Amara La Negra on Racism in America ; People Bleaching Skin ; Likes Being Choked In Bed + More
Just when you thought the Love & Hip Hop fake story lines were getting boring. Here's a REAL story line.
Amara La Negra just got caught cheating with her friend (and co-star) Brittney Taylor's boyfriend (Dex). And it gets better. Amara allegedly slept with Brittney's man . . . IN HER HOUSE. Possibly even in her BED.
There have been rumors for SOME TIME that Amara was a SCANDALOUS WOMAN - but now it' been proved out.
Brittney confronted the Latina singer about whether she was carrying on with Dex, and at first Amara denied it. Then, after she was caught LYING, she started talking in circles.
In the end, Amara basically TOLD ON HERSELF. She admitted to spending the night at Brittney and Dex' house - although she claims "nothing happened."
Listen:
In other news, reports say that, "the reality star, who was born Dana Danelys de los Santos, started her career at four years old as a dancer on Sabado Gigante and has worked as a backup dancer and singer ever since. But the performer has all the excitement and energy of a newcomer and she poised to conquer the American market. The week after Love and Hip-Hop Miami debuted, La Negra announced that she signed a record deal with BMG Records."
And if you remember, "while her higher profile has won her hundreds of thousands of fans, she’s also become the target of criticism. Some online haters, for example, have accused her blackface. But many have celebrated her for raising awareness about racism and colorism in Latin music."
Someone Leaked A VERY EXPLICIT VIDEO That Looks Like AMARA LA NEGRA From Love And Hip Hop
The Afro-Latina singer masterfully responded with an adorable childhood video.
“Love & Hip Hop: Miami” star Amara La Negra is both black and Latina, a concept many online trolls can’t quite seem to grasp.
The Miami-born Dominican singer first addressed social media comments that she is donning blackface during a live interview with The Shade Room on Monday. When host Angelica Nwandu asked Amara her thoughts on what some people are saying, the proud Afro-Latina said it was really important for her to “educate and inform people about Afro-Latinos” while on the reality show.
But it seems the issue didn’t end there. On Thursday, the singer once again addressed accusations that she wears blackface by posting an adorable throwback video of herself participating in a beauty pageant when she was a child.
“Well Yea I guess I was Born in a ‘Black Face Body!,’” Amara wrote in the Instagram caption for the video. “Its funny that I even have to go through this and show you baby pictures or videos to prove to blogs and people on social media that my skin color is not airbrushed or spray tanned nor do I take melanin shots to be black!”
However, there has been at least one incident of someone imitating the singer in blackface. In 2016, former Dominican beauty queen Geisha Montes de Oca took the stage on the variety show “Aquí Se Habla Español” wearing blackface, an Afro wig and padding to make her butt look bigger. Amara reposted an image of Montes de Oca on Instagram with the question: “What did you all think?” The “Love & Hip Hop” star has also had to face people questioning her Afro-Latino identity before. In the first episode of the series, which debuted on Monday, the singer goes head-to-head with music producer Young Hollywood about her image. In the scene, the Latino producer tells her she should be “a little bit more Beyoncé, a little less Macy Gray,” adding that an Afro isn’t elegant. He also calls her “Nutella Queen,” questions what it means to be Afro-Latina and says the music industry wants a cookie-cutter star. During the altercation Amara reminds him that “not all Latinas look like J.Lo or Sofía Vergara or Shakira, so where are the women that look like myself?” The singer may have walked out of Young Hollywood’s studio that day, but this week she walked right into a multi-album deal with Fast Life Entertainment Worldwide and BMG.
Love & Hip Hop’s Amara La Negra about how colorism affects Afro-Latinas {VIDEO}
There’s a very EXPLICIT video circulating online that we WILL NOT be linking to. The video shows a woman with a large AFRO – engaged in RELATIONS with a man.
Similarly, there’s a screenshot from the same video – and folks are saying that the woman in the video appears to bear a STRIKING resemblance to Love & Hip Hop star Amara La Negra.
In the screenshot, the La Negra look-a-like wearing gold bangles and matching gold eyeshadow straddles a man, and her face is turned to the side. The are no identifiable marks in the video which would clarify whether or not it is her and we cannot see her full face.
With fame comes the inevitable attempt to diminish a person’s success. And whether or not it is the LAHH: Miami star – somebody is trying very hard to link her to this video.
