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Social, Cultural and Political Aspects of the MGM African/Black Identity
Read more: Social, Cultural and Political Aspects of the MGM African/Black IdentityAfter four hundred years of slave trade and kidnapping, the descendants of the enslaved Africans are no longer the same at all. Often, when speaking about the first groups brought to the Americas, modern historians refer to them as the Atlantic Creoles, hence a term which highlights the racial, social fabrication of these enslaved Africans…
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Why “Haitian Flag Day”Should Be Celebrated By The Entire African Diaspora
Read more: Why “Haitian Flag Day”Should Be Celebrated By The Entire African DiasporaToday, May 18, 2023 is Haitian Flag Day, which celebrates the creation of the Haitian flag during the revolution. I aim to be clear that I am not Haitian. This date should not just be restricted to the Haitian community, but extended to the entire African diaspora; Haitian history is African history.We are talking about…
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Why We Are Tired of The White Latin Rhetoric Regarding Their Justification In Exploiting African Music and Identity
Read more: Why We Are Tired of The White Latin Rhetoric Regarding Their Justification In Exploiting African Music and IdentityRacism in the Latin world has displayed its worst forms since 1492. There, the colonial powers which have dominated both the Africans and the Natives, have tried to hide their racist and white supremacist agenda behind the propaganda of Mestizaje, as mentioned several times on this website. This racial hierarchy began with the racial blood…
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When Multiracial Presents as Black: Distinguishing Blackness From Afro-Latinidad and Black Mestizos
Read more: When Multiracial Presents as Black: Distinguishing Blackness From Afro-Latinidad and Black MestizosThe discussion regarding the identity of Afro-Latinos and the movement of Afro-Latinidad lacks one element. Afro-Latinidad does not always mean blackness. Though some black Americans who grew up in New-York or in Miami were aware of the Latin Caribbean presence, they did not always knew about its history, past and above all, racial admixture. In…
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Should The Concept of “Afro-Latinidad” Be Related To Ancestry or Blackness?On The “In-Between” Racial Category and Cardi B
Read more: Should The Concept of “Afro-Latinidad” Be Related To Ancestry or Blackness?On The “In-Between” Racial Category and Cardi BBelcalis Almanzar, famously known as Cardi B rose to fame in the late 2010s. A social media personality and a joker, she was discovered on the show Love And Hip-Hop around 2016. The young lady born in 1992 was entertaining, funny and vulgar. There, she was trying hard to convince her peers and producers to…
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The Passport Bro Movement Is Nothing Less Than The Black Face of Sexual Colonialism
Read more: The Passport Bro Movement Is Nothing Less Than The Black Face of Sexual ColonialismFor a few years now, black American men have been attacking their fellow black women, calling them masculine, brutal, aggressive and mean to them. As the black American community is still being plagued by the issue of fatherless homes, and if black women still marry within their community despite the failure of the black American…
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Argentina, France: Between Football and Colonialism
Read more: Argentina, France: Between Football and ColonialismArgentina won. After a horrific, tense-filled final no one thought it would be ending, the controversial Qatari World Cup edition of 2022 now has an official winner. Argentina had not reached the finals in eight years. Winning was, thus not an option, especially when the last star they had dated back to 1986. Once again,…
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THE ONGOING LATINIFICATION OF HIP-HOP
Read more: THE ONGOING LATINIFICATION OF HIP-HOPBlack Americans fail to realise that their political and social condition are more than coveted. If only five per cent of enslaved Africans were sent to the United States, their treatment surpasses that of the others. No one cares for the condition of the Afro-Cubans, Afro-Boricuas or Afro-Peruvians for a specific reason. The Black Americans…
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There Is a Political Coup In Peru. And President Pedro Castillo Has Been Detained. What Is Going On?
Read more: There Is a Political Coup In Peru. And President Pedro Castillo Has Been Detained. What Is Going On?What is going on in Peru? The late 2010s and early 2020s were a rocky period in South America and in the Caribbean. Within a few years, the region often known for its political instability, saw several brutal political upheavals taking place. In July 2021, Jovenel Moise, the former president of Haiti, was brutally gunned…
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