Drex The Joint breaks down his experience being an Afro Mexican, Spanish being first language

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  • čas přidán 13. 09. 2024

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  • @ramiroviera9637
    @ramiroviera9637 Před 15 dny +3

    DAMN THATS RIGHT DREX ON AK, HOMIE IS MAKING BIG MOVES🔥🥶🔵

  • @ElBelikoSanchez
    @ElBelikoSanchez Před 18 dny +10

    I'm from the Costa Chica of Acapulco Guerrero, Mex

  • @plentyBenny
    @plentyBenny Před 19 dny +4

    definitely respect lil bruh for his come up being from the bilingual world🎩

  • @El_Soldado
    @El_Soldado Před 14 dny +1

    He was born in Orange County, California. His skin color is dark brown, or black. He has Mexican culture with Latin and African and Indigenous roots. He's a Black Chicano.

  • @Drippinsauce556
    @Drippinsauce556 Před 17 dny +8

    In Texas there’s hella Afro Latinos

  • @hellboyrecords4227
    @hellboyrecords4227 Před 16 dny +3

    im mexican mysleff and this homie firme shout out to the camachos

  • @dmnd3598
    @dmnd3598 Před 20 dny +13

    Afro-Mexican is still “black” in the US though. Black doesn't just refer to the culture over here it just means those with significant African descent. He’s not African American obviously but that distinction doesn’t make him not black technically. Bro genetic makeup is for sure predominantly African even if he’s viewed as “mixed” outside the US like how Dominicans view themselves.
    Either way Mexican is an ethnicity and nationality but there’s still a spectrum in Mexico as far as race goes. He seems to know that but is also saying his race is not black at the same time and just Latino. If anything he's both.

    • @angelgallegos199
      @angelgallegos199 Před 18 dny +3

      Mexican is not an ethnicity. Most Mexicans are mix race mestizos. However there’s plenty of unmixed Europeans, indigenous and Asians.

    • @ElBelikoSanchez
      @ElBelikoSanchez Před 18 dny

      Yeah I don't wanna be labeled as black, black people don't know their own history they think it started on plantation, ignoring the fact that Africa has rich history. Look at every other civilization blacks were the only ones who didn't have a problem selling off their own

    • @MalitoSC
      @MalitoSC Před 17 dny +4

      Afro-mexicans are "zambo" which is a racial category similar to mulatto(Caribbean people, white and black mix) but with Indigenous ancestry. Afro-mexicans aren't "african" in that sense of cultural backgrounds, they are more Indigenous. Drex family is originally from Guerrero which is 10% afro, states like Guerrero, Veracruz, and a northern border state are where most black mexicans come from exuding Haitians, black cubans, and african migrants

    • @MalitoSC
      @MalitoSC Před 17 dny +3

      ​@@angelgallegos19970% of Mexicans are mestizo, 20-15% are Indigenous which is around 25 million, 3% is afro Mexicans which is 2-3 million. There are barely any Asians, sure there is a Lebanese diaspora but as far as east Asians, they aren't Mexican in the cultural sense, they are similar to criollo's, racist, isolated, and are only here to exploit the population and reap the benefits of our culture. You forgot tortillas, nopales were seen as poor people food and corridos as criminal, rancho, amateur music genre

    • @Speaker12311
      @Speaker12311 Před 17 dny +1

      @@ElBelikoSanchezNo we weren’t. Slavery was just a fact of life in most societies back then. It wasn’t based on race back then because it wasn’t a concept. It was often based on class and POWs

  • @eddiearre
    @eddiearre Před 18 dny +8

    He said like hella times

  • @jalarcon166
    @jalarcon166 Před 15 dny +11

    To be real, Mexicans dont look at color as a deal as many other people. Most Mexicans would look at the character or personality than color. Many ppl dont know that Mexico back in the day dissolved slavery when Mexico declared independence from Spain. This happened back in the 1800s. In fact many slaves who escaped from U.S. slavery found freedom past the boarders into parts of Texas and down into Mexico. thats why in part that U.S. fought against Mexico bc of issues of slavery to those new states like Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Colorado were forming and pro slavery groups wanted to balance with non slavery U.S. states so that the issue stated even by state governments back in the 1800s. Mexico has a lot of afro black decendents communities through its country. 🇲🇽❤👍🏻🇲🇽

    • @hamkam1627
      @hamkam1627 Před 15 dny

      This a damn lie, colorism is real in Mexico. It wasn't until 2020 that the government included black Mexicans in the country's census.

