I think that on this case you're only repeating a well-rehearsed lie, and to prove this I'll cite the renowned writer on US racial issues A.D. Powell, when she says:

"It should be obvious that you will NEVER get rid of racialist systems or the categories "white" and "black" unless you constantly embarrass those who advocate such a system - and the people you have to embarrass are mostly those professional so-called anti-racists who benefit from it. That is why I constantly point out the black ancestry in Latinos. If "one drop" makes you "black," why aren't Latinos "black"? And don't give me this crap about a "different culture." None of those state constitutions that define "white" give a damn about "culture." Nigerians have a different culture. If you ask about this Latino exception to anyone advocating the "one drop" myth, you silence them. They have no answer. The purpose of this is not to make Latinos "black" but to destroy the white purity assumptions that white supremacy is based on AND unmask the lie that the "one drop" myth is enforced by "whites" as a group rather than black elites and their allies. After all, if you really believe that even small amounts of "black blood" are super-inferior, why would you give a dispensation to someone just because he's Latino or Arab?"

source: http://thestudyofracialism.org/about223-0-asc-0.html

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And again, here comes another one. Just out of curiousity, what part of the USA are you from?

What's true? You generalizing an entire ethnic group whos' members come from many different nationalities and who are by majority of mixed ancestry themselves? The clashes of Latinos in the USA are the usual tensions & rivalry betwwen different immigrant groups. Salvardorans and other Central Americans have alot of anger towards Mexicans based on being bullied in Mexican dominated areas such as California, gang violence and the terrible treatment many of them receive when crossing thru Mexico to gain entry into the USA. Both groups are by majority mestizo or very indigenous, do you think this is based on 'race'?

So in your opinion Latinos are 'racist' because they're uneducated (relative to to who? you?) and biology (carrying 'white racist blood') smh.

Ummn, why don't you preach that to Africans who self-identify by their nationality, not color and always want to distance themselves from African Americans, same as West Indians who even want their own seperate identity on the US census forms? Sorry, but LatinAmericans don't go around calling themselves by a color or some hyphenated racial label. I've never seen a Puerto Rican, be he black or white calling himself 'Euro-Puerto Rican or Afro-Puerto Rican'.
to white people we are all black and of african decent,
So white people define you and the meaning of so called 'blackness'? And who do you mean by we?

One more time. Hispanics do not divide themselves along USA concepts of black and white.

Wrong. White & black Americans outside of the East Coast (NYC/NJ/MA/FL) think all Hispanics are Mexicans. That not our fault, blame it on Hollywood stereotyping coupled ;with a general lack of awareness by Americans in general regarding other countries, ethnic groups, & culture. Americans are world famous for this. And no, I'm not anti-American.

he considers himself dark. a dark Dominican but not black because he is dark more moreno then anything.