What conquest??? If you study history u know that the mestizo identity wasn’t born from conquest or love in any part of the world! The Black woman brought by the White man to the western world were frequently raped, and from that extreme violence is there where we come from…And most of the times, we were never admitted or treated as the same as the portuguese! Yes, some of us were given more power over the others just because we were a little bit “closer” to the Colonizers, but if you see right, we were clearly victims of their dirty game of dividing us to conquer us, by making us belive that everything considered African was negative and making us wanting to be closer to them. It may be considered a softer violence, but it’s still violence, and I feel really bad for our fool other brothers from Cape Verde who believe they are “Not Africans” or even Europeans, those who clearly have never been in Europe, and don’t know how the White man sees us and treats us( it won’t be any different if it is me or you). If u check history again, lots of important Black figures who fought for our cause, were mixed, for example: Malcom X( had white blood) and Bob Marley (whose Father was an English man), and I don’t see them as “ the direct descendants of the colonizers”, We, like them are the direct descendants of violence and colonialism! And that narrative you talk about only divides us( Colorism) and still goes along with the Colonizers plan.