tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post1833435451061525551..comments2023-11-26T14:34:38.543-08:00Comments on African American - