It’s crazy how y’all do not include Lupita in the “Latina” conversation! She was born in Mexico and speaks fluent Spanish wtf? y’all will gladly praise Anya Taylor-Joy
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Half Latina or part meaning you’re mixed with something else- Afro Latino, Persian, Asian, etc. Everyone came to the New World. Latinos are mainly mixed w Afro and Indigenous and Euro. Governments suppressed that knowledge for census control so we don’t know our entire lineage
The scene in front of Versailles in Miami. I’m hearing from more and more Cuban-American protesters who invoke the military and say Trump should be kept in power “by force.”
Black Puerto Ricans exist! You cannot come to any of these islands being disrespectful; this could have happened in DR, Mexico, Cuba, etc. It would've been 10x worst in Mexico!
🎶 🇩🇴 Johnny Pacheco, one of the founders of the iconic Latin music label Fania Records, died Monday at age 85.
Pacheco was born in the Dominican Republic to a musical family in 1935.
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Using your huge platform to get an Afro-indigenous woman from the island to be harassed, is very weird and disingenuous. Especially when they are calling out anti-blackness from people in our community be serious
I have no patience or tolerance for any disrespect towards the indigenous community.
when you start adding onto indigenous erasure, you will get called out
When you start throwing out the word “Neo Taino” you will get called out
Educate yourself first & don’t disrespect
You guys are going to learn that “freedom of speech” will get your ass whooped by somebody! It’s a time and place for everything, and someone’s medical condition should never be the butt of the joke
in The Heights is a good movie, but it doesn't change the fact that Washington Heights is a predominantly Black Dominican neighborhood, and that wasn't reflected in that film
After being denied their legal right to make an asylum claim, hundreds of Haitians are deported to Port-au-Prince where they find their un-labeled belongings scattered on the ground by ICE.