well you're wrong on that. like i told the other dude, when haitians wrote the constitution, they actually put it in one of the amendments that haitians are black people. and that was WAY back in the days. i never heard a haitian person, west indie, black african, say they aren't black. it seems like you almost view the term black like an ethnic group. but it's a race.Maybe I'm wrong, but I always thought we were the only ones to embrace the word "Black" as an identity. I know Haitians and others were referred to as being black, but I never heard of anyone outside of Black Americans as a group call themselves Black as anything other than a description. In my experiences, most Black ethnic groups outside of America arewhen it comes to being referred to as Black. Especially Black Latinos.
BTW, I wish there could be unity like that in the Black race but unfortunately, I know reality and I can't sit by and let non-Black Americans, including other Black ethnicities, to betowards the average AA while trying to come off as them when it benefits them w/o as least saying something about it. You non-AAs who are black know what I'm saying is true. I'm pretty sure none of you all would want your group being exploited like that. Don't tell me to be okay with you doing it to mine and be all "we all Black"
about it.
as far as black latinos, i've witnessed what you're talking about. haitian people and dominicans traditionally don't get along too well (dominican republic is right next to haiti so there is some bad blood) and part of the beefs we have with them is that some of them don't view themselves as black people. these are generalities and i've actually met some cool dominican people. but yes this stuff does exist. but it's not all black latinos. there are people that are ashamed to be black in all countries (even within the african-american community, i've met haitian people who claimed they weren't black because they were lightskinned and had some italian blood in them. same goes on in all black communities. but in general, all africans, haitians, west indies are black and proud to be black.
as far as disrespect between AAs and other black ethnic groups, i'm man enough to admit that it happens. but first of all it goes both ways. and second it happens amongst us to. it happens between africans and carribean people (and that goes both ways too), i'm sure some jamaicans talk shyt about trinis, grenadians, and vice versa. hell it happens within one group too. haitian people whos family comes from the capital talk shyt about people from the south of haiti, Northern african americans and southern americans talk shyt about eachother talking about "we're not like them". tell me i'm lying.
There is no real difference in Appearance between Black Caribbean Folks and African Americans. Nothing distinctive because the same slave master blood flows thru West Indians. I could post pictures of African Americans that looks like Bounty Killa and Beeni man...and West Indians that look like Mekhi
before running in the bushes
