[Mind-numbed Robot]

The black Hispanics are the natives who occupied the area before the Spanish came, much like the American Indian. Most aren’t aware of it but the Spanish people are mostly blond haired and blue eyed. The Spanish controlled most of Central and South America and the Caribbean area and the southern and western parts of North America as well as the Philippines. There was the normal cross breeding and some of the original Spanish stayed in all those places. Thus, today we have both dark and light skinned people there. The blonds look down on the darks.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Spanish began bringing slaves from Africa to the New World shortly after 1500 because the local Indians were dying off in such numbers. In some of the former Spanish islands a sizeable part of the population has some African ancestry. (That's even more true in the former French, British, or Dutch islands.) On the mainland there were some black slaves but they were only a small fraction of the population--most of the people now are either of Indian or mixed Indian/European ancestry.

Watch major league baseball and you will see a lot of players from the Caribbean with Spanish names and African ancestry.