What's also sad I think is that the afro Latina community in Mexico are not allowed to call themselves Mexican... Because Mexico also does not have Birthright citizenship. The documentary interviewed Latino Mexicans who were shocked and dismayed to learn that afro Latinas even existed let alone lived in Mexico. In my opinion this ignorance is a by product of poor education.
Iam from coastal Georgia were the Black people were called Gullahs or Geechee. We were taught to be ashamed of the "broken" English our grandparents and elders spoke not realizing that they were maintaining their culture by mixing African and English words. This was only possible because of rice. The white slave masters along the south carolina and Georgia coast grew rice in the marshlands and wanted slaves that knew how to do it. So all the slaves they bought came from the west coast of Africa. Modern-day Sierra Leone Senegal and Liberia where the Africans grew rice. So alot of Africas from the same and neighboring tribes ended up together. At the forefront of saving this culture were black women. There is a short great documentary on YouTube called the language u cry in which illustrates this perfectly.
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