It’s hard to believe that’s Amara La Negra – her mother is extremely protective of her. So protective of her that La Negra takes her mother with her to producer meetings. But she wouldn’t be the first child to keep secrets from her parents. Maybe she isn’t as squeaky clean as she projects on the show and her social media pages.
Did Amara La Negra turn to the adult industry to help fund her now flourishing career – or is somebody out here trying to throw salt on her name?
We hope it isn’t her. A video like this can bring the Afro Latina’s rocketing music career crashing down to the ground!
Let’s be real clear about what The Breakfast Club’s Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy were doing when they recently challenged Love & Hip Hop’s Amara La Negra about how colorism affects Afro-Latinas.
They were gaslighting her, or in other words, playing Amara for crazy.
‘Gaslighting’ is a term used in the 1044 classic film where a husband (Charles Boyer) kept messing with the lights to make this wife (Ingrid Bergman) lose her sanity. But if you want to dress it up so we, or at least The Breakfast Club, can keep up, they were invalidating her Blackness to fetishize her Latin roots.
“If you ignore my blackness, I become more ‘other’ and sexy,” says Michaela Machicote, an Afro-Latina who grew up near Chicago’s Puerto Rican heart, Humboldt Park, and who wrote her University of Texas at Austin master’s thesis on Blackness and identity in Puerto Rico.
“It’s just internalized anti-Blackness. You want this exotic thing.”
That’s messed up.
Ignoring the lived experiences of Black women has consequences beyond a day’s worth of Twitter clapbacks. And looking La Negra in the face and telling her what she experiences as a dark-skinned Black woman is awfully tone deaf in a cultural moment where #MeToo and the Hollywood Time’s Up campaign is all about listening to women and taking what they have to say to heart.
I mean, a Black woman, Tarana Burke, started the whole conversation.
“It’s a combination of misogynoir [hatred of black women] and entitlement men have in speaking over women,” Machicote also says. “We all understand how black women are ignored, erased and invisibilized.”
La Negra, in her eloquent responses, was having none of it, and neither are Black women, Machicote said: “Black women are starting to have this feeling of we’re tired of you talking over us, invalidating our struggle and fighting for you, and you don’t fight for us. We’re not going to be silenced. We put all the effort in the struggle, so why are we doing this for you if you can’t even treat us the way we deserve to be treated after all we’ve done?”
It’s not just fun and jokes, people.
Regressive attitudes dressed up as provocative questioning has social, cultural and economic consequences. If that’s not simple enough: Dark-skinned women must deal with the anxiety of not being perceived as being beautiful and therefore loveable, which can inform our ability to develop healthy relationships.
And if European beauty standards, such as the need for straight hair to appear “polished” and light-skinned to be accepted, vexes all kinds of women, think of how this affects Black women on the darker end of the color continuum. That La Negra felt compelled to deconstruct her ‘fro and her Afro-Latina status proves the point.
Everything that holds Black women back in society, such as lack of career mobility or sponsorship to reach higher ranks at work or proven medical neglect in pregnancy and childbirth, has implications: For many dark-skinned Black women, there’s often the lingering question of whether the depth of our skin tone plays a role in social and workplace interactions. This line of thinking can be rooted in childhood, when families make a value distinction between Black children based on lightness of skin or neighborhood kids make it into a thing.
Just when it seems like colorism is buried in the past, women like La Negra or Dascha Polanco, a light-skinned Dominican of Orange Is the New Black fame, are asked to validate their existence.
For about a three-month period, the kids in my middle-class Detroit neighborhood called me “black wizard” and made a chant out of it with dance steps. A group of siblings all above the historic paper-bag brown color spectrum walked down to my house one afternoon and “performed” it in my driveway. I was mortified and embarrassed. I was 11, and my spirit died a little bit that day.
While I’m sure dark-skinned Black women make sure they find ways to survive and thrive, many more likely have a similar story to tell. And those stories don’t invalidate the other part of the conversation where light-skinned Black women are denigrated, too. Because this whole disaggregation of ethnicity, and race and skin tone is part of same stale conversation designed to either erase or split us apart.
Moreover, being Black and Latina isn’t mutually exclusive, even though some folks try so hard to make it so, Machicote says. But for men there’s something to be gained by redefining Afro-Latinas by what they are not to craft an image of beauty and desirability that fetishizes women.
The whole silly, regressive conversation started off on the wrong foot when Charlamagne and Envy initiated a discussion about “what” La Negra is. She patiently described the experience of being a dark-skinned, coily haired Latina and the dearth of opportunities for people who look like her in entertainment. Charlamagne and Envy erased La Negra’s experience by suggesting she’s wrong about colorism in the Latino community because they don’t “see it.”
