Black people are Hispanics too?

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[00:00:00]Somebody in the comments said to me, "Ricardo, but you look Hispanic." By definition, you Tony, you are from Colombia, which makes you what?

[00:00:10]>> Hispanic.

[00:00:12]>> So, let me ask you something. Do you look Hispanic?

[00:00:18]>> Now, let me ask you.

[00:00:18]>> There's no look to be honest.

[00:00:20]>> Oh, there you go. Come on. Come on. Come on. I was waiting. What is the criteria of being Hispanic?

[00:00:27]um just born in the area and speaking the language. Well, you don't even have to speak it. You just have to be in a Latin American country.

[00:00:35]>> A Latin American country that primarily speaks Spanish.

[00:00:38]>> Spanish. Yeah.

[00:00:39]>> As a collective country.

[00:00:41]>> Mhm.

[00:00:41]>> Race, ethnicity, and culture are not tied into being Hispanic. Correct.

[00:00:47]>> Not at all. No, not even a little bit.

[00:00:50]>> You and I are from a Latin American country.

[00:00:52]>> Mhm.

[00:00:53]>> Do I look Latino? I want you to explain why somebody would say that I look Latino, although you and I technically both are. It's safe to say that a larger percentage of the people from Latin America that are Hispanic are the ones that migrate from a Latin American country, the United States. And so people generally speaking tend to when they see an ordeal with a Hispanic or Latino, it looks like me.

[00:01:18]>> Yeah. People that look like me have become the default of what a Hispanic and Latino is.

[00:01:24]>> Yes. Stereotypical look. Yeah.

[00:01:26]>> Yeah. Yes. But the reality is that you and I are actually both things.

[00:01:31]>> A Hispanic and a Latino. Now, whether you and I embrace the terms, that's another conversation.

[00:01:37]>> Yeah. Yeah. When people go to a country like Columbia or like Kartahena, they're always taking pictures with um the people from what's it called? Palenke.

[00:01:46]They have their their black women usually and they have their um typical wear. People are always surprised that there's Colombians that look like me and it's not like the mixed look, you know what I mean? It's more like a monorracial, you know, 4C hair Colombian, you know, cuz most Colombians that live in the Pacific or Kartahena and they're not mixed, you know, we're mostly monorracial. So >> that's a great detail there because I feel like the expectations of people outside of Latin America that are not familiar with Latin America, I think when they think of black people in Latin America are mixed all the time. They expect someone either lightkinn or, you know, with 3C hair. There's entire areas where you go and you'll think you're um you'll think you're somewhere in Africa.

[00:02:38]There's so many times on TikTok I see a video and it's in Colombia or in Palankit and people are asking is this Africa? Like what country is this? You know, >> representation matters when having these topics. I could have made a video by myself talking about Latino is not a race, Hispanic is not a race. There is no look for a Latino. But showing people and coming out the mouth of a Latino, a Hispanic that doesn't look like what you you've been conditioned to think looks Hispanic and look Latino. It's important and that's why in Latin American media it's so important to have representation. Unfortunately, Latin American media tends to push a certain image of what Latino and Hispanic looks like and is supposed to be. And when you pay attention to Latin American media, the effort of conditioning people to believe that Hispanic, Latino, Latin America basically only has a people that look like this. It's very important for them to whitewash the image. That's another great example of whit supremacy in Latin America and people don't understand the details. But just because people are not walking around calling people nword and stuff like that, they think that that's what racism is. Oh, we don't have that.

[00:03:53]Although there is there is bigotry, you know, there is bigotry, but because those countries are not known for that, they think that those issues of race don't exist there. But just the simple fact that Latin American countries has all walks of life. African descent people, Asian descent people, Middle Eastern descent people, European descent people, indigenous people. It has everything. Literally all walks of life.

[00:04:19]>> If you do your research and like of all the countries in um the Latin American continent, every single country has black people. There's not one that doesn't. You know, you would think they don't, but from Nicaragua to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina, even the whitest one out of everybody, you know, they still have black people. Uruguay has black people >> in some countries more than other, but nonetheless, there's communities of black people for sure. In your opinion, I want to mention Mexico, but I want to see what you say. In your opinion, which country in Latin America is a country that has or actually Argentina has suppressed attempt to make the black population of the country either less visible or just not visible at all.

