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Beyonce is Black — No, She’s Hispanic

Beyonce is Black — No, She’s Hispanic

Beyonce loves to break records!

The sexy songstress recently made magazine history as she was chosen for People en Espanol’s “50 Most Beautiful” issue. She’s the first non-Hispanic to be selected.

Other big names making the list include Ricky Martin, Mario Lopez, Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek and Ugly Betty star America Ferrera.

Check out the video below of Beyonce and Mario at their photoshoots.


Behind-the-Scenes of People en Espanol’s “50 Most Beautiful”
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It’s not the 50’s most beautiful hispanics..it’s just a list from People en español….I don’t know if there’s any brazilians on it..but last year there was Juliana Paes and Rodrigo Santoro..and we, brazilian, are not hispanic since we don’t speak spanish.
It’s obvious they try to list only hispanic plp but that’s not the point of the list.
Beyoncé is one of the most beauitful women out there and she deserves to be on every list of this type.

You folks are plain ridiculous! So the english People magazine chooses people of all walks of like in their 50 most beautiful - Americans or non Americans, whites blacks etc. Should they not?

Also, magazines like Essence magazine are known to choose Latino actresses in their hottest list.

As a matter of fact, BET had the 25 best dancers in African-American history and Shakira was one of them. I think she was top ten if I am not mistaken!

The African-American community has had a long relationship with the Latino community because Latino does not exclude black.

The Latino race is a mixture of Native American, European and African. I can’t believe how narrow minded some of you are on this subject.

FYI Jared: I think the correct term politically is Latino not Hispanic, per a lot of my Latino friends.

Here is a list of BET (Black Entertainment Television) ’s list of top 25 dancers of all time.

Three Latinas made it!!!!!: Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira.

So you see the African-American community has NO problem including Latinos in their compilation lists because the African-American community recognizes its connection to the Latino culture and vice versa.

BTW, Celia Cruz could have been on this list and she was black but Latina. The two are not mutually exclusive people!

Your ignorance is sad.

BET’s List:

25. Ciara
24. Diddy
23. Big Daddy Kane
22. Rosie Perez
21. Gregory Hines
20. Missy Elliott
19. Tina Turner
18. Aaliyah
17. Cab Calloway
16. Shakira
15. Omarion
14. Bobby Brown
13. Jennifer Lopez
12. Alvin Ailey
11. Usher
10. The Temptations
09. Beyoncé
08. Savion Glover
07. MC Hammer
06. Prince
05. Janet Jackson
04. Chris Brown
03. The Nicholas Brothers
02. Michael Jackson
01. James Brown

Essence Communications , Inc. (ECI) is out to capture the essence of African-American culture through publishing, fashion, and entertainment. The company publishes “ESSENCE,” which is geared toward African-American women and has a monthly circulation of more than one million. The company owns a stake in “Latina,” a bilingual publication aimed at Hispanic women in the US.

+++++++++++++ Actually, Essence Magazine basically LAUNCHED Latina magazine - the first widely distributed fashion mag in the US targeted to Latinas.

So you see, People en Espanol may have put ONE African-American non-Latina on their cover but Essence has been responsible for giving Latinas their own magazine for years where they get to be on covers every month!

So get over it all of you!

A Certain Smile:

You may be correct about youur definition of “hispanic.” However, if you refer to Wikipedia, you may acknowledge that the term means:

“Hispanic” specifically refers to Spain, and to the Spanish-speaking nations of
the Americas, as cultural and demographic extensions of Spain. It should be
further noted that in a U.S. context, a Hispanic population consists of the people
of Spain and everyone with origins in any of Spanish-speaking nations of the
Americas, regardless of ancestry of the latter.

So as you can see, Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas are indeed “hispanics.”

una caca,hispanics are those latin american, not spanish from spain, europe, i am from madrid,spain, in europe, and i am caucasian , not hispanic. do a bit of reading, please!!!!!!!!!

That’s no worse than them putting JLO on the front cover and calling her the “Most Influential” hispanic. Just like Beyonce is not Hispanic, JLO is not the most influential.

Gil Sampaio @ 05/05/2007 at 5:56 am

ATTENTION: Brazilians ARE NOT hispanics! Brazilians NEVER spoke Spanish. We speak PORTUGUESE. Brazilians are Lusophones, like Portugueses, Angolans and Mozambicans.

Brazilian do not even consider themselves like “latins” because today “latins” become synonymous to “hispanic”.

I know what she is, becasue her mother already mentioned it… I will not even say it. I just love her music like everyone else.

