Afro- Colombians

There have been accusations on the internet of Latino bloggers and writers using terms like "Latino" and "Hispanic" ::shudder:: to negate the specific experiences of Latinos whose identities are rooted in African and Native identities.

Kenyon Farrow writes:

...oftentimes I feel like in the US, it’s as if slavery didn’t happen in Latin America and there are no Black people there to speak of. Or that somehow or another, the Spanish speaking Caribbean and South America has “gotten beyond” racial categorization, when it was only a generation ago that people like Cuban singer La Lupe (among many others) proudly declared she was Black. And why don’t any of these Baseball players from the Dominican Republic get discussed as Black people? There’s also this thing that happens, where I have been told that I, as an African-American, don’t understand the nuances of what happens in terms of race/racialization in Latin America.

Source : Kenyon Farrow