Talk:Afro-Puerto Ricans

message: Why no photo of him in the Infobox? There are at least two in his WP article.Parkwells (talk) 16:17, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Why no photo of Roberto Clemente?

message: The section following abolition of slavery likens freed slaves who sold produce from their plots to sharecroppers in the US, but said that unlike in the US, they did not receive "40 acres and a mule." Freedmen in the US did not receive 40 acres and a mule after the war, which is why so many of those in rural areas had to fall back on sharecropping or tenant farming to survive. While this idea of divvying up plantations to give former slaves land allotments was popular in some quarters, it did not take place after the war. In a few occupied areas during the war, such as the Sea Islands off South Carolina and Georgia, slaves were allocated property to farm but, after the war, such holdings were generally returned to the legal owners. In some cases, slaves worked as sharecroppers - farming the land owned by another for a share of the crops; in others, they moved into towns or cities to take up trades for wages.Parkwells (talk) 19:17, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: No 40 acres and a mule in US, either

message: Although the title of "African immigration to Puerto Rico" falls in line with the other articles describing other ethnic groups in Puerto Rico, the title does not fall in line with the history that the article explains. Forced slavery isn't immigration, and voluntary arrival thereafter would be considered immigration. Rather than having the article fall in line with the other Puerto Rican ethnic group pages, it should fall in line with other Latin American/African diaspora pages that title the article "Afro-Cuban" for example.
I suggest this article's title be changed to *Afro-Puerto Rican* in accordance with the other Latin American African population pages.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.64.193.228 (talk) 21:47, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing Article Title to "Afro-Puerto-Rican"

message: I've been paying closer attention to the sources cited in Wikipedia articles after a friend brought to my attention some cases where Wikipedia articles cite sources to back up assertions which themselves cite the very same Wikipedia article as its source (in effect such articles cite themselves as the source of thrur claims). There is a problem with sources cited in Wikipedia articles in general. I get the sense few bother to evaluate the credibility of sources cited. In this case, an online encyclopedia called "Afropedea" is cited. This is not a credible source. In fact the specifc article referenced contains several glaring errors, such as the claim that "Breaking Bad" actor Giancarlo Esposito is an "Afro-Puerto Rican" (he is actually half Italian and half African-American and was born in Denmark).
I also find the articles claim that "Spain's exposure to people of color over the centuries accounted for the positive racial attitudes that prevailed in the New World" to be downright bizarre. They enslaved blacks and Indians for heaven's sake. The Spaniards and Portuguese were the first Europeans to enslave blacks and Indians and were the last to abandon the practice. Around 95% of the blacks brought to the New World as slaves were brought on Spanish and Portuguese ships to toil in Latin-American colonies. In fact the Spanish never voluntarily sbsndoned the slave trade but rather were forced to cease the practice by the British. The suggestion that the Spanish had positive racial attitudes is simply ridiculous.
CannotFindAName (talk) 16:12, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious source , dubious claims

message: I really think that the WP:CALC figure needs to be taken out of the infobox unless it's qualified by sources. There's a huge gap in the range of estimates according to various sources, and it's something to be dealt with in the body of the article (preferably a brief statement in the lead) rather than 'guesstimates' being put into the infobox.
If it is deemed that estimates should be in the infobox, I would suggest that they be broken down as 'lowest estimate' and 'highest estimate' (both with sources). Any thoughts from other editors? --Iryna Harpy (talk) 02:37, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Percentage of population: infobox and lead 

message: Several editors like Asilah1981 and Iryna Harpy have seriously vandilized and whitewashed this page as well as Puerto Rican history. They have deleted several clips of information in an attempt to make Puerto Rico and its history look less black/African.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Spreadofknowledge (talk • contribs) 02:47, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I beg your pardon, !? Would you care to substantiate your accusations with some diffs and clarify where you've come up with this 'whitewashing' theory? ... as well as abstain from such crudity... --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:16, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The whitewashing of this damn page is fuckin crazy. 

message: What happened? Theultimaterevisionist (talk) 08:02, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  I remember the list of notable Afro Puerto Rican’s to be much bigger?