Alé Headley, 24, an Afro Panamanian living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, attended over 20 marches and rallies last summer to protest the death of George Floyd. Headley, who is Black, Afro-Latina, and queer, identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they/them and ella. They say they were “immediately” driven to join movements demanding justice for Black and brown lives lost to police violence.
Some Afro-Latinx people say they felt they were invisible to both communities. According to Tanya Hernández, a law professor at Fordham University who is Afro-Latina, white Latinos don’t want to examine the privileges that allow them to pass as “white,” placing them at the top of the racial hierarchy.
Garifuna, also called Garinagu, is an Afro-Indigenous population that originated on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. The Garifuna people wereAlvarez says she often felt compelled to give long, tiring explanations about her roots because people always boxed her in one category or the other. She didn’t fit their physical expectations of what a Honduran looked like, she explains: “They would say, ‘You don’t count to me 'cause you’re Black, so you’re not really Spanish.
The racism in your company this spring also needs to be addressed in how you let racist staff harass black staff out of a job TeenVoguesRacism
latinx? JUST SHUT UP, GRINGO
Latinx is a is a slur, just like Blax, Whitex, Axians, etc.
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