Are Puerto Ricans White? (Article)

[I Really Mean It]

@Akan Carmelo Anthony's mother is AA and his father died at age 2. He looks like a normal AA of normal admixture who could fit in anywhere in North America from Halifax to Dallas.
The man lived in MAJORITY BLACK Baltimore from age 8 to adulthood...ain't no migos 'round there like that.

For real. Only thing Rican about Carmelo Anthony is his first name.

 

[King P]

Puerto Rico is a white island by design.

Prior to 1815, Puerto Rico was 90% Black. Spain took notice it, and did not want Puerto Rico to end of like Haiti. So in 1815, they made a decree that Europeans were allowed to settle/inhabit the land. Whites came to Puerto Rico and many of them breeded with the Black natives of the land. They also created a drop white rule as well where mixed people could legally be declared white.

 

[Elle Driver]

Puerto Rico is a white island by design.

Prior to 1815, Puerto Rico was 90% Black. Spain took notice it, and did not want Puerto Rico to end of like Haiti. So in 1815, they made a decree that Europeans were allowed to settle/inhabit the land. Whites came to Puerto Rico and many of them breeded with the Black natives of the land. They also created a drop white rule as well where mixed people could legally be declared white.

Opposite to the one drop rule here?

 

[King P]

Opposite to the one drop rule here?

Yes

During the Spanish colonial period, Puerto Rico had laws such as the Regla del Sacar or Gracias al Sacar, by which a person of black ancestry could be considered legally white so long as the individual could prove that at least one person per generation in the last four generations had also been legally white. Thus persons of black ancestry with known white lineage were classified as white, the opposite of the "one-drop rule" in the United States.

 

[blaccbeard]

Some Puerto Ricans are white, some are black, some are Indian/Asian. What's so hard to understand about the differences between Race/Ethnicity/Nationality? There's only 3 major races, black white and asian. Everybody on earth is one of these 3 races except for the Indigenous peoples of AUS who are part of their own Australoid race.
Puerto Rican and any other Latin based culture is just an ethnicity, not a race.

Most Puerto Ricans are mixed with all 3 races tbh thanks to the Spanish breeding/killing out the Taino Indians then replacing them with African slaves and then those 2 mixes breeding with the Africans. The result is a mix of all 3 races represented in most PR's today. However almost all PR's can still be easily classified into 1 of the major 3 races. Like Malcolm in the middle is a a White PR but someone like Melo and LaLa are black Puerto Ricans. You get it now?

 

[R=G]

Puerto Ricans WANNABE white (like many other Latinos). But obviously they ain't.

 

[TaxCollector13459]

Aint no kin of mines

 

[Off the Onion]

Footage of the island shows A LOT MORE black folks than that paperwork does but I guess people can be what they want nowadays.
I'm a dragon and a ferrari, folks.

ITS an issue of culture and lineage not just color

 

[Off the Onion]

Opposite to the one drop rule here?

That is exactly what it is

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

ITS an issue of culture and lineage not just color

Juelzing.
shyt been a US territory with "brotha themed" barbershops.
Shout outs to that old school shop from the 90s in Centro De Belleza in Mayaguez.
They sure knew what the fukk it was back then and they know now.
They're practicing "negro distancing" and you can't hide behind bullshyt like ethnicity anymore.
Those days are over.
They not native.
They either black, white, or both.
Welcome to America.

 

[Off the Onion]

it's too early in the morning for this

 

[Emoryal]

Y'all care more about the race of other people past the point of a normal healthy interest or mere curiosity.

 

[Off the Onion]

Y'all care more about the race of other people past the point of a normal healthy interest or mere curiosity.

The article in the old people buys Clarity on the subject. It's more about how people are treated than their color is that is the concern here

 

[Raw Lyrics]

For real. Only thing Rican about Carmelo Anthony is his first name.

 

[Henny and_ HotWings]

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I think that you guys are twisting up Puerto Ricans with some of the other Hispanic groups. They are not the same. I have never known a Black Puerto Rican that did not acknowledge that they were Black. Hell some of them are not even completely Black, but those moafuggas can be Blacker than most Black people or have you forgotten Rosie Perez because she is Puerto Rican.

I Always fukked with Rosie... she been dope inside n out