " latinos black skin or not were not black but white in his views and mind you everyone I know considers me AFRO LATINO but this man came out of his face and expressed his true views on latinos and guess what it stung so bad because I never in my experienced a prejudicial view from what I viewed as a trusted family member .....now became a stranger. Since that day instead of becoming a victim to this clown I decided to do the opposite and clear my mind of his views and let me tell you a whole new world had opened up , not to mention many black folks working in my job also expressed to me how they did not share his views . They only agreed only out of intimidation or the shaming he used to put them through. At the end of the day being asian latino ....white latino .....afro latino .....your latino too. If you have the love and patience for your appreciation of all that is to be afro .......you also need to love and have patience for your appreciation for all this it is to be latino.

[@cheshirepussy6254]

I'm tired of hearing "How can we be racist? We are all the same color

[@Ray-ei2ro]

... I thought this was a Dominican thing. But Puerto Rican racism...omg

[@radrook4481]

True, they might be genuinely ignorant/ Or perhaps are going along with popular views. Or maybe have been living sheltered lives and extrapolate their limited experiences to the entire Puerto Rican community. Those are signs of an undereducated mind.

[@Dumb_slug12]

@@Ray-ei2ro Sadly not jus Dominican or Puerto Rican’s either, a lot of Hispanics/Latinos experience a lot of hatred like this, sometimes even physically

[@nooneknows9234]

But let it be known on youtube AA care about race too much and puerto ricans only care if you puerto rican smh

[@radrook7584]

African Americans, a group that includes a significant percentage of racists, also claim the same thing that Puerto Ricans do. In fact, they go one step further and claim that it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to be racists. You know, maybe those New Yoricans who go around claiming that there is no racism among Puerto Ricans, are merely imitating African Americans in their total denial of racism as they imitate them in everything else?

[@moshenewsletter4620]

People act like white Puerto Ricans are indigenous to the island, when they are not, this rheotic needs to stop. Don't make a mockery of yourself by speaking fockery.

[@drinksnapple8997]

WHo is indigenous to the island? C'mon Epstein, you seem to be so smart. Who are the indigenouse? Let me give you a hint: Spaniards....because the indigenous ceased to exist.

[@Mrmusha53]

@@drinksnapple8997 put the dope down

[@lowereastsideastrologist7769]

@@drinksnapple8997 Bow to the white massa

[@edgardpadillajr7995]

I am white (like a white gringo) and DNA has 19% Puerto Rico taínos. This side is from mother, born in humacao barrio cotto mabu. On my father from west side of the island. Many many whites. I grew up in humacao Barriada Obrera. I cousins are an incredible rainbow. I have EVERYTHING!!!! AN VERY HAPPY AND THANK GOD I WAS BORNED IN THIS TRUE DIVERSE ISLAND. Perfect paradise… so give me a break

[@moshenewsletter4620]

@@edgardpadillajr7995 your white from Spainish Europeans

[@HarmlessTomato]

This comment section did not pass the vibe check 😪

[@ladama3201]

Se'Jay Talkz went right over their heads

[@Pink_pr1ncess]

@@ladama3201 People are always plugging their ears when it comes to racism against black people, but when it happens to other racial groups then they’re ears work just fine 🙄

[@jmin8400]

@Tim Asuna Who said they didn't matter? TS made a valid point, because most "activism" against racism to black people rings hollow anyway and often has loud opposition. Very telling how Asians disrespect and mistreat successful black immigrants, as well as middle to upper class Black Americans, who are often relatively harmless to them. Many Asian Americans/immigrants are only interested mingling with white social groups or self-segregating. Working in the corporate engineering world at a high level and being from a medical family too, it is saddening what one encounters.

[@jmin8400]

@@Pink_pr1ncess Exactly

[@Keepskatin]

How do you think Blacks got to Latin Americas in the first place..... slavery by the Latins. If people were properly educated in America ,you would have already known Latins are just as racist as the French and British, who enslaved Blacks. Every Latin nation had Black slaves. Every Latin nation owes the Black Latins reparations. If you disagree, you are a denier of historical facts, and a RACIST ❗☝🏾

[@chaniquasmith6258]

I love ❤️ being black.

[@markysworld466]

Explain why I am black as well and proud but I want to here 3 real reasons that you actually like or that are good about being black. I'm calling you out name them in full detail please. What is good about being black? 1. 2. 3.

[@G5ive1]

And I LOVE being PUERTO RICAN!

[@bklynwill8648]

men too.

[@bklynwill8648]

@@markysworld466 1- my people determination 2- us being black 3- to know that I created by black man & woman.

[@Calmacalma11]

@Love Melanin African Americans are shameful. Nigerian immigrants who come from nothing become millionaires in America, meanwhile most African Americans sit around and complain about oppression, meanwhile they are actually more privileged than most people in other parts of the world. I live in South Africa, and here I see real struggle, your American struggles are soft.

[@mlx5849]

This what I mean when I tell white Puerto ricans that we are not the same. As an afro puerto rican, we go through racism and colorism by white puerto ricans, yet they want to say “we’re the same” “we’re all one” no we’re not

[@radrook7584]

The ones who go around saying that all Puerto Ricans are racially identical are the culturally diluted New Yoricans who are constantly striving to please African Americans and strongly support their racist views towards Latinos.

[@Danielperez-to6vh]

@@radrook7584 not a bad point! I'm originally from jersey (close to NYC) and consider myself newyorican and yes there is appeasement among newyoricans (not me) to constantly side and align with African Americans even the ones who do not like any race except their own. Some Hispanics can be afraid of blacks and have race guilt like other races do. No race of people should have to deny any racial component of themselves regardless if their ancestors were "colonizers" or not. The black/brown rift is a manufactured one by the fascists and university elites to further divide the American populace. I don't fall for any of this bullshit, neither should any Hispanic!

[@Heatfan1214]

@@radrook7584 so African Americans are racist against Puerto Ricans? Yeah stop

[@robertodelrio0797]

@@Heatfan1214 why would they not be racist to Latinos? There's already colorism in the black community whether it's stems from the Willie Lynch syndrome or not, sometimes they vent their frustration, anger, and show their racism to Latinos in varying degrees, they just won't admit it. At least when I was in high school, there were white people who made it clear about how they felt and they didn't sugar coat anything, blacks will always deny any form of racism.

[@Danielperez-to6vh]

@@Heatfan1214 any race of people can be bigoted towards any other race of people. Yes there are blacks who dislike Hispanics and vice versa, no race of ppl are exempt of this!

[@radrook4481]

If it's an issue all over the world, including sub-Saharan Africa and among Afro Americans, why should it seem unusual that it is also an issue among Latinos?

[@clementmckenzie7041]

That is not true. Shade is not an issue all over the world and as a historian I can assure we have not a single record of shade prejudice in pre colonial sub Saharan Africa or pre Columbian America. If it existed we have no record of it. The reason it should not be an issue in Latin America is because this is the 21st century not the 15th. We should all know better by now

[@maddymadd6500]

@@clementmckenzie7041 Na but it was about nationality and religion.

[@radrook7584]

@@clementmckenzie7041 I didn't say that it was, I said that it is. What part of my English is it that you don't clearly understand?

[@clementmckenzie7041]

@@radrook7584 obviously the same part of English you are having a problem comprehending. I said shadism is not an Issue all over the world and it is not an issue all over sub Saharan Africa. Because it isn't. You may think it is. But that is just not true.

