More details on the Jennifer Lopez refusal to allow any of her songs to be included on the Music of Black Origin Awards annual compilation album, ‘MOBO 2002.’ A source at MOBO said of J.Lo’s claim that her music is Latin and ”not of black origin”, “Who does she think she’s kidding? … Besides, she just accepted the hip-hop award at the MTV Video Music Awards!” A spokesman for Lopez says her record label is responsible for negotiating things like the compilation album and those kinds of negotiations ”often can be quite complicated and difficult to finalize.”
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SMFH@J-Lo… she lost her mind? Like she don’t do hip hop, the epitome of modern music of Black origin in America. Like salsa and every other form of Puerto Rican music ain’t derived DIRECTLY from west Africa. This lil J-Lo episode reminds me of Dominicans, so clearly mixed-race Blacks that deny any kind of African origin, claiming to be “Latin” or “Spanish”… please.
For the record, I’m Dominican and Proud to be Black.
what about that song with a lyrics saying “fooled by the rocks that I got…I’m still Jenny from the block”…Latin only my a*s! & who gives a crap about her old as* anyways.
Lamaur that’s good that your proud to be black, but that doesn’t mean every Dominican is black. There are white, black, and mixed Dominicans. It’s funny how you say please when they claim to be Latin or Spanish because they are. All Hispanics (Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, etc.) have Spanish White blood in them. Only because your dark skin and mostly African doesn’t mean everyone is.
For the record, I am Dominican but I look white (Straight hair, really pale)
Hispanic only means Spanish speaking therefore a person could be of any race black, white, or Asian. usually the Hispanics in the Caribbean and south America are black, white, or native American. therefore the people have many different looks. skin color would not always identify the race, facial features would. this just proves more reason the term Hispanic and Latino are only describing ethnicity and shouldn’t be the only word choices to describe a person. just because J.Lo is Puerto Rican doesn’t mean she can’t be white however she wants to use black music in order to gain popularity then say she has no black or African origin because sadly like many people of African descent regardless of the current country they live in hate to be black .
I am Dominican that grew up in NYC, but I have been living between Treviso Italy & Madrid Spain for 15 years. My father is from Santiago & my mother is from Samana, so both of my parents are DOMINCAN. My Dad is Mulatto and mom is a brown skinned Black Dominican woman. Although in DR my dad is mixed, in the USA he would be a light skinned Black man. I understand there are European descent Dominicans, but my problem is that there are a great number of Domincans that are undeniably African descent, but seems to deny their Blackness. Sad! In Madrid, Dominicans live in a neighborhood called Cuatro Camino, the Spaniards recognize the people there as Blacks. In Spain & Italy most Dominicans are look at as Latin, but Black. “Que Linda esa Dominicanita Negrita” Anyway, I’m not saying deny your European ancestry, I’m just sayin’, stop hatin’ on your African blood, features and characteristics. If you are Dominican and you don’t have the African features and characteristic, understand somewhere the African blood runs through your veins. Trujillo has destroy the mind of so many of my people.
J.Lo is black and obviously has African blood as 80% of the Puerto Rican populous (including those in America). As a Mexican American I am offended that we are considered the same race as all Hispanics/Latinos (Mexico does not have an African lineage as for Ex. Brazil, Puerto Rico, Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Columbia, Dominican Republic). Brazil speaks Portuguese all others have a Spanish language, yet Brazil imported African slaves along w/ all others–the exception being Mexico. No offense to Africans, it’s already difficult being of Mexican blood–best left to others to have to worry about mixing their races with what world wide is considered a problem race.
@Mike Your history is very wrong! Many Blacks or Africans were also brought to Mexico. Many Mexicans blackness is diluted but it is still there! Hence, the term Brown pride!