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black-is-beautiful18: tolkienblackgirl: black-is-beautiful18:kemetic-dreams: kemetic-dreams: GO TELL THAT SHIT TO YOUR PPL, WHO CALL THEMSELVES EVERYTHING BUT AN AFRICAN, AND NO YOUR NOT BLACK, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU SHOULD ADVERTISE FOR A PEANUT BUTTER EFFIGY. WE KNOW, OBVIOUSLY YOUR PPL FROM THE ISLANDS DONT KNOW. ONLY WHEN THEY WANNA SAY THE N WORD THEN SAY I AM PART AFRICAN TOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0z6zyc2J8 I blame the education system along with ignorant ppl, both white and Black, who teach false and harmful rhetoric such as this. Only about 5% of slave ships brought African ppl to North America. The other 95% went to the islands and South America. This is why Brazil has the highest population of Black ppl making it 2nd to Africa. This is why Hispañola aka Haiti and the Dominican Republic are majority Black. Of course the latine ppl and latine governments are at fault too because it’s a known fact, that just like here in North America, we are pushed out of our communities and underrepresented in basically everything. Our ppl are everywhere. Literally. From Peru to Costa Rica. From Haiti to Cuba. Black ppl are there. You don’t HAVE these cultures without Africa. Being Boriqua means being TAINO+SPANISH +AFRICAN. Full stop. ALWAYS that combination. There is no modern PR, DR, HAITI, CUBA, JAMAICA, BAHAMAS, & ALL of Caribbean, as well as most of central & South America without that combination of European Colonizer, Enslaved Africans & Native people. They say we deny it but don’t address WHY so many do. They do because of COLONIZATION, self hatred & aggressive internalized racism instilled by the very people who brought us here.They call our hair Pelo malo, then laud the golden tans & curly hair & full figures & luscious lips & our food & dance & music & forget that all those things are as African if not more than they are anything else. Meanwhile others act like THEY get to tell us when & if we get to claim our history.I am AFRICAN, EUROPEAN & NATIVE. Yes all of those, because I Am BORIQUA. They force us to hate everything about being African while lauding all the AFRICAN things that make these cultures possible…Don’t tell me what I am & what I’m not. Columbus landed on US in the Islands FIRST. Our Enslaved Ancestors were dropped in the Caribbean FIRST. They suppress our Blackness for over FOUR HUNDRED YEARS and then dare to be mad that many are just waking up to the truth.Vete Pal Carajo ✌,Sincerely A Boriqua EXACTLY -- source link
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