[@radrook7584]

@@clementmckenzie7041 Well, this article disagrees with you: Colorism affects both women and men in African countries, but it has taken hold of the beauty standards associated with a woman's ability to find success and marriage. The number of women across African countries using bleaching products have gone up with 77% of Nigerian women, 52% of Senegalese women, and 25% of Malian women using lightening products. Der Spiegel reports that in Ghana, "When You Are Light-Skinned, You Earn More" and that, "Some pregnant women take tablets in the hopes that it will lead their child to be born with fair skin. Some apply bleaching lotion... to their babies, in the hopes that it will improve their child's chances." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color#Worldwide

[@heru-deshet359]

Latin or Hispanic is not a race.

[@user-oc2ub1cy8v]

It’s a Culture Tho. Penche Mudo 💀

[@heru-deshet359]

@@user-oc2ub1cy8v Trying to insult me, Pendejo?

[@user-oc2ub1cy8v]

Heru- deshet you mean Pendeja? LMFAO

[@heru-deshet359]

@@user-oc2ub1cy8v If you're a girl, yes. I assumed you were male. Were you?

[@user-oc2ub1cy8v]

Heru- deshet I’m a rat

[@youtubeaccount5356]

I'm Mexican, but all I'm gonna say is that the Indigenous peoples experience the worse racism in Latin America.

[@jalicea1650]

I have cousins who could be identified as black who's parents would be seen as brown/whiteish. My grandma once said, "Cada oveja con su pareja." She thought that we should marry up and produce children who didn't look like our parents or our grandparents. In spite how she looked... She herself is "morena." So I was like wtf? I notice this in every family especially among the older people. Anyone who looks "trigueña" often was criticized more and treated differently then those who could pass as "blanquito." In Puerto Rico, we like to think we are beyond race, because our ancestors are Tainos, Africans, and Europeans, but everywhere you go the implicit bias is always to favor those who pass as more European looking. Look at who is in government and las novelas. Look at the advertisement you see. Tell me does it show the full compass of Boricuas?

[@KamalasNotLikeUs]

Speak, brother!

[@destinationunknowntv451]

As long as we live in countries that are colonized by Europeans that push that agenda this will always be an issue

[@hunkosaurusrex]

@@destinationunknowntv451 No. Humans across the world, even in centuries before English colonies were even invented, saw darker skin as a negative. Asians, South Americans, Middle Eastern, Indian, Africans, Native American who never even met Europeans saw darker features as flawed or not as beautiful or godlike as lighter skins. Blaming Europeans is a cop out.

[@jalicea1650]

@Diego Gallego never said that all Puerto Ricans have a bias or that we don’t have segments of the population who celebrate our heritage. It’s just a mixed bag of who celebrated and why. Historically, politically and economically the bias is obvious. Just look at the history of our governors and who’s interests are often put first and why. We are talking from 1493 to present. When it comes to these prejudices it’s something that was imported from Spain with the hacienda system then the United States with their Jim Crow attitudes only now are we decolonizing our way of thinking when it comes to colorism. Just because we have people who celebrate our Afro-Caribbean ancestry doesn’t mean we always have and that we still don’t have issues with overcoming past prejudices. Like every where else in the world we struggle with biases built upon by generations of imperialistic views on who’s favored and who isn’t. One has to look at the whole picture holistically and not put blinders on when the facts and history becomes inconvenient or painful. Why pretend otherwise?

[@hunkosaurusrex]

@Diego Gallego Might be tough to read, but I do not know a single Puerto Rican who is proud of or even acknowledges African culture or ancestry here in America. The people I know or have met since birth in East Harlem see themselves as Puerto Rican, and nothing else, unless they are half DR or Italian. The PR parade in NYC is such a fun proud celebration of being Puerto Rican, and I never see anything directly honoring African roots. I am not denying African culture in PR, but I know a lot of their culture, music, food, mythology, religion, is also heavily rooted from Hispanic culture. Santaria and rice is a product of Africa, just like music and Catholic holidays and language is a product of Spain. Both of them had a huge impact that lasts even today without a lot of people either knowing it or accepting history.

[@tokeo3565]

I wouldn't be anything other than black

[@j.lagunascortez4113]

hypocrites.

[@sageex3931]

What?

[@jamman8678]

This Brazilian white fella working on Arab Emirates last year was serving us on our way to Africa. And I realised he was a racist. I told the fool to be careful not to loose his job. He was taking other people caps and I noticed when it came to black he was like pass it to me. So I asked him are you Brazilian? He says yes arrogantly yes. I told him behave, your now in African air space.

[@lolagranados9049]

No. We're all brothers and sisters. LATINOS can not be racist

[@conocimiento8697]

"....African air space" NICE!!😂

[@descendantofchaoscontrover7046]

My best friend who is Puerto Rican (ex military who I consider my sister) told me about this years ago when we were teenagers.

[@ABC-jt9cm]

This is why PR needs to separate itself from the US.

[@October31st1517]

No. United States is the best country in the world. Yes I am Puerto Rican.

[@MrEtherShot]

Adios

[@BeingTiffany]

they trying but the US won't let them :/

[@maddymadd6500]

This been going on since way way back, before America was involed .

[@BeingTiffany]

@@maddymadd6500 since the colonizers (America being just one)

[@sweetness_5772]

You know what gets to me about Puerto Ricans. We call ourselves Boricuas, a term used to our endearment to the Taino Indians on the island of Boriken. But, all I hear in videos and other videos about our Spanish and African roots. If you're not going to include the Taino Indians, in these conversions don't call yourself Boricuas!

[@sparkmedialit]

the Taino were darkskin Africans. Europeans named them indians.

[@tropicvibe]

I am ashamed that such racism exists in my homeland of PR. I'm a white Puerto Rican and my wife is a black Puerto Rican yet in my town I never heard anyone refer to a black Puerto Rican as "black". We grew up using the word "trigueño(a)" which for us means any form of dark complexion including olive skinned. We came from poor rural areas so perhaps we were much closer than our counterparts in more urban areas. I can't say with certainty as racism has always been considered disgusting in both our families. Strangely though when we do use such words in Spanish as negro(a) or mulato(a) it's with the people we love the most

[@radrook2153]

As in all places on Earth, in Puerto Rico, there are racist and non-racist people. Expecting everyone in a certain culture to be non-racist will always be a disappointment. Even in the USA, among African Americans, colorism exists and tension is present between the lighter skinned and darker skinned members of their group.

[@Keepskatin]

@TropicOon White PuertoRicans enslaved the Blacks from Afrika. Learn your own history.

[@Keepskatin]

@@radrook2153 There is no such thing as colorism, but to entertain your bullshat, whites have colorism against the very pail skin whites, and the so called ginger whites. Colorism is not racism. Get better education.

[@pepepena1937]

@@Keepskatin Black Africans *SOLD* Other Black Africans to Europeans and to top it off you wear proudly the colors of that tribe. *Learn your History*

[@williebisrael7203]

No such thing ad olive skinned caveman

[@itscoral]

I remember being told when I was little "Que carita tan bonita. Tienes piel de porcelana." And I didn't think anything about it back then being five years old but... looking back at it now. YIKES.

[@radrook7584]

How does that observation constitute racism?

[@joseanfigueroa8785]

Oh look, someone pretending white guilt to feel virtuous... roll eyes...

[@nicholvargas563]

Please don’t say, “I don’t see color.” Doesn’t eliminate your prejudice, racist or colorist amongst your people. We’re human!

