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Might have to check this out. As a black Latina I'd be interested to see how they handle her background, especially since a significant population of Colombia is black a fact that seems to escape a lot of people.

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SCNDLS said:

Might have to check this out. As a black Latina I'd be interested to see how they handle her background, especially since a significant population of Colombia is black a fact that seems to escape a lot of people.

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I'm so glad you mentioned how they handled the fact that she's a Black-Latina like yourself...I got confused. When you first see her Dad you know from the jump that he's Latino. So I was waiting for her Black mother to come around the corner but she didnt...LOL... Her mother sorta-looked like she could be part black, but she spoke Spanish and we learned later that she was also a Latina. Then later on Zoe meets up with her extended Family and they're all Latin...

So it's as if she's not part Black at all. If you see the movie let me know if I missed something. Zoe is part Black but I don't think her character is...

Chancellor said:

SCNDLS said:

Might have to check this out. As a black Latina I'd be interested to see how they handle her background, especially since a significant population of Colombia is black a fact that seems to escape a lot of people.

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I'm so glad you mentioned how they handled the fact that she's a Black-Latina like yourself...I got confused. When you first see her Dad you know from the jump that he's Latino. So I was waiting for her Black mother to come around the corner but she didnt...LOL... Her mother sorta-looked like she could be part black, but she spoke Spanish and we learned later that she was also a Latina. Then later on Zoe meets up with her extended Family and they're all Latin...

So it's as if she's not part Black at all. If you see the movie let me know if I missed something. Zoe is part Black but I don't think her character is...

See this the type of shit I'm talking about. At least a quarter of Colombia's population is straight up BLACK, or Afro-Colombianos. The number certainly increases if you factor in folks who are "mixed." Most people from Central America down through South America have a considerable African ancestry but Hollywood continues to portray them as mostly European looking Spaniards, when that's nowhere near the reality.

Ain't no doubt these are black folks.

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And before the usual comments come let me add a quote from Zoe herself:

When I go to the D.R., the press in Santo Domingo always asks, "¿Qué te consideras, dominicana o americana?" (What do you consider yourself, Dominican or American?) I don't understand it, and it's the same people asking the same question. So I say, time and time again, "Yo soy una mujer negra." ("I am a black woman.") [They go,] "Oh, no, tú eres trigueñita." ("Oh no, you are 'dark skinned'") I'm like, "No! Let's get it straight, yo soy una mujer negra." ("I am a black woman.")

^^It's sad that so many people don't understand the concepts of race and nationality. I've listened to many black latinos say how people claim that they're lying when they explain that they're hispanic. People really think that all latinos look like JLO and Eva Mendes.

Read a damn history book. North America wasn't the only stop for those African slaves. There are more black people in Brazil, then anywhere in the world (except Africa, of course).

SCNDLS said:

And before the usual comments come let me add a quote from Zoe herself:

When I go to the D.R., the press in Santo Domingo always asks, "¿Qué te consideras, dominicana o americana?" (What do you consider yourself, Dominican or American?) I don't understand it, and it's the same people asking the same question. So I say, time and time again, "Yo soy una mujer negra." ("I am a black woman.") [They go,] "Oh, no, tú eres trigueñita." ("Oh no, you are 'dark skinned'") I'm like, "No! Let's get it straight, yo soy una mujer negra." ("I am a black woman.")

Layzie said:

^^It's sad that so many people don't understand the concepts of race and nationality. I've listened to many black latinos say how people claim that they're lying when they explain that they're hispanic. People really think that all latinos look like JLO and Eva Mendes.

Read a damn history book. North America wasn't the only stop for those African slaves. There are more black people in Brazil, then anywhere in the world (except Africa, of course).

True, but slavery isn't the only way black folks came to Central America. There's been a considerable amount of immigration from the Caribbean islands, especially in the last century. For instance, MOST of the black folks in Panama, where I'm from, came from the islands to build the canal. Hence, why there's such a strong Caribbean culture in a lot of these Latino countries. Our food, accents when speaking English, VERY english last names (most of us have Spanish first/middle names and English last names in my family it's Gordon, Smith, McDonald, Evering, and so on) definitely emulate that of the Caribbean. So culturally, in a lot of ways, black Panamanians are much more West Indian than Spanish.

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I was on my way to a movie review and a history lesson broke out!!! This is really cool....

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SCNDLS said:

Chancellor said:

I'm so glad you mentioned how they handled the fact that she's a Black-Latina like yourself...I got confused. When you first see her Dad you know from the jump that he's Latino. So I was waiting for her Black mother to come around the corner but she didnt...LOL... Her mother sorta-looked like she could be part black, but she spoke Spanish and we learned later that she was also a Latina. Then later on Zoe meets up with her extended Family and they're all Latin...

So it's as if she's not part Black at all. If you see the movie let me know if I missed something. Zoe is part Black but I don't think her character is...

See this the type of shit I'm talking about. At least a quarter of Colombia's population is straight up BLACK, or Afro-Colombianos. The number certainly increases if you factor in folks who are "mixed." Most people from Central America down through South America have a considerable African ancestry but Hollywood continues to portray them as mostly European looking Spaniards, when that's nowhere near the reality.

Ain't no doubt these are black folks.

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Beautiful.

zoe saldana is hot

I think it's Sad that even Black Americans forget there are Black folks living all around the world. I know I am guilty of being ignorant about it. This has been a "Learning-Lesson"...

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Chancellor said:

I think it's Sad that even Black Americans forget there are Black folks living all around the world. I know I am guilty of being ignorant about it. This has been a "Learning-Lesson"...

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Lol don't get me started on Asians....coughfilipinoscough

Chancellor said:

I think it's Sad that even Black Americans forget there are Black folks living all around the world. I know I am guilty of being ignorant about it. This has been a "Learning-Lesson"...

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True. MOST Mexicans don't know or want to admit that it's a lot of African history there too considering Mexico got 4x as many slaves as the US and their first President was part black. So there's more than enough ignorance and denial to go around.

ScarletScandal said:

Chancellor said:

I think it's Sad that even Black Americans forget there are Black folks living all around the world. I know I am guilty of being ignorant about it. This has been a "Learning-Lesson"...

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Lol don't get me started on Asians....coughfilipinoscough

Say that. Shit all throughout the South Pacific it's a bunch of African descendants.

Layzie said:

^^It's sad that so many people don't understand the concepts of race and nationality. I've listened to many black latinos say how people claim that they're lying when they explain that they're hispanic. People really think that all latinos look like JLO and Eva Mendes.

Read a damn history book. North America wasn't the only stop for those African slaves. There are more black people in Brazil, then anywhere in the world (except Africa, of course).

Exactly, or Ethnicity. We Americans understand that Americans are all different colors, but somehow don't get that Latinos are made up of indigenous Americans, white, black, asian or anything in between

SCNDLS said:

ScarletScandal said:

Lol don't get me started on Asians....coughfilipinoscough

Say that. Shit all throughout the South Pacific it's a bunch of African descendants.

Real Talk Milton!! One time, I was trying to get with a Filipino guy, and he was like "I don't like Black men" and I told him "Whooo!! Self hatred is a bitch!!"

SCNDLS said:

Chancellor said:

I think it's Sad that even Black Americans forget there are Black folks living all around the world. I know I am guilty of being ignorant about it. This has been a "Learning-Lesson"...

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True. MOST Mexicans don't know or want to admit that it's a lot of African history there too considering Mexico got 4x as many slaves as the US and their first President was part black. So there's more than enough ignorance and denial to go around.

Mexico still has its own indegenous African-Americans, in, natch, southern Mexico. Of course, discriminated against.