Is Puerto Rican culture Anti Black? No lies ❌

Let’s talk about the racistism, colorism textureism, and featureism in Puerto Rican culture. The closeness to whiteness is a real thing. ALL non black groups and even within black culture have negative Sentiments about black people especially the darkest among them. This happens in every culture and need to be talked about and acknowledged and not just by black people but other groups as well.

[boldbabez]

I love when ppl tell the truth...and she is speaking truth....

[calvinhoward]

I didn't know this until a Cuban guy I was working with 15 years ago told me about it. He had a really dark tan, and he said his other family members didn't like them because he was too dark. So what she saying is absolutely true. People with melanin in their skin get treated like trash no matter what culture it is, and it's really sad

[angelverdejo]

I'm a black Puerto Rican born in PR. 1963. As a child, I experienced racism from adults, family member included. My mother was outcast by her mother for marrying my father a black PR borned, when I was born my grandmother did not claim me as her grandson.

You are telling the truth my sister.

I hated my culture until around the age of 20. When I was embraced by my father side of the family successful educated teacher. Heck sometime I still remember the racist treatment and then I smile cause it made me stronger and pushed me to do better and today I'm view as a very kind, successful and handsome man and I stand proud as a Black Puerto Rican.
I can write a book.
Thank you my sister for speaking the truth.

[wallacegarrett]

I am black and I had a Puerto Rican best friend when I was a teenager. He told me once that there were a dance down town, and did I want to go and have a nice time and meet some Puerto Rican girls. I said yeah, I got my suit pressed, shoes shined, bathed smelling good, let's go. I went to the dance along with him. When we got there, he approached the door. Two bouncers were at the door and they told him, " You can come into the dance, but your friend can't come in". He looked at me and said, "I guess I'll catch you later". I was shocked. That's when I stopped hanging out with him. I broke off my relationship him after that. And you know what, he never saw anything wrong with what he did to me. That was just him. I know other guys are not like him. I 'm just saying, that was my first experience.

[tizzynintendho]

Facts my dad is black and my mom is Puerto Rican and I’m the darkest out of all the kids. I literally got bullied with colorist insults from my own family.

[Heyalexiaa]

I'm black and a hispanic man called me "cocola" as I walked by. I was looking cute that day so I thought he was saying that I was fine like a tall glass of Coca-Cola. I guess ignorance really is bliss. 😂

[angelm]

That’s your experience. No one ever told me not to bring a black partner home. My family is very very mixed. No one called my mom “Afro rican” growing up they just called her Puerto Rican

[jama]

My grandmother calls me blackie. Says a lot. And my mother, who is Puerto Rican, literally refers to me as her black or darkskinned child. She also does this weird shit where she basically won’t claim black until it’s beneficial. Otherwise she will shit talk Black women and refer to them as “they” like they are some type of other

[numerologicatarot]

Hispanics be delusional about colorism.

[oldkingwis]

I'm black and this puerto rican girl I used to date was one of the "Dark Skinned" ones. Other than her super loose curly hair she looks like an African American girl. One night while she was taking the subway home in NY. She overheard 2 lighter toned Hispanic women saying the most racist shit about her in Spanish thinking she was black and couldn't understand them. Whatever they said about her must have been super fucked up cause she was so angry she was shaking and visibly fuming. She was so upset and hurt that she didn't even want to tell me what they said about her. Moral of the story, these Hispanics be racist asf and as a black man you can't believe in them or their women just cause they throwing you some box.

[Tricethelibra]

I don’t even see how a Puerto Rican can even try to deny this.

[puertoricanpapi]

The fact that she said “Trigueño” is a racist term is actually hilarious. I am trigueño and it’s actually a term for someone who is 3 races but doesn’t clearly lean toward either of the 3 and is a solid mix of all 3. Blanca= means white skin but still looks mixed negra= black skin but still looks mixed and morena= is brown skin but still looks mixed. Being from Puerto Rico I can look at a negro Boricua and a black American and see the clear difference. Even if they were the same clothes. The traces of taíno and Spaniard are viable in the negro Boricua still.

[CyndiBabes]

Girl preach! My mom is Afro-Mexican from Mexico and she grew up being treated less than because of her hair’s texture and dark skin complexion she still cries and is ashamed of her the way her hair is which isn’t defined curls it’s just a fro and my Dad used to tell me not to bring a black guy home yet his kids and wife then carry African blood - Btw yes there’s AfroMwxicans in Mexico!!!

[waitwhat]

If Puerto Ricans need to know one thing: black people are some of the most hygenic people. Even more so than some of the othee races that are "acceptable" to bring home.

[Lamont]

All my PR friends swears up and down that there’s no racism on the Island! I already knew that they were lying!

[violetenergy]

Truth right here and I'm a Mexican. My best friend was black growing up and I had to hide her when kicking it because my parents were brainwashed by the media. I ran away from home because my father saw her walking home with me and covered his nose. I didn't understand why and argued with him that the white kids at school smelled and my best friend smelled like coconuts. That's the day I ran away at 15 yrs old and never looked back. Now I'm a mother and my sons all have black and brown friends and I don't regret cutting of the generational brainwashing from the past. I also tell them NOT to watch the media or anything govt approved. Ending the brainwashing in my home😁

[typicaltip]

Can we please appreciate her honesty?!!

[pennyp]

I love that my parents always told me..."Just don't bring home an asshole!"

[angelbaby]

I’m Latino and the darkest in my family. I would get called Tomasito, negrito, negro, tapón de aberca (because I was slim and black). I am also the only one in my family that has REALLY white teeth. And comments from visitors (my aunts now husband) who would say that I only had white theet because I was black. Or other negative comments about my clear and youthful skin. And I would feel so uncomfortable, not even embarrassed because I always loved everything about me.

Also, when my family would make comments about “bettering our race” so that if u bring someone over they have to be lighter skin than you. It was like small micro-aggressions. I know what ever I felt was my responsibility but sometimes I would question if they see me as one of them or if they just see me as part of them… it may sound offensive but you all get what I’m saying? Like I’m not saying I’m different because I grew up with “brown” people— seen as better in society. But I’m question if they even liked me or not bbecause I am darker in shade.

[rodra]

Racism sure does exist within many cultures I believe. I’m Dominican and my great grandfather was Haitian. What’s crazy to me is that the DR and Haiti SHARE an island. So people there have been coexisting for centuries. There are no 100% Dominicans with out Haitian roots/Haitians without Dominican roots. Yet in the DR they are constantly deporting Haitians and discriminating against darker skin people there. Its mind blowing.