[@hunkosaurusrex]

Some people don't. They hate everyone.

[@radrook7584]

I never heard any Latino ever use that phrase.

[@taniaroman1783]

MY PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL... I LOVE MY BORICUAS🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

[@thechief8694]

The racism amongst Latinos towards blacks is disgusting and vile

[@abrahamisaacmuciusiii9192]

Judging by his name, Jordan Anthony Swain, is a descendant of Afro Caribbean migrants from the British West Indies, most likely Jamaica, the reason why I say Jamaica is because Jamaica is in the same area as Puerto Rico. Also, in 1815 the Spanish Crown passed into law the Royal Decree of Graces of 1815, in which the Spanish European colonists in Puerto Rico encouraged Afro Caribbean people from the British West Indies and the French Caribbean to come to Puerto Rico and a population for the garrison, these West Indian immigrants were chiefly Jamaicans and Haitians. This is why some Black people of Puerto Rico have English or French first and last names.

[@tedfebo1741]

The Royal Decree of Graces was to bring in more Europeans to P.R.

[@Abstract.Noir414]

No no no, they encouraged europeans ............(Italians, spanish, german, corscian people to come cultivate the island, english speaking islanders came later and they dont even speak english anymore

[@joseanfigueroa8785]

Someone is very confused...

[@daddygrace253]

As an Afro Puerto Rican, I have experienced racism within the Puerto Rican community and the Latino community at large. When I worked at Georgetown University in the mid to late 80's, all the Puerto Rican students at Georgetown University from Puerto Rico were white from wealthy families. I saw the first hand experience of racism from many of these students including white Latinos from other countries at Georgetown University. The NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade is June 12, 2022. It will be good to see Boricuas at this parade in all shades of color.

[@jeffreyrodrigoecheverria2613]

You are clearly not from Puerto Rico

[@radrook2153]

The NYC Puerto Rican Parade is composed mainly of New Yoricans who resemble African Americans because they have genetically and culturally become heavily intermixed. The vast majority don't know how to read or write Spanish, and they speak it only in its elementary form, if indeed they speak it at all.

[@daddygrace253]

@@radrook2153 My father was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico and my mother was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Yes, I am Nuyorican but I read, write, and speak Spanish fluently. I attended Howard University an HBCU and Georgetown University, a Jesuit Catholic institution. Have you ever been to the island of Puerto Rican because their a lots of Afro Boricuas living there? The late baseball player Roberto Clemente was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico in 1934. He too was an Afro Boricua.

[@bjsantana8415]

Be proud to be afo Lantios may be both Lantio be your true Lantio in my book.

[@jeffreyrodrigoecheverria2613]

@@daddygrace253 quite lying

[@luigirnotyourbusiness8127]

There's also racism and division among so called white latinos and brown Latinos or "mestizos" however in Hispanic culture the whiter you are the better you are treated

[@eddiesaninocencio7486]

Very true.

[@radrook2153]

My mother was treated badly by her Puerto Rican siblings who called her ugly and her Puerto Rican in-laws who said that her oriental eyes were ugly because she looked native American.

[@tedfebo1741]

B.S.

[@radrook2153]

@@tedfebo1741 Really? She did not say all other Puerto Ricans reacted that way. Only her siblings and her devilish mother-in-law. In contrast, my father found her Native American appearance very attractive. Neither am I making that claim. Does that clear it up? BTW Is my claim that my straight hair was described as dead hair by certain Puerto Ricans also BS?

[@charlyleon4597]

Be proud of your native American roots

[@MichaelOBrien71]

That’s awful

[@poppyseedprtheremix8362]

I’m Puerto Rican and I’m proud to be racist.

[@kelly__9056]

Racist against what

[@StephanyFeliciano-qg3to]

I'm glad I'm not racist I'm Black and Puerto Rican my husband is White 😊

[@kiki_steez]

we are ONE!! idc what skin color any of us are ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🇵🇷

[@ManatedMan]

No

[@dalitsomumba2432]

U're right

[@kimberly1029]

@@ManatedMan No what?

[@asiatic_black]

Y'all say this bullshyt but in person it's a whole different story

[@bxvs2732]

No your not....the. Back Puerto Ricans are telling you..there's a problem and you don't want to hear it cause your not black...

[@carlosbright9615]

I came across this video by accident and I am glad I did. I was born in New York City in the 50's of Puerto Rican ancestry. I am Afro Puerto Rican and I remember Black Americans and some Puerto Ricans gave me the funny looks for wearing a shirt and hat with the Puerto Rican flag. They assumed I was Black American and not Boricua. Don't get me started on the racist Salvadorians and other Central Americans I've encountered. If you're Black and speak Spanish, Salvadorians/Central Americans will look at you as if you're from another planet. I loved seeing my beautiful Afro Boricuas in this video and I do need to visit my roots in Carolina, Puerto Rico. I haven't been to the island in 20 years.

[@maddymadd6500]

My niece is always told she isn't Puerto rican cause shes black. Smh. Puerto ricans aren't black , they say. My mother inlaw was a black Puerto rican from Puerto rico who denied she was afro latina. My son always say that his dad is a black latino. My mom told me after so many years that on her father side they are black. That is why i get really dark dark when the sun hits my skin.

[@C.R886]

wow

[@radrook7584]

I have undergone similar experiences based on my tanned skin -color.

[@prlopez6134]

@Waybeforethat176 I agree all of sudden we have to call ourself Afro Puerto Rican how about our European white side an Taino side

[@Nikvicious923]

@@prlopez6134 they are NOT US. They told you "we are white" OUR BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE AKA THE OLD TESTAMENT A MUST READ. IT IS OUR HISTORY ONLY.

[@IMJUSTWANTTOTALK]

True Puerto Ricans will never use that anglo term of latinx to refer to themselves... those people embarrassed me as a PuertoRican.

[@MichaelOBrien71]

Latinx is a stupid word invented by weak limp wristed libs

[@odiliososa5899]

Haven't experience racist in P.R.and have been here 30 year's first got here from us when I was 18.so sorry to here about this discrimination if you have more 💰 or less guess that's every were.

[@Soltice-ty2nf]

Me either

[@heru-deshet359]

I never experienced racism in PR. I'm a white gringo that married a white PR woman, met people from all over the island of different backgrounds any never experienced it living there 12 years. The mainland is another matter altogether!

[@radrook4481]

People who practice discrimination themselves are the least qualified to be pointing fingers at others. Yet they are very often the most offended and the most vociferous when they feel that they are the victims.

[@radrook4481]

@@Soltice-ty2nf You are fortunate. I have experienced it. Not from all. But it does exist.

[@emilydominicci5982]

Ummm in Puerto Rico there’s not a lot racist like in the US y te lo digo yo que e vivido toda mi vida en Puerto Rico

[@amariewalenda3801]

These people are NOT lying, my family and I had to go through this in PR for being real dark Puertoricans are very racists it's sad 💕💖🇵🇷🗽👍

[@SebastianRodriguez-ec2mr]

Puerto Ricans are the least racist people. It more than likely had nothing to do with your skin color and everything to do with your actions. Puerto Ricans don't care what skin color you are, they won't take your nonsense

[@jolllytron]

*white puertoricans

[@suave3330]

Bro im a proud of being Puerto Rican but I'm not going to let any color or people get in my way. If you let people comments stop you from getting yours then te chabastes because people always going to hate. I've made it out the hood and made some friends of all races along the way. Palante brodel.

