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I can tell you've never met an actual liberal, just read about caricatures of them from Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck agitprop Maybe step out of the backwoods for a bit
sure he has, they work the drive thru @ chick-fil-a
That's true but the U.S did have a civil rights movement. This hasn't happened in various countries that could also use some sort of movement to reduce discrimination and racist entertainment.
Places like Brazil have had small civil rights movements since the 1930s, but only in the late 1970s was any real impact made. They still have a long way to go there, and Brazil has one of the stronger black movements in Latin America.
My grandmother was an Afro-Honduran so I do keep up with Afro-Latin culture. In Latin America blacks are not advertised until they accomplish great athletic feats. Many countries, for the longest, tried to hide their black populations!
Not that long ago, blacks in Limon, Costa Rica, were not allowed to leave the region. They couldn't even travel to their national capital, San Jose.
If Latin America is held back because of racism, then what does that make Haiti? They haven't had a white leader in how long? So, it's not racism that's holding back a lot of Latin American countries it's political corruption, plain and simple
Haiti doesn't have any whites, period. The culture of the Dom. Republic, on the other hand, is anti-black even though it's an 85% black country.
Throughout this post I have yet to hear that the bottom latins do not have the violent history towards it darker brethren unlike here in america had (and is still has). From what I see is that they have been conditioned to believe that being white (or close to it) offers it's own rewards. The difference is that they don't hide it and we do. Sadly enough there were (and still are) blacks in this country that try very hard to "pass" for whites under the belief that "white is right"
Different cultures. I say that cause a light skin "Black" in the US ain't "Black" in LatAm probably cause full on white people are rare there and the "whites" still have the power.
I didn't say racism was the only criteria for lagging development but in the case of Latin America it has been a big factor. That said, Haiti has an awful history of colorism when it comes to skin color and the so called mulatto elite has a lot of contempt for the darker Haitians and view them with disdain.
I asked a Haitain friend in high school why the country was so messed up and the first thing he pointed to was his skin. I think, if anything, colorism is a bigger issue in many Latin American countries. Especially when you consider how mixed the people are in the region.
Latino's are not as sensitive to race as people here in general. They will be a majority soon in the USA, food for thought.
That's why I find the Hispanic/African coalition within the Democrat party confounding.
I don't think Jesse and Al realize that "Roberto" and "Fernando" do not have White guilt complexes and will not baby sit their people.
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Maybe step out of the backwoods for a bit
it's political corruption, plain and simple
