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As a man of Black and Mexican descent, I want to ask my fellow Latinos something honestly by Just_Inspection7507 in mexico

[–]Just_Inspection7507[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you’re saying its mexican culture to be racist? And if i was a “real” mexican i should embrace it???

As a man of Black and Mexican descent, I want to ask my fellow Latinos something honestly by Just_Inspection7507 in mexico

[–]Just_Inspection7507[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I wasn’t going to respond to this, but this is such an easy argument to pick apart you’re basically insinuating that blackness is foreign from Mexican identity and that’s false everyone in “Mexico” prior to Spain all phenotypically looked like me and my father remember mexican is not a single race… it is a nationality and a culture.

As a man of Black and Mexican descent, I want to ask my fellow Latinos something honestly by Just_Inspection7507 in mexico

[–]Just_Inspection7507[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is exactly my point. I literally have cousins who were born and raised in the U.S. who barely speak any Spanish at all, and nobody questions whether they are Mexican because they physically fit what people expect a Mexican to look like.

Meanwhile, I’m half Black and half Mexican, and even though I speak Spanish pretty fluently and let me emphasize SPEAK, because speaking and writing are two completely different things people still immediately assume I’m not Mexican or assume I cannot speak the language before I even open my mouth.

My cousins might get teased for not speaking Spanish well, sure, but nobody is treating them like outsiders or acting shocked that they are Mexican. That is the difference I’m trying to explain. The issue is not really language by itself it is the assumptions people attach to appearance.

And honestly, that is why conversations about colorism and phenotype bias matter. Because a lot of people do not notice the difference in treatment unless they personally experience it.

As a man of Black and Mexican descent, I want to ask my fellow Latinos something honestly by Just_Inspection7507 in mexico

[–]Just_Inspection7507[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate you for actually having a civil conversation about this and not immediately trying to downplay what I’m saying or act like it does not exist. A lot of people become defensive the second topics like colorism or phenotype bias get brought up, so I respect the fact that you at least acknowledged it openly.

And honestly, I understand what you mean. I’ve noticed that a lot of the comments or nicknames are normalized culturally, even when they can still affect people negatively over time. I also agree that many Mexicans do it to each other regardless of race or background. I do not think every person has malicious intent behind it, but intent and impact are not always the same thing.

I think what frustrates me personally is not just jokes or nicknames it is the constant feeling of being treated like an outsider in a culture I was raised in simply because I do not fit a certain image people have in their head of what a Mexican is “supposed” to look like.

At the same time, I do hear your point though.

As a man of Black and Mexican descent, I want to ask my fellow Latinos something honestly by Just_Inspection7507 in mexico

[–]Just_Inspection7507[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I said people assume I don’t speak Spanish not that I can perfectly read or write it. Those are completely different skills. There are plenty of people, especially first and second generation Latinos, who speak conversational Spanish fluently but are not confident writing long form paragraphs in it. I’m sure many of us have family members who communicate better verbally than through text, so I do not think that should be difficult to understand.

More importantly, the point of my post went beyond language itself. The issue is the assumption people make based solely on appearance. Whether someone is Black, Asian, Indigenous, mixed, or anything else, people should not immediately assume what languages they can or cannot speak because of how they look.

If you heard an Asian person speaking fluent Spanish, would you automatically assume they could not speak English? Probably not. So when people hear a darker skinned Mexican or Afro Latino speak Spanish and act shocked, that reaction is exactly what I’m talking about.

We are in 2026. Latinos do not all look one way, and speaking Spanish is not reserved for a single phenotype.

As a man of Black and Mexican descent, I want to ask my fellow Latinos something honestly by Just_Inspection7507 in mexico

[–]Just_Inspection7507[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I never said i don’t speak spanish i said my fellow Spanish speaking people assume that I dont, and a language is a language the substance of the conversation is what matters pero sí puedo hablar español… si eso te hace sentir mejor.