And perhaps to be provocative, Charlamagne asked, “You sure it’s not in your mind?” totally ignoring the light-skinned privilege entertainers like Cardi B enjoy, as remarkable and adorable as her rachtet-to-riches story may be.
The power of narrative is critical at this juncture. The culture war over so-called shithole countries, kicking Dreamers out of the only country they’ve ever called home and having a president who gaslights us daily by delegitimizing the free press, proves how powerful story is.
Stories are the beginning of everything, who we are, how we are and why we are. In objectifying Afro-Latinas and disrespecting them by failing to listen, The Breakfast Club is just a part of a bigger trend of dehumanizing Black women.
Not only do men in Hollywood and Corporate America have to do better, Black workaday men aren’t off the hook, either. Charlamagne pulled the curtain back on a way of thinking that’s endemic to pockets of Black society and certainly rap.
Thankfully Laz Alonzo reached out to his boy with a word on the lingering, harmful effects of colonialism, suggesting Charlamagne was open to the knowledge. What I know for sure is there’s only so much #blackgirlmagic to go around.
Being seen, heard and validated in the fullness of who we are is what we need now, so stop playing with the damn lights.
Black is beautiful. The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice. If that berry is yellow, and you bite it, it's bitter. Alot, of Hispanics, who are dark skin claim they are Spanish not black.
#Breathtaking... When your good solid package you must stay steady, be tenacious, staying with class and dignity. Your time will come, sooner then you realize. They can not deny you.
Comment by AfricanGoddess on February 11, 2018 at 8:59pm
Sorry to hear that mess!@ Harry Toddler
Be strong for your daughter,don't let this world discourage you!
Comment by caribmama on February 2, 2018 at 7:01pm
Harry Toddler I truly hope the school has class assemblies to address that behavior. That crap needs to be nipped in the bud before it gets worse.
Comment by Harry Toddler on February 2, 2018 at 3:24pm
the more i learn about what's really happening is the more helpless I feel , If your black you have to worry about white ppl , black ppl , light skin black ppl , hispanic black ppl , french black ppl " WTF " So ironic I got a call yesterday from my 6 yr old daughter's teacher , apparently a little white boy( same age) in her class told her to move from beside him cause brown ppl are supposed to sit on the other side of the tabe , wtf . It's like we have to go live in a bubble with our family nowadays . Really hate this world we live in.
Not much have change from Ancient times and throughout, into modern today... know the role of history to understand where we are and how we got into this mental,cultural and spiritual warfare.
This is where/how colorism started with the black race ...
"[To prove how truly white they were, the mixed Egyptians made hatred of Afrikans a ritual, and tried to surpass the whites in raiding for slaves in all-Afrikan areas. Various mulattoes who became Egyptian kings declared “eternal warfare” against Black people and vowed to enslave the entire race.]
Chancellor Williams, The Destruction of Black Civilization (The Black Bible) (p. 75)
In this vain, a seriously overlooked aspect of the history of Black/white interaction is the role of the mulatto in the oppression of Afrikan people. In fact, when one looks at the history of Black/white conflict on planet Earth, one finds that the Black/white mulatto mix-breed has been “the white man’s most effective agent in helping destroy Black civilizations” – Chancellor Williams.
This is a very important point to consider in moving forward in the 21st Century. We need to understand that the growing population of mulattoes in prominent positions represents a clear and present danger to Black progress and forward mobility. It is not by accident that there is a noticeable increase in mulatto television anchors, organization heads, actors and actresses, elected officials, principals, educators, police officers, etc . . .
The mulatto class is being conceived and groomed to act as the primary agents for white supremacy. They’re systematically replacing genuine Black men and/or women in positions of power and influence in the Black community. By doing so, they replace the potential for Racially loyal Brothers and Sisters to advocate for the Race. Whites know that their mulatto children will be loyal to white interests. At the very least, they will almost never play an active role in aggressively fighting for Black advantage. This scenario creates a confusion among Black people that makes our efforts to fight racism white supremacy far more complex. To the naked eye, we see a “Black” person. In reality, we are dealing with children of our enemy who’ve been groomed to expect light-skinned, mulatto-based privilege over Black people in exchange for their willingness to work against the best interests of our people. This strategy has been used to destroy Black civilizations for years and is now being used to suppress Afrikan interests worldwide.
