she said in essence magzine she was black it was last januray copy i still have it so why would she lie about race? wats
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Jane_Doe01 — 17 years ago(August 23, 2008 11:33 AM)
Rosie Perez, being of fully PRican descent, does in fact represent one type of Puerto Rican, while your classy homeland "white" ones (and whether you like it or not, the NYRican "ghetto types" you bemoan do also exist on the homeland) represent another, and I'm sure there other types in-between. There is no one "Puerto Rican identity" just as there isn't for any other country or land on earth. Drop the arrogance.
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victor_adame — 17 years ago(August 24, 2008 10:46 PM)
Guys the Puerto Ricans in the mainland are mostly of mixed or of predominantly Afro ancestry.
Whites in Spanish speaking American countries (with the exceptions of Argentina and Cuba) are never poor. ( This is why we never see Mexicans like Diego Luna or Alicia Villarreal working at Jose's Tacos in Los Angeles. )
If you ever have the opportunity to visit P.R. you would know that Whites and Mestizos outnumber the Afrocentric and Mulatto Ricans. -
tampaMr — 17 years ago(September 08, 2008 08:20 PM)
she wouldn't be considered black in Caribbean latino society. She'd be considered mulata, because her parents are probably both mixed indian/black/spanish. You have to be pretty dark to be considered black. I've seen way darker ricans than her! One's that don't deny they're black. I think it's also a generation thing. Back in the day, old school latinos who were mixed denied their black ancestry, today we're proud to admit who we are.
honestly, if you're guajiro, boricua, or platano you probably aren't gonna be able to trace you're entire ethnic beginnings, and it's cool, it decreases the hate. Most of us are mixed and proud to be uniquely latino no matter what color we are.
take it from a proud cubana.
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Jane_Doe01 — 17 years ago(August 23, 2008 11:30 AM)
Hey, stupid. Not one person in this thread was claiming that all Puerto Ricans were either black or mulatto. Stop being paranoid.
The real problem lies within 80-90% of the majority Mulatto/Mestizo/Triracial PR population trying to identify as white merely by (lucky) means of a less than pitch-black skin hue allowing them to believe they can get away with it. Of course since this is actually encouraged by the island's backwards government, it probably isn't totally their fault. Some probably
are
raised believing that they're actually white, even after looking at their dark-skinned blood predecessors. Latin America in general has a severe, long-standing insecurity about this that they need to fu**ing get past already. This is way more of a problem than the so-called one with a few Americans mistaking Latino/Hispanic as a racial designation. -
EndLessMike2 — 17 years ago(August 12, 2008 09:25 PM)
Enough about her being from New York.Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico are also Americans and it might be a state in a couple of years since every voting about the Island never produces more then 10 percent of people who want Indepence.
Puerto Ricans from Puerto Rico love to think there like Mexicans and Domincans who bust there @$$ to get in this country and get a green card and are foreign from America.
New York and Puerto Ricans from Puerto Rico are as differant as New York and New Jersey.
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