Two Afro-Latina Sisters' Quest to Reclaim Their Identity | NBCLX

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  • @yesenia7999
    @yesenia7999 3 роки тому +29

    I feel that they are proud of their African roots which they have and should be proud of. What I don’t understand is why people feel the need to remind them that they are not fully black....I think they already know that. If they tried to deny that part, then they don’t like black people. Can we just be proud of our Taino/ black roots without people having to make it a negative thing that we are proud of. I wish there were peace between our people.

    • @kapainvestmentsltd1531
      @kapainvestmentsltd1531 3 роки тому +3

      Spot on!

    • @vanillaisreallyblack4674
      @vanillaisreallyblack4674 2 роки тому +2

      Yes, you can be proud, but claiming to be Black is pushing it.

    • @DAWHOLECREEK
      @DAWHOLECREEK 2 місяці тому +1

      "THEY'RE NOT #FULLY BLACK" = #IGNORANCE
      🧐 ... #BREAKDOWN ⁉️‼️
      "BLACK" IS THE MOST #EXOTIC "RACE" THERE IS, WHICH REPRESENTS "VARIATION" AMONG A BROAD SPECTRUM OF INDIVIDUALS. THIS #DIVERSITY INHERENTLY DEFINES BLACKNESS AS A #COMPLEX AND RICH IDENTITY, ENCOMPASSING MANY ETHNICITIES, CULTURES, AND TRAITS. YET, #INSECURITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY ENABLES A DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER MENTALITY TO PERSIST, UNDERMINING #UNITY.
      UNITY IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR STRENGTH-"UNITY IS OUR WEALTH." 💪🏾
      THE BLACK #DIASPORA SPANS ACROSS NATIONS, HERITAGES, AND SKIN TONES, BUT TOO OFTEN, WE ALLOW THESE #DIFFERENCES TO FUEL DIVISION. THE CONCEPT OF "BLACK" IS NOT CONFINED TO ONE NARROW DEFINITION. 🤓💡
      WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE BLACK? 📚📉📊
      - AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE BLACK.
      - AFRO-LATINAS ARE BLACK.
      - MELANATED INDIVIDUALS FROM AFRICA ARE BLACK.
      - EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE CONSIDERED MIXED RACE-A CATEGORY THAT ITSELF DOESN'T TRULY EXIST-ARE BLACK.
      - DARK-SKINNED, LIGHT-SKINNED, BROWN-SKINNED, AND EVERY SHADE IN BETWEEN ARE BLACK.
      THE SO-CALLED "PAPER BAG TEST," ALONG WITH THE "PLANTATION HOUSE NINJA" OR "FIELD NINJA" MENTALITY, IS AN INSIDIOUS #TOXICITY THAT CONTINUES TO INFECT OUR COMMUNITY. IT SOWS DIVISION WHERE THERE SHOULD BE NONE. THESE #ARTIFICIAL DIVISIONS BASED ON SKIN COLOR, HISTORICALLY USED TO OPPRESS US, NOW STAND AS #OBSTACLES TO OUR UNITY.
      WE MUST DO BETTER-TO RECOGNIZE, CELEBRATE, AND UPLIFT EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF ALLOWING THESE DIVISIONS TO PERSIST. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
      #BIOLOGICALLY, WE HAVE THE EVE GENE, THE GENE THAT PRODUCES ALL #VARIATIONS OF HUMANKIND, SHOWING THAT BLACKNESS IS A SOURCE OF IMMENSE DIVERSITY. IF BLACKNESS ENCOMPASSES ALL THESE POSSIBILITIES, WHAT THEN IS THE TRUE DEFINITION OF "BLACK"?
      ONE FINAL THOUGHT:
      🤔⁉️ HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT IT IS RARELY BLACK MEN WHO QUESTION WHETHER ANOTHER MAN IS BLACK? WHY IS THAT... 😒😐🤔⁉️
      #KINGZ & #QUEENZ 👑👑👑👑👑👑👑‼️

  • @healingher3776
    @healingher3776 4 роки тому +19

    Afro Latinas 💞💞 yessss I tried to tell em' I wasn't picking sides and I was born in the 70's❤️
    We are worthy from day 1🥇🥂

  • @darrelldamon2745
    @darrelldamon2745 2 роки тому +7

    Love to see light skin black people not denying their blackness

  • @AlbertoEscalante15
    @AlbertoEscalante15 3 роки тому +15

    Griselda was my professor and wrote me a recommendation letter to get into Columbia University, and I did! #magic

  • @adrianajoy4172
    @adrianajoy4172 4 роки тому +23

    Very inspiring and real. Thank you Brujas of Brooklyn for sharing your story. I can relate on so many levels.

