I think most African-Americans don't understand how White Latinos marginalize/shit on Afro-Latinos in their own foreign countries. Most AAs don't even know what a Afro-Latino is. Most people only think of Mestizos or White Latinos when they think about Latinos.
So you advocate for people who hate black people? Are you high?
Why do our people constantly cape for people who would spit on us if the roles were reversed.
I have a Black Latino aunt who's from Guyana(borders Venezuela) who when I was a kid only spoke Spanish. Do any of you know any Hispanic immigrants socially?? And I don't just mean from Mexico, Cubans or Puerto Ricans.
I could make the argument that every society and culture in the world has a negative opinion towards Black folk. So what's the solution?
To disengage, we become an insulated ethnic group in America and only stay in our own communities, or do we engage??
Maybe it's different in the DMV, but it's not uncommon to see mixed American Black and Latino/Latina couples, and I don't mean 'White' hispanics either.
In fact, I'd say the majority of Latino immigrants I see daily are tan to brown skinned and aren't walking around like they're better than anyone.
I've got a hispanic dude who owns his own landscaping company who comes by every comes by every spring and summer twice a month to cut my mother's lawn, rake her leaves and pick up the crap she throws out behind the house. He always talks to her, has a smile on his face and does the job even when she DOESN'T pay him(!!). (He calls me and I get him his money.lol)
My mother is the only Black person who lives in her neighborhood for several blocks too, and yet this Hispanic guy doesn't treat her funny.
THe thing about America is, we AREN'T the home countries where these people come from. Wherever you're from, you have to figure out what this country is about and what it means for you to be an American.
Writing off Latinos in general because many come from countries that are prejudiced against Blacks in general IMO just isn't a good philosophy or strategy for us.
I understand that Cali is a little different, in that you have entrenched Hispanic communities and that gang rivalries have driven a wedge between these groups.
However, the hispanic community in the DMV for the most part is still new and growing.
By engaging with them, I feel like I and everyone who lives in the DMV has a chance to shape how that community integrates with Blacks and America.
The attitude some of you have, I personally wouldn't deal with anyone except other Black people, because everyone 'hates' us.
There's a bridge to built between Blacks and the Hispanic community, and you can see it in how we both vote. I remember back in the day there was this fear that a growing influx of Latino immigrants would become a voting block that nullified the Black Democratic vote.
Then something strange happened on the way to the polling booths, many White conservatives didn't want Latinos in their country.
I believe since 2000, every Democratic presidential candidate has won the majority of the Hispanic vote. In fact many Whites abandoned the Democratic party and started voting Republican because so many Blacks, Hispanics and other minorities vote Democrat.
My point is to sum up, dismissing Hispanic immigrants as a group because many of them come from countries where Blacks are marginalized and segregated IMO is a bad strategy that in the long run gets us nowhere.
IMO the model for Black and Hispanic relations in America should be NYC and not Cali.
