JT okay? Let’s not take away from the point here

JT bro jt stop going on every encouraging comment and shitting on it

@@diadelysmena5616 Every community needs to have this discussion. Im glad you mentioned that. The only thing you can do as an individual is keep peace around you miss lady. Everybody ain't gonna want world peace but the ones who do stay in contact with them, keep ya energy balanced as best you can in this world of hatred and fuckery. Stay positive, stay productive, stay encouraged 💪💪💪💯

Completely understand what you’re saying...from a dark-skinned, American-born child of Honduran immigrants 🤍

Aye I'm of Panamanian descent as well girl!! 🇵🇦💃🏽I feel you on the whole colorism thing in the Afro Latinx community it hurts a lot.

@C. L. Because they weren't. My parents and grandparents were born in Panama. My great grandparents on my mom's side were Bajan, but I don't have any Jamaican roots.

@C. L. why do you pretend to be ignorant? My parents and their parents are from Panama. My abuelitas father was from Costa Rica....so whoever told you that all black Panamanians were from Jamaica were wrong. Even if one had family from JA...they were still BORN and RAISED in PANAMA...they are not Jamaican. Different cultures.

Yes! So well stated Panamá Gold. I am also a dark-skinned, American-born child of Panamanian immigrants. However, my mother was always very instrumental in making sure that I knew I was beautiful as I am. Before the "natural hair" movement became popular, my mom was the first woman I saw wearing a short natural and I thought that she was the most beautiful in this state. In the 80s, she also worked for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where our blackness was affirmed and we learned details about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and many other prominent African Americans. In the house, Blackness/Afro Latinidad was affirmed. I'm sorry about the backhanded compliments that you received. People can be so ignorant!!!

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I like that line

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They think it sounds righteous, but it's nothing but pure, unadulterated B.S. Just understand that black people have no friends in this world, and because of that we must be proud of who we are. I absolutely love the skin I'm in, and no one can make me feel inferior without my permission. It takes a strong people to survive this crap.

hispanics say the same shit

ruben champollion that good!!!! My dad taught me Spanish... I am going to teach my granddaughter Spanish too

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It seems like Ruben thought someone was going to be mad about that 🤣 Teach them their roots and also teach them to help dismantle white supremacy which they will benefit from. Teach them not to be racist against marginalized Black/Brown people and other nonBlack POC. Yay! #Celebrate

@ruben champollion 🤣 tell them about the 30% NA you're omitting.

If you afro latinos knows what white people did to them,they will proud of white blood

Thank European colonization for that.

Abandoned Hope exactamente

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@@lo5182 They aren't demonizing people. They're demonizing colonialism dude. We're talking about colonialism and the systems it has spawned, not European people. There is however a needed discussion on how those of white European decent still benefit from those systems.

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And now everyone wants all that , but guess what, they have to pay for it..😁

@@DDot-im3jr haha funny😅🤣but so true 💯

Being light skin is over rate . Once they hit 30 years old , they start to look like 40 years old because of skin damage from the sun.

Godzilla Megatron no don’t do that don’t diminish white people or lighter people I stand for blacks and that’s amazing how you can look at the bright side @danyiel says

@@godzillamegatron3590 people have to get away from that mind set that White Skin is superior..there is beauty in all people and there is ugliness in some and some of it could be based on personality..no one is better because of a Skin Tone..

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JT because I’m Afro Latina?

Aaamen!!!! ThanQ Jesus!!!😇💕💓💕🌹

@Mick Dees I don't know what the hell she was ranting about but I agree with you tho... 💯😁

There is no Afro Latinidad. Afro means Black and Latinidad refers to Roman Latin civilization. All of you have no idea of what Latin is and where it comes from. NO, it's no about your skin color. Stop the lies. Latin only refers to Romance languages and Roman Latin Culture. Stop the lies. All of you who keep mention the term Latin are in fact denigrating the great heritage of the Romans and the Italians. You are Blacks and Latin Americans. That's it. No Latin, No Latino. No Latina, No Hispanic and No Latinx.

Hi, & GOOD FOR YOU 😊 SELF ❤ & SELF WORTH IS ESSENTIAL !! EVREYONE IS SPECIAL ❤ IN THERE OWN WAY , REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE, I AM CUBAN ❤, LIVE , L❤VE & 😂 & BE THE BEST VERSION OF YOURSELF !!

