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

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  • @karlas4446
    @karlas4446 4 ปีที่แล้ว +433

    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
      @izphilly1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      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
      @staysolid5542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      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
      @laylowxalex 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      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
      @radrook4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      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
      @Militantreturns 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

  • @goonister14
    @goonister14 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    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”

  • @lazarocedeno5270
    @lazarocedeno5270 2 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    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
      @MzCrayKray 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @piedramultiaristas8573
      @piedramultiaristas8573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Acts 2:38 bless upci

    • @Keepskatin
      @Keepskatin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @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
      @uriyahbonafide4194 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @serin7318
      @serin7318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @td3141
    @td3141 3 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    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
      @moshenewsletter4620 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      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
      @td3141 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @KamalasNotLikeUs
      @KamalasNotLikeUs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      And you let these vultures in your home...

    • @maddymadd6500
      @maddymadd6500 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @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
      @maddymadd6500 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Bryan francis
      How old are you?

  • @carlosnumbertwo
    @carlosnumbertwo ปีที่แล้ว +40

    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
      @BoricuaNyc ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @jorgepadilla7859
      @jorgepadilla7859 ปีที่แล้ว

      60 percent proven look it up pr are European

    • @oneldelorbe1413
      @oneldelorbe1413 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @javiercales5019
      @javiercales5019 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

    • @pookaill
      @pookaill หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thats because PRs are lazy. White ppl have good work ethics

  • @hassanrodriguez6075
    @hassanrodriguez6075 4 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    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
      @BiancaGraulau 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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
      @isagutierrez1845 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @izphilly1
      @izphilly1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      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
      @Monae310 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      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
      @izphilly1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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.

  • @ContrarianExpatriate
    @ContrarianExpatriate 2 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    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
      @daddygrace253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And it still is.

    • @BoricuaNyc
      @BoricuaNyc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      And the Spaniards and AmeriKKKans started this mess

    • @Abstract.Noir414
      @Abstract.Noir414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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
      @RicardoBubel ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @MichaelOBrien71
      @MichaelOBrien71 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BoricuaNyc keep on being a victim

  • @djbhe
    @djbhe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    This world is sick. SMH

  • @chaniquasmith6258
    @chaniquasmith6258 2 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    I love ❤️ being black.

    • @markysworld466
      @markysworld466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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
      @G5ive1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And I LOVE being PUERTO RICAN!

    • @bklynwill8648
      @bklynwill8648 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      men too.

    • @bklynwill8648
      @bklynwill8648 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @Calmacalma11
      @Calmacalma11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @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.

  • @HarmlessTomato
    @HarmlessTomato 4 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    This comment section did not pass the vibe check 😪

    • @ladama3201
      @ladama3201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Se'Jay Talkz went right over their heads

    • @Pink_pr1ncess
      @Pink_pr1ncess 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@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
      @jmin8400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @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
      @jmin8400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Pink_pr1ncess Exactly

    • @Keepskatin
      @Keepskatin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ❗☝🏾

  • @jamman8678
    @jamman8678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    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
      @lolagranados9049 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @conocimiento8697
      @conocimiento8697 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "....African air space" NICE!!😂

  • @radrook4481
    @radrook4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    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
      @clementmckenzie7041 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      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
      @maddymadd6500 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @radrook7584
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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
      @clementmckenzie7041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@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

  • @mlx5849
    @mlx5849 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    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
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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
      @Danielperez-to6vh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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
      @Heatfan1214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @robertodelrio0797
      @robertodelrio0797 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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
      @Danielperez-to6vh ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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!

  • @moshenewsletter4620
    @moshenewsletter4620 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    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
      @drinksnapple8997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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
      @Mrmusha53 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@drinksnapple8997 put the dope down

    • @lowereastsideastrologist7769
      @lowereastsideastrologist7769 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@drinksnapple8997 Bow to the white massa

    • @edgardpadillajr7995
      @edgardpadillajr7995 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @moshenewsletter4620 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@edgardpadillajr7995 your white from Spainish Europeans

  • @tokeo3565
    @tokeo3565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I wouldn't be anything other than black

  • @youtubeaccount5356
    @youtubeaccount5356 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @jalicea1650
    @jalicea1650 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    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
      @KamalasNotLikeUs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Speak, brother!