Oh gosh. What is America Ferrara doing there? She’s far from beautiful. Beyonce shouldn’t be there, since she’s not hispanic.

And yes, Brazilians are latin. The fact that most people don’t know what ‘Latin’ means doesn’t mean they’re not anymore. You’re right, they’re not hispanic, but they are still Latin, no matter what Americans say.

Everyone need to stop hating on beyonce because you guys wish you all was like her. the main ones hating, is the main one’s that be playing her music, and singing to it. it would be much better is you start appreciating what beyonce is doing instead of contridicting her every move and song. stop player hating, she is pretty, she can sing, she can dance, and she is a great actress, and she baggin da big ballers(jay-z)!!! (it’s plain to see that i am her #1 fan!! stop knockin her hustle, if u don’t like her, get off her jock!!!

A Certain Smile and Andrea and eveybody else…

YOU NEED TO GET EDUDUCATED, THEN YOU CAN HAVE AN OPINION..

Hi spanic means to be derived from SPAIN!!…Therefore all of the other countries that have a cultural extension from Spain are Hispanic also..

HISPANIC refers to the spanish people and Spain, It comes from “HISPANIA”, THE ROMAN NAME FOR THE IBERIAN PENINSULAR, NOW SPAIN AND PORTUGAL!…HISPANIA ,OR NOW MORE COMMONLY KNOWN AS ESPANA!…

So if anyones the true hispanics its the spanirds..

Do your research,
now understand morrons!…..its doesnt come from Hispanola the island….who named the island???.the spanish! DUH..!

oh and to anyone calling hispanic a race ,its not.

one more thing…

The Romans found a city called ‘HISPALIS’ now called (Seville). Its is disputed wheather itwas originally Greek or named by the romans.
From the name it appears that the city was originally a Greek colony (Hispalus was a mythical Greek hero who was related to Hercules)

Many hotels in Sevilla are called Hispalis everywhere…near the city.

Latin America is simply as a geographical location, named after LATIN EUROPE…

The USA uses latino which is a spanish word…and means Latin in english.. dont know why they dont use the english word…as much..since they dont know where it comes from it seems..

la morenita @ 08/28/2007 at 5:55 pm

wow . beyonce made it ? ummm im kinda upset becuase she isnt latina . now dont get me wrond im from the dominican republic and im a dark-skin latina . and i know of my roots . and we all know most dominicans are mulattos . but she is not a latina . spanish isnt her native tounge . i love beyonce and i think she is an amazing artist but if they wanted a true darkskin latina then they should have put zoe saldana on there or christina millian . everytime i turn to mtv tres there is beyonce . and no im am not racist to the african american people or anything i jus think that all 50 people in here should be hispanic . thats just what i think . and i really do like the fact that they are starting to recognize dark skin latinos but beyonce ??? noo sorry she is african american , spanish isnt her families native tounge . i jus feel a lil upset but ooh well what can u do . she is very talented and beautiful women .

la morenita @ 08/28/2007 at 5:55 pm

wow . beyonce made it ? ummm im kinda upset becuase she isnt latina . now dont get me wrond im from the dominican republic and im a dark-skin latina . and i know of my roots . and we all know most dominicans are mulattos . but she is not a latina . spanish isnt her native tounge . i love beyonce and i think she is an amazing artist but if they wanted a true darkskin latina then they should have put zoe saldana on there or christina millian . everytime i turn to mtv tres there is beyonce . and no im am not racist to the african american people or anything i jus think that all 50 people in here should be hispanic . thats just what i think . and i really do like the fact that they are starting to recognize dark skin latinos but beyonce ??? noo sorry she is african american , spanish isnt her families native tounge . i jus feel a lil upset but ooh well what can u do . she is very talented and beautiful women .

you guys are pathetic, its just a magazine. go get jobs or something and stop wasting your times. before cursing what im saying. think realy hard about your arguments is it worth 2 min or is it pathetic and sorry?

i dont see what the big deal is if beyonce can speak spanish than she should be on the magazine.people need to stop being racist.black people are mixed with different races anyway.and we were put on earth to be together not seperated.beside rather latino or black were all colored.

THEY ARE ONLY PUTTING HER THERE BECAUSE SHE GOT A ALBUM IN SPANISH AND SAYS SHE WISHED SHE WAS LATINA BUT STILL THAT DESON’ T MAKE YOU HISPANIC, I DONT WANT TO BE MEAN OR ANYTHING BUT COME’ON ITS AN HISPANIC MAGAZINE GET IT “HISPANIC”?

