Why isn't "mi blanquita" a "term of endearment"? So you agree the term is rooted in ownership? Y'all find new ways to clown every single day. The performance isn't even good. I want a refund.

One day my husband asked this white Cuban directions somewhere and he's like "Bueno, mi negro" and he's like "Mi nombre es Victor." Then he did it again. My husband stopped, looked him directly in his eyes and said "Asere, te dije que mi nombre es Victor." I'm over there like

Cuz y'all know I live for that smoke. He has less of an issue when the whites call him "niche" or "chardo," but he still has an issue with it. He ABSOLUTELY hates when folks refer to him as "niño" or "muchacho" (boy) And that sounds eerily familiar to that racist U.S. habit.

My husband WILL knock your teeth out if you're a white referring to him as "mi negro." He DOES NOT ABIDE BY THAT AT ALL. It's the "mi" that boils his blood. He has been and always been proudly negro/negron. That part ain't the problem at all. It's that "mi" he won't let slide

I LOVE when actual gente negra call me "mi negra." LOVE IT. LIVE FOR IT. GOTTA HAVE IT. A nonBlack person? LMAOOOOOO I think the entire tf not.

And the more I see y'all tap-dancing for mestizaje, the more I see that the the wrong damn people are holding the mic. The actual Black folks that are actually dangerously affected on the daily are not included in the convo bc they are busy trying to make it to the next day.

Let's ask my friend who was detained while playing soccer one afternoon, (while other whites were doing the same) that was handcuffed & made to walk along the cinta costera, intentionally humiliated, made to sit on the floor of the police station what "mi negrito" means to him

Or what it means to the many negras (myself included) subject to violent sexual harassment in public spaces, white/mestizo men breathlessly accosting us in dark corners all while barking "mi negrita"

Can't trust nobody. Good lord.

All the words & terminologies for "Black"--'chardo' is the one that always gives me pause. All the terminologies for African and indigenous ancestry. Very few for white. All the terms normalized in daily language. All the excuses & mythology that we "are all 3 roots." We aren't.

Where are the "3 roots" here? Hmmmm?????

I am watching in real-time the centuries-long project of the made-up "Latin" identity that was created by Napolean to justify military involvement in Mexico to create a "Unified" "Latin American identity" which was manufactured in DIRECT opposition to Anglo dominance.

"Latin" was to serve Francophone empire and hegemonic invasion (in the Americas) to counter the Anglophone empire and hegemonic invasion project in the Americas. Two white European pathological powers & we are *still* playing as pawns in "identities" that subjugate us all daily.

Mexico wasn't even included in the original concept of "Latin America" bc of its entanglements with the Anglo U.S. folks. Latin American whites championed the idea that they were somehow "superior" to the Anglos bc: 1) The Anglos still have slavery & we don't (except in Cuba)

2) Brazil also was not included (& at times was included) in that original idea of Latin America, bc Portugal was allied with the Britain (the Anglos)
3) The idea of Latin America was to contest "'Yankee' individualism.”
4) It also excluded Paraguay

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Most venerated "Latin" "thinkers" had a vendetta against the U.S. and Anglo dominance. It wasn't necessarily about "including" Latin American "mixed-ness." It was that Latin America was already being seen as these "mongrel" lands & ripe for conquering (among other reasons)

None of these "thinkers" actually *wanted* "mixed-ness." They abhored it. They tried to "breed it out." They tried to ban it. And at the same time those same whites in control fought to *STAY* white, even inbreeding. The elites wanted to thwart Anglo dominance in the region & one

of the best ways to do that was to manufacture its own "elite" label. "Latin." Yes that's it. French colonies & territories included w Hispanophone colonies. Together they could surely win against the Anglo Brits &their allies. That was one of the several iterations of "Latin."

And I am seeing that this is playing out in how U.S. white Latin Americans continue to see whiteness as being a purely "Anglo" concept when they are confronted about their own whiteness. "NO! I am not white! I am Latin!" They say. While being indistinguishable from Anglo whites.

AND AT THE SAME TIME, many of these "Latin" whites were in constant cahoots, communication, and collaboration with U.S. whites. One hand is doing something while the other, something else. This is what I need y'all to understand. MULTIPLE THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT THE SAME DAMN TIME.

Y'all love to scream white monied enslaver Simon Bolivar as 'the liberator.' Oh the guy that went begging Haiti for help & when he achieved his goals for the first meeting of the independent states of the Americas in 1826 , " i.e. the Congress of the American States in Panama

Bolivar invited U.S pres. John Q Adams, a proponent of the Monroe Doctrine and supporter of the slave trade, but he excluded Haiti." You mean that "liberator"? NONE of the U.S. imperial projects in LatAm could be carried out w/out the teamwork w white LatinAmericans. NONE.

