What the F*** is an Afro-Latino? | Blacktinidad

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There are many misconceptions regarding the term "Afro-Latino." Host Melany Centeno breaks down the history and the nuances of the Afro-Latino identity, only on Blacktinidad.
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BLACKTINIDAD- a show that is a first of its kind. A dissection of the Black Experience through the lens of AfroLatinx people. A people who for too long were not seen or heard. A little education, a little exploration and a lot of conversation- here at LATV we're giving Afrodescendientes a platform to unapologetically say We here, We Black and Yes We proud!
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Blacktinidad is a weekly show that dissects the Afro-Latinx experience by analyzing hard facts, examining social trends, and engaging in deep conversations with special guests. Blacktinidad is hosted by Melany Centeno, an Afro-Boricua professional dancer, actress & certified fitness trainer, known as @melanymovez on the gram. With a degree in clinical laboratory science, experience working in a stem cell lab, and a career as a seasoned professional dancer, Melany reflects LATV’s multifaceted and complex Latinx audience.
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@noneckedbuddy.2297 2 года назад

Very informative, thank you!!! So beautiful too! 💜☺️

@edwinherrera6840 3 года назад

Nice video, also want to mention about the Audio of the voice for some reason is on the left side

@Nobody-bq7pl 3 года назад

3.3 percent of slaves were in US, out of the 12 million about 96.7 percent to Latin American countries.

@onhn2655 Год назад

Weren't they worked to death then replaced?

@sashanoel8766 Год назад

@@onhn2655 you’re thinking of the indigenous Arawaks/Tainos. Not African slaves

@dpeasehead Год назад

@@sashanoel8766 Not true. The death toll of chattel slavery varied enormously from place to place depending on climate, the kind of work being performed, and the labor practices of the masters..In general, the enslaved were poorly fed, poorly clothed, and housed, had no medical care, and were over worked..Haiti and some of the sugar islands were literal death camps in which enslaved were worked to death because it was cheaper to bring more. In fact, some of those places could neither grow nor maintain population without a constant influx of new slaves until the abolition of chattel slavery. Think about that for a few minutes...In the US, the further south one went, the harsher the climate and harder the form of slavery; rice farming, indigo, sugar cane became. The US also had slave breeding farms and forced marches of slaves from one region to another after the land itself was worked to death, or when new land on the frontier was wrested from the Indians. There is nothing cute, pretty, or glorious in any of this even by the standards of those times. Moderns who make excuses for this while expressing horror over nazism are part of the same sickness.

@DanielHerrera-rl1vw 8 месяцев назад

I hate that latin American is even a thing because these countries are not all the same

@matsuihenriques2013 4 месяца назад

Not certain how accurate the #s are, but seemed a little off, but I digress. 🇨🇦🇨🇦

@uriahray5498 2 года назад

The word Afro is a term use to describe black. Afro Russian, Afro German, Afro asain. Just like how they name black people in America Africa American. They have latinos who are Europeans and not black or mix

@Aldine281 Год назад

African Americans are not mixed but have pure African blood unlike the Latin Americans have blood of native Americans Spanish blood as while you just can't deny that

@user-bx2cg2ec8c Год назад

@@Aldine281 you have African Americans.who are mix too.im mixed with afro Caribbean father asian /my mother is half black white .but I pass as Cuban or Hispanic .and I don't speak Spanish.

@KushQueen9 Год назад

@@Aldine281African Americans also have European blood.

@boostmeup 10 месяцев назад

@@Aldine281 There are ZERO unmixed african americans. every single african american is mixed somehwere in there family tree,.

@amazing50000 8 месяцев назад

@@Aldine281 What? African Americans are mixed because of white slave masters. That is one of the reasons why we have colorism in the Black (African) American community.

@beezyj4675 7 дней назад

I’m Black in America and understand the concept of Afro Latino…it’s not hard to understand.

@domopix4387 Год назад

I have a question. Yes you explained it but I had a debate with someone earlier and she basically said that not all Afro-latinos are from African decent...... So why call them Afro-latinos wouldn't they just be Latino. Yes they're now mixed. My question is :Are all Afro-latinos of African decent???

