tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post1058267962686310418..comments2023-11-26T14:34:38.543-08:00Comments on African American - Latino World: Perú: Traveling While BlackW Bill Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06114184381454422387noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-13544967819369874712011-11-07T20:49:02.990-08:002011-11-07T20:49:02.990-08:00Thanks for sharing this with me... so much crap on...Thanks for sharing this with me... so much crap on the internet... and this was worth every minute of my time. <br /><br />I'm curious how do most Peruvians or South Americans react when you share this side of their "beautiful country".<br /><br />Are they receptive to the criticism or not?Ches Kannohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00126144004002184496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-35036386244716206112010-11-25T17:09:56.443-08:002010-11-25T17:09:56.443-08:00One of the most blatant errors committed by Africa...One of the most blatant errors committed by African Americans in general related to racism in latin america is that it's non existant. I could literally write a book about my experiences in Puerto Rico and my runins with white Cubans and a short stint in Venezuela. Here in Puerto Rico it's amazing how backward we really are when it comes to race. I've been a Financial Consultant/Stockbroker for many years(I'm now retired)with a major international bank. At a social affair of the bank (Tuxedos,gowns,etc.)I went with my oldest daughter. A woman standing behind me actually tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to get her more champagne! My daughters jaw dropped open when I politely took her glass and got her the champagne. I gave her the glass with my business card and identified myself as one of the senior brokers from the investment division.She apologized. While she spoke face to face, I deliberately turned my back to her and ignored her while she spoke and I continued speaking to my daughter. I have friends locally who still beleive salvery was abolished in Puerto Rico before the US. Not so it was seven years after! My wifes father was told (this was in New York)that she was going out with me. Her father, whos' family made their living selling candy on the street corners of Caguas, screamed at her on the telephone "I hear you're going out with a nigger"? She told me about it and I got his address. The very next day I went downtown, knocked on his door and introduced myself in my most authoritive voice: Buenas tardes. Me llamo Raymond Milián Moura y llevo compañia con su hija. Puedo pasar? That took care of that. Her sister (after we were married) invited us to a party at her home. Amongst the invited was a black couple. The sister told me that she had deliberately invited that couple "So I would feel more comfortable"! I told her that I was going straight home to shoot my father. She asked why? I said because I had to tell my dad what she said as my father was Puertorican but looked Norwegian. It's all a matter of attitude. I don't have a problem with someone calling me Oye Negrito. I'm called Negrito by the woman I sleep with. Do I know your sister? And if they wantb to get nasty, I call them "Jibaro Patisucio" (A barefoot hillbilly with dirty feet). I've traveled to many countries and never paid a bribe. I stand close to people, look them straight in the eye and ask what I can do for them (it helps that I wear a small military lapel pin).Now I travel as a tourist. What I contend with are mostly hustlers. Years ago, when someone would DEMAND to see my passport, I would give it to them and thjeir mouths would drop open when I gave them an official passport of the US government. The customs people would actually carry my luggage. they're not alone. I was pulling Cuban "Balseros" out of the water when some guy yells "Oye mulatico,no me toques la mujer".I threw them back in the water. TS. Of the loads of Balseros I've dealt with, non ever thanked me. They always thanked the white crewman. You can imagine the shock when I was stopped in Brickell Plaza in Miami by a Cuban who said he recognized me. That I had saved him some years before. He was working had a rented apartment with his family and wanted me to come over for dinner! Whats worst is to have a woman I've known for years look at my grandson and say "Mira, Ray tiene un nieto blanco" Response: Si. Pero si es inteligente y culto, es mio. Y nunca sera un jibaro patisucio"<br />Un Abrazo,<br />R. Milián MouraUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14689195746006717594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-34009326629031173912010-08-15T10:23:30.022-07:002010-08-15T10:23:30.022-07:00You know what? Every travel guide I read on Perú s...You know what? Every travel guide I read on Perú said the same thing you said about pretending you didn't understand Spanish. They will get frustrated and leave you alone. But why would they insist you are Jamaican with a US passport? Do you have roots in Puerto Rico, Cuba, or the Dominican Republic? They may have confused your accento caribeña for Jamaican.W Bill Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06114184381454422387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-60970114013676750732010-08-15T08:04:46.052-07:002010-08-15T08:04:46.052-07:00I am Afro Latino who came into the US as a child. ...I am Afro Latino who came into the US as a child. love the blog, it always amazing how Latin American countries not only go out of their way to diminished Black contribution but straight out suppress their Black populations. I have been to pretty nuch every Latin America country and I am also facinated by the black dispora in Latin America. But I digress, I had a similar experience in Peru both at the Tumbres border crossing and just outside Trujillo city limits. The cops took me off the bus and kept insisting that i was Jamaican. After I kept insisting that I want to speak to the American embassy official, they said I couldn't go until I gave them a "tip" for a "coca cola." the cops then told the bus driver to leave and the bus driver and the people on the bus told the cops that they weren't leaving without me. They took my wallet and 15 soles I had and I went on my way. Now, what actually fucked me was speaking Spanish, I would have been better off pretending that I didn't understand anything. They didn't speak English so they would have gotten frustrated and left me alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-40024361805859839412010-07-28T16:18:04.951-07:002010-07-28T16:18:04.951-07:00That is kinda funny... He didn't name any offi...That is kinda funny... He didn't name any officer? LOLMs Beauty Soulhttp://diaryofahotfoot.comnoreply@blogger.com