Black Latina

Yes. I am Cuban and Puerto Rican. Yes. I am Black. To deny either one would be to deny who I am and where I come from. Skin like Brown Sugar. Thick curly hair. Yes. I am a Black Latina. Try to categories me. Try to define me. But you’re the one that does not know your own history. Am I less black because my grandparents came for Spanish speaking counties? Am I less Latina because I have dark brown skin? Do you know your history? Black Latinos descendants from Africa Who were sold and colonized by different countries and cultures. To some I am not black or Latino enough, Never fitting into they molded categories of self-identity. I cannot. Will not. Choose to fit into your naïve mold of understanding See I know who I am and where I came from. Skin like brown sugar. Thick curly hair. I am a Black Latina.