[MamiLishus]

Hello I read a forum that was posted from this site a while back. It was a questioned that asked if PR men like African American women. I am a dark skined 100% BORIQUA from the boogie down bronx.Not cafe with a a lot of leche, but CHOCOLATE. I totally understood what some were sying about PR men may be "shy" about approaching a lack woman. I also related to being the center of racist remarks from my skin color and was left out of being considered of being a PR woman, not from whites but from my OWN people.Yes my own boriqua people would see me if I said something in spanish I got "OH where did you learn spanish" or "you're spanish?" with a suspicious raised eyebrow.And this happends the majority of the time. I do not want to hear you guys say "oh that must be ignorant people from your way"you think that no body is like that where you are from? Maybe it is the problem with the bronx, cuz in manhattan the spanish harlem people are more acceptable to a black latina busting out spanish (sometimes)and i even dated my boriqua papi from brooklyn, butin the BRONX. Forget it A guy once dumped me cuz he couldn't bear to see his mom's and grandmaother's face if he brought me home. another PR boyfriend would practically hide me in his room. But yet it would have been perectly ok if their nino's brought home a girl that is Italian or Jewish.This is more with older moms for the PR boyfriends.Yes I would get thrown a bone from a PR guy that steps up to me, but it will be because he thinks he is black, and probably doesn't speak spanish and most of his boy's are black. Not that there is anything wrong with that.When African American men approach me,after tryin toconvince them i am spanish, and then i am asked to "say something in spanish" just to prove it, cuz I don't look Puerto Rican.Or they say I must be Dominican. Icannot be accepted as Puerto Rican. Then I am asked what I consider myself. I say I am Puerto Rican and proud. They tell me no, you are African. I say Yes, I am part African, Taino, and of European decent.They still don't get it. You know there is a puerto rican saying "y tu abula donde estas? And your grandmother where is she? This was said in the past because ALL RICANS have AFRICAN decent.So in the old days of puerto rico when people of a "lighter" shade came over the house or had vistors they would hide poor black grandma in the back so nobody knew they hada black grandmother.So any of you PR men out there who are afriad, don't let your family deny, ask them,where their ghost grandma is? I love all races. I especially luv my PR papi's sorry if I came out too harsh, but sometimes the truth needs to come out.MUAH xoxoxo