Hawaii Boricua interview with Tony Castanha

Hawaii Boricua interview with Tony Castanha

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[portacoelhi]

Mira Tony,(1)

no por quitarte nada,pero NINGUNOS de los puertorriquenos que se fueron para Hawaii se montaron en barcos con taparrabos,ni con sus nalgas por 'fuera.Lo que me duele TANTO,es que te han comido tu mente y este charlatan (nuyorican taino idiota)aqui esta dandote sobos pa' que tu caigas manzito en su falda.Mijo YO TENGO familiares que se fueron para Hawaii y ERAN y todavia SON Blancos.

[bayamonkey]

More fake taino neo-history?The reality is that most of the PuertoRican workers that went to Hawaii were WHITES from the interior of Puerto Rico,where ANY historian knows has the biggest concentration of White settlers on the Island since the1850s.Yes,they were agricultural workers & YES, they were poor,but that does not turn them into Taino Indians.They are turning in their graves watching these 2 idiots giving them new FAKE identities. Disgraceful junk history.What next? Ricans from Atlantis?

[puertoricanafro]

MY FATHERS GRANDFATHER LOOKED INDIAN STARIGHT HAIR WE WAS DARK BROWN LOOK LIKE A INDIAN BUT HES MOTHER WAS AFRO PUERTORICAN SO HE LOOKED INDIAN BUT HE WAS MIX SO LOOKS DONT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

[puertoricanafro]

OH LORD WE ARE MIX ALL OF US FROM THE BLACKEST TO THE BROWNES TO THE WHITES WE ALL ARE MIX WITH AFRICAN SPANISH INDIAN FRENCH AND MENY MORE. WHEN IS THIS BULLSHIT GONNA END.

[Domingo12754]

Why is it that the moment someone claims Taino ancestry someone has to inform us of how White they or their families are? As if this would prove to the world that only Whites live in Puerto Rico today. The word Jibaro is it's self is a Taino word. Three out of the four of my grandparents were Jibaros, lived in Bohios and cooked on a Fogon, used a Coi to rock their babes to sleep and ate from a dita. This man has a Ph D. He knows whats he 's talking about.

[Maganel1]

As Corsicans and other Europeans came to PR they mixed with the Boricuas, no matter how Jibaros these people were or how Taina was their blood. Only the richer continued marrying within their race. They had properties, and the ability to move to other places like SA or back to Europe once the island went thru san Ciriaco. It's naive to say the rich went to Hawaii to cut sugar cane. It's a fact that most Jibaros who went to Hawaii had Taino blood, especially those from mountains in the southwest.

[Maganel1]

My grandmother’s mother was from Corsica, and her father was a Jibaro who had very black, straight hair. His face features skin color, like many Native Americans photos. He wasn't wearing a taparrabo, because he did not live in the 1500. He was aTaino living in the late 1800s and was the capataz or foreman of one of the coffee haciendas or plantations. He and many others in that area had the Taino blood and with pride. Their life changed once the Spaniards came to the island, not their blood!!!

[Maganel1]

That is why there are two areas named Indieras in that part of P.R. up to the present day. ManyTainos went there in the early to mid 1500s and by the time a large immigration of European started coming to those mountains in the mid 1850, they did not find an empty countryside!!! The reason they were called “Jibaros” as this man said in this interview was because “Jibaros” is a word that was used within some of the Arawak tribes, including the Tainos to call those who lived in the high mountains.

[Maganel1]

To those who keep on saying here that the first hawaian- puertoricans were mostly white I would like to say this. My great-grandparents were also from the regions between Maricao, Lares, Adjuntas and the mountains of Yauco... While I do have European last names and some of that DNR, I am also a Taina. Why??? Because centuries before the Europeans from Corsica, and from the Canary Islands ever touched Borinquen's  soil, there was a good number of Tainos who moved to those very same mountains.

[BennoFletcherBorges]

@Tainotv...dear Taino Tranny,I used "El Diccionario de la Real Academia Espanola" because it is an historically reliable source for the entomology of words used in the Spanish-speaking world. I tried to find the Taino dictionary but like so much of Neo-Taino"facts"today it is little more than nuyorican grafittisprayed on the side of dumpsters in "duh" So.Bronx.However,I take my research from more informed sources.Good luck with your Taino reserach on the Cross-Town Shuttle.Oportunista sucio.

[Tainotv]

@BennoFletcherBorges Wow, another intelligent actually promoting the history of the colonizer... I mean you want us to take your view serious and you post something from the "El Diccionario de la Real Academia Española" as if that is not a biased version of history? As I said if there is ANY ONE here that is so sure of their facts get some money together and fly us to your local college to have a real debate on the issue in English or Spanish...

[Tainotv]

@bayamonkey interesting comment - neo-Taino history --- sounds like you have already an opinion however what you don't have is any facts... The only junk history being present is what people like you are hoping the youth will keep swallowing but that is a hope long gone as folks are being to see the truth for what is is and the peddles of colonial history for what they are...