A Family Conversation On Race And Latinidad

Latino USA

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4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Two Afrolatinx cousins have an intimate conversation about race and Latinidad a year after George Floyd was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white cop. Umar Williams, a musician and radio host living in the Twin Cities, discusses with his younger cousin, Alexander Newton, who lives in Washington, D.C. In this episode, they talk about growing up ‘Black is beautiful,’ their Panamanian heritage and how they rediscovered Latinidad.

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1:03.6	Dear listener, there is going to be some language that might be offensive in this episode.
1:09.0	I don't think I identified as prominently as Latino as I do now, but for me it's always
1:15.8	going to be black.
1:16.8	I think apparently recently some people started capitalizing black.
1:20.6	And I was like, is it not capitalized because I've been doing this since elementary school?
1:26.7	I went to call myself Blatino.
1:28.8	It was a capital B.
1:31.0	Blatino, yeah.
1:32.0	I should do that.
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