Last week, Enrique Ortez, the acting Foreign Minister of Honduras, referred to President Obama as "negrito," or little black guy. Following an uproar, Ortez resigned. In the dispute over the Honduran presidency, both sides have appealed for good relations with the U.S. Mark Sawyer, a professor of African American History at UCLA, and an expert on Afro-Latino identity, explains the dustup.
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