Through time & borders you see the "morenizando" the browning of Black populations as a way to whiten the Black. Most, obviously Afrodescendants couldn't very well be "blanco" but they certainly could be "indio," or "ladino" or "moreno." We see this in Argentina, DR, Central Am

Many Latin American "heroes" that have been sold as indigenous or mestizo were actually Black and Afrodescendant. So the idea that LatAm "embraces" the African root in national identity is dishonest. On a *micro* level however, that is where the story gains more layers.

You have entire swaths of Black communities who have been relegated to the margins for the reason of the nation's virulent antiblackness. Are ANY of those Black people "debating" about their Blackness? And in those communities we say NEGRO. Plainly NEGRO.

Debating ones' race is a luxury for the tragics. The assimilated. The ones who forgot. The ones who swallowed the pill. The ones on the margins ain't got that kind of time.

That "morenizando" term that I use regularly now is bc of @Prof_JWallace other folks have used it but he's the one that really got it to be part of my lexicon bc it makes so much damn sense. Folks constantly tryna "brown up" Latin American things & it's just not what reality is

And that "browning" functions to "brown" Blackness and to "brown" whiteness all while being specifically anti-black (& anti-indigenous) and specifically white pathological. Its function, is functioning as intended. They really know what they r doing w/ it. Stop falling for it.

And I get it. That's been the centuries-long conditioning & brainwashing. But the idea that LatAm is "uniquely" mixed is easily disputed if you just look. The same sexual abuses that produced these "mixes" in LatAm occurred in the U.S. For all the 'Mixedness" of LatinAmerica yet

A Black Latin American is indistinguishable from a U.S. Black person. What's the difference? The U.S. DID codify some of its "mixes" yet not *as* extensively as LatAm. As @Prof_JWallace says , you had mulatto, octoroon, quadroon AND you also had the one-drop rule of hypodescent

For all the "mixed-ness" somehow I, who would be a product of those "3 roots" in actuality...yet I am ALWAYS "negra" or "morena." My "3 roots" don't fucking matter. Aside from that not all of us have "3 ancestries." Everybody knows that. Yet still keep flapping they lying lips.

I use this example constantly. The "commonality" between myself and my white landlord starts and ends at citizenship. I am also not the same ethnicity as an indigenous Embera person. Nor a Chinese Panamanian, nor a Jewish Panamanain. All "Panamanian" right? ANDD?????? SOOO??????

And then that brings up the notions of citizenship and who and WHAT groups are actually enjoying the full breadth of citizenship and the supposed benefits of citizenship of the nation-state. Are ALL Panamanians able to access it all? I think tf NOT.

On top of the notions of Latin American "mixedness," I see some of the same practices among Black U.S. folks who say "I'm not Black, I'm mixed," "my great-grandma's neighbor was Cherokee," it all sounds eerily similar to things I've heard Latin Americans say.

The case of Sarah Rector who had oil on her property in the U.S. and her race was then changed to "white." You find this practice in Latin America w the idea that "money whitens" & why folks always say the "real" discrimination is "class" not race https://weirdnews.info/2020/06/12/money-over-race-the-story-of-sarah-rector-the-black-girl-so-wealthy-she-was-considered-to-be-white/

Completely ignoring that CLASS IS TIED TO RACE BY ITS PATHOLOGICAL DESIGN. Easy "cop-out." And again telling on yourselves with: Negro w/money is mulato, mulato w/money is a white. A white is still a white. One of many Latin American sayings illustrating the full humanity

of whites yet the aspirational job of nonwhites to attain social status in hopes of "achieving" whiteness or at least approximating it with money & "status." An impossible task tbh. Again, by design.

Rather it’s “a white is ALWAYS a white” (blanco siempre blanco) in the previous tweet I said (a white is still a white)

I stay recommending Juliet Hooker’s book if y’all still confuzzled and for those who don’t wanna take my word for it for whatever reasons. Maybe you’ll listen to another Black Central American woman.

Che was another one of yalls favs that HATED U.S. Anglo dominance. If y’all actually read some of these white Latin Americans’ manifestos they are OBSESSED w/ driving out U.S. Anglo empire. They didn’t GAF abt Afrodescendants & indigenous descendants. It’s literally RIGHT THERE.

And I already told y’all the story of a white Cuban cabbie telling my husband he picked him up bc he was “un negro fino.” (Ya know not like those “other”
Blacks who probably won’t pay for the cab ride which is unfounded) I was in the back seat READY for that deserved drag. LMAOOO

No matter how “fino/fina” the Black person is, let them bring them to their white family. Not so “we all mixed, 3 roots, Luhteeno fam” right? Let it be time for a cop to shoot to kill, who is targeted? Jobs to be filled, housing, education & healthcare access—who is excluded? Eh?

Black “respectability” does not “save” Black people anywhere on this planet. In no language, culture, creed, ethnicity. Stop this already.

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