In many latin american countries including Dominican Republic people call Afro descendants "negra" o "negro" in a despective way, but it is also used as a sign of love... depends on the context... for me as a negra, I don't mind anybody calling me negra, that's who I am, a negra, Afro-descendant, is there anything bad with being negra?
Our culture associate many negative things with black... the black list, a black day, a black whatever...the list go on...
I would like to know when do we started that trend of associating all black as bad, and all white as good??? I think that tendency has been used - subtlely- and very effectively (by who...I don't know, I don't want to make conjectures) to make us blacks feel bad about our blackness.
My experience of growing up as a negra at first was confusing... as a child I saw nothing wrong with my skin color, with my hair texture (called bad hair), I did not understand why some children were treated different just because their skin was lighter... I saw nothing wrong with me being black, still suffered discrimination... well to make long story short, I went from confussion, to shame, to pride, to understanding that skin color has nothing to do with the universal right of every human being to search for its happiness...
U can call me negra, I don't care, if you call me negra in a despective way is Your problem not mine, I am a happy negra... when have you seen a rich person feel offended because you call him/her "rich"?
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