@albertl.cruztoro3050 11 месяцев назад

Afro-Latin also has to do with ancestry and features. We use the term for people who know their black ancestry and look like their ancestors. Not all Latins are Afro-Latin! It’s important to reiterate this, because we also experience racism within us!

@Chace43230 Год назад

This were I’m lil confuse on the explanation of Afro Latins belong to both groups due to black is a race and ethnicity is culture. So what other group does non Afro Latino belong to ? White ? Or is it just Latino?

@lovejones1897 Год назад

Majority of Latin culture comes from African “black” culture

@HGuida 3 года назад

Said it exactly like it it.

@pecantan292 2 года назад

I love this lady for keeping it all the way real. As most so called black peoples from Spanish speaking countries deny their true bloodline. Even Hatians be tripping like that. It’s whatever

@andresvalentin6924 10 месяцев назад

We can blame a lot of this confusion on the US educational system. Latin American culture as a whole isn't taught nearly enough in schools. As far as Afro-Latino culture is concerned, most artforms that gringos associate with Latin America have African orgins. Music genres like salsa, merengue, bachata, rumba, cumbia, samba, bomba y plena, etc. Not to mention the dances associated with these music styles. Religions like Santería and Candomblé. Martial arts like Capoeira. Athletes like Roberto Clemente, Sammy Sosa, Felix Trinidad, and Pelé to name a few. My point is that Latino culture is way more diverse than the media portrays.

@rolandcuthbert784 Год назад

I think the issue with the confusion is that a lot of folk do not accept race as some meaningful objective universal term. I am "Black" because of African-American Culture. Not because of race. If I could know things through skin color alone, maybe I could understand. But I am only "Black" because of the history, culture and tradition my parents and grandparents taught me.

@Jjay257 Год назад

Charlemagne isn’t the only one misunderstanding the term. WE (🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷) ARE NOT LATINO. We do not lie within Latin America. We’re simply and technically “The Spanish Caribbean”. We were first purposely uncultivated in many ways so that we can be as lost and misinformed as we are today. Like English and french patois, we have Spanish patois. It’s only HARD TO SEE and say when blind folded by indoctrination. This was used, AND IT WORKED, to divide and conquer. WE ARE AS CARIBBEAN AS THE REST OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS (🇦🇬🇧🇧🇨🇺🇩🇲🇩🇴🇬🇩🇬🇾🇭🇹🇯🇲🇵🇷🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨🇹🇹🇻🇮). Bless n love!

@lovejones1897 Год назад

Amen

@james192599 10 месяцев назад

No we are latino. Iberian speaking countries in America are latino. Don't lump us in with the French or English. The Spanish were different in there colonization of the America's and how they ran colonies. Racial mixing in latin america was encouraged whereas in English speaking countries there were laws on the books from interracial marriage. So yea I'm proud to be latino and also Caribbean. All the other Latinos love our music aswell.

@resistancelucayanmayo 8 месяцев назад

@james192599 calling your self a latino is like calling yourself white just saying I'm caribbean I'm indigenous to the americas American Indian which I have taino ! English , Spanish, French or Portuguese was not our native tongue we spoke our own language before these white Europeans came here that is truth rather u wanna believe it or not

@SideEyeee_ 2 месяца назад

No, 🇩🇴🇵🇷🇨🇺 are latinos. Just say you’re ignorant and move on.

@johnhagans2190 Месяц назад

My sister did her homework. KUDOS!

@keithnelson7629 3 года назад

Nice video

@mgmhispano836 2 года назад

Self hating weirdo who is obsessed with latinos

@DaRunningMan 2 года назад

@@mgmhispano836 You got it the other way around. She is quite possibly an actual Latin woman (meaning having actual ancestry of the original people of Latin America cause "white latinos" and "afro latinos" are not a thing) who has fallen for the ruse that many thirsty African American men do when they want to have sex with Latin women: Pressure them into saying that they are black by using the one drop rule which is only a thing in America and not in the rest of the world.

