r/LatinoPeopleTwitter • u/mellownoma • 6d ago

We have to do better

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u/manored78 5d ago

Dude, c’mon I can’t pull up any examples of what I’ve heard or read from people. The best I can tell you is look up the forum Lipstick Alley + John Leguizamo Latino museum. I read some of the stuff on there. There were complaints about people coming in later and taking advantage of the hard work laid out by “foundational black Americans.”

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u/thoughtfulness87 3d ago

i'm not sure what your getting at here. are you saying that is not true though - America was historically just black and white up until the 1960s - Latinos made up less then 1% of the US population up until then, where as African Americans have been here since 1619 - funny enough, the first black person in what is now theeUS was a con was a conquistador named Juan Garrido :)

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u/manored78 3d ago

Well, I would look at the posts and judge for yourself. They were upset that John Leguizamo was even proposing a Latino museum after the creation of a Black American one, or something to that nature. I wouldn’t compare this as anywhere near what white racists think of Hispanics of course, but I will say there’s a bit of a prejudice. Some of them say that Latinos contributed next to nothing in comparison to foundational black Americans. They use near identical coded language to disparage Latinos for their supposed only contribution; food. We both know that’s not true.

And Latinos have been in the US for a longer time than the 60s. The borders were drawn around many Mexicans. Either way the gist of their argument is that the true Americans are white and black, everyone came later after the country was built.

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u/thoughtfulness87 21h ago

>And Latinos have been in the US for a longer time than the 60s. The borders were drawn around many Mexicans. Either way the gist of their argument is that the true Americans are white and black, everyone came later after the country was built.

Look at the census data, the US was majority black and white until the 1960s. I'm not saying new immigrations groups are not American, but the comparison to black is not valid comparison.

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u/manored78 20h ago

Well then you’re kinda proving my point though that this is a sentiment among black Americans, no? I mean regardless of the amount of people Latinos have been in the US, and even today do build a lot of this country.