ReasonableMatic
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Imagine someone saying:Cuban's are straight White Spaniards. There's a large Black population there no one knows about unless theres a olympic event and youre shocked..Cuba one one of those Spanish speaking nations that hide their Black population.
Ricans I met in NY had a severe identity crisis.
“Americans are straight White Europeans”
That’s what you’re doing to Afro-Cubans, it’s wild problematic.
I find it extremely odd when I see Black individuals casually adopt Whiteness and engage in this colonial erasure of Blackness somewhere else by using such language.
American is not a race, it’s a nationality.
No matter if it’s 14%, African Americans exist as an historic ethnicity.
Saying “Americans are white”
is an active denial of African American ethnic existence because of and despite the trans-Atlantic Slavetrade.
Cuban is not a race, it’s a nationality.
No matter if it’s 10%, Afro-Cubans exist as an historic ethnicity.
Saying “Cubans are straight white”
is an active denial of Afro-Cuban ethnic existence because of and despite the trans-Atlantic Slavetrade.
Afro-Cubans exist,
they‘re a part of the African Diaspora like the rest of us
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