This video explores how systemic racism and colorism manifest within Latino communities, examining historical patterns of anti-Blackness that have been normalized through colonization, internal caste systems, and proximity-seeking behaviors toward whiteness. The content highlights how Latino communities have historically discriminated against Afro-Latinos and Black people, often prioritizing white acceptance over genuine solidarity, while acknowledging that individual allies exist within these communities. The speaker emphasizes that understanding these dynamics requires confronting uncomfortable truths about how proximity to whiteness has been prioritized over authentic connection, and calls for honest accountability and mutual respect as foundations for genuine unity.
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Latino and black communities have always been like this, and we should continue staying like that. There's no reason why the two communities should be fighting.
Okay, we have fought next to each other, side by side, since the civil rights movement. Okay? There's no time for beef on either side. We need to stand together, especially with everything that's going on right now. Since when has the Latino and black community ever been like this? And Latinos were not there during the civil rights movement fighting side by side with black American people. I literally was so confused because I was like, "Where were Latin people when segregation was happening? Where were they? What schools did they go to? How were they represented?" And then I saw Latin people coming out videos saying that they went to white schools.
They fought to be categorized and classified as white. So, I don't understand why y'all come up here and lie and act like y'all has been an ally for black people. And this is not to say that some has not, but as a collective, that's just not true. A lot of you all have racism and colorism within your own Latin communities. You all have a caste system within your own Latin communities. You all don't treat Afro-Latins the right way. You all discriminate and are prejudiced toward Latinas that look like me in you all's own communities and you all's own countries. And y'all take that same, you know, um, those same ideologies, those same prejudices, the the the same ideas and feelings. And when y'all do migrate over here, y'all bring that with you.
A lot of y'all don't treat the Afro-Latins the best.
Like, if the Dominicans, they say the darker skin, "Oh, that's a Haitian.
That's a Haitian. Me no black. Me no black." Like, the Puerto Ricans, they don't you can't I'm not dark. I'm what?
Like, let's stop. Y'all is the is the cap. It's the cap. It's the cap. It's the cap. It's the cap. It's the cap.
It's the cap. EVEN EVEN Y'ALL EVEN SOME OF Y'ALL KNOW IT. I TOOK A screenshot of somebody a Latino up in your comment section. Let me post it. Look, they say, "No, we have not been like this. We've been like this." Then a Latin Jesus says, "No, we haven't. We have to fix the anti-blackness first. You have to obvi- We have to fix the anti-blackness first. You have obviously not seen how bad our community is towards the black community. Our community came comfortable in the system."
She says, "I agree with you, but it doesn't mean that we can't at least try." So, why would you blatantly get up here and make this lying ass video, girl? You know you lie. Our Latinos of ALL BACKGROUNDS, DO Y'ALL NOT realize black people not the only people in this country?
You got your Chinese Americans, your Japanese Americans, your Korean Americans, your Indian Americans, your Muslim Americans, your white Americans, and your own people.
So, why in Davy Jones' LOCKER ARE Y'ALL SO PRESSED AND MAD at us because WE NOT OUT PROTESTING?
FOLKS, WE did the most effective protesting last November.
And the data proves it.
We protested when it mattered the most.
WE WERE NOT OUT HERE WITH WHOLE PRODUCTIONS TALKING ABOUT SOME WE WOO WOO FOR DONALD TRUMP.
>> [clears throat] >> Y'ALL WAS OUT HERE WITH THAT FOOLISHNESS.
KNOWING FULL WELL FULL WELL THAT Y'ALL HAD A FEW ABUELAS, A FEW TIOS, TIAS, MIJOS, AND MIJAS IN YOUR HOUSE UNDOCUMENTED.
BUT Y'ALL GOT Y'ALL BEHINDS ON STAGE TALKING ABOUT SOME WE WOO WOO FOR DONALD TRUMP.
>> [clears throat] >> And you think we supposed to BE OUT HERE PROTESTING AND PICKET FENCING HAND POUNDING, LIKE SOME MONKEYS IN A ZOO?
NO. NO, NO, [clears throat] NO, NO, NO.
NO, sirree bob.
