One of the many links between Blacks,Latinos,and Native American

It’s amazing how culturally diverse and mixed the culture of each island invaded by Spain was. Most people don’t know the history of the explorations of the Spaniards. Each Island was mixed with African, Spanish and Native American/ Indigenous people creating a richer and culturally diverse place. The amalgamation of these cultures has created a great expansion on Spanish food all over, especially in America. Now more stores and restaurants offer Spanish cuisine or Spanish dishes on their menus. Businesses like Goya have had great expansion on consumers because now others use their products to season and cook food. Even at festivals in local cities and towns the Hispanic community displays their culture with games, Music, and lots of food. Giving non-Hispanics a taste of their everyday life and this allows them to embrace another culture and see how congruent they are to Hispanics. The amazing thing about Spanish culture is how it has made its mark on popular culture without losing any of its originality.

Although most would say the exploration of the Spaniards was very fallacious and misconstrued, their ability to use what they knew and add their own influences to other places across the globe helped with the expansion of the Spanish culture and lead to mixture of other cultures creating more delectable food. All of the foods made in the Caribbean are filled now with flavor by the use of herbs and seasonings to create more savory dishes. Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans are correlated in more ways than one. The influence that Spain and their conquest of removing slaves from Africa and scattering them among the indigenous had on islands allowed the cultures to fuse together to create its own. This is why the food that we eat is similar in taste, we all were derived from Africans or Indians. Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans are definitely obtain homogeneous customs and together have greatly influenced popular culture.

Should Marijuana be legalized

feel like they want to keep marijuana un-legalized because its a way to keep blacks confined. People don't sell crack cocaine like they use to anymore. more people, more teenagers are smoking marijuana. they argue they can't put tax on it, i think otherwise. I feel that if it's legalized, less people will attempt to go out there way to rebel against it. People respond to rules. you say no, they say "Im going to do it anyway!" If you say yes, it's not as much of a necessity. & hey, even if i'm wrong, the money that it will bring in will not only help the economy, it will also help Americans with stress issues. "You know what smokers say, a blunt a day keeps the doctors away". Just something interesting that i read. Weed is definitely apart of black popular culture.

Afro latino News

The issue of Racism towards Afro-Latinos has prolonged for years. This video just shows a small part of how racism effects those that are of African descent. you see the poverty that the Africans encounter in Ecuador and how even politically they are abused. The video is a news headline on a song that was played on the radio with racial slurs. Check it out, its pretty interesting, especially to see people that look like us but speak Spanish, deal with the same type of oppression and racism we once endured years ago. It's a shame it hasn't stopped. Many other Spanish speaking countries encounter the same thing. Places like Brazil,Peru,Puerto Rico, and many more all have become racially divided. This i believe is internalized racism left on those that were conquered by the Spaniards. People still continue to denounce each other when they need to work together to be better citizens and build better communities.

Blacks in Popular Culture (Women)

For many years the portrayal of blacks in society has been very ignominious and inaccurate. Most depictions of blacks are that of stereotypical views and misrepresentation of our culture. Myths of blacks being on welfare; unable to obtain real occupations, and having very aggressive and vivacious attitudes are all undeniably false accusations of how blacks are as a whole. Most of these stereotypes come from their misrepresentation in the media. The media is a place where people all over get to experience a taste of popular culture. Pop culture depicts each ethnicity in a way in which it as a whole is suppose to represent a group of individuals. The big argument is how they depict a race of people and only recognize a small portion of that in the media. They put emphases on the negative connotations about blacks in popular culture. The most critical issue is how black women are objectified to the most degrading types of media attention in American popular culture. For example Black women in the music industry like Beyonce, Rihanna, and Nikki Minaj, etc, black women on television in these sitcoms, and actresses like Halle Berry awarded for roles that are dehumanizing. In these world wide/national broad cast of public media these women, these black women are subjected to the demoralization and detained from being identified as insightful individuals with reputable morals and standards.