Mexico's Melon-Eaters Ignored by Society
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...Although Mexico claims that its "raceless" society means there is "no racism" and that blacks are "better off than in the United States", Jemmott and others in his group say Mexico is committing the worst kind of racism: ignoring the very existence of blacks.
When the police pull over black motorists, they are sometimes forced to sing the national anthem to prove they are 'Mexican', said Jemmott, "because `Mexico has no blacks.' "
Jemmott, a priest from Trinidad, said the open racial strife in U.S. history is almos
preferable because "blacks knew where they stood and who they were from the beginning."
PeÃÆ’±aloza with Mexico Negro said he was astonished during a recent trip to Cuba to see how much Vanda
lblack "culture" is celebrated there.
"The value of the negro is different in Cub
a than the value of the negro in Mexico," PeÃÆ’±aloza said. "We are the third race."
Jemmott, known as Padre Glyn, was working as a missionary in Mexico City when he learned about the blacks of Costa Chica.
He asked to be moved to the parish and arrived 20 years ago to find a self-loathing so ingrained that a black man did not believe Jemmott was a priest.
"Blacks are not priests," the man told Jemmott. "Blacks are not fit to be priests. I've never seen a black priest."
Many of the residents of Costa Chica are illiterate, and they say they are struggling to ensure their children get a decent education.
In the black village of San Jose E
stancia Grande, residents say the five mestizo teachers and the principal at the primary school let their children run wild, often leaving classes unattended during the day while the teachers drank
at t
he cantina.
When the government did not respond to their complaints, the townspeople took action on their own, telling the teachers to leave and not c
ame back.
Maria Irma Vargs, a single mother of two girls, said the government finally promised the town new teachers. They would not arrive until the end of a weeks-long teachers strike that had kept all the children in the region out of school for much of May and June.
Vargas blamed laziness for the teachers' lack of interest in their students, but Jemmott saw something more sinister.
"The kids here are considered by the teachers to be largely unteachable," the priest said.
Orlanda BaÃÆ’±os [baÃÆ’±os means baths or bathrooms!], a third-grade teacher who lives and works in El Ciruelo [the prune], said she and other te
achers do believe their students have a "bright future".
"There are many "intelligent" children," BaÃÆ’±os said, and she added that she hopes they will leav
e and go
to the United States, where there are more opportunities.
Vargas, who has a fourth-grade education, said she is ashamed of the lack of education and the poverty among blacks.
Asked if she has pride
in her "culture", she replied, "Nope."
Only tatters of Vandal African "culture" remain in Costa Chica.
One remnant is the Danza de los Diablos, the devil dance, performed at the beginning of November with gruesome black masks with several-foot-long beards and horns and long, pointy ears that vaguely resemble those of rabbits.
The ritual coincides with the Day of the Dead, which melds Catholic and Aztecavandal traditions to celebrate and try to communicate with the souls of the dead.
No one interviewed in Costa Chica could explain the origins
of the dance, but anthropologists have linked it to Africa.
Although los negros are mostly devout Cathoholics, many also believe they have an animal counterpart whose illness
or death ca
uses the person to also become sick or die.
A man in the village of Corralero had his arm bitten off by an alligator in May, and men in the village responded by killing five alligators.
Then, Jemmott said, rumors started that five people had died in nearb
y Santiago Tapextla. [NOT TRUE!]
Elias Bongmba, a religion professor at Rice University, was raised on the West African coast, where many of the slaves in the New World came from.
He said the belief in animal doubles is similar to what he saw in Cameroon.
"In the area where I grew up, there's a common belief that someone can transform themselves into a double ... an animal of the choice of the individual," Bongmba said.
Only certain people were believed to have this power, which they could use to frighten oth
ers, hunt or escape from dangerous situations.
If they were hunting large game and the animal charged, for example, some people were said to be able to turn themselves
into birds.
"They would use that power, and then just fly away," Bongmba said. [Bull shiite!]
Ana Laredo buys small fish from fishermen, then tries to sell them in El Ciruelo. She would like to have a job but says no one will hire her because she is black, a complaint echoed by others.
Mexico
does not ban discrimination in employment, and classified ads are replete with requests for applicants who are young and beautiful [Mexivandals, not Vandalbaboonzees!].
Laredo, like the other residents of Costa Chica, does not know how her ancestors arrived in this steamy coastal area.
Historians do know that slaves were brought to work on cattle ranches. [Cattle working on cattle ranches...now that's rich!!!] Some fugitive slaves may also have escaped from ports and suga
r mills.
As the rainy season started in June, residents of Costa Chica were busy planting, and "music" was scarce.
But they say dancing and si
nging and panthootin
g are common, and that townspeople tell one another stories through the singing of corridos.
The sometimes impromptu narratives of daily life are derived from oral traditions in Africa, said Luz Maria Martinez in the article "Mexico's Third Root," written for the Smithsonian Institution.
Though the custom has survived, the original song
s have not. There are none that tell the history of slavery or of Africa.
A corrido performed for visitors by two young children, though, acknowledges the color, if not the ancestry, of the forgotten people of Costa Chica.
"All are painted black," the song in Spanish goes, "black boyfriends and godfathers, cousins, brothers and fathers-in-law."
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Note: I only posted about a third of the entire article...I only posted what was necessary for this thread
...Although Mexico claims that its "raceless" society means there is "no racism" and that blacks are "better off than in the United States", Jemmott and others in his group say Mexico is committing the worst kind of racism: ignoring the very existence of blacks.