Thank you @Lily J🌞🌻

@@Goldenfire730 BENDICIONES 🙏⛪ PARA TI NENA , & STAY SAFE & WELL, I CAN RELATE TO YOUR STORY , I HAVE A DAUGHTER THATS 22 YRS OLD, & SHE WENT THROUGH THE SAME AS YOU, SHE HAS BROWN SKIN , & MIXED SALVADORIAN / CUBAN ,& SHES COME SUCH A LONG WAY! I AM SO PROUD OF HER❤, SHE'S TRANSFERING TO UNIVERSITY THIS FALL & HER MAJOR IS SOCIOLOGY/ LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ❤✊✊

Jamaicans have more success in America than Black Americans. Jamaicans are not obsessed with racism and have much better self esteem.

they get so uncomfortable around this topic which shows it needs to be talked about

Briana Gebell i didn’t say anything about experts....

Briana Gebell 😂😂😂😂

Briana Gebell congrats on being a real latina i guess

Why it won't change nothing.

RP I'm caribbean we know we black, proud of it, brag about it.you are referring to dominicans, Cubans, PR cans denying their dna is filled with black.slaves were dropped of in all those countries.not caribbean we love Black.

@@marionrodriguez9035 PR, DR and Cuba ARE also Caribbean, we are LITERALLY the largest Antilles islands in the Caribbean 🤦🏻‍♀️

Says one who supports LatinX. My brown culture is different from your brown culture.

Most black men are the most colorist people you'll ever meet.

Rosario, as a half southern african. my ultimate dream is to have Indigenous, latinos and other brown people IN the african continent for a week or two , around good food and cultural exchanges. Imma make this happen in my lifetime.it'd be fun to see all of you wandering about in the african cities tasting local customs.

@@PHlophe I believe your dream will come true, that sounds like a lot of fun too 👍🏽

I am dominican and proud of my blackness.

you still benefit from white privilege kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mL2kZdmqnqqso5c.html

@@blackinews9892 like whatever country in Latin America, unfortunately.

@@rogerroger2986 yes to northern Mexico like by the border. However, they really didn't know that in places like Oaxaca, for example, there are communities. Since they had never met Afro-Mexicans when they lived in Meixco, they didn't know they existed.

The Afro Community in Mexico is tiny compared to Caribbean Latinos. Most Mexicans are European and Native American. Native Americans are the backbone of Latin America.

@@telltruth7027 Over 1.4 Million AfroMexicans is not "tiny" The Mexican government has white washed our true Mexican history.

@@localgems thank you. I'm Mexican American. My family has afromexican roots. It's very apparent in our looks. No one dares to say we have African ancestry in our lineage. According to my parents and grandparents we are white. I say we are not and i will never believe that lie.

@@localgems Correct! 2020 is the first year the Mexican government has even bothered to count the Afro-Mexican population on its census. Censuses drive so much of government planning that if a government doesn't count your group on a cenus the concerns and issues of that group effectively become invisible from a government planning point of view.

I'm Cuban and African American

I am cuban and Puerto Rican American mixed race. I support the afro Latino movement.

Cubans are originally black aboriginals hence the community being a majority of melanated peoples.

@Briana Gebell So what should we call these people?

I AM CUBAN ❤ TOO

Wow. I know you said hes Mexican American but does he know who Vicente Guerrero is? To be fair, Mexico is not great with representing those who aren't on the Whiter side. Heck, they just added Afro/Black on their census, when they've had Black people there just as long as the US.

social media That’s not accurate. Guerrero was indeed of African descent. Additionally, Mexico has a history of having had the 2nd largest importation of African slaves in the Western Hemisphere, Brazil being the 1st. There was more miscegenation amongst the slaves, Europeans and indigenous populations in Mexico but there are areas like Costa China and Veracruz that have black people who are descendants of that direct history. The Caribbean immigrants you speak of do not make the majority of the black population in Mexico and are a more recent influx to the population in Mexico.

HELL0NESSA you’re right, but even that bit of history he was unaware of. He was in complete denial of Mexico’s history of having African slaves. What he has explained to me is that he is removed from actual Mexican history and knows only the culture passed down to him and how he relates to other Mexican Americans. He’s coming around though. I told him if we’re going to be together he has to educate himself enough to at least acknowledge the reality of who I am as an AfroLatina. He has come a long way....

Karen Aguilar yesssssss!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Black Americans don’t generally feel that Afro Latinos aren’t black enough. On the contrary, we feel that Afro Latinos generally deny their blackness and go out of their way to separate themselves in an effort to not be seen as black- generally speaking. Admittedly, we do feel that way about Biracial looking Latinos not the ones who are clearly and unambiguously black

Colorism is rampant everywhere sadly. This conversation is exactly the same among Asians and Americans of African descent. The darker you are, the worse you are treated especially among your own which breaks my heart. African Americans are also having these tough conversations between ourselves and some progress is being made. But like our Afro Latinx brother and sisters, we still have a way to go. But I have faith we all will get there. Seeing more people openly having theses talks gives me hope ❤️💕❤️

@@lo5182 WTH

@@lo5182 Colorism affects all of us, but a lot of people are misinformed or know nothing about it. She's glad that this channel is addressing this issue in the latinx community and spreading awareness.