@jaybam4384 2 года назад

My family came from Puerto Rico and we been taught this we are black what’s so hard for white Latinos to understand a lot of Mexicans are waking up saying there natives so leave us tf alone frfr Yal annoying

@Jjay257 Год назад

And lastly, “Black” is not a race, but an ethnicity, while human is a race. Originally, the term “Latino” was more of a stigma and/or derogatory toward the Africans and Natives that the FRENCH in “Latin America” started, used as a separation mark. It meant you belonged to the French (Non British or Spanish). -Though The Father of BLACK History is the reason for many opportunities for blacks today, the real reason Puerto Ricans flag so much is thanks to Don Pedro “The Teacher” Albizu Campos.

@rolandcuthbert784 Год назад

Wow, you said that just about perfectly. Thanks!

@vickiechegoyen8760 Год назад

This video says 'not approved' at my middle school. It is riddiculously sensored because of reference to the Fword you clearly did not even use, so I clicked 'Approve'. Everyone knows the word is for emphasis and I am not going to be one who throws the baby out with the bathwater on this one. I will show this video with pride to my middle school students starting at :13 seconds in to avoid the F in case anyone wants to get petty. Why? 3 of my students finally discovered through my teaching of black history month what to call themselves!!! They've never known there was a term: Afro-latino! They have parents from Cuba/Puerto Rico and a parent who is black. They have never fit a mold. They've always been asked questions they couldn't answer...till now. I believe it changed their life. Thank you for being part of their self-identity discovery. If anyone has a problem with that, they can talk to me personally. I am an educator. Prepared to educate even petty adults if I have to.

@suesuemay9354 2 года назад

Enemy Number One Stephen Darby Negroland Stephen Darby Who Are We? Stephen Darby

@mgmhispano836 2 года назад

You are mixed you are probably 30 european 60 african and 10 percent native.

@DaRunningMan 2 года назад

You are way overestimating whatever amount of African ancestry she has and possibly underestimating her Latin ancestry (which you are calling "native"). Trust me, that's not her actual hair texture. She's playing all this up to make it seem that she is a black woman when she isn't. This is the result of the one drop rule being a thing in the U.S. and when African American men push on Latin women and want to have sex with them by forcing them to think that they are black. The woman here has fallen for it.

@mswhunter118 2 года назад

@@DaRunningMan oh shut up

@JD-ny3vz 2 года назад

@@DaRunningMan lmaoo you are deranged, and butthurt that Afro Latinos are standing up and claiming their identity. We been oppressed in Latin America for centuries under the lie that we're all one people. If we're all one people why TF are we at the bottom in every Latin country why do non black Latinos look at black features as ugly and we get no representation in media at all?

@piyesankara890 Год назад

@@DaRunningMan You’re insecure

@kaycefloyd Год назад

What is “mixed”? I am 14% native 44% african and 42% mexican

@dpeasehead Год назад

In the Americas, north, south, and central, not just the US, there has long been a tendency on the part of the white people in power in most of those places to "disappear" the black population or to marginalize it in every way possible, and, to dismiss the scale, duration, and the impact of the trans Atlantic slave trade on the Americas and on racial attitudes globally. When one compares the raw numbers of enslaved people brought to different parts of the Americas the question rarely asked or answered is why the US still managed to have the largest enslaved population in the Americas until 1865 when Brazil eagerly grabbed the title and kept it until nearly 1900.

@Kemet3.0 9 месяцев назад

Does she even know the Africa part is the most important since it takes you back in time. Most African Americans nor Afro Latinos are unaware that black pharaohs founded Kemet/Egypt and built those pyramids and temples in Africa. One of the greatest civilizations in history... the creators of makeup and that hairstyles. And even fashion, art and music. In addition, algebra, geometry and trigonometry. And, the father of medicine.

@CrisdoSantos 2 года назад

Brasil speak Portuguese

@sashanoel8766 Год назад

Still Latin. There’s a difference between being Hispanic and Latino. Haitians and Brazilians are Latino but not Hispanic, whereas Hondurans and Cubans are both Hispanic and Latino.

@henrylockett2020 Год назад

@@sashanoel8766 Correct!

@tedfebo1741 Год назад

@@sashanoel8766 Haitians are not Latinos.

