Colombia has the 3rd largest African descendant population in Latin America. Colombia has over 4.4 million people who refer to themselves as of African descent - to give perspective, Puerto Rico has a population of 3.264 million and Jamaica 2.828 million. According to the census of 2005, the government estimates that Afro-descendants make up 10.6% of the total population of Colombia.

African descendants are present in every major city in the country. It is thought that there are 1 million living in the capital of Bogota. Coastal regions of Colombia can have Afro-Colombian populations that are as high as 90% as in the case of the Pacific, or 60% on the Atlantic coast. In areas like Chocó, whose capital, Quibdó, is 95.3% Afro-Colombian as opposed to just 2.3% mestizo or white. The department of Chocó is the most African descendant state, followed by Magdalena (72%), Bolivar (66%), and Sucre (65%).

Enslaved Africans were first brought by Spanish colonists to Cartagena in the 1500s, to replace the lost labour on the plantations and mines which occurred as a result of the decimation of the indigenous population due partly to the harsh working conditions.

From the beginning of the 1800s the Colombian government actively pursued a policy of ‘blanqueamiento’, or ‘whitening’ of society. This was based both on a white supremacist ideology which believed that to whiten the race was to improve the race, and on a xenophobic policy which feared the eventual political empowerment and influence of black and indigenous peoples if their numbers were allowed to increase. The idea of mestizaje or the unified mestizo Colombian nation, which never experienced social tensions based on race or ethnicity evolved as an outcome of such policies, although increasingly Colombian and Latin American academics are re-evaluating or deconstructing this idea.

These re-evaluations look at the emphasis on a Hispanic heritage while ignoring the cultural contributions made by the indigenous, Afro-Colombian and Gypsy communities.

I'm tired of this shit! I'ma bout to load all my crystals in a sock and start swinging.

Wypipo do/steal shit like this and wonder why the world hates them

It's raining, and these joints are aching after a night of dancing with my children and doing the girls' hair.

Grand rising, MP family

Moving to a country where English isn't the dominant language is definitely humbling. You're forced to rely on the patience and good will of the countrymen and women.

I've been back in the U.S. for 24 hours and already my ass itches.

You know what triggers me The most pt3

You know what triggers me the most
Is that black people forgive racism
Over and over and over…it’s disturbin…
It gets on my nerves…

Cos of Jesus, cos of they have to follow the
Footsteps of him, they will give so much
Compassion…

I called it a Stockholm syndrome…

Severely Stockholm syndrome…

Our people forgives white supremacy and made a
Speech about how we’re all humans and we shall
Overcome..we’re one sick people

And I meant that shit from the bottom of my soul..


We’re too sick…this is why we need to talk about
Mental health and where it came from..

Psychology is very important
Especially in the black community
Cos our minds are still in chains
And full of toxic…

And we pass all the illnesses
To our children and their children and their children’s children
All of trauma came from the colonization and slavery..

Sorry to break it to you
But forgiveness is part of our conditionin,
So is Jesus….

Y’all may disagree with me
Y’all can always look it up
For yourselves…

Honestly
We’re in a domestic relationship with our enemies
Without acknowledgin it..


Since we love everyone
We’re willin to say I’m sorry
To them

Not us,
We don’t apologize nor forgive
Us, why?

There are so much hate within our race…

We don’t actually pray for
Our own people
Only racists
Hopin they will change
Place faith in them havin a change of heart…

Let me tell you somethin
Black people
Oppressors ain’t sorry
Fake apologies sound like white noise..
Y’all can’t trust them
Y’all can’t invite them to the cookout
Cos

We don’t say sorry to ourselves
We don’t forgive ourselves..

Oppressors who treats us like
Animals, not humans
Was done on purpose
It’s business…
They’re not sentimental
They only pretend to care
If they get us to shut the fuck up
And/or got caught in the act
Never been fooled by their tears
Their frowns..
Even if the children are watchin
Every situation,
Teach them about how white supremacy weaponize,
And put white privilege in our faces..

Racism is never sorry
We’re all human and we shall overcome
Bull shit
They will keep being violent to us
Again and again and again
And many of us would sit back
And take all the bruises just like we’re taught to do
And we’re too scared to fight back…

Too much violence ain’t the answer
Mentality needs to stop…
White supremacy keeps bullyin us….
Give us bloody noses black eyes
Choke necks and we will never breathe

Though
Melaninated race forgives them,
Right?
Sayin it’s ok..
Y’all made a mistake to kill a black man
And we’re Christians and we follow Jesus
We forgive y’all
We’re not goin to fight back
Y’all still got a soft spot in our hearts
We pray for you we shall overcame
We’re god’s children..

AND THIS IS HOW SICK LIKE A DOG WE TRULY ARE..

AND THAT’S TRIGGERIN TO ME..
✊🏿💯 ©️ Kai C. 3-17-23