JT bro why do you say this on all positive comments

@Briana Gebell Jesus Christ, girl, chill. Nobody's pretending to be Italian or of latin descent. Latin America is just the name that was given to the parts of America that speak languages derived from latin (mostly portuguese and spanish). It doesn't have anything to do with your ethnicity.

We hear you, Jessica! Working to do so, thank you for watching and being a part of the conversation ❤️

@@PeroLike you could interview her. Or ask for interview with Monica styles. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrpigtt8zL65hqc.html

@Briana Gebell and please know I'm not trying to bring attention to myself. I'm trying to bring attention to the racism and colorism (intentional or unintentional) that exist within the entertainment space of ALL communities (including the American, Latino, Italian, ect.) and how we can do better. And this video specially addresses the issues black Latinos face in their communities this has nothing to do with you or Italians. And frankly as an African American woman it is the height of cultural appropriation (think of it as plagerism), racism, and ignorance to put up Italian flags with a bunch of black power fist emojis. I emplore you to educate yourself about different views other than one that support you ideologies. That's what makes for TRUE intellegence

I'm one of them. My Afro Latin American ancestry is from my maternal line.

Yes

This video is nothing but a propaganda smear on Latinos with the worst representatives stating issues

Kiki 81 in general, there is a tendency for cultures around the world to value light skin. Not saying all Latinos are racist among their own people, but I’m not surprised to hear about colorism. History repeats itself. Our generation is paving the way for more equality. The experts in this video are trying to educate us. It’s okay if you disagree with their point of view. We are all entitled to our opinions.

...and they wouldn't even been deemed "dark-skinned" in some circles. They are moreso caramel to me.

@@christinalee9336 thanks to the Spanish...

@@christinalee9336 you Asian do it more. Colorism comes from asia

Brandi Robinson Facts! Great Point. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

I really dislike the term LatinX, this comes from English speaking people that don't know or understand the difference between a Latin O or Latin A, so to make it easy on them they came out the new label LatinX

Nobody calls themselves LatinX. Just Latino or Latina.

@@nomad4731 I think it has more to do with it being a non-binary term and more light freindly I.e politically correct.

I disagree its black supremacy that would have you think that. Black supremacist groups separate themselves from latinos.

YO TAMBIEN GÜEY MUCHO GUSTO CONOCERTE !!!!!!!

Stand Firm, Stay Strong 🙌🏾👏🏽👏🏽❤🇯🇲❤👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏾

AMEN...

God bless long live Pan Africanism black family rising all over the world!!!!!!

Thankyou so much for this I’ve had the same struggles.

Exactly

NC Okeke They must be late on how this work. Because other black people have already had the conversation about discussing things that happens to disenfranchise people without those people present in the conversation.

True , these are mixed race Latinos that face problems from not being accepted by their white Latino family members.

Godzilla Megatron exactly. I don’t want to hear about how you weren’t allowed to be white. I want to hear about how you as a light/brown-skinned Afro-latino benefited from colorism and how your dark-skinned Afro-latino peers did not. And I want them to be apart of the conversation. I want to see some accountability.

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Papo RetãO!!!

Me too, i had the same experience...🇵🇷✌🏽

@@nuyoricansarenotpuertorica1020 Ephesians 4:29-32 New International Version 29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths,(A) but only what is helpful for building others up(B) according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God,(C) with whom you were sealed(D) for the day of redemption.(E) 31 Get rid of(F) all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.(G) 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another,(H) forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.(I)

Glad to see you realize that, it’s very unfortunate that some people do go about it as if it’s not their issue because they don’t experience racial profiling, yet they enjoy the culture, music & food which is very Afrocentric especially in the Caribbean, Brazil & countries with black diaspora.

I’ve never met a light skinned Latino being discriminated amongst other Latinos for being light...if anything, it was ideal...but I’m glad that you acknowledge the privilege that you have had over your darker sibling. If there’s something that annoys me, is Latinos pretending like racism isn’t an issue within our community.

Drew 2C ✊🏾

Thank you 100% agreed!

