tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post7543766484316227591..comments2023-11-26T14:34:38.543-08:00Comments on African American - Latino World: Latina Magazine Criticized for Celebrating Black HeritageW Bill Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06114184381454422387noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-6291010912906704672013-04-15T12:32:32.951-07:002013-04-15T12:32:32.951-07:00My response to people who have an issue with Afro ...My response to people who have an issue with Afro Latino celebration, or Indigeno Latino, or Asiatico Latino, etc, is that they are fools. We celebrate different cultures within Latinidad all the time. We celebrate national cultures. Colombian Latinos are not Peruvian Latinos. We celebrate regions. Coastal Latinos are not Mountain Latinos. We celebrate communities, be they Jewish, Palestinian, Japanese, etc. The fact of the matter is that Latinidad is not a monolithic block, but a multiplicity of ethnic trends that share similarities due to culture sharing across language channels. There is a difference between being ethnically aware and being ethnically obsessed. Color aware and color obsessed. A woman who is raised in an Afro oriented Latino culture should have a right to celebrate her culture. A woman who is called a negra all her life definitely has that name as an aspect of her identity. In the same token, many afrodescendants who are obviously so, still have been raised in the mainstream and do not actively identify as a sub group ethnicity. To celebrate them in a coattail fashion, if they don't do so, other thanh to poit out that Afrodescent people are in the mainstream, would be disingenuous. Some like Adriana Zubiate, are accepted fully in the mainstream and aren't referenced as Afro-Latinas, so neither do we need to. Even though we can recognize her afrodescendencia. Others, like Tatiana Espinoza, grew up and identify as afroperuana, and thus have to have that identity recognized. Yet, these women could be sisters. It is the life experience that matters, not some social imposition by another.Jaime Andreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16168118189390372639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-13247942222738033612013-04-14T14:11:05.809-07:002013-04-14T14:11:05.809-07:00Thank you for posting this! More messages like th...Thank you for posting this! More messages like these need to get out.Kevin Alberto Sabiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15353079231854579937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-76028847201963502422013-04-12T09:01:17.911-07:002013-04-12T09:01:17.911-07:00Thank you for your comment, Marona. Especially the...Thank you for your comment, Marona. Especially the part about tons of Latinos that don't know there are Black people in places like Perú, Bolivia, Argentina, etc. It truly amazes me that that so many Latinos are not aware.W Bill Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06114184381454422387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-54430409011219024122013-04-12T01:28:25.518-07:002013-04-12T01:28:25.518-07:00Recognition is not the same thing as being divisiv...Recognition is not the same thing as being divisive. There are still tons of Latinos that don't know there are black people in places like Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, etc. B/c all they see, the only people who really get recognition, praise, fame are light or white Latinos. So it does matter that we have recognition for Afro-latinos as well as other peoples that are sidelined and discriminated against in Latin America. Otherwise they'll forget how bad it is in places like Brazil. Maronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15493785187944140696noreply@blogger.com