There was pushback on social media against the denial and attempts were made to educate the folks who seemed confused, the people who were asking, “How could a Latino be part of the white supremacist cabal?” There was an obvious and immediate example: recently convicted Proud Boys leader, Henry Enrique Tarrio, who is Afro-Cuban.
Anyone aware of the white supremacist genocidal Caribbean history of politicians like Rafael Trujillo, or the politics of many right-wing Republican-voting Cuban exile families should know this. But a very common obstacle in accepting this reality is that many “real” white people don’t see white Latinos as really white. There are Latinos who don’t want to take a hard look at this, either. The fact that Latinos are often put into that demographic grab-bag of “people of color,” whether or not they self-identify as such, confuses the issue even more.
Arturo Dominguez, journalist and publisher of The Antagonist Magazine, got right to the point.
People are having the "Latino White Supremacist" conversation & I gotta say, Nick Fuentes & Enrique Tarrio are but the tip of the iceberg. Unless you're Latino, you have no idea. They've always been around & yes, most racist Latinos harbor neo-Nazi beliefs.
— Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇲 (@ExtremeArturo) May 8, 2023
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Dominguez has never minced words about the Latino embrace of “whiteness.”
Mediocre Latinos who act like they're White espousing anti-Black and anti-Latino sentiments do more harm within the Latino community than any white supremacist ever could due to their proximity to other Latinos. Light-skinned Latinos aren't White. They are wannabes. Fight me. 👊🏾
— Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇲 (@ExtremeArturo) September 2, 2020
There were other responses as well: