So you'd rather assume someone is a person of color until you have their entire family tree and they've done a DNA test? I mean Brad Pitt, he's probably a POC, I haven't seen his 23andMe results!

The expulsion for sure played into it a bit. Andalucia was left with so few residents that the crown had to send people from Basque Country to repopulate the south. But the amount of Berbers and Arabs was only no more than 50,000 and they wouldn’t have been able to conquer the entire peninsula if the native Iberian…

It’s possible for sure. As when people talk about the 800 year rules of Islamic rule that’s only true of Granada/Andalucia, as they were expelled centuries earlier in the north. Andalucia actually had their own Romance language that had nothing to do with Castillian, Mozarabic. I don’t know much about it but I’m sure…

Oh you seriously do not know anything about el mundo hispano hablante (most obvious from your use of the word güero which is not used in Cuba.) Leave it to some Yankee to teach me about the social and racial realities of Latin America. Only racist here is you and your colonial AngloAmerican world view. Cuba had a very…

Yeah which couldn’t be said for the previous Batista dictatorship...which is odd considering Batista was a straight up mulatto and Castro is Galician/Canarian. The self loathing types are pretty awful, look at Trujillo in DR for example.

Haha yes that is a remnant of very old rustic Spanish from the previously mentioned agricultural poor that hailed from southern Spain. In the rural communities of Extremadura the older populations still do this, and in parts of western Andalucia. It’s really interesting the fluidity of the final syllable liquids /r/…

A word used in Puerto Rico which I’m not sure if it’s used in this context elsewhere is “hinco” which means swollen, but is used in regards to skin color for some reason. Example “Tengo que coger mas sol por que estoy muy hincho!”... “I have to get more sun because I’m way too pale!”

What do you mean “more native?” Are you implying his other grandparents are Taino Indians? Look his father is white. His father would be white in Cuba, as he would be anywhere else in Latin America. as he would be if you dropped him in the middle of Castilla y Leon and he spoke with distinción instead of seseo. The…

I don’t think so. They would just say blanco, blanquito, or rubio, pelirrojo if specifically about hair.

Oh there’s no question that Cruz is white and his father is of Iberian descent. A lot of white Cubans look down on black and mixed race cubans. Cuba itself had segregation and Jim Crow style laws, and it was looked down upon to be white and to mingle with the others (well at least formally, lots of quiet affairs went…

His wife announced his cancer diagnosis in the beginning of August, the approval for a grand jury was in January.

I don’t think they owned slaves. To be white doesn’t equate to slave ownership or even wealth in Cuba. Cuba and Puerto Rico’s poor agricultural populations were whites that came in the 19th century because of la Cedula Real de Gracias. Mainly from Galicia, Southern Spain (Extremadura, Andalucia, Murcia) and most…

It's just Catalan, no need to say it's Spanish Catalan.

Of course I have. When was the last time you have seen a Taino? They were all kill and whatever small population that remained was absorbed into populations.

Or in regards to Puerto Rico, the U.S. has done quite a bit through the FBI and CIA with COINTELPRO to subvert the populace. The independence movement was supported by nearly 90% of the population from the time the U.S. stole us from Spain up through the 1950’s and because of the Cold War and Cuban Revolution they did…

Puerto Rico has no native population, we’re not Mexico or Central America.

He’s Puerto Rican, by default a U.S. Citizen...not Mexican.