J Balvin wins Afro-Latino Artist of the Year

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This weekend, the African Entertainment Awards named J Balvin as the Afro-Latino Artist of the Year for 2021.

In response, J Balvin began trending on Twitter as some social media users took issue with him receiving the honor. Many of the complaints centered around the question of Balvin’s race and ethnicity. 
Some people also pointed out J Balvin faced backlash earlier this year for his controversial “Perra” music video. Critics accused the Reggaeton recording artist of racism and misogyny because the visuals depicted Black women as dogs on leashes.
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[bionic 48,737]

Is he Afro-Latino?

[FfFfFfFF 55,246]

Let's hope Olly London, Jessy Nelson, Nikita Dragun and Arigato Grandchen will embrace him in the Transracial community!

[Sneaky Oliver 21,998]

Why is there a African Latino award? I mean African and Latin artists are both very unique and distinctive  

[Andreu 37,216]

This is more the fault of whoever gave him the award than J balvin himself's but still

[LilMonst3r 5,422]

What they need to do is get rid of those racially exclusionary categories. Be diverse with the nominations.

[Harlet 928]

He’s Colombian ??? Things really aren’t going well with his new era isn’t it 

[Corous 305]

43 minutes ago, Sneaky Oliver said:

Why is there a African Latino award? I mean African and Latin artists are both very unique and distinctive  

 

Because "Latino" is not a race, we Latinos are very diverse, there are white people, indigenous people, black people and even people of Asian descent...

I myself am from Colombia (where jbalvin is from) but I am Afro and I feel very disgusted by jbalvin's actions, it is not the first time something like this has happened with him ...

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1 hour ago, Sneaky Oliver said:

Why is there a African Latino award? I mean African and Latin artists are both very unique and distinctive  

Because Latino isn't a race. It's a culture. 

 

Ex. Cardi B is afro-latina. So are Kandi Muse and Dahlia Sin from Drag Race. 

 

I consider myself Hispanic even though I have a lot of European ancestry and people assume that I’m Russian most of the time. 

There's also Hispanic/latino people that have Asian ancestry, Middle Eastern ancestry (I’m part Turkish, too), etc; 

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2 hours ago, bionic said:

Is he Afro-Latino?

No 

He's Latinamerican but not afro 

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(Eats popcorn) 

[Concertaholic 5,728]

1 hour ago, Andreu said:

This is more the fault of whoever gave him the award than J balvin himself's but still

I’d agree with you but then he chose to brag about it on Instagram..

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