[@vrapnyc]

Factz bro! Same here PR str8 from the gutter, 1 of the worst hoods in Brooklyn. Changed my life & moved up, hard work pays off no excuses life is hard doesnt matter what race you are! Too mant making excuses & feeling sorry for them selves blaming the whiteman.. All races have good & bad!!!

[@bxvs2732]

@@vrapnyc Black Puerto Ricans are not giving excuses for staying in the gutter...They are exposing rascist in Latin America....that is not the same thing....And the the fact that you think it's the same thing is reason they are giving voice to it....You are tone deaf and probably a white Latino....and you sound the same as the white Americans..that were mad at black lives matter and trying to pretend there was not a problem......when blacks were literally being Targeted and shot down in the streets...

[@Misaamanenoir]

@@bxvs2732 exactly. I'm moving from fl just to get away from the racism and I'm from sc. The only reason why they get do to anything is because they have white skin and he's saying he's grinding 😑

[@radrook7584]

There are many different viewpoints among Puerto Ricans. New Yoricans are far more similar in their views with one another than island Puerto Ricans are. That's because of the strong African American cultural influence.

[@lolagranados9049]

Yes. I hate injustice. We're all brothers and sisters. We want to save america. Black racist is weak. And latinos can not be racist. That mean Allan is fake

[@markarnold933]

Good point… just because you have been discriminated against doesn’t negate your responsibility to be careful not to support or ignore others being disrespected

[@godjhaka7376]

So funny, because being with a white guy is actually making the race inferior and as imperfect as possible. White genetics are recessive and inferior, the darker the skin and melanin the more superior the genetics and DNA

[@DeltaRoots]

Proud Foundational Black American here!

[@mominor6913]

EVERY COUNTRY......RACE.....ETHNICITY HAVE ISSUES ITS SAD BUT TRUE.

[@radrook7584]

Putin is treating the Ukrainians as if they are sub -humans unworthy of human rights and even life itself..

[@jamessims4802]

For me personally, the problem is in black people, I'm a black man and I TRULY DON'T CARE HOW PEOPLE SEE ME, I believe if you TRULY love who you are, and what you look like, I find that it angries, people cause they WANT YOU TO FEEL BAD about yourself, most people WANT to find a reason to feel BETTER than the next person, color, weight, financial status, intellect, height it's ALL THE SAME, bullshit!!!! 😎✌️

[@Sean-MacGuire]

I'm tired of hearing white privilege it's really not it's money privilege I know white people that are poor asf and get harassed by the police people need to stop using race as a crutch it's poor against the rich

[@d.d.sarason8749]

True. I don't care how anyone sees me. I don't care if a person who absolutely hates black people sit right next to me. It is impossible for someone to use a racial slur and I get upset. I am pro black, I love being black, I love the History of Black people in the USA. I couldn't care less if a white or black person doesn't like me because I am too dark. That means less than nothing to me. I care more about if you try to minimize the contribution of African American to the world than I do if you say that you don't like me because I am too dark or African descendant. Black people don't let that bs make you feel bad.

[@dalethyahusha8370]

Not just “black or African” features etc but Indigenous Indian. 👋

[@nicolebentley984]

Racism over hair is so pitty :(

[@yourealittlebitfat4344]

when i was 4 and my hair was almost white and i went to Greece and they ALLLLLLL touched my hair, are all these Greek people racist now? clowns talking about hair. seems like you have no real problems huh

[@radrook4481]

My hair was referred to as being dead because it is extremely straight.

[@radrook4481]

My hair was always referred to as dead hair by certain Latinos because it is extremely straight.

[@radrook4481]

Kids don't tend to see others as unusual if they look different physically. The parents tend to infuse negative judgmental attitudes. Sometimes on purpose and sometimes accidentally. I have encountered both Anglo American and Afro American kids glaring at me in a murderously hateful way because I look, Latino. Others making snide racist remarks by our door or just outside our window. Also, some kids boasting about how their race is physically bigger than others and smugly gazing around and asking why everyone else looks so small. This is racist indoctrination pure and simple and it is not limited to Anglo Americans.

[@nicolebentley984]

@@radrook4481 yes its crazy. Im sorry you've experienced racism 😔 they will be judged by God for he make everything good and beautiful 😍

[@chrisboricua1911]

black boricuas or morenitos in general should have the highest degree of respect on the island and stateside kuz the roots of puerto rico and the first puertorriquenos were black and brown people african and taino and its because of them that theres such good music love food and culture they are our ppl

[@BoricuaNyc]

Facts🇵🇷✊🏾🇵🇷✊🏿🇵🇷✊🏽🇵🇷

[@joseanfigueroa8785]

It was the Spanish who brought the Africans so what nonsense are you saying that the first Puerto Ricans were black..?

[@sparkmedialit]

Africans were in the Caribbean and Americass thousands of years before europeans. If you read, I recommend starting with the book "The Black Discovery of America" by Michael Bradley, a European, since you seem to only trust eurocentric views. @@joseanfigueroa8785

[@nicolebentley984]

I'm moving to puerto rico in 5 years. I've never felt any racism 😕 maybe I will when I move there. But I love that God is everywhere on the Island. Many religious people and close families. GOD decided who's lives matter 2000 years ago, he died for all :) I love you puerto rico ❤

[@dadmight1442]

Why 5 years? :0

[@nicolebentley984]

@@dadmight1442 my daughter will turn 18. Im not with her dad. My parents live in Isabela now so I visit often :)

[@izphilly1]

Nicole Bentley .......It's impossible to find racism in an island that is a melting pot of various races. There's no one pure race there. The correct term would be prejudice. Prejudice views are in every race , culture and heritage. With prejudice views, you can choose between dating men or women of dark chocolate skin tone over light brown skin tone or over white skin tone , or prefer curly hair over straight black hair , or the very fact that you are american with either black skin tone or white. Prejudice views also can carry many misunderstandings based on no knowledge of other folks culture or what little cultural experience one has. You are allowed to date or love who you want based on prejudices. That does not make you a bad person. What makes you a bad person is when you have a superiority complex over someone of another pure race and feel your race is superior. PR's can't claim any 1 race based on features. Kind of like saying to pick the peanut butter out of a swirled peanut butter and jelly mixed jar. Kind of silly right ?? By the way PR loves you back.

[@ivonnemontijo8461]

don't worry this is just usa identity politics trying to invade pr-- I have never seen this on the island its all bullshit

[@overlookhotel5094]

@israel nieves Thats why i thought, i hate that they called themselves afrolatinos and im like bruh, that term does not even exists in latinamerica they are just latinos, are we going to call a light skin latino a eurolatino? OF course not. I dont like the BLM movement. I agree with you.

[@edgardorosa560]

This are fake or wimpy Puertoriqueños ,in PR black people has the best lands & houses 🇵🇷🤔❤️

[@RonnieRowe-il7eq]

There is nothing wrong with being proud to be WHITE! Love who you are and what I look like 👍

[@RonNL1030]

The immense task is to deconstruct a mindset which we have grown with. Even good people not thinking we’re being racist if we’re honest we’ll recognize we certainly are. At some point in a way we view things and reason there’s always implicit prejudice. It’s not something to be proud of. Definitely something to work on.

[@frankcorrea8691]

Everyone in Cuba think that all Mexicans look like the people from the telenovellas, what a joke, I find it very amusing, period!

