Black Latino Americans in the USA
Apr 11, 2024 18:03:28 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Apr 11, 2024 18:03:28 GMT -5
Black Latino Americans in the USA
There is this very disconcerting custom of referring to African Americans as if they were the only black Americans in the United States. Well, according to the census, there are approximately six million Latinos who identify as black in the USA. These Black Latinos are from such countries a Cuba, Puerto Rico, The Dominican Republic, Central America, and some even from Mexico. Millions were born in the USA, while millions of others are recent immigrants.
They are all racially black, of course. In fact, many are genetically blacker than the African Americans who are mixed with North Europeans, the whitest of the whites. So the the primary difference is their Latino cultural heritage.
Because of it, Black Latinos do not share the same social concerns as African Americans do. That is perfectly understandable since their history doesn't include the intense savagery that African Americans experienced under Anglo American slavery.
You see, the Latino Blacks ancestors were not treated a mere property. Instead, they were viewed as humans under unfavorable circumstances who had human rights. Because if this, families were not arbitrarily separated. Freedom could be attained by working, saving, and paying for it. Unusual punishments were against the law, and their inclusion into the general population after emancipation, and social mobility were far easier,.
Subsequently, the intense hatred, and constant resentment and urgency for compensation, or revenge in order to set injustices right with the the enemy, the white man, very understandably, is missing. Nothing unusual since the vast majority of blacks on Earth never experienced the same traumatic experienced that the USA black ancestors did.
Nevertheless, that difference in no way diminishes the authenticity of their racial blackness, and renders their exclusion from being classified as black a racist injustice.