    • @destinationunknowntv451
      @destinationunknowntv451 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @hunkosaurusrex
      @hunkosaurusrex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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
      @jalicea1650 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @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
      @hunkosaurusrex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @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.

  • @descendantofchaoscontrover7046
    @descendantofchaoscontrover7046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

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

  • @nicholvargas563
    @nicholvargas563 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

    • @hunkosaurusrex
      @hunkosaurusrex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Some people don't. They hate everyone.

    • @radrook7584
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I never heard any Latino ever use that phrase.

  • @ABC-jt9cm
    @ABC-jt9cm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

    • @October31st1517
      @October31st1517 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @MrEtherShot
      @MrEtherShot 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adios

    • @BeingTiffany
      @BeingTiffany 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @maddymadd6500
      @maddymadd6500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @BeingTiffany
      @BeingTiffany 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @tropicvibe
    @tropicvibe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    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
      @radrook2153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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
      @Keepskatin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @Keepskatin
      @Keepskatin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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
      @pepepena1937 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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
      @williebisrael7203 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No such thing ad olive skinned caveman

  • @IMJUSTWANTTOTALK
    @IMJUSTWANTTOTALK ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @MichaelOBrien71
      @MichaelOBrien71 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Latinx is a stupid word invented by weak limp wristed libs

  • @daddygrace253
    @daddygrace253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    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
      @jeffreyrodrigoecheverria2613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You are clearly not from Puerto Rico

    • @radrook2153
      @radrook2153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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
      @daddygrace253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@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
      @bjsantana8415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @jeffreyrodrigoecheverria2613
      @jeffreyrodrigoecheverria2613 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@daddygrace253 quite lying

  • @RonnieRowe-il7eq
    @RonnieRowe-il7eq 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @kiki_steez
    @kiki_steez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

    • @ManatedMan
      @ManatedMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      No

    • @dalitsomumba2432
      @dalitsomumba2432 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      U're right

    • @kimberly1029
      @kimberly1029 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ManatedMan No what?

    • @asiatic_black
      @asiatic_black 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @bxvs2732
      @bxvs2732 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
    @carlosbright9615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    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
      @maddymadd6500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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
      @C.R886 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      wow

    • @radrook7584
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @prlopez6134
      @prlopez6134 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @Nikvicious923
      @Nikvicious923 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Latin or Hispanic is not a race.

    • @user-oc2ub1cy8v
      @user-oc2ub1cy8v 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It’s a Culture Tho. Penche Mudo 💀

    • @heru-deshet359
      @heru-deshet359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @user-oc2ub1cy8v
      @user-oc2ub1cy8v 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Heru- deshet you mean Pendeja? LMFAO

    • @heru-deshet359
      @heru-deshet359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @user-oc2ub1cy8v
      @user-oc2ub1cy8v 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Heru- deshet I’m a rat

  • @suave3330
    @suave3330 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    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
      @vrapnyc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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
      @bxvs2732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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
      @Misaamanenoir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @lolagranados9049 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @lisavice7253
    @lisavice7253 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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..

  • @radrook2153
    @radrook2153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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
      @tedfebo1741 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      B.S.

    • @radrook2153
      @radrook2153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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
      @charlyleon4597 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Be proud of your native American roots

    • @MichaelOBrien71
      @MichaelOBrien71 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s awful

  • @abrahamisaacmuciusiii9192
    @abrahamisaacmuciusiii9192 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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
      @tedfebo1741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @Abstract.Noir414
      @Abstract.Noir414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @joseanfigueroa8785 ปีที่แล้ว

      Someone is very confused...

  • @sweetness_5772
    @sweetness_5772 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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
      @sparkmedialit 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      the Taino were darkskin Africans. Europeans named them indians.

  • @dalethyahusha8370
    @dalethyahusha8370 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @markarnold933
    @markarnold933 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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
      @godjhaka7376 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @itscoral
    @itscoral 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    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
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How does that observation constitute racism?