We did what we were supposed to do.
And y'all put y'alls own community in the position that it's in now.
And y'all need to live with it. I have normalized not even telling people that I'm Afro-Latina because there is so much colorism in the Latin community, you wouldn't even understand. My mother is a full black Honduran woman. Her first language was Spanish. My grandmother is a full black Honduran woman from Trujillo, Trujillo, Honduras. But what I've learned is that no matter what you do, no matter what you say, how well you speak, what your accent is like, what you put on, how you dress, no matter how much gel you put in your hair to make that curl bounce, they will always see you as a blacky. They will always see you as a negro. And that's why I don't even care about putting my country flags, like I'm Honduran and yes, my father is Jamaican. Like sometimes I really just don't care about putting the flags in my bio anymore or telling people that I'm Afro-Latina. And I get why people do, they want to rep their country, right? And I understand that it's a premise of being accepted and included in the Latin community, but I don't want to be accepted by colorists.
Like I know it's not everybody, but it's majority. I don't want to fight and bend backwards to be accepted by colorists. I just don't. And the funniest part to me, oh my gosh, I've lived in Spain for 6 weeks, right? So almost too much, which is enough time for me to tell you and hold your hand when I say this, Europeans do not care whether you're from Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic. They do not care where you are from. If you're not from Spain, if you're not from Europe, then you're just not on their hierarchy level. Spain has colonized so many countries around the world and I will hold your hand again when I say this, they will always have the European superiority complex. Doesn't matter if you're white passing, they will always think they're better than you because they colonized your country. They think you're poor. And that same European superiority complex literally is the reason why we have colorism in the Latin communities. Whole time, they look down on you, too. And that's what gets me so infuriated with the Latin community because to some people in the Latin community, it doesn't matter how well you speak Spanish. It doesn't matter how many generations you go back in Hispanic Latin heritage. The darker you are, the more inferior you are to them. They just treat Afro-Latinos how Spaniards treat them, which is so funny to me.
>> Every time somebody asks the, you know, the Hispanic community not to say the N-word, you know, y'all get defensive, you know, and start saying the N-word all throughout the comment section and things of that nature. But when somebody start talking about, you know, uh calling, you know, those people to get y'all removed, you know what I'm saying?
Then it's all, you shouldn't say that.
You know, two wrongs don't make a right.
No. Stop disrespecting black people. It It just It's that [ __ ] simple. Every I don't never see y'all getting mad and start yelling out salteen.
I never seen it. I never see y'all get mad and yell a Asian slur. I never see y'all get mad and do anything other than yell the N-word.
You know what I'm saying? And then y'all like to throw, oh oh I'm Afro-Latino.
[ __ ] no, you're not. You You were just saying F black people. Baby, you know what I'm saying? I I seen the videos where the lady in the Dominican Republic was trying to get her baby a black doll and the mama threw it on the floor and handed her a white doll. We know how y'all parents think. You know what I'm saying? So, no, y'all need to cut the crap.
>> [clears throat] >> Right now, there's some Latinos that want to distance themselves from like the racist Latinos without acknowledging that racism exists in the Latino community because I remember growing up and being labeled a word because I had a black friend. Now, this is me growing up in South Central Los Angeles being Mexican-American and other Latinos, Mexican-Americans would call me a specific word because I had a black friend. And people were labeling me this word from elementary to middle school.
Experiences like that are a reflection on how normalized anti-blackness can be in the Latino community. And how it becomes so normalized during our development. Go ahead and let me know what you think. Also, saying as well, and I will add Latinos' hatred towards black people seriously sincerely needs to be studied.
But, one thing I'm getting so tired of is the amount of anti-blackness from Latinos.
Do these people do realize that the civil rights movement is the reason they can even them and other immigrant groups can even come over here, right?
Yet, the same people that made it where you can even live over here and be in this country, y'all got so much smoke and animosity towards, but them folks who tell y'all on a daily to go home and leave, y'all kiss them in the rear end 24/7.
And they still give you they rear end of the kiss.
Yeah, they going to make you think that they like you cuz you spewing out all this anti-black rhetoric, but in the day they don't want you.
