I am a white Cuban male, and I am almost certain that I have black in me. Why? Because although all my great grandparents on my mother side were born in Spain, on my father side, I don't know, and my father looks white but he has a darker skin tone, so I will gladly say that scientifically speaking probably I am mixed. I choose to identify myself as white because that's what I see in the mirror, and that's what other Cubans will use to describe me. "Latin" is a word that acquired a racist tint in the US. First of all, latin is a culture not a race. Spaniards, the French, Italians, even Romanians, are latin. Try telling them that they are not white, european or any other race, or ethnicity because they are "latin", and see how their laughter will knock you out dead! Latin is used in this country so as to say "the other not like me," anglo-saxon whites invented that new connotation to say that we are not like them, and, from them, almost everybody else bit the hook. An then comes the confusion, and the sheer stupidity of saying that a Mexican is Latin, and that a Cuban is Latin and, therefore, a Mexican, like a Cuban that has a relevant African component in his history and culture, should identify himself with anything African! That's an ABSURDITY of epic ignorance. Now, if you see that a Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Brazilian, Ecuadorian, Colombian, or any other person in some of the countries that had Africans being enslaved as a horrible and sad fact of their history, denying the African influence in every aspect of their life, then you have the right to call them racist fools! Let me be clear, anyone, not matter where you were born, telling other person that he/she is inferior because of the color of the skin, is a motherfucking racist. But to deny what is in your blood, or culture is also stupidity, plain and simple! So, please, stop telling every "Latin" that he/she has to identify himself/herself with African culture or race because of you decided, out of ignorance or racism, to group us all under that term! And call people for being racist no matter what culture they come from, whether or not they have African roots.