Afro-Latinos face many challenges when it comes identity, particularly when people refuse to believe that being Black AND Latino aren’t mutually exclusive experiences.
The Latino identity denotes an ethnicity, which means that Latinos exist in every color and race imaginable – and explaining the difference between race and ethnicity can be quite a cumbersome task to take on on a daily basis. And yet, many Afro-Latinos are often forced to do so after being told they’re not “Latino enough” or being asked to choose between being Black and Latino.
Afro-latin@s struggle with being ignored by the media because for some reason people don’t believe you can be both Latino and Black. This is why there’s so much controversy when it comes to race and ethnicity. People try to paint Latin@s as this light brown or even white skinned when there are many dark skinned Latin@s. They are in all parts of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, & in North America (Mexico). Unfortunately, these folks aren’t represented in the media much and we have portrayed Latin@s in a certain way that has shaped the thoughts of others when they hear that word.
^ Say that. There’s the blatant erasure by the media, as well as the fellow Latinxs who shun blackness. Then there’s the serious lack of knowledge by people who still don’t understand the clear difference between race and ethnicity, and assume Black means “African American” (which it does not), so as a result they question your identity. Race does not denote one’s ethnicity/ethnicities. Latinxs do not have a specific look or skin color. There are sooooooo many brown skin Latinxs out here.
Black and Cuban at the same damn time.
Black and Puerto Rican at the same damn time.
Black and Colombian at the same damn time.
Black and Dominican at the same damn time.
Black and Mexican at the same damn time.
Black and Honduran at the same damn time.
Black and Ecuadorian at the same damn time.
Black and Nicaraguan at the same damn time.
Black and Panamanian at the same damn time.
Black and Peruvian at the same damn time.
Black and Uruguayan at the same damn time.
Black and Venezuelan at the same damn time.
There’s way more to be listed, but I think y’all get it now…hopefully.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
(2016)
“Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.
Even as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley’s all-black “West Computing” group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens.
Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country’s future.”
Chefchaouen, Morocco || I’m not sure why, but I’ve always had a strong connection to blue. So as you can imagine, I am currently in heaven basking in all the shades painted as far as my eyes can see. Africa, I love you so much ✨🌟✨
School just really sucks cause they take this wonderful concept of learning and discovering new things and just completely ruin it with the atmosphere of judgement and suppression of creativity and strict deadlines and basing your intelligence on a letter and wow you ruined it nice job
37-year-old Khalid Jabara was killed on the night of August 12 at his house in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The murderer’s name is Stanley Vernon Majors.
In a statement released by Jabara’s sister on August 14, she says that Majors racially harassed the family a few times in the past.
The 61 year old man has previously been accused of hitting Haifa Jabara, Khalid’s mother, with his car, which left her severely injured. Majors also referred to the family as “dirty Arabs”.
In the past three years, Jabara’s family has sought two separate restraining orders on Majors. The court referred to Majors as “a risk to the public” and requested for him to be held without bond. Despite the warning signs Majors was allowed to remain at large.
Majors faces charges of shooting and killing his neighbor. However assistant District Attorney John David Luton said it was too early to say if Majors will be charged with a hate crime.
Fox Tulsa reports that eight minutes before he was shot dead, Khalid Jabara had called the police to say that he was worried Majors might hurt him.
This is a message Khalid’s sister posted on her Facebook:
I think the saddest moment is the crack you hear in someone’s voice when they are talking about something very upsetting but trying to be strong. Courage is underrated.
She said “all lives matter” countless times. This is why that phrase is ridiculous - because you can tell that she doesn’t really mean that all lives matter when she says it as an insult, in between derogatory racial remarks and telling her to “go back to Africa” and that her “ancestors owned you,” implying that she believes black people are not really worthy to be considered as part of the “all” that matters, but rather the lowly other.
^ Perfectly summed it up. Plus the video speaks volumes about this country. White people hardly, if ever, step in and speak out against racism. They will merely sit and onlook since they’re not on the receiving end, or silently agree with the racist rant, or think about how horrible it is, or lowly say how horrible it is after the fact, or ignore what’s happening altogether, or have the same attitude as that older white man who said aloud that that white couple, as well as that Black girl’s mother, were “acting like fools.”
