"Si Dios fuera negro" is my Puerto Rican equivalent to the classic "Chocolate City" by Parliament. The main difference is that Anglero phrases it as an 'if' while Clinton makes it more a declaration of black pride and power, referring to black presidents, black leaders, and the cities and communities of majority-black people in the US. Anglero, to his credit, creates an entire world populated by a black Pope, black Christ, black God, black professionals, black angels, black cotton, black Mona Lisa, etc. They're both catchy songs in the salsa and funk idioms expressing some degree of black consciousness and pride, which to me deemed them worthy of a joint post. Alas, we have lost DC as our best-known "chocolate city" but we still got the encroachment of the vanilla suburbanites.
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