00:00Arturo Schaumburg, the Schaumburg Center, the reason the beginning of black history
00:12was by an Afro-Latino. Schaumburg started in Puerto Rico going and doing research about
00:20black people because his teacher was like, black people don't have any history. There's
00:24no heroes. I don't know what you're talking about in Puerto Rico. So he made his point
00:29and his mission as a child to start getting that information and doing that research.
00:35And then when he moved here, gathered more, started being more involved within the movement,
00:41the black movement that was starting in Harlem, that's how the Schaumburg started. It wasn't
00:45because of anything more than an Afro-Latino started it. He called himself Afro-Puerto Rican.
00:51So this is not a term that just came out of the blue. This has been going on for centuries
00:56and centuries we've been out here trying to be like, hi, we exist. Hi, it's not a foreign
01:01concept to be black and Spanish or Afro-Latino. We clearly cannot deny where our heritage comes
01:08from. We're talking about history. Schaumburg,
01:10you talk about kicked it off. Jules, you're continuing the conversation on Twitter with
01:14black Latinx history. Why was it important for you to make sure as we celebrate black history
01:18in February, we not forget the Afro connection? Yeah. So, um, I actually started the hashtag
01:25on the first day of black history month. I believe it was three years ago. It could have been two.
01:29I'm not sure. It all blends together, right? Um, because it was the first day of black history
01:36month and everybody was really excited. Everybody was sharing, um, iconic figures that inspired them.
01:45And I went to various Latin publications. I went to their Twitter accounts to see if they had posted
01:52anything about, we have such a rich black history in Latina culture. So I went on this one particular
02:02publisher's Twitter account and they had no mention of any black Latina people. And, but they had actually
02:10posted a news post about a white actress from the US. So I felt further insulted because it's like
02:19you can't, you can't share our story, but you can share someone who's not even a Latinx person on your
02:27site. So from there, I started a thread where I wanted to just highlight like all of the iconic people
02:34from our history and somebody, I forgot who it was. Somebody tweeted me saying you should make a hashtag.
02:41And I was like, you're right. So after that, I was all just, I just kept tagging black Latinx history
02:51and all the posts.
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