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AFRO TAINO
can actually have three definitions:
First and foremost it stands for Puerto Ricans as a whole because a vast majority of Puerto Rican people are a mixtureof Taino native, Spanish, and African DNA.Conquerors from spain invaded the Island of Borinquen and renamed it Puerto Rico.They also enslaved the people that they found living there,those people were the Taino natives of the island, after intermingling with Taino women and killing and using the men as labor,the Spaniards imported slaves from Africa to work the sugar cane fields.Spanish men then intermixed with African slave womenand created various mixtures in the people,which was further mixed as the Africans and Tainos began to intermarry.Centuries later we have a nationality of people who range in appearance from the Blackest of Blackto the whitest of white and all variations in between.
African culture and customs remain prevalent on the island in the faces of the people and in everyday life.In the music; Bomba and Plena, the food; gandules and yuca,and even in religous practices like Santeria are all of African origin.
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also stands for theoffspring of Puerto Rican people with African and/or African americans.one of the world's greatest entertainers:Sammy Davis jr. was the product of a Puerto Rican mother andan African american father.Others like Carmello Anthony, Maxwell, N.O.R.E.,Reagan Gomez Preston and Antonio Fargas(best known as "Huggy Bear" from TV's Starsky and Hutch)are all of a Puerto Rican/Black mixture.
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Lastly stands for the Unity thats needed within theBlack and Puerto Rican communities.The two groups have shared the same ghettos for decadesand were pitted against each other by thepowers that be to create disunity and mistrustbut that plan backfired and great things were accomplishedwithin those ghettos from the Young Lords Party’s beginningsas the Boricua version and ally of the Black Panther Partyto the development of the Hip Hop culturewhich included BOTH Blacks and Puerto Ricansin the South Bronx.Together we can’t be stopped!
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