For the first time in Mexico's national history 1.38 million Afro-Mexicans are being recognized for their Afro-ancestry by the government.
Mexico is home to a diverse population, but national censuses have excluded documentation of African lineage since the Mexican Revolution of 1910. For 95 years, the national identity for Mexico was "mestizaje," a term that only acknowledges interracial descendants of colonizers and indigenous communities, and ignores the role of African slaves in Mexican ancestry.
Did Mexico get slaves in the Atlantic slave trade?
I don't know, but I don't know why it never dawned on me. People often act as if the US was the only nation in the western hemisphere to have slavery. I know a lot countries that came from Spanish colonies do have racism ingrained in their foundations.
I made the statement because the african root cut through lot of race and culture of people around the world. I just made the statement to celebrate to celebrate the recognition, my statement is not a fact.
it's about damn time! now if we can get on with the light skin vs dark skin issue and talk about it, then maybe we can also address the prejudice and racism that Afro-Latinos and black people period experience from a lot of Hispanics. it makes me mad that our own can be so ****ed up to other people, then turn around and bitch about racism/prejudice.