Most Boricuas have African blood and Caucasion, and many of them, especially in the USA, show a little or a lot of that. At first, the Boricuas in the states seem to be white, but you when look closely, you see that they're don't seem white or black, but they don't look like most Mexicans or Hondurians. That's the African showing out in them. Very few Boricuas have "native blood," from the Taíno Indians and if they do, the last of the "true bloodline" was a few hundred years ago, like mine. However, there are many Boricuas that have more Caucasion blood in them than others. However, there's a little bit of everything.
I might be considered a "black," Boricua, even though I'm lighter than Tito Trinidad and have curly hair, but I have blond and blue-eyed cousins. The racial issue is very completed in PR, mostly because the mix is so varied and we still have "docile minds" due to our long lasting colonialism and imposed cultures.
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The closest thing than actually going to Puerto Rico to see a wide range of Boricuas is either New York City or Chicago, which have way larger Boricua communities than in L.A., which I think has less than 1,000.
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Rafael Tufiño
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