Orgullosamente Afrodescendiente
In the conversation of Blackness in Canada:
A survey asks what we're most connected to?
The Caribbean? Continental Africa?
A poster defines Black in the same way.
I raise an eyebrow and I raise my hand:
"Don't forget Latin America!"
Words I learned to shout since I was little.
Our whole continent forgotten in the context of Blackness.
Black Latinx presente.
Estamos aquí,
orgullosamente Afrodescendiente.
Afro-Latinidad, negritud, and Blackness transcend borders.
We share histories of being systematically forced out of our land onto stolen land.
We share an even stronger bond of survival,
Of comunidad y cultura.
Blackness thrives, Black es bello.
Soy Afro-Peruana
I'm Black Peruvian
Estamos aquí;
Proudly Afrodescendant.
A survey asks what we're most connected to?
The Caribbean? Continental Africa?
A poster defines Black in the same way.
I raise an eyebrow and I raise my hand:
"Don't forget Latin America!"
Words I learned to shout since I was little.
Our whole continent forgotten in the context of Blackness.
Black Latinx presente.
Estamos aquí,
orgullosamente Afrodescendiente.
Afro-Latinidad, negritud, and Blackness transcend borders.
We share histories of being systematically forced out of our land onto stolen land.
We share an even stronger bond of survival,
Of comunidad y cultura.
Blackness thrives, Black es bello.
Soy Afro-Peruana
I'm Black Peruvian
Estamos aquí;
Proudly Afrodescendant.