Butterfly

«Are you ready to return to the Nowhere, little ones?»

The whole family chanting "open the box"???

The good Spanish???

The soundtrack???

No. Río Morales is Afro-Boricua. She’s black too. From Spanish Harlem who was around when Luke Cage was popping off. Jefferson Morales née Davis is African American from Newark, New Jersey who moved to Brooklyn.

Miles is black. First. Ain’t no mix. He is also Latino.

So what you mean by Miles representing the black community more? This motherfucker has the Puerto Rican Flag on his backpack. In his own trailer, his mom is admonishing him for getting a B in Spanish. In almost every comic, he speaks Spanish. I know because I’ve read every Miles Morales comic.

He even saved the day with his mama’s playlist.

He has the dreaded Latino/a versus Latine/x conversation with his mom and fellow Spider-Latine, Anya Corazon.

He listens to Bad Bunny.

And in this very issue, Miles was trying to let people be aware of his identity because people no that he is dark skin but don’t know if he is part of the Hispanic Community. So what does he do?

You are the one who said “let’s be honest, he represents more the black community in the us.” Again, I ask what do you mean? In the first movie, he speaks exclusively Spanish to his mother in his first scene while rocking the Puerto Rican flag with a Reggaeton track playing in the background. When he gets in a scramble with Scorpion, he talks shit and fails to be intimidating in Spanish. In one of his school montage scenes, they are teaching Castilian Spanish highlighting why Miles feels unfit in his new school.

And no, I’m not going to play this game of possibly imaginary group of black people mad at depiction of Miles not being black enough on Twitter. But if you want me to take that bait about hair, the issue they probably don’t like is that his hair is unkempt. There is no formation in it. Or it’s about his texture which it’s hard to tell if Miles is a 4A or a 4B and given the concept art depiction of Miles’ hair….

It could have been a lot worse(that’s a 3B or a 3C) than what they decided on.

Again, none of that precludes him from being Black or Latino.

But I digress.

This is a Black Woman, homie. Who is also descended from Puerto Rico. She is voiced by another Afro-Boricua woman. The only time she isn’t a black woman is Marvel’s Spider-Man PS game. And given whom they modeled her after…

Not surprised but that is probably due to the inconsistent coloring of Rio in the comics where she can range from being Blacker than Viola Davis to looking like Gwen Stacy’s cousin. So that addresses the mixed allegation. Miles is not mixed or biracial because Rio isn’t white, mestizo, or Taino. Miles is Black because being black isn’t defined by the color of your skin or where you descended from but the widespread association of being descended from people who were historically subjugated or discriminated against based on appearing sub-Saharan African which is why people like Logic still get the pass for being Black in spite of looking like Bob Ross’s goofy grandson. This is why Pan-Africanism exists. And also you should look up slavery and post-slavery in the Caribbean or what happened after Haiti defeated the second greatest military in the world and how white people in those islands acted to ensure another slave revolt didn’t happen under their watch. Look up Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and you will learn why your abuelita freaks if she thinks she is getting too dark.

Yes, bitch, I am on one.

No. The issue that I’ve seen that is prevalent is erasing Miles racial identity and mixing it up with ethnicity. I’ve seen Latines such as yourself think that Miles is more Black than Latine as if your culture didn’t come from Africa or subjugated Africans. You are the one who said Miles represents blacks more than Latinos. And I asked what you mean by that.

This is specifically an example of a systemic issue of Latines thinking they are exempt from Anti-Blackness while pushing Afro-Latino heritage to the side and at the same time not really addressing what being Latine means or what it encapsulates. Anti-Blackness is different in every Spanish speaking country in America so it’s difficult to pin what bullshit you are possibly on regarding Blackness and Afro-Latinos so I’m about to find out.

It’s under @brazilian-whalien52. What do you mean by that?

@batboythirst My bad. I’m off your neck now.

No. Río Morales is Afro-Boricua. She’s black too. From Spanish Harlem who was around when Luke Cage was popping off. Jefferson Morales née Davis is African American from Newark, New Jersey who moved to Brooklyn.

Miles is black. First. Ain’t no mix. He is also Latino.

So what you mean by Miles representing the black community more? This motherfucker has the Puerto Rican Flag on his backpack. In his own trailer, his mom is admonishing him for getting a B in Spanish. In almost every comic, he speaks Spanish. I know because I’ve read every Miles Morales comic.

He even saved the day with his mama’s playlist.

He has the dreaded Latino/a versus Latine/x conversation with his mom and fellow Spider-Latine, Anya Corazon.

He listens to Bad Bunny.

And in this very issue, Miles was trying to let people be aware of his identity because people no that he is dark skin but don’t know if he is part of the Hispanic Community. So what does he do?

"I think I cut a bus in half?"