Like, it's tiring.
And one thing I can't stand when y'all be in the comment section talking about or y'all make these posts on social media talking about, "You know, we may have our differences, but we can all agree there's one demographic that we don't like."
The folks you're pandering to don't even like you.
But, y'all have this mentality of uh if we don't like the blacks, then them folks will like us. Dog, they're never going to like us. I mean, they're never going to like you.
Blacks have done nothing but shop at y'all businesses, made it where y'all can come over here, but y'all have this hatred towards us for absolutely no reason. But, side with the same people who have oppressed y'all, took y'all in, took y'all resources, and tell y'all to go home on the daily.
Black people, after they done with the Latinos, you next. Huh?
Next. We been We've been on the chopping block.
Like, you can tell that we all been living in separate Americas.
Separate Americas. Because, why does everybody keep saying, "Black people, you next?" They've been on our heels for 400-plus years.
Black people, you next. You know what?
You Can you imagine being in a relationship with the biggest narcissist in history? The biggest, right? Every time you go to school, he undermines you. When you buy a house, he undermines you.
When you When you get healthcare, he undermines you. God damn, when you can't go to the gym, you can't go to parks, you can't go to the goddamn beach, you can't get healthcare, you can't you can't get childcare, you can't do [ __ ] You can't cook chicken, you can't eat eat fruit, you can't do nothing. Every angle that you live in life has been targeted.
Understand that black people will always fight for Latinos. Our Our struggles intertwine. Like, understand this. But, we don't got to worry about being next because we have been their fixation for hundreds of years. We still are.
And, you know what's the most heartbreaking thing about this whole thing is that Mexican people in black history, American history, have been some of the only people to show up. They were the biggest part of black liberation. And, always and forever, I will always give Mexican people that respect. But, since then, Latino people have been falling so far into white supremacy that is sick. You have been showing colorist behavior to your own people. You have been showing colorist behavior all in the hopes of having white proximity. All the anti-black jokes that you hear growing up, you're talking about your own people. Just because you say prieta, morena, or negra, don't make it no different. All those sayings bettering the race, cleaning the blood, washing out the black. This is a part of a let Latin culture and it's sad and it and it needs to stop. You You want to know what's the first step of liberation? Stop that [ __ ] Stop trying to be have proximity to whiteness.
You're not You're not them. And if you want to know the results of this, just ask the question of what happened to all the black people in Argentina.
There were a lot more.
And yeah, you may have a sprinkle of Spaniard, but you ain't that. And I'm sorry to tell you. There's a reason why you have an indigenous or African nose and kinky hair.
>> There's a lot of racism, bro. Even even for us and and like Mexicans, there's Mexicans that can't stand uh black people.
They can't stand them. I myself have no problem with color skin. Like I I've I've I've kicked it with with with homeboys that are black and um I've actually I remember when I was younger, sometimes I was hungry, you know, we didn't have anything to eat and we would I was uh I had a friend um I can't remember his name, but uh me and him like he was homeless as well.
A black kid from uh Grape Street. It's a gang. It's called Grape Street. Uh we would go into a Walmart and we would just fill up our stuff and he's like, "You You You're going to be the decoy.
You're going to run out and they're going to chase us."
>> Oh, one thing y'all are going to do is argue with me in the comments. And I want to preface this video by saying I am multiracial, right? And sometimes it's important to highlight that for context because although I do believe in and identify with the one drop rule, I am lighter than a Manila folder and I have passing and privilege and experiences afforded everybody has, right? Now that that's out the way, the main comment that I got yesterday on my Cinco de Mayo video was from black people saying if that's the case, then why do Mexican people hate us so much, right? And it's because of racism. It's colorism. It [clears throat] is anti-blackness. It's colonization.
That's the reason. Racism.
And this on a global scale. Like there's a lot of books by psychologists and historians [clears throat] that analyze the psychological engineering and the systemic dehumanization used to construct global anti-blackness.
And the entire non-black world has this unconscious bias that is scientifically baked into human perception. And nobody but black people seem to notice it, right? Especially if you're black and you travel, then you've probably felt unwelcomed in a lot of places. You've probably felt the prejudice is everywhere you go except the motherland.