    • @isagutierrez1845
      @isagutierrez1845 4 роки тому +2

      Thank you for watching, Adriana!

    • @LXNews
      @LXNews  4 роки тому +2

      Thanks for your support! Be sure to share this story with your friends and family

  • @elr.4780
    @elr.4780 3 роки тому +14

    Interesting video. I have seen many dominicans who do not claim to be black nor afro latino but latino. Black comics who mimic dark skinned Dominicans who claim they are not black but are latino. I have seen them on talk shows on Univision in the past talking about being latino and not black. These women embrace their afro identity,

    • @alnajjar2726
      @alnajjar2726 3 роки тому +3

      Not all Dominicans are black, that's why.

    • @livingstonemartinjr9175
      @livingstonemartinjr9175 2 роки тому +2

      @@alnajjar2726 lol I have yet to meet a pure white dominican, I have met some damn near white ones but it's always something that says yeah thats a nigga too, nose ,hair lips ,head shape ,bone structure something

  • @keithnelson7629
    @keithnelson7629 3 роки тому +4

    Good too see Dominicans proud of there blackness

  • @LissaNylon
    @LissaNylon 4 роки тому +7

    Thank you for sharing this story - it’s a very common one in our community. I got emotional watching this. Our parents have gone thru so much and just need our love and compassion. I love that she now loves the blackness in herself and her family. Beautiful ✨

  • @nycg801
    @nycg801 2 роки тому +2

    I love Hispanics who are as educated as these ladies much love from the bx

  • @stephanielopez6797
    @stephanielopez6797 4 роки тому +13

    Loved this video ♥️♥️♥️ Seeing the mom cried brought tears to my eye... I understood her “why”

    • @isagutierrez1845
      @isagutierrez1845 4 роки тому +1

      Thank you for watching, Stephanie. So glad this spoke to you.

    • @LXNews
      @LXNews  4 роки тому +1

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    • @kenyarrains4153
      @kenyarrains4153 4 роки тому

      Finally the empresses of Mariscos are wiping the cold out of their eyes as the divine prophecies foretold in the end of an age theres no such people that are African American,Puerto Rican, Dominican,negro,black,colored,Hispanic and Indians have a nationality thats from the land of India 🇮🇳 Negra means black which is an adjective which is not a PERSON,place or thing moreno on the other hand mean melatonina moor from moriscos the so called puerto ricans,dominicanos,aztecas,etc who built the very well hidden city El Dorado(city made out of gold)being the most wealthest people on earth just like the puerto ricans who approximately around 311 AD migrated to Borikan(PR)as the boricua tribe from south América under the empieza of americanas(not the kingdom)(just like Califa California the latin empresas who was the land was named after)1491 Christopher columbus came to Boriken after naming it port rich(due to the fact the women at the port wore 3 millón in gold a piece around their neck and wrist and cut off their arms/heads for it which started wars)know the I am a moor you are my brothers/sisters who are moors the mothers and fathers of all of humanity of earth if you wanna know more let me know but study study study take DR back,PR back,South Americanas,north América,México,etc the and our ancestrales familias are assisting us reclaim your royal birthrites

    • @kenyarrains4153
      @kenyarrains4153 4 роки тому

      Wow her grandmother was haitianos they originally came from the maroon tribe they are definately royals under the ancient moorish tribe who founded the united states to be in América smdh

  • @lazarocedeno5270
    @lazarocedeno5270 2 роки тому +1

    Dear sisters. Brujas! I love you. Thanks for your clarity. Your courage. Thanks for your story. Beautiful story.

  • @daniaa.oliva-pena7338
    @daniaa.oliva-pena7338 2 роки тому +1

    Awe, I love this family! So beautiful !

  • @sweetswingj
    @sweetswingj 2 роки тому

    I feel this heavy. Older latino cultures hate black people. But it’s like us Latinos have a huge mix of African black and taino roots. There’s literally full black Latinos. And there’s tons of Spanish people that have similar facial and physical traits and features to black people. Ex: noses,hair,voices,

  • @daniaa.oliva-pena7338
    @daniaa.oliva-pena7338 2 роки тому +1

    Ladies understand the trauma is deep, so deep that being African had to be kept underwrap in order to survive . You had to try to blend. I'm so inane, that she was able to breathe and tell the story that couldn't told . I want to cry .

