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So many people in America seem to not know the difference between nationality, ethnicity, culture and race.
However, this isn’t something that only affects Black people or African American people. I’ve even heard white people say things like “I’m half white and half French”. Some people don’t realise that you can’t be half nationality and half race. They are two completely different things.
There are many African Americans that don’t realise there are many Black people outside of the United States of America. African Americans are not the only Black people.
Latino and Hispanic are not races.
In Latin America’s colonial period, more than 15 times as many enslaved Africans were trafficked to Spanish and Portuguese colonies than to the U.S. Today, there are over 130 million people of African descent in Latin America. Making up roughly a quarter of the total population. According to estimates from the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) at Princeton University.
With this information in mind, there are only 44 million Black people in the United States, with 26% of this number being Black people of different cultures and ethnicities.
You also have to bear in mind that these are only the Black people that actually identify as Black or of African descent. So the numbers of Black people outside of the United States might actually be much higher. Because sadly there are so many Black people within Latin America that also deny their Blackness even if they look just like someone from west Africa.
Denying your Blackness.
There is a long history in Latin America of Black people identifying as white, even if they are predominately Black.
In Puerto Rico there was a law known as “Regla del Sacar” which molded how many Puerto Ricans today classify themselves racially. This law dictated that a person of African ancestry could be considered LEGALLY WHITE, so long as they could prove that at least one person in the last four generations had also been legally white descent.
Therefore, people of African ancestry with known European lineage were classified as “white”, the opposite of the “one-drop rule” in the United States.
Recent ancestry and DNA studies on the island maintain that a majority of Puerto Ricans are actually of significant African descent and/or ethnically mixed. However a recent study shows that Black and mixed Puerto Ricans do not feel the need to identify with their African ancestry.
Puerto Rico underwent a political “whitening” process while under U.S. rule. The term “Black” suddenly began to disappear from the census due to the popular idea that in the U.S. one could only advance economically and socially if one were to pass for “white”.
Education
With all of this being said, it’s very important for us to be correctly educated on these terms. Not simply from an academic standpoint, but mainly for our own purpose. It’s important that we know our history and unify with each other based on our lineage.
Whether we are African American, Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Colombian, Dominican, Haitian or Brazilian, if we are descendants of enslaved Africans then we are Black. We are African.
I didn’t know where to put this but I wanted to wish ya a HBD Angel
Happy Belated Birthday.💜
Angel I appreciate you making this video.
It’s interesting to see how some Americans think that black people only exist in the US and Africa. I remember when I went to the US, and nobody believed I was Colombian, they thought I was joking. Nobody thought it was possible to speak Spanish, and look like me. A lot of people think that we all look like Shakira or Sofia Vergara, which is not true at all.
And, sadly, some Latinos in the US believe this as well. There was a Mexican woman who thought I was an American with great Spanish, and I was not able to convince the woman otherwise, which is funny considering there are black people in Mexico.
Great video as usual
The problem is when your Hispanic and you look racially ambiguous you have no idea what to say you are. You may look mulatto, native, caucasian depending on the season. So as a person you don’t know what to say. So majority just says “hispanic”. Its a very sticky situation. Danileigh for example. Just because she is light does not make her caucasian.
But Danileigh is white. We saw her parents and her grandparents.
Like Angel said there are black hispanics and white ones. If you’r mixed then you’re mixed. Take a DNA test and call yourself what you actually are. Anything less than 60% African DNA then you’re not black.
In my school I had a classmate who was a Afro Dominican saying to me that he wasn’t black but he was Spanish. I had to explain that he was black like me but of but has has Spanish blood in him because of Slavery, we really need to educate our people that the ships went all over the world even in the Pacific Islands not just the western hemisphere, thanks for the video Angel you broke it down perfectly.
They have Siddi People in India, they are African Descent. Dravidian and SriLankan people are of African Decent too which is why they are dark complected. So are the Aboriginal Asians throughout of Asia and the Australian Aborigines they are Decendants of Africa because they are dark complected