Intentional and it's insidious concept of blackness is inferior or evil or whatever. It was not by accident. It was by design. Anti-blackness was created to justify colonization and slavery. Most of us do not realize that the dehumanization of black people was actually foundational to the establishment of the modern world.
This is across place and and time, various regions and different eras. A couple of y'all were in the comments talking about you're not black, you're brown. And in a vacuum, yes, that makes sense, right? Anybody that is non-white is on some spectrum of brownness, but we do not exist in a vacuum. And we say black and brown people to highlight distinctions amongst the histories, the challenges, the struggles, the triumphs that are unique to the black experience.
And saying only brown people to talk about everybody who is non-white would erase the distinct visibility and historical specificity of the black experience. Besides, race is just a construct. It's not biological. And any classification system that we use to determine race is arbitrary. It depends on whatever you want it to be. It depends on where where you are or what you are culturally.
We're not referring to the actual color black. We're referring to culture, ethnicity, community, not racial categorization. But the black community in America specifically has endured particular systems of oppression. And just saying brown people referring to all non-white people would obscure and like dilute that experience. So, cuz there's no hard fast rules on race, the the system is fluid and you can call yourself whatever you want, right? You can identify however you want to identify and I will respect that. But, both perspectives can coexist. Two things can be true at once and I stand by how important it is especially [snorts] when we're talking about history to distinguish between black and brown people.
>> Racism in the Latino community is absolutely horrendous. When I was a sophomore in high school, I was introduced to the Salvadoran girl by one of my friends. The school that I went to for a short period of time, it was predominantly black, Hispanic, and Latino with Hispanic and Latino being the majority. When I first met her, she had long brown hair, big brown eyes, and red rosy cheeks.
I took a liking to her. We're heading into winter break and we decided to get to know each other during that time. We talked pretty much every day. We went on a few dates. It was a great experience.
During this time, we were sharing so much about each other's culture. She was telling me all about El Salvador and Salvadoran culture that was telling her more about black culture that she didn't know about. Despite our different races and backgrounds and how heavily divided our school was, we still had a good relationship. After winter break, her and I decided that in the future we were going to keep our relationship on the down low. Only close friends will know about our relationship. At the time, I did not understand why we even did this in the first place. Why is it such a problem and a nuisance to keep our relationship a secret from everybody else? What's also strange to me is her family allows her to be in a relationship. However, she also wanted to keep that from her parents as well.
Like I said, I didn't understand why, but I went along with it anyway. At this time, this was one of the most healthiest relationships I've ever been in because she genuinely cared about me and my well-being and the connection was astronomical. A few months that felt like days has passed and then the worst has finally come. Our relationship has spreaded all across the school. In in beginning, people responded with positive feedback until the next day. An abundant amount of Hispanic and Latinos in the community was very displeased and unsatisfied with my relationship with her. She kept getting threats of comments of people saying that she should not be dating a black man. He's black, you should not be dating her, you should be dating a Hispanic man, you should be dating a Latino man. At the time, she did the best she could to fight for me, her, and our relationship.
However, in the end, she was suffering from too much mental and emotional pain.
Eventually, some people in the Latino community went out of their way to contact her mother to tell her that she is dating a black man. As it turns out, despite her wanting to be in a relationship with me, her family was very racist and discriminative towards black people. Her family was comparing me to black stereotypes, ghetto, hoodrat, a thief, made some other comments like black people are beneath us, they are third rate, you shouldn't be stooping so low to date someone like that. Apparently, a lot of the people in the Latino community who showed disinterest in our relationship thought and felt the same way, but more on colorism. My skin complexion was a threat and a problem to them because they did not like me dating another Latino woman. There were some other Latino men who was very jealous of the fact that I was dating someone like her.
With all due respect, she is very attractive, especially with the school that we went to. Her and I was forced to break up and we discontinued our relationship. But unfortunately, it gets worse. There was these two Latino men who was very angry of the fact that I was dating her to begin with and they wanted to fight me. At the time, I lacked combat skills and experience, and these two Latino guys who wanted to fight me were boxers. I was put at a major disadvantage, but despite this, um I didn't really have a choice because there was honor and pride on the line.