We agree with you and are being proactive about finding and casting these voices for future videos, thanks for tuning in, we hope that you find value in the information that was shared here ❤️

@@PeroLike Being proactive means that you're acting not in response to something after it has happened but that you yourself are making it happen. This is not proactive but reactive. I know that you (the person in charge of responding to these comments) probably had nothing to do with the creation of this video so please know this isn't response to you. But this video was disappointing. I did try to give it a chance but there were a lot of problematic parts about it (not even taking into account my first comment). And no, I'm not an SJW, haha, but seriously one of the women literally started naming random colors in a conversation about race. They brought up "reverse colorism" which exists only as much as "reverse racism" does... 🙄 And then they really went into a tangent about how colorism is more severe in LatAm when the things they mentioned (aside from the terminology) happen in the United States. As if Black people don't get called coal, roaches, and mixed people aren't fetishized for having "toned down Black features to make it pretty." As if mixed women aren't the ones who most represent Black women in media. Sure there is a lot more representation in US media but that representation is most often based off of racism and colorism. One woman said she experienced a "little bit" of lightskin privilege. I wonder what the darkskinned people experience. I know that editing can often misrepresent what people say so I want to remind here that I have no qualms about the people in the video, as again, their perspectives are important. I just wish these microaggressions and misrepresentations weren't apart of the video. It would've been more enjoyable. De todas formas les agradezco mucho por la oportunidad de tener esta conversación aquí con toda la gente en esta sección de comentarios. En serio, gracias. Espero con ilusión el contenido que van a subir en el futuro. :)

@@PeroLike tatyana ali(fresh prince-ashley) ,miles brown ( plays jack from blackish) , Amara la negra , juju from love and hip hop new york (cuban) , jessie woo ( hatian)if you cant find that then hit up the youtube vlogs growingup blackxican is one ( but like miles and tatyana they are black and latino). Ya Ya DaCosta, Melissa DeSousa(actress)

@@theartistmind7028 Great minds think alike. I'm on Amara's website trying to help this connection take place.

Damn.. that’s crazy

God Bless U & Yes Marry The Man U Want. U Only Live Once Go Be Happy

God Bless U & Your Family

except for the fact that the majority of men are neither seen as attractive to women and/or are wealthy by any comparative standard or measure

@@etf42 how is this an exception? What is the angle of this statement as an exception?

@@TuscanWonder my point is that you cant compare attraction between men and women. its like apples and oranges. you insinuated that that black women have it harder than men but is seems you are comparing the average black women to the small minority of black men who are wealthy and/or attractive to women. the average black man is far less attractive to women than the average black woman is attractive to men. The majority of women are only attractive to a small minority of men. men who are outside of this minority are invisible to women.

@@etf42 I hear what you're saying and I appreciate that you have moved the dial of the conversation to lend perspective. I can agree with you, from the vantage that there are definitely more women than there are men, that far more women desire a smaller proportion of those men who have the means/attributes to attract them. Though there may be fewer men, black men particularly (to tie this around), to whom which are found to be attractive by any and all women, and, additionally, by which black men and black women suffer the same physical feature prejudices in the eurocentric/non-dark-skinned/kinky, coily world, it is beauty that is the currency of women among men (at least primarily) . Would you not agree?

@@TuscanWonder yes, i would agree that beauty is the currency of women, and comparatively a dark skin woman will be less attractive than a light skin woman (all else held equal). however, since men's desire/attraction towards women is much higher than it is the opposite, the average man will face a lot more romantic rejection than the average woman will.

Continue to learn and grow.😊

My mother told me cásate con un blanco y no con el negro para que mejores la raza.( El negro is my daughter father ) y también me dijo a que sea que esa niña nazca blanca los hijos de ella pueden nacer negros. We are from Adjuntas P.R. . I still can't forget what she said to me.

I'm panamanian too. I'm a teenager but I've noticed that dark skin people are humiliated on the Internet way too much and I just find it weird.

I'm Afro Panamanian and I was taught to love my blackness and embrace my African ancestry 🇵🇦💕💕💕💕💕💕

@@mariedit9935 really you do? Where are they humiliated? Bc as an immigrant latina in this country i had to run almost every day home bc BLACK girls would chase me trying to cut my hair, and im not white with blue eyes. So where are they humiliated?

Part of the reason is that most leaders come from historically wealthy families of predominantly Spanish lineage and have been intermarrying people of the same social status and wealth for centuries. And those people just so happen to also have control of the media and dictate Eurocentric beauty standards. There definitely needs to be a dismantling of these systems that will allow more people who are more representative and connected to the cultural experiences of each Latin nation.

Costa Rica has black vice president of Jamaican descent, Epsy Campbell Barr.

