On a recent episode of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, Erica Mena screamed “You monkey, you blue monkey” to Spice. The animalized anti-Black slur never seems too far from the lips of non-Black Latinas. Many use their proximity to Blackness as a ruse to gain success while fostering anti-Black values.
podcast controversially saying she prefers Black men and Black men prefer Latina women. “Y’all can keep the Puerto Rican men. I’m good,” she said, assuming she was referring to non-Black Puerto Rican men. She added: “I do Black guys all day. Black men cater to us Spanish [sic: Latina] girls especially.
Mena’s chagrin, and subsequent table-flipping that caused the melee, was because Safaree, a rapper and Mena’s ex-husband and father to her children, “chose” to care more about a woman who indeed is not his wife nor his children’s mother. But what really got Mena to reveal herself was that it was a, someone who in her eyes was undeserving of the adoration and worship she, a non-Black woman, is entitled to, so she had been taught.
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