Never heard of this chick until i read the article posted by Medina... But i'll agree with Vacanos that she has fallen for the American White and Black divide and as we don't see ourselves in such terms, I concluded as many of you have, that by grouping us Caribenos in the American-Race-Rules, shows her how clueless about our caribbean Spanish-African-Taino ancestries she is...

Without going into the historical origins of the LatinAmerica term, the current modern day meaning of a Latino is someone who comes from or is of LatinAmerican descent.Simple as that.
The whole Mexican comment was uncalled for unless it was meant for certain segments of the American population (states where the only Latino they see are Mexicans.)

??? And? Majority of Latinos are not 'solely' of one origin, the overwhelming majority are of mixed heritage. Mexicans make up the majority of Latinos in the USA and the vast majority are of mestizo or pred. Amerindian origin. With the possible exception of certain southern cone countries like Uruguay & Argentina, the same holds true for the rest of LatinAmerica.

The US census has been aware for some time now that Latinos/Hispanics are not a single 'race or color' thus the sub-divisions. I don't understand what she wants here:
Ethnicity=Latino/Hispanic
Nationality=Dominican, Puerto Rican or Cuban, etc.

If the majority of us are not solely of one origin like she says, so what does she want? For their to be black, white, mestizo, mulatto, zambo, tri-racial, etc. categories?

Here we go, what does she mean by that? Do Dominicans try to discuss what are their African tribal origins? No, not unless their interested in anthro/historical topics. Do they know they have black admixture? Yes they do. I smell b.s. coming along.

That's nice. And? Majority of Domincan posters here have similar stories. It is what it is. Most people don't know and we do run the spectrum. I can post pics of not only individuals but groups of Domincans who look Egyptian, Eritrean, Somalian, Lebanese, Central American, Spaniards or Nigerian. When we travel to regions not familiar with us, I've gotten Egyptian, Puerto Rican, Colombian, Cuban, Brazilian, etc. And this from people of those countries, lol. I've had Egyptians talk to me in Arabic, this is nothing extraordinary.

Calling Christopher Columbus a pirate is just plain stupid. The whole blame game has to stop, LatinAmericans are not carbon copies of Spaniards.

Why does it seem that people like her always get over represented by having their bs opinions printed?

What the in the bullhockey hell are you talking about?? Your paranoia is beyond social norms. There is no hidden agenda, no is being brainwashed, and no one is "returning to their roots to force color race issues". You sir should not be allowed to call anything ignorant with the asinine post you made here. Wow... just wow... smh

That makes no sense... Did you actually read the article or are you displaying an emotional reaction to Vacanaos bullhockey rant??

it makes alot of sense and the reason why any opinion that i have on that woman makes sense is because i have read many other things that she has written about dominicans on her website. she groups everyone by race just the way they do here in the states which is nothing but a tool invented by the white man to distance himself from everyone. why do you think white and black culture in america is so different from each other? yet in the dominican our cultures are the same regardless of color.

sajomero good piece of work on those facts!

Well America is a melting pot of cultures coming from all over the world...therefore having no one single culture. Therefore putting a flaw in your argument, But i do understand what you are trying to say though..and it makes a lot of sense.

haitiano i wasent trying to point out the melting pot of cultures in america. i was pointing out the distinction of culture between white and black americans with history in the united states.

"Well America is a melting pot of cultures coming from all over the world"