El Maracaibero that’s true I’m Costa Rican, but it’s also important to point out how racist people are to Epsy. People use her to say this country isn’t racist but it is so so racist and colorist. I have very white skin and I always get told I am blanquita as if that’s something superior. It’s so common in here we are blind to it.

Sammy look a hot mess. I would really like to hear from him why he did that to himself.

@@jorhodes8507 it would really be interesting I bet it was to "look" more Latin American without having to be mistaken as black American

@@toffeecrisp9287 But to me he doesn't even look Latin American either. I don't know what look that is.

Like someone uncomfortable with his skin

It’s like the twins said, you cant hide this fact...This guy has lightened his skin tone to an unusual pale color, straightened his hair with the strongest of all relaxers...yet has obvious black facial features...plus, his kids are very tanned with black facial features as well...what a clown.

Bueno punto.

Los que encontrastes Son inmigrantes nuevos de hace 100 años atras .el verdadero argentino no ed blanco

Tosin is a beautiful name.

Thank you for sharing this I’ve never knew this me being married to a Nicaragüense never mentioned or talked about it. Sending peace and love your way from Boston ❤️

Raq G thank you, awwwh that’s very cool of you ❤️ If you haven’t already look up videos you’ll get a glimps of the culture. I’m from another region of the country but find bluefields amazing in its own right. Very proud of that culture. Search for- Blue fields Palo de Mayo parades Corn Island El Caribe nicaragua 💞 sending Lots of cools vibes and love ur way!

Gabriel Lopez I’m From Nicaragua. Yes we do. Honduras also has an Afro community. KZfaq Nicaragua bluefields, festival de palo de Mayo, you’ll get a good glimpse.

Gabriel Lopez there are black people in Nicaragua too look it up.

Yes, please do!! Can you drop their social media handles here in this thread?

@@PeroLike awesome excited! @Silviolual, @djamilaribeiro1, @walterpaim, @joiceberth (P.s. if you need any help contacting them please feel free to contact me!) These are all their IG's btw

Obrigado @@jaboy0978 !!

@@PeroLike Claro, gente!

Sueli Carneiro, @carneiro956 Jurema Werneck @juremawerneck y kzfaq.info/love/-MBXThIUzdegPM7REeXSeQfeatured

Latinx? Who is that?

It's most likely the Lighter/white ones. That's what I've noticed for years.

The Big problem is that they don't see themselves as just black because of long generations of race mixing, but we go by the one drop blood rule, we are most certainly black even we don't look "black"..so many say but I'm mixed which is true but to the world; especially the anglo/caucasian world one is BLACK. Latin america is much more complex..& we have also been taught to embrace the hispanic/european side and not the other..

@Lola Torrez dessalines didn't just do that to Dominicans but also to lighter skinned and mixed race Haitians. It wasn't a Haitian problem but a dessalines issue. That's like me bringing up Trujillo (who committed attrocities against dark skinned Haitians) as if to say that would mean we couldn't find solidarity. Don't be divisive. My post was about finding new alliances, not dwelling on past conflicts.

@Lola Torrez you're an ethnic nationalist. You're down to "fight" Haitians? What does that mean? We're not dessalines, we're not trying to conquest anyone. We're more genetically similar than you would admit and your culture isn't going anywhere. Haitians aren't destroying your environment. Your language is extremely similar to eugenecists and those who support ethnic cleansing.

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Briana Gebell if you think I read your whole comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣didn’t even read the second line 😅😅😅😅😅

That series is rife with misinformation despite its good intentions.

That video was bullshit

Laverdure! Ken 💕

PS: Imagine if we all put our ego & prejudice aside, we can take over this world, and that’s what they’re scared. this is why the embedded in out heads Puerto Ricans or better than Dominicans that’s all the Parisians or better than the Cubans, Spaniards is better than Brazilians. Let get our stuff together people.

Yea its anglisizing Spanish

@@arroyhondo Spanish is a white language. You can not anglofy it

@@carm7518 spanish is part of the latin languages (french, portuguese, italian, romanian) its not anglo. anglo is english part of germanic languages

thankkkkkks i was thinking the same.

Latinos have it a bit easier when wiggling out of blackness, because there's Native American heritage and dark skin can always be attributed to those genes instead of the African ones. For example, I'm 7.8 percent African, but even the African community tells me that's not enough and when categorizing me, they rather say I'm white or mestiza (white and NA).

Colorism is very much a phenomenon in the African American community in terms of beauty standards. However, I wouldn't go as far as saying that being light skinned is anything remotely close to being privileged as being white at least in the American context.