    • @joseanfigueroa8785
      @joseanfigueroa8785 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @taniaroman1783
    @taniaroman1783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @thechief8694
      @thechief8694 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The racism amongst Latinos towards blacks is disgusting and vile

  • @nicolebentley984
    @nicolebentley984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    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
      @dadmight1442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why 5 years? :0

    • @nicolebentley984
      @nicolebentley984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @izphilly1
      @izphilly1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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
      @ivonnemontijo8461 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      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
      @overlookhotel5094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @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.

  • @DeltaRoots
    @DeltaRoots 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Proud Foundational Black American here!

  • @jamessims4802
    @jamessims4802 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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
      @Sean-MacGuire ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @d.d.sarason8749 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @edgardorosa560
    @edgardorosa560 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @luigirnotyourbusiness8127
    @luigirnotyourbusiness8127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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

  • @jpoupart23
    @jpoupart23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

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

    • @izphilly1
      @izphilly1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @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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      @LXNews  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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    • @thatguybutitsactuallyagirl5384
      @thatguybutitsactuallyagirl5384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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
      @Denissegv1087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @jpoupart23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @robertsantiago6968
    @robertsantiago6968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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
      @daddygrace253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ¿Por qué no vuelves a Puerto Rico, Roberto?

    • @robertsantiago6968
      @robertsantiago6968 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @slarvadain188 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @abdulsaburfajardo3832
    @abdulsaburfajardo3832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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
      @RiseAwakenedOne 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You a brotha

    • @Dominican1923
      @Dominican1923 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @hijodepuuu
    @hijodepuuu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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!

  • @odiliososa5899
    @odiliososa5899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    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
      @Soltice-ty2nf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me either

    • @heru-deshet359
      @heru-deshet359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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
      @radrook4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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
      @radrook4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @emilydominicci5982
      @emilydominicci5982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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

  • @j.lagunascortez4113
    @j.lagunascortez4113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    hypocrites.

    • @sageex3931
      @sageex3931 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What?

  • @levatorthomas1165
    @levatorthomas1165 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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

  • @ZRHTrainspotter
    @ZRHTrainspotter ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Liberal Media has hit rock bottom 😂

  • @AncientOne222
    @AncientOne222 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @dpeasehead
    @dpeasehead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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
      @seanvales391 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well stated.

    • @joseanfigueroa8785
      @joseanfigueroa8785 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @RonNL1030
    @RonNL1030 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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
      @frankcorrea8691 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @amariewalenda3801
    @amariewalenda3801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    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
      @SebastianRodriguez-ec2mr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @jolllytron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *white puertoricans

  • @sunshine-wb7gr
    @sunshine-wb7gr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

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

  • @LegendKiller03000
    @LegendKiller03000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @brendanydiawalters3676
    @brendanydiawalters3676 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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
      @radrook4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @brendanydiawalters3676 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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
      @Mrmusha53 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So you're black 😂😂😂

    • @brendanydiawalters3676
      @brendanydiawalters3676 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Mrmusha53
      @Mrmusha53 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @dr.fruityboots4706
    @dr.fruityboots4706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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
      @maddymadd6500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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

  • @chrisboricua1911
    @chrisboricua1911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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
      @BoricuaNyc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Facts🇵🇷✊🏾🇵🇷✊🏿🇵🇷✊🏽🇵🇷

    • @joseanfigueroa8785
      @joseanfigueroa8785 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @sparkmedialit
      @sparkmedialit 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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

  • @javiercales5019
    @javiercales5019 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @codyclark5995
    @codyclark5995 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @realhastalamuerte5133
    @realhastalamuerte5133 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    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
      @radrook4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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
      @gerryadams9868 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sick mix mate as an Irish man I love latinas

  • @mariangelyfernandez8874
    @mariangelyfernandez8874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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
      @tedfebo1741 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      B.S.

    • @buravan1512
      @buravan1512 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @MichaelOBrien71 ปีที่แล้ว

      U are are gorgeous 😅

  • @wizmanballin8498
    @wizmanballin8498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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
      @cjrodriguez1053 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      "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
      @yourealittlebitfat4344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @wizmanballin8498
      @wizmanballin8498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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
      @radrook4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @wizmanballin8498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @aaaponte0613
    @aaaponte0613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    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
      @marlonb2804 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @TrillShvt
      @TrillShvt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @radrook7584
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @mr.e1220 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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.

