sodomymcscurvylegs:

milkovitches:

diasporadash:

kararikue:

Latin@s with light-colored eyes are trouble.

Accurate but you have to put the insults in whispers for the first baby and family members attributing any evidence of African ancestry on the other parent.

And also you should add that many latin american countries let their children play games in which having black babies is a punishment (‘el que llega último va a tener cien guaguas negras’ the one who arrives last will have 100 black babies). Or the relief that people express when a light skinned baby is born, my grandma always said to my mom “ay que bueno que la mijita salio blanquita” (its good that the kid was born white -roughly translated).
Many fellow latinos are proud because we ‘dont have racism because we’re all mixed’ but that is not true, we are very racist towards black people and brown people, most of this racism is due to europe and the us’ influence, they put onto us the mindset that the whiter the better but we are also at fault because we should have snapped out of it by now.

There’s also the whole concept of “mejorar la raza” (literally, “better the race”), which basically means that if you’re dark skinned or brown your family expects you to marry a lighter skinned partner so you can have “better children” (i.e. whiter children). There is an inherently disgusting and powerful amount of racism in Latin@ culture that we need to talk about and discuss. The media in a lot of Latin@ countries also generally display a “public face” (with light skinned telenovela actors, light news anchors, etc.) and then reject the actual racial mix of Latin@s. It’s awful.