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They have streets named after black generals in Mexico, because they helped free the Mestizos or original mexicans from spanish rule. Ironically, it was the spanish who brought blacks to mexico as slaves, as the spanish attempted to conquer mexico. According to an eyewitnessed mestizo account, mexicans said that "blacks looked like GODS" to them, as they sailed into the gulf with the spaniards.
They have streets named after black generals in Mexico, because they helped free the Mestizos or original mexicans from spanish rule. Ironically, it was the spanish who brought blacks to mexico as slaves, as the spanish attempted to conquer mexico. According to an eyewitnessed mestizo account, mexicans said that "blacks looked like GODS" to them, as they sailed into the gulf with the spaniards.
"With the strained relationships that exist now between Afro-Americans and Mexican Americans, many people in both groups do not realize that there was a time when relationships between black and brown were positive with the coalitions between blacks and browns dating back centuries. But, with some gang warfare (California) and ethnic tensions (all across America) that is occurring between Latinos and blacks, many people would think that blacks and Latinos never had a history of solidarity together.
From the ancient Africans who journeyed to Mexico before the coming of Columbus, from the days of slavery, when slaves in Texas were able to escape slavery and run across the border to freedom in Mexico, black people and Latinos had a more positive relationship in the past than the one they have now.
Much of that ignorance of this historical relationship has been erased from the history books in Mexico or not put into history books at all in America. Blacks and Latinos have a rich heritage that needs to be recognized by both groups and no where is this more needed than in the country of the origin of this relationship: Mexico.
Not only should black and brown Americans learn of their history together, so too, should the country of Mexico. Mexico should not only be proud of its Indigenous and Spanish blood—it should also be proud of its African blood, and thus its black history as well. There has been a tremendous black influence in Mexico, and some of it was before the escaped slaves found refuge in Mexico during the inhumanity of America’s chattel slavery of the “peculiar institution”, but, there was black history and black presence in Mexico before Columbus."
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