Afrolatinos 💙✊

Yess black history month Afro Hispanic people need more representation

Black & "Latina" are not "two totally different cultures"...blackness has consistently been a part of Latino identities. Anti-blackness is so pervasive in Latino communities, that black peoples in Latinx communities are shunned and discriminated against.

My father is Panamanian 🇵🇦 and my mother is Black American 🇺🇸 and I proudly identify as an Afro Latino and no one can take that away from me!

Pleaseeeeeeee pleaseeeee people learn the difference between Spanish, Spaniard, Latino & Hispanic. I'm tired of people calling themselves "Spanish"

Afrolatino is a term to embrace both Black ancestry and Latino ancestry and it shouldnt bother anyone. I am half Mexican and half Black. I am fluent in spanish, have curly hair, and look predominantly black. I have a right to express both culturas proudly through name and not just what people see or hear. I want them to know I am both, that I belong to both. Especially being an American born child, here it matters especially because intersectionality is very much erased and colorized.

I don't see why it is so hard to understand WHAT being AfroLatinx is. It's the equivalent of being a Black-american. I am Afro-Latina and every time I try to explain this, people think I am mixed. "Oh, so your dad is black and your mom is Cuban?" No....my dad is black. My mom is black. My abuela is black on both sides. My grandpa is black on both sides. We were ALL born in Cuba. We moved to Miami. I think people forget that African slaves were not only sent to America, but they were also sent to the Caribbean islands, too. But, most Afro-Latinos that DO get representation are always light skinned. it's very rare to see a dark skinned AfroLatina get recognition unless you're the queen Celia Cruz. My skin color is very close to Gabrielle Union and if I am being honest, dark skinned African-Americans lack representation and dark skinned AfroLatinos. There's more to black people than Beyonce (for the African-Americans) and Jennifer Lopez (For the AfroLatinos)

I’m an Afro Latina myself. Afro boriqua . I’m a Puerto Rican from The Bronx and came to Washington when I was younger. People always thought I was a regular white and black mixed girl. I am between light skin and brown skin. Going through life when I was younger was hard. I had to find who I was. I am currently learning Spanish. I do not speak it but I have a Spanish/New York type of accent. I have had a lot of questions about my hair cause it is big and very curly. Finish my myself was hard and now that I know who I am I love it. The Caribbean was where the slave ships went first👏🏽👏🏽. All of us Afro latinas come from the Caribbean.

Tbh I'm very use to seeing Afro latinos it's not weird for me it's just normal because I hang out with a lot of different type of latinos

Afrolatina from the boogie down✊🏽

Yo. If the word Afro-Latino empowers them, let them have it. It doesn't matter if you like it or not. I really feel like all the discussion on this is some anti-blackness showing through, because it's not like any community is exempt from having that.

im a child of a african american and a panamanian. I love that we as a people are realizing who really are. I am a PROUD AFRO LATINA!!! This speaks to soo many little girls and boys that are going through what i went through when i was young! i freaking love you guys!!!!!!

We're much more alike then people think we are different.

Sou afro-latina-brasileira, do sul do país e tenho orgulho disto, saudações do Brasil aos afro-latinos de outros países 🇧🇷 ❤ I am Afro-Brazilian-Latina, from the south of the country and I am proud of that, greetings from Brazil to the afro-latinos from the other countries 🇧🇷 ❤ (P.S:I didn't wrote it in Spanish because my Spanish sucks haha)

That has been my experience, too, when trying to reconcile two varying realities inside the same person. Accept both, celebrate both. Integrate the self. Good for you!

No offense but I feel like people exaggerate so much, not just in this video but Buzzfeed videos in general. I'm Latino and yes I am different, but I don't constantly whine about everything because of small things. If anything, I embrace that I am different.

I didn't know being African had anything to do with fried chicken and mac n cheese

Love this!!! Thanks for making this video ❤️👏🏽👏🏽🇵🇷✊🏾

Nice video but I have one question why americans(ppl from USA) use the word "spanish" for latin american people?? As long as I know the word "Spanish" means that you are from Spain(you know, that european country...)

this video is super important specially because people don't see the necessity of identifying afro -Latinos. they're barely represented in Latin culture. when people think of Latino they think of people with European features like in movies and telenovelas. in Mexico for example, afro-Mexicans are barely acknowledged. so I'm happy to see this video. someday hopefully latinos will get it.

Virtually every latino musical genre has been created by black people in those nations. The cultural impact of African descendants in latin America is astounding!

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!!!❤❤❤❤ THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS

I didn't know there was such thing as "afro-latinos". I mean, I know there are black people in Latinamerican countries, I live in one. But to me they're as latinos as everybody else, no matter their skin color. We latinos are so many colors, that's just the fact. I don't see the need to state a difference between all of us.