[@brendanydiawalters3676]

I am a dark skinned Puerto Rican and I have experienced racism during my job search. Racism does exist in Puerto Rico specifically among Puerto Ricans.

[@radrook4481]

So it doesn't exist among Cubans, Dominicans, Peruvians, Argentineans, and all other Latino People?. Just among Puerto Ricans? Please note that it also exists among African Americans among the so-called High Yellow blacks and the darker ones. This is not just a PR thing- it is a global thing.

[@brendanydiawalters3676]

@@radrook4481 Most definitely. I agree with you. Just because the subject pertains to Puerto Rico doesn't mean that is non existent in other Latino ethnic groups and African Americans as well.

[@Mrmusha53]

So you're black 😂😂😂

[@brendanydiawalters3676]

@@Mrmusha53 Even though I look predominantly black, in Puerto Rico I am not considered black but just "dark" instead.

[@Mrmusha53]

@@brendanydiawalters3676 yea latinos perception of reality is highly warped😂

[@dobbynp]

So victimhood culture has reached Puerto Rico.....sad

[@midnighteye2737]

Keep projecting 🍼

[@aaaponte0613]

I've always been made fun of for being so light which has also made me feel so ashamed to show how much I love my culture and where I come from most of my shame coming from my own family

[@marlonb2804]

Nobody should be made fun of, whether white or black.

[@TrillShvt]

Gordon Thomas BAILEY you are exactly what we are fighting against.

[@radrook7584]

My Puerto Rican mother was always complaining about her straight hair and my Puerto Rican girlfriend was always complaining about her milky white skin. Of course, since I have strait hair I felt I was being criticized..

[@mr.e1220]

My father is from Santa Renzo and didn’t want us to be discriminated against so they did not teach us Spanish and because I have fair skin when I go to Puerto Rico I am not excepted I am basically a gringo to them. Besides most of them act black and I wouldn’t want to be around people like that anyway. When I say act black, do you know what I mean. They call each other the N-word and sag their pants and walk around listening to Reggaeton and rap

[@radrook7584]

@@mr.e1220 What you are describing are New Yoricans who relocated to Puerto Rico and took their African Americanized culture with them. Island Puerto Ricans don't behave that way. My grandparents were North European in appearance and they never had any trouble at all. They were viewed simply as just another variety of people who are included as Puerto Rican due to different ancestries. Nothing more.

[@abdulsaburfajardo3832]

AM BORICUA AFRO LATINO N I LIGHT SKIN I WAS DISCRIMINATED BECAUSE OF MY AFRO AT THE TIME THIS WAS 1998 I LEFT PUERTO RICO TO CONNECTICUT

[@RiseAwakenedOne]

You a brotha

[@Dominican1923]

@@RiseAwakenedOne he literally just said Afro Latino lol do you not know what afro Latino means

[@jpoupart23]

Very interesting to see young people talking about racism in the latin and puertorrican community. Especially talking about the dark skin person.

[@izphilly1]

@J Poupart ......Racism is when one particular pure race has a superiority complex over another pure race...ex. ......white vs black. It's not a skin color thing like your enslaved to think. Look up the definition before you start grouping people in a box and labeling them as haters. The correct term would be prejudice. Are there prejudice views in puerto rican and latin communities .......yes of course but theres prejudice views in every race .....every culture .....every age. Prejudice is another word for preference but with a slight or major disdain. For example, I heard in conversations past how some of my black co workers love dating dark skin chocolate over light brown skin . This is a prejudice view within a race .....nothing wrong with it. It's simply a preference. Now when you have a preference with a bit or large disdain it's simply based on lack of history with or a negative history with whatever it is you have a prejudice too. Prejudice does not make you a bad person no matter how bad it is because it is a not only a human right but it's instinctual . Racist is a mentality of superiority from one pure race towards another. Does not apply to PR (multi race multi culture) and most latinos. Saying that some of us has racist views is kind of like putting us in a box and labeling us haters so others can agree with you on popular opinion and begin shooting us down and putting us down........that's not how it works ......it's a complete falsehood based on one man's view and not by facts ....especially after giving you the correct definitions. By the way , blacks also have racist views too. You come across as latino community talk about dark skin people but the same is also true about blacks on light skin latinos or PR's ......yet you don't hear or see PR's coming at black folks necks on this topic. Honestly , this is some old 1970s stuff and should stay there and never come out. If you feel the need to tell the latino community how you feel , then express how they make you uncomfortable about how they might talk about you but make sure when you approach them ......approach them with facts and not assumptions. Hate has no color my brother ......it comes from the whitest of white to the purplest black you can think off. I rather love and be loved in return instead of looking for excuses to hate on others. PEACE LOVE RESPECT

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[@thatguybutitsactuallyagirl5384]

@@izphilly1 I found it funny you deny Multiracials to be able to be racists towards Black people, but instead "prejudicial" whereas you said Blacks hold racist views on Multiracials... How does that work?! So, Multiracials cannot be racists towards Blacks because they aren't pure and also have Black in them, but Blacks can be racists towards them?! You sound stupid. And the fact that you can have the gut to lie like this even tells more about you than you realize. Defending racism makes you racist. You're denying any kind of racism when the people victimized of it talk about it and you turn it into reversed racism; which is, in fact, a white privilege. You see? There are advantages of being Multiracials.

[@Denissegv1087]

Danny Perez thank you for commenting my exact thoughts!!! The Dominican agenda doesn’t fly in PR, we embrace our brave African ancestry and we literally don’t segregate NO ONE!! There’s more classism than racism in PR but now every group wants to jump in this wagon and talk insanity as if we don’t all know our abuelas are black as night😂😂

[@jpoupart23]

Danny Perez simple. Remember Spaniards are white European so melanated people (indigenous and later enslaved blacks) were considered inferior races. They were treated as property not people/person. Besides the religion interpreted thru Aristotle ideas of race superiority supported all aspects of society in such sense of superiority. The whiter the better as supposed to light skin complexion closer to be as “white”. Even though puertorricans used the slang to have the three base races or saying all have something from Dinga or Mandinga showing to have African roots the whiter-better concept still present as to be superior, more intelligent or beautiful. Especially when it come to family with the idea to “better the race” “mejorar la raza”. Remember that such concept has been in the establishment for a long time. The concept has been discussed in literature like hiding the grandparents from the public cause they are black (where is your grandmother, “Y tu abuela adonde está”) plus a lot of jokes which ridicule dark skin melanated people portraying them as stupid. In central and South America countries you can find all to have a “black town” like we have in Loiza te here this action also shows the roots of racist ideas on keeping melanated people out of the main stream of society. A lot of people have racist attitudes they don’t even know it has a racist origin.

[@levatorthomas1165]

I work with a lot of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans and they do not like helping a lot of black people especially when you need help on the job but they will go and help the other person in the same situation that you are in because you are not Mexican or Puerto Rican these people are racist but everytime they act like this in a workplace environment its only going to come back to then 10 times worse you have to be helpers one to another stop only looking out for your own kind and look out for everyone else because I am not like that I love everyone I don't care if you speak English or don't speak English I'm going to be there for you

[@paulsteel9127]

Puerto Rico didn't get it's racism or colorism from the Spanish. They got it from the United States influence.

[@BoricuaNyc]

Facts. AmeriKKKa sucks.

