Art Blair As a Black American, it’s bizarre to me when people let their ignorance replace common sense. Fact: 95% of all enslaved Africans were shipped to places OTHER than what would become “the United States of America.” Ninety-five percent. Only 5% came here to the U.S. So it’s ironic that Diasporans who are in the minority would question the blackness of those who come from where the majority of slaves were unloaded, basing their assumption on the language of the oppressor (c’mon, folks are Black no matter whether they speak English, Dutch, French, Portuguese, or Spanish!) And it’s ironic that some Latinos will deny the abject impact of Africa on Latin American countries, especially considering what you see when you actually GO to some of those places. (I was in Cartegena three years ago, and I may as well have been on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn with all the cornrows I saw!) Anyway, keep up the good fight. I’m not even Latina and I have to explain this often!
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:12:22 +0000
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