Lying ass Latinos: omg race doesn’t function the same way in Latin America. We don’t describe ourselves racially. There are no white or black races in Latin America.

Black Latinos:

Y’all stay lying that Black Latin Americans aren’t faced with similar anti-Black policing, violence, and governance as in the U.S. “ITS CLASS! ITS CLASS!” Race and class are linked. White supremacy doesn’t occur in a vacuum morons.

White supremacy has ruled the centuries from the first toe of an Iberian colonizer in LatAm til present day presidents likening their Black populations to monkeys & justifying state-sanctioned violence. This is not a secret. This is not new. This has nothing to do with the U.S.

Because you personally don’t know or interact with folks who call themselves “negro” does not a white supremacist hegemonic reality make. Folks BEEN calling themselves Black since the 1500s on this American continent. Stop fucking lying.

“LatAms don’t call themselves Black. That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a different culture.”
-1944,Abdias do Nascimento founds Black experimental theater to confront lack of representation/dignity of black ppl in performing arts

“LatAms don’t call themselves Black. That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a different culture.”
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-1969, Perú Negro is an Afro-Peruvian musical ensemble "celebrating and preserving Peru's black culture and música criolla."

“LatAms don’t call themselves Black. That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a different culture.”
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1978, Victoria Santa Cruz’s releases visual, lyrical, poem “Me gritaron Negra.”

LatAms don’t call themselves Black (or white). That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a different culture.”
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1800s documents from Puerto Rico. Courtesy of @webdubois2014

LatAms don’t call themselves Black (or white). That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a different culture.”
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1845, Racist Argentine prez publishes book claiming Blacks in Argentina r “almost extinct,” &wishing the same for indigenous

LatAms don’t call themselves Black (or white). That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a different culture.”
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Franklyn Franco’s 1969 book:
Courtesy @AfrolatinProjec

“LatAms don’t call themselves Black (or white). That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a different culture.”
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1981, El 1º Congreso del Negro Panameño - “First Congress of the Black Panamanian” big ups to pioneer George Priestley

“LatAms don’t call themselves Black (or white). That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a different culture.”
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1839, Cuban newspaper selling a “negra criolla,” creole Black woman creole meaning born in the colonies, in this case, Cuba

“LatAms don’t call themselves Black (or white). That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a diff culture.”

1948 Mexican film “Angelitos Negros”ft. AfroCuban Rita Montaneer in blackface.Wealthy white woman finds out mom is the Black maid

1920s AfroCuban writer Nicolas Guillén wrote for a special newspaper section “Ideales de una Raza,” devoted to aspects of Black life,poems described lives of Blacks in urban slums. Also wrote hundreds of essays for newspapers, abt racism in Cuba.Also a friend of Langston Hughes.

Y’all love making these Latin American “racial harmony mestizaje” mythmaking with NO RECEIPTS whatsoever. Shut up.

AfroCubans strongly influenced the jazz scene in New York. 19-year-old, Bauza came to New York in 1930 to make it in the music scene, the racism in his home country of Cuba held him back. He was taken by the music scene in Harlem and +

he “found it was a place where he could walk down the street and not experience the same kind of racism that he was experiencing in Havana at the time, that he could feel free as a black man walking down the street and not feel that oppression in the same way.” +

Bauzá was hired as lead trumpeter and musical director for Chick Webb's Orchestra by 1933, and it was during his time with Webb that Bauzá both met fellow trumpeter Dizzie Gillespie and discovered and brought into the band singer Ella Fitzgerald. +

1941,Bauzá became musical dir. of Machito &his Afro-Cuban band led by his bro in law, Machito.”Bauza’s fusion African-American big band w/ traditional Cuban rhythms was ground breaking right down to its name…just the fact that the name that they chose for that band says a lot” +

It was 1st time we see public acknowledgement thru naming of the band of something African derived. Bauza, 1991 interview:”Machito & his AfroCubans, a whole lot of ppl objected to that Afro thing there. Im of African descent &the rhythm tht produces the music we play is African.”

“LatAms don’t call themselves Black (or white). That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a diff culture.”
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1997, Carlos Andújar “La Presencia Negra en Santo Domingo: Un Enfoque Etnohistorico.” The Black Presence in Santo Domingo

“LatAms don’t call themselves Black. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a diff culture.”
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PR Salsero Ismael Rivera:
“Matarón al negro bembón”
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“Las caras lindas de mi gente negra
Son un desfile de melaza en flor. De su negrura todo el corazon.Las caras lindas de mi raza prieta

LatAms don’t call themselves Black (or white). That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a different culture.”
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1800s Cuban Blackface theater

LatAms don’t call themselves Black. That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a diff culture.”
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1950s-Argentine, Libertad Bouza singing Grenet’s “Ay Mamá Inés”(todos los Negros tomamos café -all the Blacks drink coffee) in Blackface.

Current Blackface among various Latin Americans: Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Peruvians shown here.

Did we also forget the virulent despicable knuckle dragging white supremacist filth aimed at Miss Universe from Latinos? I’m not even posting the worst of it. Last pic was on a cafe receipt in Puerto Rico describing the patron as “negro feo,” (ugly Black) in 2018

“Black” Jose Antonio Aponte, AfroCuban revolutionary leader, Abakua & leader of a massive antislavery rebellion in Cuba in 1811-1812. In 1812, he & 8 others were executed.He led a bold island-wide conspiracy of enslaved & free Blacks aimed at liberating themselves by revolution+

The movement became known as the Aponte Conspiracy or The Aponte Rebellion. It was the first known independence initiative which became more than a local slave rebellion and involved white sectors of the population. +

According to the reports drafted by Spain’s colonial police, Aponte had put together an illustrated volume to educate his followers politically. The book contained skillfully drawn portraits of black men wearing General’s uniforms, kings, emperors , priests, +

black armies defeating white ones (among them, drawings depicted Aponte’s grandfather, Captain Joaquin Aponte, fighting the 1762 English invasion of Havana), maps of the military fortifications around Havana, and symbolic figures which invoked African history, +

the struggle for freedom, military training and many other images. Aponte’s vision of a black history connected a diasporic and transatlantic past to the possibility of imagining a sovereign future for free and enslaved people of color in colonial Cuba.+

Hilario Herrera, a principal organizer of the conspiracy in Oriente, (eastern part of Cuba) was himself a veteran of the revolution on Saint-Domingue.

“LatAms don’t call themselves Black. That’s a new thing u U.S.-identified ppl are doing. Stop putting U.S. frameworks on a different culture.”
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Late 1800s-early 1900s
Argentine “El Negro Raul” as he was called, a dandy-turned-beggar,” popular street figure in Buenos Aires.

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