[@sunshine-wb7gr]

Colour , hair body shape don't make you better it's your choices

[@dpeasehead]

I have no Idea why people want to believe that centuries of race based chattel slavery and the imposition of race and color caste hierarchy in Spanish and Portuguese speaking latin America is somehow "better" in any way, shape, or form than the north American version of the same things. The only thing that modern day latin America proves is that one doesn't need to build the more rigid north American style racial system in order for racial injustice to become embedded and normalized.

[@seanvales391]

Well stated.

[@joseanfigueroa8785]

There was no imposition of a race and color caste hierarchy in Spanish America, that was a social, not a legal development. Racial mixing was completely legal, and race was not an impediment for economic progress. I don't understand how anyone can consider that this is not better than the legal racial separation and discrimination of the Anglos.

[@ZRHTrainspotter]

Liberal Media has hit rock bottom 😂

[@mariangelyfernandez8874]

Im puerto rican and my mother is blonde and has green eyes my dad is afro puerto rican I came out like caramel color and had racist comments from my own ppl and there is racism in sum latinos till this day

[@tedfebo1741]

B.S.

[@buravan1512]

racism over hair texture... is childish... do you know that here in Scandinavia, you are not considered white, if you hair is thick and Black? even Portuguese and Spanish People are considered as watered down Whites?

[@MichaelOBrien71]

U are are gorgeous 😅

[@catherinemartinez6915]

I don't want to be white I don't want to be black I am Puerto Rican and it stands for Puerto Rican no other color but that different

[@OnlyIMatter]

Puerto Rican is a nationality. And Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory. You can't be mix with a geographic land mass. Its important you ignorant latin people know this. It's not a race. You people are bi racial or multi racial. Which means your bloodline comes from 2 or more racial ethic groups.

[@MichaelOBrien71]

PR is not a race

[@TheRomanTribune]

That's utter bullshit. I'm a white man by appearance. Puerto Rican and Italian and from what I've seen growing up is most dark skinned Latinos treat me with phoniness when I just wanted to be accepted and most dark skinned latinas made fun of me and call me all sorts of ugly names for looking white. And as an adult this doesnt change much dark skinned latino men still treat me with that phony attitude "envy eye" and latinas avoid me just because of my pale complexion and green eyes to the point I stick to white women and they actually accept me 🤷‍♂️ Never once have I seen another pale latino treat dark skinned latin people differently but plenty of times have I seen them treated differently for being latin and white calling them "colonizers" etc.

[@JordanWilliams-ix2td]

Just say you only find white women attractive & move on

[@devontewilliams1489]

Bruh you lyin

[@stevenserna910]

Gift, That is our cross to bear for the shitty way our ancestors treated people of color. Sucks, but it is what it is.

[@TheRomanTribune]

@@stevenserna910 our people, Spain, didn't treat them as badly as we are told by this modern anglo owned history books. Spain legalized interracial marriage for example in the 1500s. Something Anglos and the USA only legalized after years of discrimination in the 1900s. The whole bullshit blanket of smallpox stuff was England not Spain. The only thing Spain did wrong to natives was overwork them for resources to fuel war efforts against people like France and England throughout the 16-1800s. So I say enough of this (pale skin bad) bullshit

[@LuisSanchez-en3sf]

It’s true all you have to look at is Univision and Telemundo to see it’s all White Latinos in the novelas. But guess what when you look at an Indian movie it’s all light skin Bollywood actors/actresses. According to my Nigerian coworker many women in her country are bleaching their skin to look lightskin. So this a world wide thing not just in the Americas. Even Blacks are discriminate towards each other. As a White Latino when I visited the Dominican Republic, which is one of the few Latin countries with a Black majority. I heard many of their women tell me “ Pero tu tiene ese pelo bonito.” While referring to their own hair as nappy and ugly. I also met a Black women from another Caribbean country and she flat out told me if I ever visit her country the women there would all want me to impregnate them because they want lightskin babies. So it’s not just a Latin America issue, but a world wide issue.

[@shehzadchowdhury8327]

White Puerto Ricans are european origin they are not natives

[@christinagraham2915]

U can't say that tho

[@shehzadchowdhury8327]

@@christinagraham2915 unless someone is 100% Taino they are not natives

[@JosePerez-pt8my]

I did When i was a little kid i am mexican but i got bully by a racist guy he said to back to México but i stand for my selfie and Im helping my parents so blm

[@alfredoalcantar8691]

So BLM is Marxist

[@radrook4481]

Strange as it might seem, the only ones who have ever told me to go back to Puerto Rico have been African Americans. Also, the only one who called me a spick and used the N word on me where I live right now was also an African American.

[@KamalasNotLikeUs]

Radrook So what? That isn't racism. It is colorism. You've never been oppressed by Black people. If you think that most Black Americans care about your and others' opinions, you're as big a fool as the rest of them. We have a problem with people using bigotry to justify murder or to justify job discrimination. Black business owners hire you. You refuse to hire us! Big difference.

[@MichaelOBrien71]

@@radrook4481that’s crazy

[@garconworldwide8475]

Pray for Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 i love Puerto Rico

[@lisavice7253]

To all my beautiful brown Latina Sistah's. I support you loving yourself as a African woman in America. A " Puerto Rican" woman that is racist is harassing me on IG because she hates herself. She's really Afro- Cubana. And thinks she's white. Continue to build love within because the colorism is a racism that was planted to destroy anyone NOT white. Love can be built inside with ✌🏾. I decided to support several Sistas offline. This is so powerful because you spoke out in this, that causes a positive change. Thank you..

[@LegendKiller03000]

That’s not racism tho. People can have their own vision of what’s attractive or not. Yes, it’s superficial because beauty is on the inside, but that’s not racism.

[@SebastianRodriguez-ec2mr]

I'm Puerto Rican and I have experienced racism from blacks and other dark skin latinos since I was young. There's racism everywhere. Welcome to 🌎

[@SebastianRodriguez-ec2mr]

@Apeman Jones I'll pray for you

[@tokeo3565]

And you know what..your Spanish fathers started the racism. What do you think it was going away.

[@KamalasNotLikeUs]

No Black person ever oppressed you. Liar.

[@tokeo3565]

@@KamalasNotLikeUs exactly a black person racist against a Puerto Rican and not the other way around? Suspect

[@SebastianRodriguez-ec2mr]

@@KamalasNotLikeUs Oppression occurs whenever one person exercises authority or power in an unfair, abusive, cruel, or needlessly controlling way. I've had black bosses who treated me unfairly and have fired me in the past. Ignorance is a disease. Educate yourself

[@luisc5922]

I remember being told I have bad hair from my moms side of the family lol, didn’t hurt me since I was prideful when a kid, it just gave me tougher skin

[@clementmckenzie7041]

But did you really need to have tougher skin in order to interact with your own relatives? I'm glad you could shrug off their racist remarks and attitudes but you shouldn't have had to. No child should. The seeds being planted at such an early age, can go very deep and rarely do add anything of value to that child's life or identity

[@rosalynbeatty8310]

@Luis C: Growing up--2 of my African-American girlfriends had longer hair then most other blacks. & their textures were looser curled & shiny. They bragged saying it was due to lots of 'Indian' in them. Then I met an Afro-Puerto Rican woman. Her hair was longer then theirs & straighter. Plus, she never bragged about it. She was proud of her Afro- Taino Hispanic heritage. & talked about Puerto-Rico's. (& other Latin American countries' Africanness alot. I'm proud to be African-Native too. I admire & respected her alot more then my friends who felt they had to show-off their mixed heritage due to looking & being 'exotic'.

