Afrocubana

I recently met a super cool Afrocubana and find her story fascinating--the Black Latino experience, how a couple hundred dollars sent home can make launching a Cuban business possible, family relations, religion, US-Cuban relations, coming to the US. Fascinating stuff.

After that was on my radar, I read this Times article and was struck by this particular passage:

"Now in the 21st century, it has become all too apparent that the black population is underrepresented at universities and in spheres of economic and political power, and overrepresented in the underground economy, in the criminal sphere and in marginal neighborhoods."

Sounds disconcertingly like the black population in America and the black population in Europe. Heck, if there were enough black folks in Asia, we'd probably be underrepresented there too, and the state of the whole African continent leaves much to be desired. Jeezly crow, what's with that?

It upset me enough to motivate me to learn a bit more about the Afrocubanos, or Afrocubanas as most of what I've been translating and reading is from this blog: http://afrocubana.wordpress.com/. Sure, I have to translate it--I use Google translator when I'm feeling lazy and my slowly improving Spanish skills when I'm not. It's a bit feminist leaning, but that makes it more interesting to me. I'm also reading the Havana Times.

SN: How do I meet such cool people? I follow Afrofusion Lounge on Facebook; Tropicalia is pretty dope and super diverse too :)