I've heard other Puerto Ricans and Puerto Rican descendants say something similar. Now, if she were Dominican or Black Cuban and said this, I'd half agree. Ive be n told by those Puerto Ricans that it has to do with the original island inhabitants, the Taino (tah-ee-no) were dark skinned, and that P.R. was an outpost for the Spaniards along the slave trade routes. But I've met actual Taino's and they're not black, just super dark skinned.

The actual Black Hispanics are the former Africans that were left on Dominica and the Cuba after the Spaniards left after the Spanish-American War. But, they don't call themselves Black, either.