A Separate Race

So I went to brunch with a fellow actress/girlfriend of mine for business and pleasure and my favorite topic came up.... Black Latinos.

She is an African American woman and is pro the advancement of our people and very active in our communities. Oddly enough though she did not know Latino/Hispanic was not a race. So we had the whole Black/White race and difference with that and Nationality/Ethnicity discussion. And funny enough she feels Latinos/Hispanic should be its own race. That there is so many of us and we deserve our own category.

I didn't and still don't know how to feel about that idea.

I mean we do tend to separate ourselves but this doesnt only come from us this is very much so society that does this as well. On many applications and most of the time when you hear politicians and others speak they will not just say Blacks they will say Blacks and Latinos. 

But in the idea of Latinos/Hispanics being our own race never really occurred to me til this day and I wonder: Should we be our own separate race?