The mulattoes are here and they are doing major damage. War on the Horizon (WOH) has been warning people about the danger of this undesirable class for decades. The work of Dr. Chancellor Williams, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and many others have explained how the mulatto’s existence has been a curse to Afrikan people for centuries. The following clip is an example of this scenario.
For many years now, WOH has been challenging the Black community to close ranks to the idea of dating and/or sexing outside of our Race. We understand that with the creation of this mulatto class in these modern times, we’re helping to create a buffer group in between us and the white racial oppressor. For most of this time, we’ve been met with great resistance or apathy. However, very recently an article was written that described the process of mulatto-making in an historical context. This particular contribution is a breakthrough in viewing the Black/white dynamic.
The article entitled, “Did African Slave Traders Sell Us Out?” clearly demonstrates that portuguese smallhats (white so-called jews) in the 1400’s, invaded the Afrikan continent, raped Black women, kidnapped the children and raised them in europe. These children were trained to return to the Afrikan continent to capture and enslave Afrikan people. Here is a snippet from the article:
The Portuguese “explorers” used forced breeding on the Africans, a tactic which targets the genetic foundation of the indigenous population. European invaders deliberately created mixed-race subgroups with the intention of using them to capture and enslave the native populations. This “new breed” would serve as a “ruling class” to control the massive numbers of African slave laborers required by the colonies, and further serve as a buffer zone between the White oppressor and his Black victims. In America, we have come to know them as “house ni**ers,” or “mammies,” or “uncle toms,” and they were most often the lighter-skinned slaves—the children born of the rape of the Black woman. Back in Africa, the horrific suffering and debasement of the Black woman had a very specific economic purpose.
Arriving on the Cape Verde islands, about 350 miles off the coast of Senegal, Jewish slave merchants from Portugal in the mid-1400s sought to insert themselves in Africa’s commerce and trade. Just as The Messenger described, they kidnapped and raped African women, and the mixed-race offspring, called lancados, were raised on the island as European Jews, practicing Judaism and respecting Jewish authority. These lancados then were sent into the African mainland to set up an international “trading post” in the fine fabrics being produced by the Africans. But soon they turned on their hosts and began trading in Black human beings. The lancados literally were trained by their Jewish fathers to be slave traders—trained in the Jewish family business of slave-dealing. It was these half-breed, mixed-race (or mulatto) “half-ricans” who infiltrated the Black African communities, seeking to satisfy the European lust for Black labor. Because of their African blood admixture, deceptive White propagandists call these mixed-race Jewish slave traders “Africans”; Blacks view them, rightly, as Europeans, given their racial and cultural distance from African society and its practiced norms of thousands of years. One scholar was clear: “The offspring of these lancados and African women were called Jilhos de terra and were generally considered to be Portuguese.”
This is a major breakthrough in understanding the process of Black enslavement by whites. The process was far more sophisticated than we initially understood. We have always been taught that “Black people sold Black people into slavery.” However, the truth is far more compelling. A substantial part of our enslavement was orchestrated through rape, integration, miseducation, and bastardization. This all occurred prior to the massive influx of european enslavers. whites didn’t just come with guns and rum. The smallhats had done decades of planning and preparation for our enslavement before the massive kidnapping and enslavement of our Race began. And never forget, the most effective “agent” in effectively enslaving Black people was the mulatto dog known as
the Lancados. These mixed “halfricans” were and still are bred for the purpose of assaulting the Black family; and they are among the greatest enemies of Afrikan people."
That's disappointed they were being so dismissive about the Afro latino plight...that's like saying racism doesn't exist at all in this world! Colorism is seriously engraved within the latino culture,there is no denying that,the majority have a 1800's colorism/racist mindset in 2018... mentally stuck in the past!
Amara is stunning,always thought she resemble Kenya Moore. I am familiar with her music,being a fan of the Afro latino genre(salsa,rumba,mambo,samba,)...wasn't aware she was on a reality show,hopefully she can crossover successfully with her music.
I admire her for being unapologetic about her roots and her beautiful dark skin... love the fact that she boldly bring awareness to the racism/colorism within the Latino community publicly...she is definitely a voice for Afro latino,this is how changes occur.
Colonization has phucked everyone minds up globally... the mixed race(which is the majority within the latino nations of the Caribbean and some places in South America) was created to keep dark/black people back,this is how colorism started... We're seeing the diabolical damage/effect today by those who still uphold their role in the dark skin hatred.
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