#idk the very existence of afrolatines is a huge elephant in the room here that seems inconvenient to address for both sides

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usamericans love to pretend that black people don't exist outside the us, that the world is not filled with e.g. afrolatines who are affected both by global antiblackness and by global imperialism -- & conversely it disquiets me seeing fellow nonblack latines talk about how usamericans don't understand or purposefully misunderstand latinamerican racial dynamics (which, to be clear, is true) in a way that seems to elide or deny the existence of pervasive antiblackness against those very same afrolatines throughout latin america.