Black and Brown Solidarity At Its Best

[ViciousRidah]

Part of the Reason The United States Invaded Veracruz and Mexico City in 1847 , was Mexico's refusal to turn over run away slaves to the US.

http://www.xispas.com/opinion/xhistory.htm
In addition, Mexico had abolished slavery and would not turn over escaped slaves from the South. An estimated 10,000 slaves escaped this way—there was an “underground railroad” to south of the border as important as the one to the north.



To expand territory and to punish Mexico for refusing to turn over U.S. “property” in the form of human slaves, the United States invaded. By 1847, U.S. armed forced landed in Veracruz and marched into Mexico City, which soon fell in a bloody battle (the teen boy defenders of the military academy in the Castle of Chapultepec wrapped themselves in Mexican flags and flung themselves over the walls rather than surrender to U.S. forces). As the U.S. flag was hoisted over the castle walls, several members of the Irish San Patricio Brigade, consisting of Irish U.S. soldiers who joined the other side after realizing how wrong the United States was in waging this war, were hung facing the rising flag.

[mayugastank]

Yes a real and very serious point in Mexicos history. I believe the indegenous people of that time so persecuted for their language/customs/beliefs, were sympathetic to blacks. Too bad, that preperation doesnt seem to exist in the Mexican vocabulary and knowing thats arms preparadeness is the best way to live peacefully. Mexico is now run by a corrupt-almost completely white ( pretending to be mexican) upperclass who holds on to 500 year old outdated beliefs on white supremacy. The Mexican people resemble a pitbull whose vicious bite was broken thru continous hard core starvation and beatings. Outside of my beliefs' it isnt to hard to see the Mexican people for the broke down abused and manipulated small minded--white locked-people they are. No wonder these weak peasants run over the border and leave their customs at home in hopes of erasing any vestige of being "indian". LOL. 500+ years since the invasion by the European Spanish( at that time the epitome of WHITE POWER-yet truly Iberian), and just about everything they set up is still in existence. From religion to last names ( Garcia-Gomes-Perez- arent mexican last names) to food. Even the brutality and racism is so strong as to believe that only the most negative spaniard beliefs held on in Mejico. What a freaking people. The British tried the same thing here in the USA till the American people stood up and got rid of it. Yet 500 years of the same thing and the only thing the indegenous people of Mexico have been able to do is blast their population numbers-to pre-columbian invasion. Their are literally millions of Mexicans in the states of Oaxaca-Chiapas-Yucatan-Quintana Roo----who dont speak spanish!! these indians speak nuahutual/maya/chiapanec, and tried to form a small rebellion but were deceimated by the sell out people dropping a dime on them.I swear.

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[ViciousRidah]

Here is something else I found , I did a little sniffing and this below article should not be a dubious website to post from.Its a site that attempts to tell the history of cultural population migrations from other states to so cal during the late 1780s to the present.It has some stuff in here about the moors , that I am really not sure of cause the Moors exact ethnicity is hard to make certain.
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http://www.ci.la.ca.us/elp/elphis6.htm

AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND THE EARLY PUEBLO OF LOS ANGELES

African Americans have made significant contributions to the history of Los Angeles in all areas—from the arts and culture to science, education, architecture and politics. Contrary to popular belief, the African American presence
in the city did not originate from the waves of new settlers who came to the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Their presence and contributions to Los Angeles stem from the founding of the city in 1781, and the encounter between Mexican and United States social histories.

African Roots in Mexico

The African presence in Mexico began with the conquest of Spain by the Moors of North Africa in the eighth century. During the period of Spanish exploration and conquest of the Americas, Africans were among those who accompanied Christopher Columbus in 1492. They were also present with Hernando Cortes in 1521, during the conquest of the Aztec empire in Mexico City. Few people know that Juan Garrido, a black man, was the first to plant wheat in Mexico, or Estevanico, a black Moor, traveled with the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca from Florida across the present United States Southwest, between 1528 and 1536.

Africans had begun to enter the northwestern region of Colonial Mexico by the mid 1600s. Their descendants were racially mixed by the time the colonization of Alta California had begun in the second half of the 18th century. What is more, Indians, mulatos, mestizos, and other persons of mixed caste were actually the majority population in the Mexican northwest. From this region came the original settlers of Alta California who came north with Captain Juan Bautista de Anza, between 1774 and 1776. This region also produced the original settlers of Los Angeles. Thus, contemporary scholars have come to describe this majority population of mixed African heritage as “Afro-Mexicans.” Today, it is estimated that there could be more than 500,000 Afro-Mexicans concentrated in the Mexican states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Veracruz.

Afro-Mexicans and the Founding of Los Angeles

The settlers or pobladores of Los Angeles came from the present northwest Mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa and were of mixed Indian, African and European descent. This mixed racial composition was not only typical of the
Governor Pio Pico

Governor Pio Pico
majority of settlers of Alta California; it reflected the majority population of Sonora and Sinaloa, as well as the entire northwestern region of Colonial Mexico.

Under the new Governor of California, Felipe de Neve, El Pueblo de La Reina de Los Angeles was founded on September 4, 1781. The original forty-four pobladores were comprised of twenty-two adults and twenty-two children; of this number, twenty six were Afro-Mexicans. Many of their descendants became farmers, rancheros and prominent members of the pueblo community. Francisco Reyes, for example, served as the first alcalde (mayor) from 1792 to 1795 and was the original owner of the present-day San Fernando Valley. María Rita Valdez, a descendant of the poblador Luis Quintero, was granted the Rancho Rodeo de Aguas in 1841. She later sold the property to developers and today it comprises the City of Beverly Hills.

Pío Pico (1801-1894) is perhaps the most celebrated Afro-Mexican in California history. He was the last governor of California under Mexican rule, an owner of huge rancho properties and prominent resident of Los Angeles. His parents and grandparents came with the Anza party from Sinaloa, Mexico in 1776, where two-thirds of the residents were mulatos. His younger brother, Andrés Pico was a wealthy landowner and military commander during the Mexican era. Under United States rule he became a member of the State Constitutional Committee, General of the State Militia and California State Senator. Many other Afro-Mexicans during the Mexican and early American periods continued to make important contributions to the Pueblo of Los Angeles.

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