  • @MRLEGGOBROOKLYN
    @MRLEGGOBROOKLYN 4 роки тому +5

    I don't know about anyone else but me as a "Colored" man I love all my sisters!.....fellas act like you're afro-latinas not fire🤷🏾‍♂️🤣🙏🏾

  • @TBgunsandbutter
    @TBgunsandbutter 4 роки тому +6

    Latinos and Blacks are hand in hand one in the same

    • @elr.4780
      @elr.4780 3 роки тому +7

      There are many latinos who do not believe that

    • @TBgunsandbutter
      @TBgunsandbutter 3 роки тому

      @Melanated Warrior coconut
      you funny as hell 🥥

    • @TBgunsandbutter
      @TBgunsandbutter 3 роки тому +2

      @Melanated Warrior most places the world over Black and Latino people are co habitats and endure the same struggles but instead of face those struggles unified, they look down on one another.
      Blacks and Latinos will never " stand " each other, their humans! which means despite being social creatures, we are also tribal and racist and brainwashed. ( you know, human condition )
      Black and Latino People's plights are very similar the world over, we were and are subjugated by the same oppressors.
      both races still suffering from the same genocides

    • @TBgunsandbutter
      @TBgunsandbutter 3 роки тому

      @Melanated Warrior fool
      and you still funny as hell

    • @livingstonemartinjr9175
      @livingstonemartinjr9175 2 роки тому +3

      Not the Cubans I grew up with, they may have adopted our swag ,but identifying as lol

  • @bel-ayiti2076
    @bel-ayiti2076 2 роки тому +1

    Griselda looks like a girl i met in Baitoa , santiago de los caballeros, RD when i was working in a hospital.

  • @desmondherron552
    @desmondherron552 3 роки тому +1

    I like the salad analogy. My favorite though is a quilt.

  • @chimakalu41
    @chimakalu41 2 роки тому

    Very touching story.

  • @jahova77
    @jahova77 4 роки тому +5

    Excellent video my sister's. ♥️

    • @LXNews
      @LXNews  4 роки тому +1

      Thank you for your support! Be sure to share this story with your friends and family

  • @linzierogers5024
    @linzierogers5024 2 роки тому +2

    The one drop rule still applies. That being the case all blacks worldwide have a common enemy and it should not be each other. Our oppressor has the upper hand because we are not united and he knows it. Once united we will come to see we don't need him and he can go straight to hell. My best to these two women.

    • @boomboombaby9140
      @boomboombaby9140 2 роки тому

      The one drop rule was made up by racist whites lol

  • @mariaalonso4247
    @mariaalonso4247 3 роки тому +1

    Bella vuestra madre
    La discriminación debe ser por comportamiento no por color de piel .

  • @trojanhorse6345
    @trojanhorse6345 4 роки тому +10

    In the real world, you have to pick a side. People from the Dominican republic are unique in their anti blackness. Afro Cubans, afro Brazilians celebrate their African heritage.

  • @omarrashadyahudah3532
    @omarrashadyahudah3532 3 роки тому +1

    Much respect he definitely Afro period!!

  • @williebrinson4699
    @williebrinson4699 3 роки тому +1

    Griselda and Miguelina are strong human beings. The average person is weak and will go alone to get alone, I prefer strong intelligent human beings myself and not the robotic type that will conform just so they don't have to fight. I understand though why most conform, because it's easier in the short term. Myself I prefer being able to sleep at night knowing I'm a good human being.

  • @marlene97280
    @marlene97280 3 роки тому +1

    Saludos desde Martinica en el Caribe francés a nos hermanos, 💓💓💓
    Magnifica
    Orgulloso de nuestras raíces.😘
    Soy tambien afrolatina y todavía es difícil hacer que la gente entienda.
    🤣

  • @charlesedwards9024
    @charlesedwards9024 2 роки тому +1

    Kool

  • @nerop5456
    @nerop5456 4 роки тому +4

    Great video

    • @isagutierrez1845
      @isagutierrez1845 4 роки тому +1

      Thanks, Nero!

    • @LXNews
      @LXNews  4 роки тому +1

      Thanks for your support! Continue to follow us for more stories like this one!