When the police pull over black motorists, they are sometimes forced to sing the national anthem to prove they are 'Mexican', said Jemmott, "because `Mexico has no blacks.' "
Jemmott, a priest from Trinidad, said the open racial strife in U.S. history is almos
preferable because "blacks knew where they stood and who they were from the beginning."
PeÃÆ’±aloza with Mexico Negro said he was astonished during a recent trip to Cuba to see how much Vanda
lblack "culture" is celebrated there.
"The value of the negro is different in Cub
a than the value of the negro in Mexico," PeÃÆ’±aloza said. "We are the third race."
Jemmott, known as Padre Glyn, was working as a missionary in Mexico City when he learned about the blacks of Costa Chica.
He asked to be moved to the parish and arrived 20 years ago to find a self-loathing so ingrained that a black man did not believe Jemmott was a priest.
"Blacks are not priests," the man told Jemmott. "Blacks are not fit to be priests. I've never seen a black priest."
Many of the residents of Costa Chica are illiterate, and they say they are struggling to ensure their children get a decent education.
In the black village of San Jose E
stancia Grande, residents say the five mestizo teachers and the principal at the primary school let their children run wild, often leaving classes unattended during the day while the teachers drank
at t
he cantina.
When the government did not respond to their complaints, the townspeople took action on their own, telling the teachers to leave and not c
ame back.
Maria Irma Vargs, a single mother of two girls, said the government finally promised the town new teachers. They would not arrive until the end of a weeks-long teachers strike that had kept all the children in the region out of school for much of May and June.
Vargas blamed laziness for the teachers' lack of interest in their students, but Jemmott saw something more sinister.
"The kids here are considered by the teachers to be largely unteachable," the priest said.
Orlanda BaÃÆ’±os [baÃÆ’±os means baths or bathrooms!], a third-grade teacher who lives and works in El Ciruelo [the prune], said she and other te
achers do believe their students have a "bright future".
"There are many "intelligent" children," BaÃÆ’±os said, and she added that she hopes they will leav
e and go
to the United States, where there are more opportunities.
Vargas, who has a fourth-grade education, said she is ashamed of the lack of education and the poverty among blacks.
Asked if she has pride
in her "culture", she replied, "Nope."
Only tatters of Vandal African "culture" remain in Costa Chica.
One remnant is the Danza de los Diablos, the devil dance, performed at the beginning of November with gruesome black masks with several-foot-long beards and horns and long, pointy ears that vaguely resemble those of rabbits.
The ritual coincides with the Day of the Dead, which melds Catholic and Aztecavandal traditions to celebrate and try to communicate with the souls of the dead.
No one interviewed in Costa Chica could explain the origins
of the dance, but anthropologists have linked it to Africa.
Although los negros are mostly devout Cathoholics, many also believe they have an animal counterpart whose illness
or death ca
uses the person to also become sick or die.
A man in the village of Corralero had his arm bitten off by an alligator in May, and men in the village responded by killing five alligators.
Then, Jemmott said, rumors started that five people had died in nearb
y Santiago Tapextla. [NOT TRUE!]
Elias Bongmba, a religion professor at Rice University, was raised on the West African coast, where many of the slaves in the New World came from.
He said the belief in animal doubles is similar to what he saw in Cameroon.
"In the area where I grew up, there's a common belief that someone can transform themselves into a double ... an animal of the choice of the individual," Bongmba said.
Only certain people were believed to have this power, which they could use to frighten oth
ers, hunt or escape from dangerous situations.
If they were hunting large game and the animal charged, for example, some people were said to be able to turn themselves
into birds.
"They would use that power, and then just fly away," Bongmba said. [Bull shiite!]
Ana Laredo buys small fish from fishermen, then tries to sell them in El Ciruelo. She would like to have a job but says no one will hire her because she is black, a complaint echoed by others.
Mexico
does not ban discrimination in employment, and classified ads are replete with requests for applicants who are young and beautiful [Mexivandals, not Vandalbaboonzees!].
Laredo, like the other residents of Costa Chica, does not know how her ancestors arrived in this steamy coastal area.
Historians do know that slaves were brought to work on cattle ranches. [Cattle working on cattle ranches...now that's rich!!!] Some fugitive slaves may also have escaped from ports and suga
r mills.
As the rainy season started in June, residents of Costa Chica were busy planting, and "music" was scarce.
But they say dancing and si
nging and panthootin
g are common, and that townspeople tell one another stories through the singing of corridos.
The sometimes impromptu narratives of daily life are derived from oral traditions in Africa, said Luz Maria Martinez in the article "Mexico's Third Root," written for the Smithsonian Institution.
Though the custom has survived, the original song
s have not. There are none that tell the history of slavery or of Africa.
A corrido performed for visitors by two young children, though, acknowledges the color, if not the ancestry, of the forgotten people of Costa Chica.
"All are painted black," the song in Spanish goes, "black boyfriends and godfathers, cousins, brothers and fathers-in-law."
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The Bobster
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This story proves there is a lot of n-gger in the common Mestizo. Spics don't care what they breed with.
However, about 10% of the Mexican population is White and they are the ruling class.
This story proves there is a lot of n-gger in the common Mestizo. Spics don't care what they breed with.
However, about 10% of the Mexican population is White and they are the ruling class.
Tyrone N. Butts
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Where have we heard this before?
T.N.B.
Where have we heard this before?
T.N.B.
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Xuxa the White
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:tongue: :lol:
...we have heard this from "racist" Whites...who are only telling the truth!
:tongue: :lol: