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Negro: How Afro-Americans Found Out About AfroLatinos
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@ 2:15 in Colombmia
Back on the subject....I remember like it was yesterday....in 10th grade I didn't have the internet at home, so I would go to the library check stuff out...usually music...but for some reason I got interested in black people in Latin America ...and realizing how much stuff was on this new tool....I started typing in"Afro-Peruvian", "Afro-Hispanic", "Black Panamanians".....etc, etc, etc ...... until I was gassed up on how much information I had never seen before on the Diaspora in Latin America
. As a "regular" black guyin the U.S. you have no problem getting knowledge especially in February on all the heritage related to Black personalities of the U.S.............but Latin America is NEVER EVER included, thus its really easy especially if you're not in a metro like NYC....to be ignorant of this fact....even if you watch baseball it probably didn't click (I think there is more awareness nowadays).
However, this goes back to education......cause WE ALL LEARN that slaves were brought to the New World, and we've seen those arrows pointing all over the Atantic side of the N. and S. America....but the emphasis is on (well was) on the American perspective of slavery and unless you do (did) your own indepedent study as a Black American you would be in the dark, unless you traveled to a Latin American country, or you studied it in college.
I went to a Kwanzaa once, just a few years ago....and I brought up a point about Afro-Latinos....and the group was pretty much like
....though its understandable b/se of language, no population of Afro-Latinos, and culture
@ 2:15 in Colombmia
Back on the subject....I remember like it was yesterday....in 10th grade I didn't have the internet at home, so I would go to the library check stuff out...usually music...but for some reason I got interested in black people in Latin America ...and realizing how much stuff was on this new tool....I started typing in"Afro-Peruvian", "Afro-Hispanic", "Black Panamanians".....etc, etc, etc ...... until I was gassed up on how much information I had never seen before on the Diaspora in Latin America
. As a "regular" black guyin the U.S. you have no problem getting knowledge especially in February on all the heritage related to Black personalities of the U.S.............but Latin America is NEVER EVER included, thus its really easy especially if you're not in a metro like NYC....to be ignorant of this fact....even if you watch baseball it probably didn't click (I think there is more awareness nowadays).However, this goes back to education......cause WE ALL LEARN that slaves were brought to the New World, and we've seen those arrows pointing all over the Atantic side of the N. and S. America....but the emphasis is on (well was) on the American perspective of slavery and unless you do (did) your own indepedent study as a Black American you would be in the dark, unless you traveled to a Latin American country, or you studied it in college.
I went to a Kwanzaa once, just a few years ago....and I brought up a point about Afro-Latinos....and the group was pretty much like
....though its understandable b/se of language, no population of Afro-Latinos, and culture
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