A little info about my background, I am not Latina despite being mistaken for being Puerto Rican a lot due to my mixed ancestry, however I admire the many cultures in Latin America. I’ve noticed there’s a trend of North Americans(U.S) specifically changing the definition of what it means to be Afro Latino. I was born and raised in the U.S and I am ethnically a biracial African American who was only raised in the African American community. My black ancestors have been on North American soil since slavery, so that makes half my heritage of course… African American.

I assume that the same logic would apply to Afro Latinos…I thought it was basic logic that you are Afro Latino if you are predominantly of African ancestry and it derives in Latin America…for example, Rita Marley, although known as Bob Marley’s wife whose Jamaican, is Afro Cuban..phenotypically African with heritage from Latin America. Haitians are Afro Latinos. Black Brazilians are Afro Latinos.…