"They (we) forget that the most colorful part of our culture was given to us by the same people we are trying so desperately to wash out from our genealogical existence."

Not quite, but the denial and lack of self awareness is bordering on crazy.

Yeah it's really bad. A friend of mine was introducing me to her uncle and he didn't know I'm Dominican and said, "Quien es esta cocola", my friend turned all kinds of red. To be honest the treatment I've gotten from a lot of Central and South Americans has been pretty shitty and I'm not even that dark, I can't…

Well put, thank you.

I know what you mean. My younger sister was dating a white guy once and we went to a Dominican hair salon, he tagged along. The owner of the salon was like "Is your sister dating him? That's so good, we need to improve the race". I was so glad he didn't understand Spanish. And as a Latina of color I dated a guy who is…

Yep, and let me tell ya, don't tell a Dominican that it's racist.

The point is that her point was clear with or without mistakes and I don't understand why people have to focus on that so much. And of course black male slaves are important to talk about, but again, that wasn't the point of this article and it isn't relevant in this instance.

Mkay.

Really? Because I'm Dominican and I've been casually called racial epithets by Salvadoreans to my face as well as constantly hearing Dominicans talking about marrying lighter people "para mejorar la raza". Racism in Latinos takes on a different form, it's a lot more self hate, trying to only identify with our European…

I love your comment.

It's funny, every time I read an article on Gawker or Jezebel where a black writer touches on a the subject of race or any other touchy subject, white readers are always complaining about how they don't understand the article, or the grammar was bad or some other petty shit that has nothing to do with the point of the…

What I absolutely love about this is how it proves that the NYPD doesn't enforce traffic laws here when it comes to speeding. This dude made it all around the city on the FDR, through Battery Park and up the Westside Highway and he wasn't stopped. Cameras are fine and all, but that isn't going to stop a speeding car.

Yeah you see it in nature. Those prides made up of male lions....oh wait, are those all females? And the preying mantis ripping the male's head off after sex, oh wait that's not a good example either. I could go on and on.