#afrolatinos — Public Fediverse posts
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In addition to being a Black nerd in the 1960s, here's another source of childhood trauma, never fully healing because, the same thinking behavior is still widespread.
The ideology of being Latino is rooted in a colonial past just like the word itself, so there is still this automatic anti-Blackness that comes with darker-skin and what is presumed more African features and being told, “you don't count.”
#BlackMastodon #AfroLatinos #Latinos #LatinoCommunity
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in today's MY PEOPLE ARE SO SPECIAL i just listened to a woman (sorry, didn't get her name) singing about how when you finally get to taste her guayaba, you'll never forget the experience 🧐
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A school district in Florida has removed a children's book on Latino baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente to see if it complies with a new state law limiting discussions about race. #robertoclemente #mlb #baseball #histodons #history #afrolatinos #florida
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/10/florida-school-district-book-roberto-clemente-crt
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Can you be Black and Latinx? Of course: Latin America has millions of Afro-descendant people, and plenty now live in the U.S. But Republicans in Louisiana want them not to count for #votingrights purposes. #SCOTUS will consider. Must-listen Code Switch episode: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1140051580/why-some-republicans-want-to-narrow-who-counts-as-black #Afrolatinos
