A Puerto Rican Had THIS to Say to Black Americans… Black Americans Respond!

[00:00:00]I'm Puerto Rican and Jamaican.

[00:00:01]>> Okay, go ahead. You want to answer the prompt?

[00:00:04]>> Yes, so >> a little It's a little like um muffled like, you know what I mean?

[00:00:09]Static-y a little bit.

[00:00:12]>> Okay. So, I do think unity is possible.

[00:00:16]Um obviously right now, especially like in America, it's it really isn't like, you know, with everything going on.

[00:00:23]But, I do think it is possible because like to me, I'm not going to lie, like race doesn't like we're all human beings. Like, [laughter] that's what I feel like we we get so lost in racism and all of these different things and at the end of the day, we're still the same species. That's different than all of that. You get what I mean, though? Like, we we're we're focusing on a color this, where we came from. At the end of the day, we're a human.

[00:00:52]That's how I look at it. So, it's like it's hard for me to like speak on the race and all that. I'mma get like, you know how it is right now, [ __ ] We're going through a race All of these people are worried about the wrong thing. We're going through a racial crisis right now in America, like crazy. But, it's like I don't understand it because we're all human. No matter what No matter who's who If black is the original We're the original color, what is this this It doesn't matter. We're still human. So, like it's a it's tough for me.

[00:01:22]>> Well, you know what, the Rio?

[00:01:24]Now, I since I'm the If there's any black Americans that want to come up and join the discussion, please do so. Um well, I'mma speak since I'm the only black American, Rio. We're going to We're going to try to all have a conversation here, okay?

[00:01:39]Okay, Rio?

[00:01:41]>> Yeah, I'm listening.

[00:01:42]>> Okay. So, coming from a black American, my perspective is that's one of the issues that black Americans have with melanated immigrants.

[00:01:52]I don't see, you know what I mean? I I don't I I I see color.

[00:01:57]We have a history here and we have a unfinished fight here.

[00:02:02]And you know, we have a fight not all, but I you know, I don't really feel uh white people is human. They they they human, but to they they to me they horrible people.

[00:02:15]>> No, absolutely. I I absolutely.

[00:02:18]>> Okay, well hold on cuz you saying you you we all human and this and that. We and you know, forgetting about the past black Americans, it's hard for us to forget about the past and move on without especially with with the unfinished business we have here in this country.

[00:02:35]And with our government.

[00:02:37]So, it's like a fight in us.

[00:02:40]A deep fight, a historical fight, a fight that goes beyond centuries long that we've been fighting for stuff and you know what I mean, when people come here and they tell us like basically to move on, you know, when melanated immigrants is in our way of this fight, not all, but like the people some of the melanated immigrants in our politics saying we don't need reparations and they think a black person telling them that with cuz they ain't did they history to these people, we all one people. We all black. You know what I mean? So, when you got a black immigrant in our politics speaking for us as if they are us on a historical fight, that's a problem. And then when we don't see that particular immigrants community calling them out, that's a big issue.

[00:03:32]And and and it's not stopping. You know what I mean? And it and it's continuing to happen um generationally. You you understand?

[00:03:41]So, to black Americans, that's the issue for us in this country. Now, if we was in somebody else's country, um you know, listening to whatever they fight is cuz make no mistake about it, every every country with black people in it, those black people in that country most of the time got they own personal fight against whoever. You know what I mean? The harms that was did to them in that country.

[00:04:05]So, it would be insane for me to go into that country and speak for them continuously telling them what they do and don't need. You know what I mean?

[00:04:17]So, it's it's hard to start trying to bridge the gaps if those type of things don't stop. Do that make a little sense?

[00:04:25]>> Yes, it does.