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No, that comment was more of an aside not really related to her specific point but just putting it out there that there are Latinos who aren’t Hispanic, as is the case with Brazilians, a Latin American country where they mostly don’t speak any Spanish.
Actually she claimed that some Latinos are black.
Okay, since you're being intentionally obtuse:
Are there any people who come from Latin American countries (which would qualify them as "Latino/Latina/Latinx") and are descended - partially or wholly - from black slaves brought over from Africa?
Nah, I’m Latino and no one I know outside of college campuses really uses the term, and even then I hardly ever hear it used in speech and not in text. The “nx” suffix doesn’t really work in spoken Spanish and this weird new desire to de-gender the language would be impossible to implement in any non arbitrary way as the entire language assigns a gender to every person, place or thing."Latinx", please. Do try to keep up, grandpa.
Fair enough, but it's also irrelevant to the point.You're aware that not all black people are descended from slaves, right?
Answer it and you'll find out.Assuming you know this...what does your question have to do with anything?
Answer it and you'll find out.
Some of them are. I think she was speaking in a more generalized sense. Latinos are black, Latinos are white, Latinos can also have East Asian ancestry and features like you get with Peruvians. Latino doesn’t mean you’re a specific race, it refers to people from Latin America, regardless of their race or ethnicity.She said Latinos are black lol.
She very well could be both. They’re not mutually exclusive.She's a latino, ergo she's claiming she is black.
Did you miss where she says “we run an entire racial spectrum”? That means she’s saying Latinos can be of any race. Not that we’re all black.Actually, she doesn't claim that...
"A lot of times I’ll hear people say, ‘OK, this is about Black Lives Matter, what about Latinos?’ and I always say, Latinos are black! We are Afro-Latina, and we run an entire racial spectrum,” Ocasio-Cortez replied."
I highlighted the relevant portion. You'll notice nowhere does she say "some".
@GoldenBoy89 already made the point I was trying to make. No need to repeat it.Sure.
Did you miss where she says “we run an entire racial spectrum”? .
Not at all.Did you miss where she said latinos are black?
Exactly. If you really wanted to nitpick, you could say that she could have made her meaning clearer by explicitly stating that "some" or "many" Latinos are black, but in context, it's pretty easy to tell that she did not mean that "all" Latinos are black.Not at all.
It’s absolutely true that many are black. We run an entire racial spectrum and in that spectrum there are Afro-Latinos.
You’d have to ignore this part for what you’re implying to be the only possible interpretation of her comment.
Ah sorry! It’s just a pet peeve of mine when I see it.(I was just having some fun.)
Not at all.
It’s absolutely true that many are black. We run an entire racial spectrum and in that spectrum there are Afro-Latinos.
You’d have to ignore this part for what you’re implying to be the only possible interpretation of her comment.
You think AOC is black?
Not all of them, no but about 40 million people from Latin America with black, African ancestry would probably disagree with you that they aren’t black or Latino or that it has to be one or the other.Latinos aren't black.
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