    • @MAtoooof
      @MAtoooof Před 15 dny +1

      Not many folks know this here in the U.S. say it loud for the ppl in the back ! 🇲🇽🇺🇸

    • @Inmywayz
      @Inmywayz Před 15 dny +1

      Facts that’s why I’m certain parts of Cali and Texas were locked in with eachother mainly the bay ,LA be racist sometimes depending on the part

    • @horaciobuenrostro4615
      @horaciobuenrostro4615 Před 15 dny

      Technically, despite slavery being a thing, there was still a process for freeing slaves back then, called manumision, so there's a debate about the freed population within The Empire since by the early 1800s, theres significant populations of freed people throughout LatAm, like Yungas in Veracruz being a Spanish recognized freed city in the mid 1500s

    • @QLivin
      @QLivin Před 4 dny +1

      Those who say this never been to Mexico. There's heavy discrimination and erasure of indigenous and Afro Mexicans.

  • @Godis_theanswer
    @Godis_theanswer Před dnem

    Puro oaxaca 🇲🇽 viva Mexico shout out Michoacán as well ✊🏾

  • @Elnea773
    @Elnea773 Před 16 dny +3

    My homie from Guerrero and he’s got that authentic Mexican look dark Aztec look but he told me there’s towns full of so called black Mexicans that are like 2 shades darker than bro

    • @JGL98
      @JGL98 Před 16 dny +1

      Yea bro there’s a town in Veracruz Mexico where there’s a community of Afro Mexicans

    • @horaciobuenrostro4615
      @horaciobuenrostro4615 Před 15 dny

      Costa Chica

  • @fernandopuente983
    @fernandopuente983 Před 18 dny +21

    Color identity is more of a American thing anywhere around Latino America From North to South America u identify as the country u are from not the color. It’s hard for Americans to grasp for some reason. For instance if u are Cuban and Black Eres Cuban and that’s it coño😅

    • @MalitoSC
      @MalitoSC Před 17 dny +5

      That is a complete lie🤡, spain literally created mixed racial categories, and had a racial caste system.

    • @fernandopuente983
      @fernandopuente983 Před 17 dny +1

      @@MalitoSC so you believed the Leyenda negra? Please do
      More research

    • @fernandopuente983
      @fernandopuente983 Před 17 dny +1

      @@MalitoSCshows u know little if a so-called caste system like India existed tell me was it traditionally Native or influenced by Spain? Because Natives thrived under The Bilateral Reign not under the the rule of the Mexicas tributary Gov. Benito Juarez created Las Leyes de Reforma which did more to castigate the Natives then Spain ever did.

    • @Jatnielp
      @Jatnielp Před 17 dny +2

      Not necessarily in Mexico to be completely honest, identity comes from color.
      And don’t get started about Argentina 😂

    • @fernandopuente983
      @fernandopuente983 Před 17 dny

      @@Jatnielp not true Nowhere in Mexico does anyone identify as a color nor does identity come from color what does that even mean? If you are trying to say that it’s classists society then yes I agree with the statement.

  • @BrianGarcia-gj7wu
    @BrianGarcia-gj7wu Před 19 dny +5

    Oaxaca 🇲🇽

    • @MalitoSC
      @MalitoSC Před 17 dny +2

      Home boy is from Guerrero wey

  • @ruru_esco
    @ruru_esco Před 16 dny +2

    He's Mexican, why is he trying to make something out of it.

    • @00700556
      @00700556 Před 3 dny

      Because americans have a race issue and are in a bubble of black and white. Makes NO sense

  • @doofwarrior9912
    @doofwarrior9912 Před 20 dny +5

    Ain't u fighting a case AK?

  • @JGL98
    @JGL98 Před 16 dny +2

    Black Americans need to inform and learn of these Afro Mexican towns in Mexico we really cousins 💯 it’s all love but some of y’all be looking down on us trynna play us just look at the stuff that be happening in Cali y’all be robbing the street vendors and shi smh

  • @user-hb2vp7rm7s
    @user-hb2vp7rm7s Před 15 dny

    SUR 13 ~~~~~>
    BoYLE HTS CALIFAS ~~~~~>

  • @compaGodisgood
    @compaGodisgood Před 19 dny

    i didnt even know that existed