Proud of all my heritage🇨🇺 I just wish people wouldn't be so comfortable with have a "certain" image of what people should look like

Lo lindo, hermoso y bello de los latinos es que somos tan mezclados que tanto alguien con rasgos chinos, caucásico, negro o "ligado" uno con otro puede ser latino perfectamente... y no nos debe de sorprender (:

I remember when being was Latino was just being Latino. Back home you'd never hear some shit like "Yo me identificó como un Afro-Latino". Like wtf

My late maternal grandmother's maternal grandmother was black as pitch. I love referring to myself as Afro-Cuban, and I love that African blood runs through my Caribbean veins. And yes, people have looked at me a bit funny, but pride is pride, baby!!

Being mixed shouldn't be a limitation. But racism is taught. It is something we DON'T have to pass on. Great video

siiiiiii soy afro latina 🇳🇮

I totally understand I’m from Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago

i wanna see more videos like ♥ To me i feel that many Afro-Latinos dont get enough representation in media. And the only the only time i see us getting some air time is whe. we're doing something bad or are the antagonist on a show. As if being black is bad.

Afro-Latinos ❤✌

I love this so much. It's hard being AfroLatino sometimes. Honestly, people jut dont know anything about it

I just call myself Latino.. not Afro Latino. Latino alone doesn't that mean we are mixed people? 🤔Spanish is Spaniard; Hispanic people are something different than Latino.

People getting mad in the comments either don't understand why we call ourselves Afro-Latino or just mad because we joke about our own stereotypes. If we call ourselves Afro-Latino, or if someone says spanish or some shit, who fucking cares. Also people saying "Where im from latino is just latino blah" like it may be true for your personally but there's lot's of afro latinos who says they've been discriminated against from the non black latino part of the community for having darker skin or not even just dark, just being known as black.

Always proud to be Afro Latino 🇬🇭🇨🇺

Omg my cousin on here didnt know the first beautiful woman starting the video franceli!!! Love you proud of you ❤️❤️

I am Afro Latina but I wasnt raise as Latina even though I have Always felt a deep connection to my Spanish side. Its a piece of me thats lost or displaced.

I think it harder even more when you don't speak Spanish then you get labeled as black but it's like no I'm both, I'm half Black and I'm half Puerto Rican.

I really didn't like how that one girl kept conflating black AMERICAN culture with black LATINO culture. She said as someone from the diaspora she wants to encompass all of her African roots. But we're so much bigger than black America. We're reggae and soca and samba and salsa. We're mofongo and modongo and yucca and black eyed peas. I feel like she was talking less about being afro Latino and more about being an American latino who is visibly black in black America.

Here a Bi Racial Latino loud and proud

Yes!!! Amen!! 🙌🏾

Panameña aquí!!!!!

afro latina y muy orgullosa

Story of my life 🇵🇷🇺🇸

Ya tu sabesss 🇵🇷🤞🏽❤️

I've been waiting for this video all my life!!!

Afro-Latinx REALNESS.

latinos are latinnos regardless of color. Is the fire in our blood and the flavor that defines us

I just found out that I have Cuban blood so awesome 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺 I’m Afro-Latino and proud

my daughter is afro-latina... she's Puerto Rican,Dominican and African American... I want to embrace all 3 cultures.... thanks!

Mi gente! Te adoro x

the AfroLatina with the black sweater and white shirt😍😍

I'm really happy Buzzfeed did this video.

I'm afrolatina and I love it... the afro confuse sometimes so that is funny

ayee second comment on perolikkkke...notification gangg where you att

I never had this problem, Once i told people " yo I'm Panamanian and black" it was cool, I didn't get put down by my black side, i did get put down by my Panamanians either... My Panamanian family is black anyway

My dad is Black and my mom is Dominican!!!

They all look Hispanic to me and I am Hispanic. They look mad Dominican or Puerto Rican. They all are beautiful people

15:49 Friday 25 June 2021 Thank you.

afro latinas!! most beautiful women in the world!!

I'm an extremely pale ginger boy but I was raised with a Puerto Rican family, my moms stepdad was Puerto Rican and that's all either of us have ever known. It's not like I'm Puerto Rican by blood so people are always shook when I know anything about anything when it comes to Spanish or food or anything.

I love this channel!

This is me 💞 Nigerian-Chilean Australian 💞💜

half haitian mostly dominican aye santo domingo y ansea veau y tegucilapa honduras

merengue was created by black dominincans though so latino culture is also black culture is some stuff

Yaassss. My life right here!