[00:05:10]>> I would say Argentina. I would say Argentina. Yeah, >> I was going to say Mexico, but then I thought about Argentina. The reason why I was going to say Mexico before I remember Argentina is because Mexico has done a great job to make it seem like there is no black people in Mexico.

[00:05:27]They've done a hell of a job.

[00:05:30]>> And me personally as a as somebody from Mexico born there, the idea that there's Mexicans that look like you, if if you try to convince me of that, I would have been like, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:05:42]Mexicans look like this. What are you talking about?" And it wasn't until social media where a lot of black people that are Mexicans started to use social media to make themselves present and and make videos of their communities. And because of that, it kind of put pressure on the Mexican government because people started asking questions. Well, what do you mean you're Mexican? You but you're black.

[00:06:05]>> You're Mexican, but you're black. What do you mean you're Mexican? Yeah, we're Mexican. it it started me messing with people's heads because Mexico has done a great job in making it seem like there is no black population there.

[00:06:18]>> Yeah.

[00:06:18]>> And and so it wasn't until 2016 that the Mexican government finally recognized the black population in Mexico in the census and now they're recognized. But I'm not going to give the credit to the government. I'm going to give the credit to the people that started voicing out this issue. And this is a great example of the whity supremacy of Latin America.

[00:06:43]>> I've met a couple of um black Mexicans that still are still living there and they always tell me their story of when they leave their little uh their towns to go to like see deco or something like that.

[00:06:56]>> There's this friend I have that is also what they call themselves Afroxican in Mexico. A black person of Mexico. They live in their own communities whether Vera Cruz, uh, Wajaka, Costachica, Guerrero, and they tend to kind of stick to the little areas. And the reason why I I think I have a great uh, understanding as to why because this Mexican that's black shared with me that one time, the first time that he as a teenager exited his community and he went out to the city, he was stopped by authority and authority asked him, "Hey, who are you and what are you doing here?" Okay. And he said, "Well, I'm I'm I'm just out here shopping." "No, no.

[00:07:36]What are you doing in this country?

[00:07:38]I I'm Mexican.

[00:07:42]How are you Mexican?"

[00:07:44]Um and and so he's trying to like, "Okay, let me see your documents. Prove that you're Mexican." I don't carry my documents with me. Why would I carrying them? So, how can you prove that you're Mexican? I don't know. What?

[00:07:56]I mean, you know, they're speaking Spanish. He said, "Well, why don't you sing the Mexican national anthem?" and he had to sing the Mexican national anthem. Luckily for him, he knew it. And that's how he proved that he was Mexican. Imagine that. You are a person of that country, but you have to prove that you are from that country because you don't look like a person of that country. And this is thanks to the effort, the systemic effort that the Mexican government has done in making it seem like there is no people in Mexico that look like this.

[00:08:29]>> Yeah.

[00:08:30]It's it's it's embarrassing honestly.

[00:08:33]>> I couldn't imagine having to in your own country. You pay taxes. You've lived here all your life. You don't know anything else. You know >> exactly >> because you don't look you don't look like them. Yeah.

[00:08:46]>> I wanted to point out how problematic it is to say that somebody looks Hispanic and Latino when there is no look. There is no look to it. Just like there is no look to American, there is no look to Canadian, there is no look to any of these countries. These countries in Latin America or the Americas in total, Canada, Mexico, the US, Peru, Colombia, these are countries populated by all walks of life. And that's why it is very problematic to say that somebody looks Canadian, looks Mexican, looks American, looks Peruvian, looks Colombian. There is no look. Just like this country doesn't have a look. But white people make it seem like looking American is looking white. We know that's wrong. We know that's wrong. And we know where it comes from. It comes from their entitlement. And because of that, we need to understand that there is no look for a Mexican. There is no look for a Hispanic. There is no look for a Latino.

[00:09:54]There is no look for any country in the Americas that has all walks of life. And we need to normalize this fact because unfortunately due to the lack of education we have normalized the complete opposite which is the misconception that there's only a one race in each of these countries and there is that's just not the truth.