Obama is El Negrito-Little Black Man---Honduran Foreign Minister

he foreign minister was fired.

[q url=" http://www.laprensa.hn/Ediciones/2009/07/09/Noticias/Roberto-Flores-Bermudez-nuevo-canciller"] President Roberto Micheletti appointed yesterday to the ambassador Robert Bermúdez Flowers like new minister of Foreigh Relations, replacing Enrique Ortez Colindres. According to spread radial information from Presidential House, Ortez Colindres will evolve now like minister of Interior and Justicia. The exit of Ortez Colindres of the Honduran Chancellery occurred a day after the diplomatic veteran apologized to the president of the United States, Barack Obama, by spilled racist expressions against the governor of that country. The attitude of Ortez Colindres was criticized and the condemned by the American embassy in Honduras, whose holder Hugo Llorens said that the commentaries are disrespectful and insults. [/q

Negrito is not an offensive term in spanish. Most of Spanish-speakers use "negrito" whe referring to black people.

Now, the context of the comment is not the best either, even though he does says he like Obama... Weird!

Thanks for this information.

That puts it into context.

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egro es racial en cuanto a definicion de procedencia racial (Africa) de los esclavos traidos a latino america. Sin embargo, el uso de la palabra negro tiene dos connotaciones; una, la de persona de ancestros africanos (esclavitud) ne nuestros paises; la otra connotacion es racista, utilizada por personas de la clase y cultura dominantepara definir a personas de raza negra.

En el caso de este canciller, sus primeros comentarios no se traducen como "little black man" sino como "pikinini", la cual es un termino derrogatorio en el idioma Ingles. El segundo comentario de este 'canciller', no es "little black man from the sugar plantation" sino mas bien "plantation pikinini", nuevamente un termino sumamente racista y derrogatorio.

the term Negro is to define the Black race in Spanish. it is used within the black latin community to refer to their African heritage. It is also used as a derrogatory term used by maintream society and the dominant class to define lower class, black latins, just as Indian is used this way. The way this politician used the term was in ahighly racial tone and racist connotation; the term he used was "pikinini" and "plantation pikinini" in the last interview.

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"Negrito" can be used in MANY different ways. Context is everything. It is common in Honduras and I agree, often not in a derogatory sense: in fact I have heard black Hondurans say that racism in Honduras is mild or even nonexistent, and that they really discovered racism when they came to the U.S. However, in this context, if you put together the choice of words, the dismissive gestures, tone of voice and body language, and the dismal educational level displayed by this "indignatary's" speech patterns, you have a baldfaced 1950's-style lowlife Honduran bigot unmasked before you. A Minister of Foreign Relations who has obviously been living in a cave for the last 50 years?  Symptomatic of a problem that is not political, but cultural in nature. He cannot hide his racism, he cannot even measure his tongue and seems to have never faced a camera before. There goes the credibility for a "Constitution-defending" government. My wife is an extremely intelligent, cultured, accomplished black woman from Honduras and she understands this context and if you call her "negrita" you're on your own. By the way, a literal translation does fine in this case. Although I love some of the words people have pulled out ("pickanninny perhaps being the all-time best for sheer musical value), they are overkill and unnecessary. A U.S. audience, in fact a global English-speaking audience, will understand perfectly the undercurrents present in "little black man" or "little black boy" with a minimum effort on the translator's behalf.

Gracias por su palabras.