I'm african American and Dominican as well

I wish I was Afro Latino. I love Latino culture.

celia cruz never denied having african roots and is one of the most famous latinas ever i think in the usa you should start to recognize that LATINO IS A CULTURE BLACK WHITE ASIAN NATIVE AMERICAN AND MIXES BETWEEN ALL THOSE RACES CAN BE LATINO

We Dominicans ♥

Mi mami is Puerto Rican and mi papi is Afican American so i have proud in me regardless what people tell me like i tell people what i am they be like how do you look like that if your mixed with what you are cause im lightskinned but i love my self regardless 💖

Thank you for bring out our history

I don't get the Afro-Latino thing...I mean, Latinos (I don't even like so much this word cuz when people ask me where I come from I say Perú or I'm Peruvian, never used the world Latino...) are very different: white, brown, black or yellow cuz we are just a big mix!!! Hearing someone says Afro-Latino I only can think of someone whose mom is Latino and dad is African...

Okay.. Yall there's a difference between Race: Ethnicity: Culture: Nationality: Geography:

Si si❤❤❤

I wish ALL of y'all FELT this way..

People here have a difficult time trying to understand the word "afro-latino", it means Latinos with African ancestry. I come from 🇩🇴, a country with a lot of african influence. 82% of the people here are mixed & that includes african (or black). I'm an afro latina myself, & my mom's really mixed but doesn't have a lot of "black" in her (she looks italian) & my dad's family is black (he a lightskin tho).

I'm not sure if I get this Afro Latino thing.. this is what I understand, If you are a light skin Latina like me you supposed to say that you're Latina, but if you're a dark skin Latina you're supposed to say that you're Afro Latina?.. It confuses me a little because in my country we don't call each other that, if you're light or dark you're still a Latino. This also scares me because my father lives in DR, but he comes to visit me every year and he doesn't know much about these things, he's dark skin but if anybody would ask him where he's from he would say Dominican/Latino/Hispanic, and I wouldn't want him to be labeled as racist just because he didn't called himself Afro Latino. If anybody can please explain to me a bit more about this topic I would appreciate it. is my father supposed to say he's Afro Latino because he's dark?, my sister is also dark so she's Afro and I'm not? I need an American to explain this to me a little be better. Thanks!

I dont understand what's so hard about understanding what afro Latino means. It just means that it's someone who is black that's from a Hispanic country. It's not two different cultures, like someone mentioned in the video, either. It's one in the same. I dont understand how it's different from someone who is Jamaican or Haitian. The only reason why there is this confusion is bc a lot of people are not used to seeing black people from Hispanic countries. Black is not synonymous with African American. There's black people everywhere. The reason that there needs to be a word like afro-latino for black Hispanics is to give them something to identify with bc there is a lot of under representation not only here in America but in their own countries as well. Afro-latino does not mean half african american and half hispanic, unless the parent from the hispanic side is black. Afro-latino just means a black person that is Hispanic, much like Celia Cruz or Joseline Hernandez. Just google it and you will understand so much more.

yeah baby afro-latino en la casa!

I love Afro latinas

THIS VIDEO IS GREAT, i feel them!

One of my good friends is Dominican ❤️

loved this..

Afrolatinidad is an extension of latinidad in many ways, not a different culture. African culture has tremendous influence in many Hispanic countries. My experience as a Caribbean native, Puerto Rican culture is heavily influenced by our African roots, and you can see it in our music genres and food.

Straight hair is the way to go, like Mads Mikklesen 😍

Afro Latino 🇺🇸✊🏾🇵🇷

I love this video

Finally a video on this! 😍 #afroLatina

I didn’t know there were people like me until I watch this video an I am proud to be Puerto Rican and African

yessssss. do one on plae latinas

Im afro Latino, I'm Dominican and African American but some people at my church are saying im just Dominican and they don't let me embrace my culture

The thing that confuses me the most is why do we need to categorize being latino and being afro latino? The "latin" culture is a merge of 3 distinct cultures: Indigenous (native american), European (mostly Spanish of course) and African. Just embrace the culture, its diversity and most importantly: THE ROOTS!

I love videos like this and I’m so proud That we are actually being thought about in our community and we are not just a after thought .. ppl are becoming more knowledgeable.. and maybe one day I can stop hearing “ OMG YOU ARE BLACK AND YOU SPEAK SPANISH , HOW ?!??? 😱😱” lol But anyways !! Follow my YT and subscribe guys I would really appreciate it and I’m really working hard To make great content 💜💜

Cardi B represents Latina Roots 🔥

Wait, is being Latina a race? Because I see people say they're Latina in response to being asked their race or something like that. Then people say white people can be Latina too? Like what race are Mexicans? Dark skinned ones? Is it an ethnicity? If so what's the difference between ethnicity and race? I don't mean to sound racist, I'm genuinely confused. Google ain't helping as all I get are scriptures.

❤❤❤ this!!!

Wow.e gusto mucho este video

Salsa, merengue, and raggaeton where created by afro Latinos and caribbeans