Despite me knowing for an absolute fact that I couldn't win against these two massive boxers, I still showed up anyway.
And I fought, I got my ass beat, and I lost. Granted, my Salvadoran girlfriend at the time had no idea about any of this until I told her afterwards. After I went home looking like a complete mess and taking a very honorable ass whooping on my head.
My uncle was there and he said to me, "Did you win?" And I said, "No."
And then he said, "Did you learn something from this?"
Absolutely. At that moment in time, after taking a very honorable ass whooping, I decided to learn how to fight myself. A year later, I took up taekwondo, kung fu, and boxing. I still do it to this day. But this is just one of those stories that, once again, I've faced through a lot of colorism and racism, especially when it comes to my relationships and friendships. And you know what? Despite that relationship ending and getting my ass beat by two intermediate boxers, one thing I can say for sure about myself, at least I wasn't a [ __ ] But why bring this up now? One is because it's one of the next stories I wanted to share with you, and two, I have been seeing so many stories from so many black women, especially brown and dark-skinned women and men, showing sharing their experiences of racism and colorism from the Latino and Hispanic communities. And my people being constantly shamed and rejected because of our skin tone, because we are the black people. Being constantly rejected and called ugly and inferior because of our skin tones is absolutely insufferable and it can cause self-hatred within ourselves. So, to all of my beautiful melanated black people, especially the black women, please understand me.
You are God's and Mother Nature's greatest accomplishment and greatest creation. You are the black pearl, the onyx crystal that shines brightly when the sun radiates off of your skin. And the way your body touches the sand and the water that slides off of your skin.
There is nothing more beautiful than that. From your hair to your eyes and your skin tone to your wisdom and your nurturing, you are the greatest reflection of Mother Nature itself. You are absolutely fruitful.
And your potential in love is insurmountable compared to anyone and anything else.
Understand me. Do not let anyone destroy your self-love or dis- strip you away of your blackness.
Understand that you are the greatest that has ever lived. You hold values and attributes that even our ancient African goddess themselves has passed on to you.
So, please understand me when I say this.
You are meant to be gods and goddesses.
So, become one.
That's all I have to say on the matter.
It's Onix.
And I'll see you next time. Black people are just tired of being respected when other communities need something. Every time there is a protest, political issue, or social movement, people suddenly run to black communities asking for support and protection. But, outside those moments, many black people still experience disrespect, stereotypes, and anti-blackness from the same groups asking for help. Many black people have heard the same message repeated inside some Latinos and Hispanic household.
Don't date black people. Don't trust black people. Stay close to whiteness.
Black people are often viewed as dangerous, uneducated, poor, or ghetto.
No matter how successful or educated they are, those stereotypes continues because too many people refuse to challenge them. At the same time, many minority communities in America benefit from rights black people fought for during the civil rights movement. Black activists challenged system that affected everybody including immigrants and other minorities. That is why black people feel betrayed when people benefit from those struggles while still disrespecting them. Another uncomfortable truth is that proximity to whiteness has never guaranteed acceptance. Many white conservatives openly admit they still don't fully accept Latino, Hispanic, Asian, or other minority groups, even if they are white passing. Yet, some still believe distancing themselves from black people will earn approval. History keeps proving otherwise. What frustrates many black people now is being expected to save everyone again. Communities that stayed silent during anti-black racism are suddenly demanding protest, hashtag, and support. Black people have already spent generations fighting discrimination and systematic racism.
So, many are asking, "Where was this energy when black communities needed it?" This does not mean every Latino or Hispanic person is anti-black. Many genuinely support black communities and challenge racism within their own families. But, ignoring anti-blackness in some spaces solves nothing. Real unity requires honesty, accountability, and mutual respect. If community truly wants unity, they must confront anti-blackness and stop choosing proximity to whiteness over genuine connection. Trust is earned through action, not temporary solidarity. Kindly comment your thoughts about this below, and don't forget to like this video, share, and subscribe to this channel.
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