Re: CNN Latino in America preview - Afro Dominicans not Hispanics

Considering the fact that our African physical features are obvious, many African descendents coming to America from other nations will identify themselves according to that which is not so obvious, which is their nationality and cultural heritage. Many African descendents of other nations do not feel the need to overstate that which any one can clearly see for themselves.

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[sportsmarvel]

Actually they were called Black but in Spanish and it was Negro. If they were mixed they were called Mulattoes not Hispanic. Look up Black Ladino. They were actually called Negro Ladino which means Latinized black. Basically stripped of their African culture and language & given a new culture the Latin culture just like African Americans now speak English and have a new American culture. However you all didn't turn into Anglo Saxons or Caucasians even though we know African Americans r mixed to.

[lafemmefidele]

@sportsmarvel very true! i'm cajun and french creole, yet my family NEVER denied our african ancestry at any time throughout history, so much as identifying ourselves as african descendents, FAITHFULLY AND TRUTHFULLY!

[prettyroyelle]

You do realized that Dominicans are mixed ppl right? A lot of them can be half European and Taino and African. Not everyone follows the same race rules that America does. Why should I deny my Taino and European heritage? That is as much apart of me as that African blood.

[lafemmefidele]

@prettyroyelle i'm french creole and cajun, yet i do not deny my african roots one bit.

[3lilsonny]

afro domicans that hispanics? so are afro colombians not hispanics, afro cubans not hispanics, afro mexicans not hispanics,etc.. i have a question for you, are you latino?because you clearly dont know much about latin american countries. ifd you would then you would understand that most people in latin american are mixed. and haiti is a pure black country. Dominican Republic is NOT. you are saying the obvious? tell me or my brothers that we are pure blacks and we would laught at your face.

[lafemmefidele]

@3lilsonny i'm french creole and cajun (mixed), yet i do not hate my african blood ties!

[sportsmarvel]

@prettyroyelle If you examine it closely you will see that when the Spanish landed on Hispaniola in 1492 much of the island was Taino. When the Taino started to die out they realized they needed labor. The first shipment of blacks about 200 was about a decade and a half later around 1607. The first mass shipment was about 1517 almost 3 decades later by that time the Spanish were already leaving for more land on main land American continent. Leaving only a dismal amount of Spaniards & 2% Taino

[sportsmarvel]

@touggie2000 Argentina is about or it claims 2 B about 90% or higher of Spanish or Italian or European heritage. I have heard has high as 98% of population is white. Yet they are Latin & the percentage of black in Argentina is less than 1%. Dominican Republic is 85% or higher African descent with about 15% mixed race or Mulatto population.Latino and Hispano are European terms created first in Italy. Romans called modern day Spain Hispania & Latins came from central west Italy that included Rome.

[sportsmarvel]

@touggie2000 I asked myself this question. When was it used first in the Americas.

Actually the term Latinos was first used - The term "Latin America" was used for the first time in the nineteenth century when the French occupied Mexico (1862–1867), leading to the Second Mexican Empire, and wanted to be included in what was considered Spanish America. source wikipedia

Mexicans were the first people to be called or referred to as Latinos in the Americas.

It began in Mexico.

[sportsmarvel]

@prettyroyelle The blanquismo project to whiten the race. The problem is most were not even Spanish people. They came from Ireland, England, France, China, White South Africa, Russia, Poland & any other place with light skin. Reality is that Dominicans are related closer to Haitians then to Spain. In fact the Relationship to Spain maybe under 5% or less due to all the whites that came from all over the world to whiten the D.R.

[sportsmarvel]

@prettyroyelle Actually the majority of the Dominican Republic population is 85% African and 15% Mixed race. The problem is that in the early days of Hispaniola their were 12 Africans for every 1 Spaniard. To make it worse half of those Spaniards either left back to Spain after getting rich or went on to the new world for more riches abandoning Hispaniola. Then the French brought even more Africans to the island that increased the population. This is why Trujillo started the Blanquismo project

[sportsmarvel]

@lafemmefidele That is awesome. Creole people are cool and real unlike others in this world unfortunately. I mean Dominicans share a closer relationship genetically to Haitians then they do Spaniards yet they discriminate against Haitians. Look at Sammy Sosa, Big Papi David Ortiz, Alfonso Soriano, Manny Ramirez who wears dreads but could be consider Mulatto like Arod. I mean talk about being hypocritical They say African Americans are loud well so are Dominicans when they talk. Very Hypocritical