Black Mexicans

Read this today and thought about posting it...and here it is. I can't believe they just deported those people, who were legitimate citizens, to other nations, because there are no 'Black Mexicans'....WTF?-and then they don't even get an apology when they are 'allowed' back in? How can there be so few black Mexicans (1.2 percent) when the hispanics in the US regularly claim 'black' as ethnicity at twice the rate? Is there that great of as difference between the two?

 

I looked it up and found 2.5 % or something like that. It seems most claimed white or other. This is from wiki.

Hispanic and Latino Americans by race (2010)[50]
Race Population % of all Hispanic
and Latino Americans
White 26,735,713 53.0
Some other race
(mestizo, mulatto, etc.) 18,503,103 36.7
Two or more races 3,042,592 6.0
Black 1,243,471 2.5
American Indian and Alaska Native 685,150 1.4
Asian 209,128 0.4
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander 58,437 0.1
Total 50,477,594 100.

 

I have really had only one experience with this type of thing-the first black guy I dated was from the Dominican Republic. He was definitely black and claimed black as race, and culturally he said he was hispanic. He had an accent and I asked him where he was from originally and he said The Dominican Republic and that was it. I don't remember him ever using the term 'Dominican' at all. He did have a Spanish name.-I think it is one of the most common ones-Garcia.

 

There are also significant populations of Black Mexicans in Veracruz on the Atlantic Coast and in Northern Mexico on the border with Texas.

 

This is something i wondered about.I've noticed people from this are sometimes looking like black people but wasnt entirely sure how that came about.

 

At my former place of employment. Their was a guy with skin tone and hair "nappier" than mine. He had a Hispanic last name "Ramirez" their version of "Smith" and "Brown."

I, assumed as I sometimes do we were past"did you see Stephen Curry last night?" So, I asked homebody how did he see himself. " He looked at me strange-so I asked "what is your ethinic background?" You would have thought I asked him if he was gay. He stuttered and stammered. He said black but wanted to be indentified as Dominican only.

 

This is pretty common in Latin America. Any country affected by Spanish colonization has sistemic problems with race given that the Spanish empire ran its colonies on the basis of limpieza de sangre or purity of blood or whatever. Basically slaves were used all over the new world, but identifying, not even enfranchisement but just acceptance, of a black/native population as these colonies came about their independence was unacceptable and even laughable. Look at Argentina who for most of its history has consistently denied to acknowledge even the presence of black people in their country, despite their main port Buenos Aires being the gateway for many slaves into the interior of Spanish South America. I mean tango their claim to fame was a dance started by the black communities on the Rio de la Plata region of Uruguay and Argentina. And it's now coming to light that many black communities were forced into rural areas or into obscure poverty, in a sort of genocidal fashion, for nature to eventually ween out the "lesser" of the competing species. Most of Latin America "whitens" its history and claims blacks are only "problems" for the Carribean and Brazil. You could throw a stone with your eyes closed and hit so many articles on the Internet to back me up here.

 

I am familiar with the majority of this-but I didn't know about the tango.