AFROLATINA @ 07/16/2008 at 6:26 am

there are alot lot of other who don’t get recognized AS latina/o Tatyana Ali has a panamanian Mom ‘LALa the mtv vj girlfriend of carmelo Anthony full latina Joanna garcia cheyanne from Reba Sabrina Bryan the the cheeatah Girls Aleixis Bledel people are always shocked that she is Jamie-lynn sigler Tony;s daughter the sopranos Catherine Bach The original daisy Duke Raquel Welch Linda carter Wonder Woman MIGUEL FERRER CROSSING JORNDAN BENJIMEN BRATT
THE ONLY ISSUE THAT i HAVE IS IF YOU ARE GOING 2 MAKE A SPANISH ALBUM LEARN IT 1ST YES CHRISTINA AGUILERA IS HALF LATIN BUT SHE IS AN ENG. SPEAKING ARTIST SPANISH–SPEAKING ARTISTS HAVE 2 LEAR ENG. IF THEY WANT CROSS-OVER THEY COULD NEVER GO ON OPRAH ON ANY TOP-RATED ENG SPEAKING SHOW WITH AN EARPIECE SAYING “i AM WAITING ON MY INTERPRETER SORRY.” THEY KNOW THAT THE ENG PRESS WOULD TEAR UP & THEY ‘D RIGHTFULLY ASKED WHY IF YOY HAVE THE REVENUE @ YOUR FEET LEARNED IT

Latino’s or Latina’s whole entire culture from the music, dances, instruments, style of dress, foods, and the list goes on, is purely AFRICAN!!!! The only thing LATIN or HISPANIC about the so-called LATINO or HIS-PANIC culture is the language, SPANISH or in the case of Brasil, PORTUGUESE!! Because Spanish and Portuguese are Latin languages, just like french and italian are…. But here in the so called new world (the americas), they only consider you latino or hispanic if you look like you’re half black and white, or a light-skinned back person like beyonce. Which is more than likely why you seen her sometimes ignorant ass on the cover of this gay ass mag. you’ll never see a bernic mac complected sister or brother on this cover, unless they totally disregard their blackness and replace it with the slave word LATINO or HISPANIC!!! A lot of you so called latinos and latinas are faking it!!! Knowing that you’re black and indian mixed, or just purely black or indian, but claiming this white spanish latino ****! and if you only claim that you’re latino or hispanic becuz of the language you speak, then what does that make your brothers and sisters in the U.S. and other ENGLISH speaking countries? Does that make us anglo becuz we speak english, or ingles? French is a latin language like spanish, so how come i never hear haitians referred to as latino since they speak french! What it turns out to be is if you look too african, like in haiti, then you can’t use the term hispanic or latino! In brazil they’ll find a few mixed looking black folks and then referr to them as latino, even though they speak a completely different latin language. You guys don’t call italians latino cuz they’ll whack jooze guys. And what crazy about that is that latin comes from italy! So **** all of you so called latinos and latinas and hispanics! cuz you’re obviously motherfuckas who are dumb and don’t know real history! and to me you’re no different than the spanish slavers who imposed that ugly ass euro spic language upon our people!! All of So-called Latin America is forever indebted to Natives and Blacks for our creation of what white latins and hispanics call Latino culture!!! You ************* castillian cave apes would have nothing without us!!! So pay respect or die!!!

but realize to be considered hispanic you do not need to be of hispanic background most if the time. What you have to do is speak fluent spanish

ok People I am from Spain and YES WWERE ARE HISPANIC AND LATINO just not LATIN AMERICAN thats the only difference…. Latinos are from all countries derived from the latin language :Italian ,Spanish Porutguese, and French …….
OK now some Spaniards here in Spain are even more ignorant to think they are not hispanics saying they are caucasion WE ARE PURELY MORE HISPANOICS THAN THE LATIN AMERICANS THEY HAVE ARE BLOOD THUS CALLING THEM HISPANICS CUZ OF ARE LAGNAUGE ALSOO !! They dont want to be considered Indian or black becUSE obviosly we are not BUT LATINO/HISPANIC IS A CLUTURE LANGUAGE THING …its pissed me off that people from my own country think tht being called latino is imdediatly calling them black or indian THERES WHITE LATIN AMERICANS MANY OF THEM lol just

Beyoncé is Hispanic/Latina…. because she Afro-Latina, Afro-Hispanic, Creole woman with black culture creole rythm. because is Dominicana, Creole, French, Tanio Indian, descent put all together as one herself Beyoncé. and also she speaks Espanol… so she is in the magazine.. Haters I’m Dominicano she’s just like Kat DeLuna, Christina M., & Karina Pasian…. she is cien percenta afro a latina…..

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