YES! There are many, many black Puerto Ricans. By US standards, every single Dominican is black. People call one another Blanco, Negro, and a lot of other things in the Caribbean that people do not say or use in the US. People need to stop thinking in only first world terms.

I can imagine her saying this since she has to rep multiple races and cultures everytime she leaves the house. Instead of people giving her the space to embrace all of them, as her whole self, people are insisting that because she IDs first as caribbean (like many people do here), she can’t also be black. I think that…

All the points, comments and criticism of blackface are so important. I fully agree that it was a poor casting choice, and my agreement is really fairly unimportant as I am white, but I’d like to voice my support anyway. I also live in Puerto Rico and would like to voice my support of black folks here and elsewhere in…