  • @poppyseedprtheremix8362
    @poppyseedprtheremix8362 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @kelly__9056
      @kelly__9056 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Racist against what

    • @StephanyFeliciano-qg3to
      @StephanyFeliciano-qg3to 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @jacquierivera8951
    @jacquierivera8951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @luisc5922
    @luisc5922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    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
      @clementmckenzie7041 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @rosalynbeatty8310 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @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
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @radrook7584
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @perrymatos531
    @perrymatos531 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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
      @BoricuaNyc ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Facts🇵🇷❤🇵🇷💎

  • @gardeniasgardenias2491
    @gardeniasgardenias2491 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I agree 100% I have been horribly awful bully just because my color of my skin and my natural hair from first grade into 9th grade, from 8am to 3pm every single day...super grateful and thankful my mom sold her house in 1987 and we all moved to Canada 🙏🏾the last year in P.R. 1987 and never ever come back, beautiful island but too many racist and competition plus too much crimes PUERTO RICO NOOOO THANK YOU BUT NO PERIOD 5:22

  • @SebastianRodriguez-ec2mr
    @SebastianRodriguez-ec2mr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    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
      @SebastianRodriguez-ec2mr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Apeman Jones I'll pray for you

    • @tokeo3565
      @tokeo3565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @KamalasNotLikeUs
      @KamalasNotLikeUs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No Black person ever oppressed you. Liar.

    • @tokeo3565
      @tokeo3565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @SebastianRodriguez-ec2mr
      @SebastianRodriguez-ec2mr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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

  • @Emy53
    @Emy53 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    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
      @Shel230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @radrook7584
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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
      @blackinews5702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @radrook7584
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @ConquerWealth.network 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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'

  • @lilahdog568
    @lilahdog568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @414Nemesis
    @414Nemesis 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As an American Black Man, I had no idea the this happening there too. This is sad, that globally the darker we are the more we're hated.🤦🏿‍♂️

  • @davidmanuel8519
    @davidmanuel8519 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    FINALLY, I was born in NYC in the 1950's. I grew up in Rio Piedras and attended the UPR where I experienced RACISM from light-skinned Puerto Ricans. " How did YOU get accepted to the UPR"
    I have two MAs from Rennselear and Fordham University. I couldn't find a professional job in Puerto Rico. I have lived in the USA for most of my adult life. I have been involved in Democratic politics supporting African-American and Latino politicians. Afro-Boricuas demanding their rights and place in PR Society I thought I would never see, but I am so proud of all the Afro-Boricuas fighting for equality. Pa' Lante !!

  • @Kingofthepeople
    @Kingofthepeople 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love being Black and Proud and i love all my Hispanics brother's and sisters especially i like Puerto Rico.👏🏾🖤🇵🇷❤✊🏾

  • @johnnyflores5954
    @johnnyflores5954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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
      @maddymadd6500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @maddymadd6500 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Read up on Pedro Albizu campos.✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

    • @radrook7584
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @lolagranados9049
      @lolagranados9049 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @johnnyflores5954
      @johnnyflores5954 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @oacarc6032
    @oacarc6032 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm Puerto Rican and I'm not black I'm I'm Puerto Rican

    • @oacarc6032
      @oacarc6032 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Diego Gallego I'm not black or white just Rican

  • @dobbynp
    @dobbynp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @intalecrekthecoinmedic3416
    @intalecrekthecoinmedic3416 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a black man who has dated a Puerto Rican woman, she told me about her father telling her to "Better the Race" and not date black men.

  • @lovetohate1901
    @lovetohate1901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Proud foundation Puerto Rican 🦅I'm here💯

    • @kai06155
      @kai06155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @kai06155
      @kai06155 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @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

  • @RRDB92
    @RRDB92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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.