[@radrook7584]

I was constantly told that my straight hair was dead hair. Pelo Muelto. African Americans sarcastically call my hair the wet-dog look.

[@radrook7584]

I heard the term dead hair versus lively hair. My straight hair was considered dead hair. I also heard criticism of pale skin among Puerto Ricans. On the other hand, a famous Puerto Rican composer, Bobby Capo, wrote the song Piel Canela which praises female ruddy skin.

[@radrook7584]

I was criticized by Puerto Ricans for having limp hair which they called dead hair. You know, the kind of hair that African Americans refer to as Wet-Dog.

[@codyclark5995]

I see that the scars of imperialism/colonialism still have major impacts on the whole freaking Western Hemisphere from the States to Brazil

[@robertsantiago6968]

Yo soy Boricua 100%, mi familia es de Guayama , Yo soy mestizo mi esposa es Negra mas Negra q cualquiera de los que estan hablando aqui. Y vivimos Toda nuestras vidas en PR. Que son sobre 45 años, hasta hace 6 años q nos mudamos a EU. Y mientras estuvimos en PR nunca sentimos racismo ,estudiamos nos educamos y trabajamo muy Fuente en PR. Nadie nos puso trabas. Sin embargo desde que llegamos a EU. Si hemos sentido mucho desprecio y racismo , pero NO de los Blancos. Hemos sentido un Racismo enorme de los African Americans, tanto yo , mi esposa como mis hijos. Y esa es la realidad de muchas personas q vienen de Latino America aqui. Extraño mi Islita Con todo mi corazon, pero mi trabajo me mantiene aqui, en cuanto pueda definitivamente regreso a mi islita....

[@daddygrace253]

¿Por qué no vuelves a Puerto Rico, Roberto?

[@robertsantiago6968]

Como dije en el post anterior mi trabajo me mantiene aqui en EU. No quiero q me mal interprenten, no todo es malo en EU. Pero En cuanto pueda mi plan es regresar a PR.

[@slarvadain188]

Well, go back to Puerto Rico. I am so tired of folks bringing black Americans into a conversation that has nothing to do with us. This is about anti blackness in Latin America. Stop deflecting from the real issues because the folks in the video saying they have issues with racism in YOUR little island.

[@moisepicard5876]

Perfect the race? What race?

[@Militantreturns]

Lol

[@marthaindiana]

It’s not perfect the race it really translates to improve the race. They’re always telling you to marry somebody white to improve the race. I think I was four or five when I first heard it and I immediately rejected that.

[@candancelazily8693]

Mosie I think I just saw you on another video, a race related one

[@dahanster5578]

Latino is an ethnicity, not a race. And race is a social construct with no scientific foundation.

[@JohnSmith-hs1hn]

@@marthaindiana Based 'tina

[@jacquierivera8951]

Whiteness is being used interchangeably with culture whiteness like blackness is a racial appearance for example Celia Cruz was not black passing she was black and Latino saying you are white-passing is a misappropriation of a term that is rooted in the black experience. It's understandable since we've been brought up with that term but it's not applicable for white Latinos the conversation continues to evolve and that is a good thing.

[@radrook7584]

That's just an expression that brainwashed New Yorikans and other USA raised Latinos learned from Anglos and Afros and regurgitate on command like puppets.

[@lovetohate1901]

Proud foundation Puerto Rican 🦅I'm here💯

[@kai06155]

@9mm Capone some people can’t go back to the island of puerto rico because of shit like this so literally stfu

[@kai06155]

@9mm Capone like the video, most of us can be killed for our skin color on top of that theres so much poverty, go do you research before being ignorant and commenting shit like that

[@snakemanjones8272]

Black people answer to everything done to us is we need to fix it or work together with them to fix this. For a 1000 years this has been our answer to their treatment of us and we are no better off now then we were back then. The only answer is separation from them and protect what we create cause without us they will not survive for long. We have never needed them it is them that has always needed us.

[@travellingonuptozion5658]

This is sad it happens all over the world

[@june049]

Because “We” are all over the world.

[@williebisrael7203]

The white europeon spreads hate whereever it goes

[@wizmanballin8498]

I knew a family who had a daughter that was going to marry a guy from Puerto Rico. She was dark skinned, but gorgeous, from Mexico. The guy was light skinned and from money. His family couldn't stand the girl because of the color of her skin and the top argument was how the children were going to come out. His family wanted the "light skin" to stay on that side of the family and she was going to mess that up...forget the fact that he truly loved her. She was so crushed at how the family felt that she didn't go through with the marriage. I felt so bad for her. I can still see her face when she was sitting on the couch after a really big argument the family was having over that. Imagine a young man from the States (I was probably around 13-14 at the time) seeing racism through my lens to learn that it also happens in Spanish-speaking countries and communities. Talk about an eye opener. Sadly, this happens everywhere African descendants have touched down over the globe. Brazil has a huge problem with this as well.

[@cjrodriguez1053]

"She was dark-skinned BUT gorgeous..." I understand the point you're making but look at your word choice. Implying that shes gorgeous despite her dark skin which is "ugly".

[@yourealittlebitfat4344]

wHiTeS aRe bAd cAuSe tHeY wAnT tHeIr cHiLdReN tO lOoK LiKe tHeM

[@wizmanballin8498]

@@cjrodriguez1053 she had dark skin. Whats ugly about it? There are varying degrees of skin color. Dont go getting all PC with me. It wont work.

[@radrook4481]

Sorry to disappoint you but there are African Americans who don't like their kids diluting their family's blackness by marrying whites or lighter-skinned people. Also, African American comedians have been known to joke about the horror that an African American parent would feel if they arrived home and found their daughter with a Puerto Rican boyfriend sitting on the couch. The African American predominant audience laughed and clapped in approval. In fact, they gave the comedian a standing ovation along with the racist Anglo Americans who were present. Furthermore, African American grandparents admit that they often discriminate against the grandchildren of such unwanted unions via snubbing. At a place of employment, during a general conversation, I was smugly informed by an African American coworker that his parents would never accept me for their daughter because I am Puerto Rican. Another African American parent in a JW Kingdom Hall of all places enumerated everything she didn't like about Latinos in order to let me know that she disapproved of any intention I might have had towards her African American daughter. So you see, if the knife cuts-it is obviously cutting both ways.

[@wizmanballin8498]

@@radrook4481 Things happen. Shows you how deeply embedded racism is and that was my point. I have no issue with any race.

[@madliberal7710]

Puerto Ricans and Cubans have cultural antagonism towards each other at least my generation does.

[@royroberts1475]

IT IS REALLY WEAK...TO WANT TO BE LIKE ANOTHER RACE

[@dr.fruityboots4706]

im puerto rican of a black father and white mother, i am confused for being white an am told i dont look puerto rican an my brother looks black. i love being mixed because i get to be part of both worlds though i really wish i atleast had african hair. i here some much racism from whites who think im itallian and hearing that from my own people breaks my heart. it doesnt matter what color we come in, all those back grounds mixed to make us the most beautiful people in the world.