  • @godzillamegatron3590
    @godzillamegatron3590 4 роки тому +9

    I say it 2020. Teach them the truth. Race is a social construct idea. It is not biological. And teach them to a proud American. Many Americans died to make USA a great nation.

    • @gummithyxii1885
      @gummithyxii1885 4 роки тому +1

      Actually it is am not biological related to every human in the world

  • @earlrogersjr3026
    @earlrogersjr3026 3 роки тому +1

    Listen to the conversation of the sisters that’s born three minutes earlier than her twin I understand exactly what she meant what she means. If I call you black I am referring to US black of IAmerican of African dissent. if you are from Nigeria, Kenya or Egypt as Some of my relatives or through marriage then I will refer to you as a Kenyan or Nigerian America the reason why Americans of of African dissent is something that came out of the civil right movement. But Americans of African dissent if you want to describe them they are really People of color and it’s like my great grandmother use too say. You can find a person of any color in the Negro community, her daughter my great grandmother was the first one born in the United States after 1865.

  • @girlchica2958
    @girlchica2958 4 роки тому +17

    They honestly arent black... they are mixed. & I wouldnt consider her son "afrodominican" either since the father isn't domincan.

    • @gummithyxii1885
      @gummithyxii1885 4 роки тому +3

      @fireblast 744 what's ur problem afro means of african decent if we are talking about mix African-American have 73.3% african dna people with the purest on west is from the caribbean n southern south America

    • @gummithyxii1885
      @gummithyxii1885 4 роки тому

      @fireblast 744 nope bc logic is quater black and he's biracial that bull n if he's biracial that means african Americans are technically biracial

    • @gummithyxii1885
      @gummithyxii1885 4 роки тому

      @fireblast 744 u still not getting it if someone is quater of another they are also biracial facts

    • @oddp61
      @oddp61 3 роки тому +4

      @@gummithyxii1885 actually African americans do not have only 73% black dna..your numbers are grossly off. Because mixed race ppl often prefer to dentify as black adds to inflated numbers. The average black person with two mostly black parents has a DNA of 80% black. Geography matters too! Is the data coming from someone from new Orleans vs south Carolina. That matters. 74 Africans Is a big difference between being only 20 %. By your logic african Americans should identify as white. Since they are 26%white according to u. Lol these women aren't black stop supporting the racist 1 drop slavery rule.

    • @girlchica2958
      @girlchica2958 3 роки тому +2

      @Carmen LaRose
      I dont call people who look white black lmao.

  • @NewscorpleftofcenterBlogspot
    @NewscorpleftofcenterBlogspot 3 роки тому

    Beautiful story

  • @CreoleLadisBluesLounge-kg8wu
    @CreoleLadisBluesLounge-kg8wu 2 місяці тому

    Dominicans and Haitian Creoles are closest to Louisiana Creole. ❤️❤️❤️🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

  • @deborahhughes3456
    @deborahhughes3456 3 роки тому +1

    Interesting

  • @perezdoitbest7540
    @perezdoitbest7540 2 роки тому

    I just want to know what to put in this form.

  • @Deio2015
    @Deio2015 3 роки тому +1

    I never got to see all this intel I was in my late 20's and I was disappointed of me and my skin.growing up half black and Spanish not looking like the other black kids growing up .little did I kn I was gonna see my tía sooner than I thought

  • @oddp61
    @oddp61 4 роки тому +18

    I’m sorry these women aren’t black. Them claiming AFRO-Latinx negates the experience of true AFRO-Latinx (black ppl) ppl. These woman are clearly mostly white/native mestizo. I’m sure there is some black there.Even their mom isn’t majority black. She said her grandma was black. These ppl are confused. Why can’t they embrace their true heritage.

    • @k.burbank868
      @k.burbank868 4 роки тому +5

      Period 🔥

    • @ari23-23
      @ari23-23 4 роки тому +1

      There's been discrimination in those parts of lation country's because of how they look why they are making this a new identify.. and I don't blame they are not trying to be in no side or trying to claim being black just like African Americans feel they are hated on for their skin color that's how they treat Latinos of all walks with f the world for being darker .

    • @JD-ny3vz
      @JD-ny3vz 3 роки тому +7

      But if they were biracial black and white and came out looking like that and said they identify as black nobody care. Just because they prob come from a long line of mixed people doesn't mean they are not black you don't have to be dark skin to be black.

    • @oddp61
      @oddp61 3 роки тому +7

      @@JD-ny3vz actually it DOES mean they aren't black. Lol a person with two black parents is not the same as a person with mixed race heritage. Especailly a person with out any black parents.. Neither is better than the other as we are all people. But we can not deny each group is unique..

