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error-523scintilla · 11 days ago

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There’s an interesting conversation here about how Latino communities are used about certain type of conservative Christian (catholic) flavor of statehood where we don’t necessarily discriminate by black vs white or of someone is “black” or “white” enough (not counting Argentina), but we DO have a problem with colorism and classism being heavily intertwined, where the darkest skin colors, and specially in men, tend to be more represented in poorer areas (only surpassed by natives, which are the ones suffering indisputable racism), while mid and lighter skin tones are in more often than not in middle class and upwards.

They seek for the “American dream” after our countries are destroyed by the US imperialism expansion and psy-ops operations, looking for places that share their “conservative” catholic values and customs they’re so used to, that they don’t understand being conservative in the USA is so, so different than in their countries. They flee the “woke” only to find out their mere existence is considered woke in those places, not being welcome. Outsiders. That’s the reality we live in.

They really need the reality wake up call. The punch. To understand they’re not considered part of them. To stop believing those places are just like our countries. They hate us. White USAmericans hate us, no matter how many traditional opinions or believes you may share with them.

Latinos and black people suffer under the same nationalistic white supremacy. And they don’t understand it, as it has probably never happened to them before from where they come. They’re brothers and sisters under the same oppression.

While this does not excuse their behavior nor endorses it, I do hope this explains a little where their mindset comes from. How they don’t get that their actions uphold white supremacy until it punches them in the face.

nah nah nah. y'all wanted to be white so bad, stay there with them and EAT THAT RACISM smfh

#I do want to add a caviar about the whole Latinos not calling themselves black #because for us when in English speaking communities people refer to black #we understand it as African-American type of black #who suffered a different type of oppression than here #as skin tones are so varied here it’s not the same experience #our cops are actually mostly people of color and of indigenous descent #and when we think black we think African -Caribbean #and countries with access to the sea have a beloved Caribbean culture #and many of our customs and traditions being intertwined between Spanish conquistadores African and indigenous #that’s why also when trying to appeal to the ‘you’re black’ they answer with nationality #as we see ourselves as our countries #our main problem is actually xenophobia but that’s another discussion #except Dominicans they really do have heavy internalized racism #actually most countries that are heavily intertwined with the USA do suffer that #what a terrible influence tbh #sorry to ramble but I would like for people to understand where their stance come from #even if it’s shitty and inexcusable

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