@izapurins. Год назад

@@tedfebo1741 they are

@resistancelucayanmayo 8 месяцев назад

Exactly 💯 an no such thing as a afro latina we got to stop this nonsense already

@Panaiamd1 3 месяца назад

Please be aware that the USA perspective on black history is not the ONLY reference of blacks on the American continent or in the Caribbean. We seem to want to rewrite history to fit modern usa perspectives. No other blacks had a Rosa Parks or MLK than the USA. Slavery was abolished in Latin n Caribbean before the USA, which makes black experiences in other countries DIFFERENT than the USA. Yes there is racism EVERYWHERE but the overall USA experience is unique ti USA. Stop making as if everyone who was brought out of Africa had the EXACT slavery and racist experience like in the USA.

@mgmhispano836 2 года назад

Black is a crayon color stop with the gringo nonsense.

@marksanders2168 2 года назад

Thank you. She's likely a liberal and burning statues. 😂

@christopherbabayaga6136 2 года назад

Lol

@JD-ny3vz 2 года назад

Bruh stfu Spain was the first to invent a classification based on skin color. It's not some gringo BS, in Latin America we have this myth that there's racial solidarity and we don't see color that shit is a lie Latin America is racist as hell. Latin America people constantly deny our blackness, black people are at the bottom of society in Latin America and get no representation in media. And why is it that most of our rich and political leaders are white and mixed raced majority in the middle. We literally have the same societal racial make up that was ingrained in us by Spain hundreds of years ago we just drank the Kool aide that were not a racist society to justify the racism.

@dpeasehead Год назад

Anti-Africaness anti-blackness are equally evil. The tendency of many people in Latin America to worship whiteness while denigrating others especially black people makes them no better than the gringos whom they accuse of being race obsessed.

@jasm9381 Год назад

Thank you

@suesuemay9354 2 года назад

They Jacked Us Stephen Darby CERN Stephen Darby

@puertoricantrash1959 Год назад

Making shytt up

@I.love.cats__ Год назад

How

@puertoricantrash1959 Год назад

Black features dont give you the right to consider yourself black. Be who you are. Stop being a culture vulture. Leave black people alone man Black is BLACK & Spanish is SPANISH

@hugoq4335 Год назад

African ancestry gives me the right to my heritage from Africa regardless of my features

@piyesankara890 Год назад

Spanish is from Spain

@piyesankara890 Год назад

@@hugoq4335 💯

@kaycefloyd Год назад

As someone with a Mexican mother and a black/euro father? Would I JUST be black? I had a son with a Mexican man and my child is fair skin with wavy hair and green eyes. I don’t think it’d be right to call him JUST black and Mexican.

@Aldine281 Год назад

There is no such thing as a Afro-Cuban or black latino the only thing there is just Cuban Columbian mexican latinos period we don't see color they are not from Africa nor Spain but from the Latin American lands

@puertoricantrash1959 Год назад

Black features dont give you the right to consider yourself black. Be who you are. Stop being a culture vulture. Leave black people alone man Black is BLACK & Spanish is SPANISH

@danielwashington5361 Год назад

You realize that there's a lot of black history in the Latin community, right? The African diaspora is huge in Latin America. When African slavery occurred, it didn't just stop in the US. It occurred all over Latin America and the Caribbean. Only about 6% of Africans went to North America. The majority of them went to Brazil and the Caribbean, so Latin America and the Caribbean actually had a larger slave trade than the American south. Also, Santo Domingo was the first place to transport African slaves in the Americas. That means that the Dominican Republic, which is where my family is from, was home to the first black people in the Americas. That's why a lot of Dominicans today have more African ancestry than Spanish ancestry, but the sad reality is that we don't celebrate our African history as much as we celebrate our Spanish history because of anti-blackness. African history is deeply ingrained in Latin American history, but because the legacy of white supremacy has produced anti-black beliefs across so many of our cultures, we don't celebrate blackness in our community as a whole. That's why so many people in our community, like yourself, don't acknowledge the fact that Latinos can be black as well. African Americans are not the only black people and their history is not the only black history. The black diaspora is huge and diverse, so please learn your history before you spout ignorance.

@piyesankara890 Год назад

Spain is Spanish