    • @Tmaria-wn3hc
      @Tmaria-wn3hc 3 роки тому +6

      THEY LOOK BLACK TO ME . I AM EAST AFRICAN AND THEYLOOK LIKE ONE OF US HONESTLY

  • @bxboriblkboyz8555
    @bxboriblkboyz8555 3 роки тому +8

    They are not black lol... They are not white...They are mixed...Her child is mostly black and dominican...But those 2 ladies are allies to the cause and are bringing attention to colorism which is great! Racism is lame and old. Like what you like but don't be a bigot!

  • @vanillaisreallyblack4674
    @vanillaisreallyblack4674 2 роки тому +4

    Mixed Latinos claiming to be Black/Afro Latinos make being Black sound like a curse and a burden. Africa nor ancestry doesn't make someone Black. Either you are or you're not. I'm not Black because of slavery, I'm Black because both my parents are too.
    These Dominicans are not Black.

    • @sweetswingj
      @sweetswingj 2 роки тому +1

      Thats legit picking and choosing 😭😂 who r u to tell ppl what they are and aren’t.

  • @kejekdkdje5542
    @kejekdkdje5542 3 роки тому

    Very sad story

  • @Wassaja_Eskiminzin
    @Wassaja_Eskiminzin 2 роки тому +2

    Hispanic is a white man ethnicity from Europe to be specific Spain. I am Indigenous Native American APACHE & HUICHOL (Tohono O’odham) I speak spanish but that doesn’t make me “Latino”

    • @livingstonemartinjr9175
      @livingstonemartinjr9175 2 роки тому

      Spaniards are European,,Whereas Hispanic is a catch all frase for the new world Spanish speakers

  • @williamkelly9859
    @williamkelly9859 2 роки тому

    Honestly.you don't look afro by any stretch.

  • @amymethsmack2470
    @amymethsmack2470 3 роки тому +4

    *How are they african? They have long thin noses and thin lips and almost white skin? You people confuse me*

    • @wills6226
      @wills6226 3 роки тому +4

      I am an African-American man, almost as dark as we come yet I have the blood of former slave masters running through my veins. These women have every right to claim their African heritage just as I do. Black people come In every color under the rainbow. Perhaps I can give you a history lesson for better understanding if you so desire. I was truly inspired by their story. Lets stop being so negative about things we don’t understand.

    • @doubleutee8867
      @doubleutee8867 3 роки тому +2

      Persia White, Nicole Ritchie, Meghan Markle, Maya Rudolph, Soledad O'Brien, Rashida Jones, Mariah Carey, The rock, Pete Wentz, Cash Warren, Slash, etc..

    • @amymethsmack2470
      @amymethsmack2470 3 роки тому +1

      @@doubleutee8867 yeah all mixed people with either really light skin or tanned skin but not black, and most of them have tanning lotion or go to tanning salons, for christ sakes look at Mariah Carey shes white as they come

    • @amymethsmack2470
      @amymethsmack2470 3 роки тому +3

      @@wills6226 i think its fake just because they sleep with black men doesnt make them black

    • @wills6226
      @wills6226 3 роки тому +2

      @@amymethsmack2470 your comments have very negative overtones. They are married to a black man not sleeping with black men. the facial features you are referring to are not exclusive to white people maybe I can introduce you to my Ethiopian sisters. Why do you seem so offended and why do you think you have the right to judge? African blood runs through their veins and they should be allowed to claim as much of it as they choose

  • @amymethsmack2470
    @amymethsmack2470 3 роки тому +4

    *I dont understand??? How are they african and have white skin like me?? Everybody wants to be black now a days*

    • @marllon9786
      @marllon9786 3 роки тому +4

      Their skin is not white... smh

    • @amymethsmack2470
      @amymethsmack2470 3 роки тому

      @@marllon9786 what color is their skin.....green? 😄😄 you people are so DUMB

    • @arianhditlee8480
      @arianhditlee8480 3 роки тому +2

      Thts tan skin kid lol 😂

    • @amymethsmack2470
      @amymethsmack2470 3 роки тому +1

      @Melanated Warrior yeah but their skin is not doo doo black and oily neither....sooooo

    • @dantebeard3766
      @dantebeard3766 3 роки тому +1

      @@amymethsmack2470 they have ancestors who are of african descent that's why.