Born in Jamaica, Read as Puerto Rican, BBS 2026 Day 1
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0:00A: And so tell me about how you experienced being Jamaican, looking Puerto Rican, and like what it was like for you navigating that Black identity. I purposefully haven’t interviewed anybody today that wasn’t Black, and you just happened to share with me that you qualify.
0:12B: Everybody, uh, everybody just thinks I’m Spanish, Puerto Rican, and I don’t speak that. So being born in Jamaica, if you go to Jamaica, it’s a lot of colorism. Black, like dark-skinned, don’t like light-skinned, vice versa. But when you come to America, everybody just officially just knows, oh, he’s Puerto Rican, he’s Spanish. Then they already give you that little label, so it’s a little different.
0:38A: Is that a good experience, bad experience?
0:41B: I mean, I mean, it just depends. I say to myself a lot, so I really don’t care what people’s mindsets and judgments are, but it’s just very different, you know what I mean? Like, different cultures think different things. You gotta fit in when you get in, you know what I mean?
0:54A: Amen.
