My African American studies teacher was taking about how Domincans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans are black because of their heavy African slave ancestry. The Europeans brought slaves over the Carribbean islands because the Indian populations were dying out. And I told my friend about it and she was like "no! not all puerto ricans are black, some are white, some are indain"She makes me mad how she clearly has Black blood in her, that she denies being Black. I told her that here in American there is a race is defined, if you have one drop of Black blood or one Black ancestor in you no matter how light or you are you're Black. I mean how could all of the Puerto ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans be all miestizo if there were more slaves than Indians on the islands? What do you think about this?
2007-02-01
08:56:40
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