  • @TheRomanTribune
    @TheRomanTribune 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    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
      @JordanWilliams-ix2td 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just say you only find white women attractive & move on

    • @devontewilliams1489
      @devontewilliams1489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Bruh you lyin

    • @stevenserna910
      @stevenserna910 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @TheRomanTribune 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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

  • @mackenziebarefoot1913
    @mackenziebarefoot1913 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Some cultures and features are better than others 🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @bigcoop3717
      @bigcoop3717 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I’m calling ICE

  • @cowlico
    @cowlico ปีที่แล้ว +2

    La última vez que mi cuñado se refirió a mi hijo menor, blanco y guapo, tuvimos una larga conversación sobre quién diablos eres. ¡Ahora lo sabe mejor! I had to explain stuff to him. All my life I've been stepping up to people and schooling them! Toda mi vida me he estado acercando a la gente y haciéndoles saber que no me importa lo que piensen. Siempre seré quien soy. ¡Mis padres me enseñaron que no necesito una revolución, solo necesito que sea audaz y nunca una víctima!

  • @JosePerez-pt8my
    @JosePerez-pt8my 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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
      @alfredoalcantar8691 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So BLM is Marxist

    • @radrook4481
      @radrook4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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
      @KamalasNotLikeUs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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
      @MichaelOBrien71 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@radrook4481that’s crazy

  • @nicolebentley984
    @nicolebentley984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Racism over hair is so pitty :(

    • @yourealittlebitfat4344
      @yourealittlebitfat4344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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
      @radrook4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @radrook4481
      @radrook4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @radrook4481
      @radrook4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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
      @nicolebentley984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @mominor6913
    @mominor6913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @radrook7584
      @radrook7584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @kadekeyz8431
    @kadekeyz8431 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ... don't be discouraged brothers and sisters ..fight on, you're being heard 🤎

  • @madliberal7710
    @madliberal7710 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @catherinemartinez6915
    @catherinemartinez6915 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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
      @OnlyIMatter 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @MichaelOBrien71 ปีที่แล้ว

      PR is not a race

    • @1rstBorn
      @1rstBorn 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@MichaelOBrien71Not about what you want to be either. It never was.

  • @Obasi7740
    @Obasi7740 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @familyandfriends3519
      @familyandfriends3519 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @snakemanjones8272
    @snakemanjones8272 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @gardeniasgardenias2491
    @gardeniasgardenias2491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I agree too, I'm so grateful I'm not live in that island anymore.

  • @KevinCott-k3e
    @KevinCott-k3e 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    PLANDEMIC!

  • @donaldwarr6043
    @donaldwarr6043 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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

  • @travellingonuptozion5658
    @travellingonuptozion5658 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is sad it happens all over the world

    • @june049
      @june049 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because “We” are all over the world.

    • @williebisrael7203
      @williebisrael7203 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The white europeon spreads hate whereever it goes

  • @shehzadchowdhury8327
    @shehzadchowdhury8327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    White Puerto Ricans are european origin they are not natives

    • @christinagraham2915
      @christinagraham2915 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      U can't say that tho

    • @shehzadchowdhury8327
      @shehzadchowdhury8327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @alexandersoto2549
      @alexandersoto2549 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The africans were not native to puerto rico either

  • @tkwanza0228
    @tkwanza0228 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just came from a cruise in Dec 2022 and stayed overnight in San Juan, PR. One of the hotel staff of the San Juan, PR Airport hotel was weird. As a single female, she places my room all the way to the back of the hall that was creepy and dark, and it felt unsafe. When I asked to move my room, I discovered there were other vacancies on the floor near elevator or toward the front. Then the
    2nd issue -I had a hold on my card at the same hotel. The young lady lied about the hold and so now there's a hold up until March of 2024 that they won't fix.
    3rd issue - The Voyager of the Seas cruise was 90% lantino. There were many who were not kind, rude, skipped us in line or wouldn't move when you said excuse me.
    All of these situations involved lantino women and I just assumed they didn't like Americans but I see it probably was "colorism" (btw... I'm a light brown African American female with great manners and love for every race and culture) I never knew some lantino women so racist🤷‍♀️.....js...it wasn't fun experiencing these situations

  • @LuisSanchez-en3sf
    @LuisSanchez-en3sf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @SEANLJOHNSONSR
    @SEANLJOHNSONSR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Black and brown love

    • @BoricuaNyc
      @BoricuaNyc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ✊🏿💕✊🏾💕✊🏽💯