[@maddymadd6500]

My son had a afro..when he was young he use to ask me why my hair isnt like his. I told him it was cause the African in our blood. He hated his hair. Now he wish he still have that afro. He's going bald

[@realhastalamuerte5133]

I am Puerto Rican and Irsh, Honestly i have white skin tone but get super tanned in summer; I myself experience racism a couple times, Had a customer the other day who was mid 20s a young white man who needed help said " oh i dont like your face mask ( Puerto Rican flag ) i dont need help from your kind, go back to where you came from. Allot people fail to realize we latinos/latinas have it hard sometimes as well, I never really took pride in my Puerto Rican and Irish culture but since i did some reading/research, I am proud asf to be a Puerto Rican Irishman!!

[@radrook4481]

I have had Afro Americans come out of the clear blue telling me to go home or to go back where I came from. Ironic-isn't it?

[@gerryadams9868]

Sick mix mate as an Irish man I love latinas

[@perrymatos531]

I disagree with some of these comments, I am a proud Boricua living in Texas, come to Texas and see what racism is even from Latinos

[@BoricuaNyc]

Facts🇵🇷❤🇵🇷💎

[@theeldersaysso5600]

And then soon as you speak Spanish they treat you a different way

[@marlene97280]

Yes ! We know it in Martinique !

[@PHlophe]

its way worse there . Chile !

[@prboxing1634]

BTW, is Latino or Latina. Stop calling us Latin x or whatever weirdos.

[@israeliteisrael8921]

U mad lol

[@javiercales5019]

I think Puerto Rican social identity is a complex one, being in general more European than neighboring populations, and most significantly a US territory which makes it unique within Latin culture. With all the pitched conflict over racial politics in the States, i think Puerto Ricans take an element of pride in their mixed heritage. It gives the culture a sense of being more advanced, without the stratified conflict we see in the States. Granted, PR and Latin America have their own issues with race and colorism, but I think in general that this legacy of mixed heritage gives us Puerto Ricans something to be proud of.

[@lilahdog568]

There's racism everywhere so by extension there is racism in Latin America. It's sad cause we wanna be treated right here by non-latinos but we gotta treat our own as equals too, regardless of whether they're black or white.

[@SEANLJOHNSONSR]

Black and brown love

[@BoricuaNyc]

✊🏿💕✊🏾💕✊🏽💯

[@DidiVon-oo1jc]

But puerto ricans stay talking smack about hispanics that are darker and have no green card miss me with all that yall the racist of all

[@AncientOne222]

I am glad the world is speaking about this issue, I have Caribbean, U.S, Central and South American Indigenous ancestry. I have received numerous racist colorist comments, trolled online etc. I have been told that I am not Taino via my Puerto Rican Taino ancestors, I have been told I am not Zapotec, Aztec and Mayan via my Mexican ancestors despite the fact of my vast Ancient ancestry. When people are colorist I know they are in the sunken place of Colonization and they enjoy participating in the erasure of indigenous people. Humans are Ancient and we vary in hair texture, facial features and skin color. Humans embrace variety in Nature when it’s plants, trees, animals, natural resources etc but then can’t comprehend the variety in humans that also come from nature. We must do better because at this point people have real world trauma because of the stupidity of racism. Considering the concept of race is strictly political and directly attached to the social ladder and ability to gain, lose or be kept from resources. The concept of race is damaging our communities, our countries and our planet.

[@johnnyflores5954]

All of my fellow Latinos need to watch Malcolm X speeches, or read his autobiography by Alex Haley. Believe me it will help you with our racism: colourism, prejudice, self hate, classism. Malcolm X will leave more Humble.

[@maddymadd6500]

If You live in NYC go to the library of Arturo Alfonzo Schomburg. He was a historian and a activist . He made a library on slavery ..

[@maddymadd6500]

Read up on Pedro Albizu campos.✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@radrook7584]

Fellow Latinos? LOL! That guarantees nothing! Aren't Russians and Ukrainians of the same race?

[@lolagranados9049]

BLACK RACIST want injustice to destroy all white people and white children in new york

[@johnnyflores5954]

Black people don’t need to be racist to white people, ever. When in fact white people are still more racist to black People, even after integration. Oh an FYI, white people are putting themselves into extinction, without black People lifting a finger.

[@donaldwarr6043]

I agree with you some what. I think the trouble with us as african Americans is we forget about tribalism . The term black is no more then an umbrella term to group the dark skin people together. The term black is a social construct given to us by white people. If slavery never happened we would identify by tribe not skin color. This is part of the reason why Africans dislike us here in America. Because we claim cultures we have no idea if we are apart of. Which is insulting to them in the same way its insulting to us when white people misappropriated and high hacked aspects of our culture. What I'm trying to say is don't be to upset at dominicans or Puerto ricans when they don't identify as black. Black isn't a tribe or really an identity. Just a clever way for the white man to lump us together. If we unite let's unite under ideology and culture then skin color. Not all skin folk are kinfolk . If that was the case we should be mad at the east Indians as well. Cuz they are dark as hell but don't claim blackness at all as a primary identity

[@ytbenavraham9553]

I work with a Puerto Rican who said that she is white.

[@MichaelOBrien71]

Some are if you have been to Spain that’s where all roads lead to

[@eddiss2199]

​@@MichaelOBrien71why spanish hate latino ?

[@MichaelOBrien71]

@@eddiss2199 I really doubt that

[@Emy53]

I never realized this is happening in PR, because I grew up in a mixed culture and I never noticed prejudices amongst my family. Yes, I am white in skin color but my upbringing has always been Hispanic. I never experienced hatred or prejudice in my family because we're different but hearing this clip, I believe it does exist.

[@Shel230]

No such thing as being hisapinc their black hisapincs theirs whites and ones that look indegius asian

[@radrook7584]

I have experienced racism from fellow Puerto Ricans. My father silently shunned me for twenty years because he wanted me to look as European as he did. My aunt who kept boasting that I was non-white while her kids were, This female Puerto Rican hospital clerk who wrote NONE-White, in huge large red letters on my medical record when no such question was being asked. My Puerto Rican distant cousin's mother considered me inferior to her son because I was darker skinned and not blond. So yes, such people do exist among Puerto Ricans. They also exist among African Americans.

[@blackinews5702]

Did you calling yourself white is a social construct and calling African people black is a racial slur

[@radrook7584]

I did experience racism from my Puerto Rican father, my Puerto Rican aunt, and one of my distant cousin's Puerto Rican mother.

[@ConquerWealth.network]

@@radrook7584 No they don't' you must hate African Americans because this had nothing to do with them' yet that is all that is coming out your mouth' Jealousy is a sin'

[@masterjay4992]

Que tiene Puerto Rico que ver con George Floyd?

[@RRDB92]

my dad's side is afro Ricans my mom's side is blanca (white) Ricans. in skin color I came out like my moms side. in my body curves that's my father side. I cherish both sides obvi. but sadly there IS racism & judgment among our own. the "perfect" Puerto Rican ideal is Jennifer Lopez. smh we as Puerto Ricans really have to do BETTER.

[@C.R886]

i hope people can educate white people that there are blk Latinos!

[@hijodepuuu]

Proud white puertorican here. Y'all can say whatever i don't gaf. Not my fault you're not comfortable in your own skin. Don't owe anyone reparations, apologies, nothing!

[@SebastianRodriguez-ec2mr]

Well stated

[@bertlenny5571]

Based

[@johnnyflores5954]

Southern Europeans aren’t considered, by Northern European standards. Cope harder kid?

[@Obasi7740]

Extremely well done. My wife is a Puerto Rican with medium skin tone and she has experienced this all her life.

[@familyandfriends3519]

Puerto Rican aren't Spanish and Hispanic and Latino until given back to Spain