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Granted, it is laborious to explain Afro-Latin/Afro-Caribbean dynamics to GD(GD is some of the most self-hating, non knowing your cultural heritage azz ninjaz alive), .....it is worth it if only for La Raza.....
Thus, I do the following for my diasporic Afrikan progeny...
*cracks knuckles*
1st off, Fat Joe was partially on-point.
Partially only because there are some dormannt racist mechanisms that he is still dealing with. If I ever get the chance to bless NYC, I'll link with him and shed light where his darkness is present.
Now, lets get into the real.....
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A LATINO!
(as revolutionary as that sounds, its the realest truth ever).
All that ever was, always has been in an ethno-cultural sense.
Allow me to deconstruct the propaghanda.
Beautiful diasporic Africana of GD,..
The term "Latino" was born from white census administrators who were too lazy to take an honest statistical-appraisal of Latin America's inherent ethnic diversity(Africans/Europeans/Indigenous Native Americans).
Thus, the term, "Latino" was deployed to over-simplify Latin America's ethnic composition for the mere means of minimizing the stifling impact of racism practiced there.
-And for the purposes of minimizing the indelible cultural-impact of Africana by creating a new ethno-cultural designation that disguises Latin America's Africanic cultural-heritage.
^ ^ ^Watch that!
A better way to put it is: Europeans wanted to cultivate a means of diminishing the ubiquitously-indelible impact of Africana in the region. Thus, Afro-Latin cultures started to see a rebranding in the 70's. You will recall that Afro-Cuban Jazz used to be referred to as, "Afro-Cuban Jazz" or "Afro-Latin Jazz"...but by the 80's, they simply started referring to it as "Latin-Jazz",...completely removing the prefix of "Afro" from it so-as to remove the connotation of 'Blackness' from it. Though it never stopped being Black.
Where do you goofy muthafukkaz think Conga-drumming comes from?
Bongo drumming comes from?
Clave comes from?
Bata drumming comes from?
Samba drumming/Capoiera comes from?
Tango dance/Milonga dance comes from?
Rumba/Salsa dance comes from?
Conga dance comes from?
Cha-cha-cha comes from?
Merengue comes from?
Clave comes from?
Cumbia dance comes from?
Santeria comes from?
Candomble comes from?
Abakua comes from?
....
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Oh?...yall need hints still?,....
Africans of the Americas!
When Africana brought their rhythms/dance/percussion/religion to Latin America, Euro-Latinos(much like hyenas) gravitated towards all that and co-opted it, put their name on it, forced Afro-Latinos(via violence) to succeed those cultures to Euro-Latinos via their respective popularity.
Now, whole new identities have been spawned from these otherwise bastardized African cultures that've been aggressively dissemenated to privileged bi-ethnic Latin Americans whom have the convenience of denying the said African roots of the cultures they've inherited via natural course and misinformation.
Now, just as there are those like yall ignorant-enough to not be able to perceive this, ...there are muthafukkaz like me whom are intelligible enough to perceive this. The question, GD, is....which muthafukkaz is YALL listening to?...........................................................................
https://chriswind.bandcamp.com/track/massage
"You can take an African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African"
Afro-Americana/Afro-Caribbana/Afro-Latino unite. We are ALL Black!
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