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and moreover decry the proliferation of African genes in their genetic constitution or base, the image of an Afro Latino as an actual person, with genetic ties to Africa, remains an enigma whose existence is often difficult to fathom for the masses in the United States. This perception pertains to most North Americans, both black and white. Political correctness, however, has attempted to refocus the racial distortion by adopting and adapting the term “Hispanic,” a nomenclature that has elicited much debate in the Spanish-speaking world. Consequently, we have determined, a priori, that the cultural construct of an Afro Latino reality must have remained confined within the geographical purview of the political, social, and linguistic boundaries of the Latin American paradigm. It seems as if people in the United States never noticed, or remained confused by, the black Latin baseball players of the major leagues or the boxers, like “Kid Chocolate,” who visit this country. Then again, we are more than aware that during the Second World War, Puerto Rican troops recruited by the United States were placed in color-stratified units: the fairer-skinned ones who spoke English were considered “white,” or close enough to be admitted as such. And those that were determined to have the unmistakable physical characteristics of black people were assigned to African American battalions. Would it be a conundrum, then, to consider the Afro Latin and the African American to be co-genotypes within a shared genetic basis? There are signs, although feeble, that the invisible is slowly becoming visible. In a commentary recently published in Black Enterprise, a journal directed to the business-oriented African American population, there was the observation that
Depending on the mindset, where matters of race are solidified in a commonly held thought, the clear and undisputable fact might go unnoticed that all the groups mentioned in Hutson's remark share a singular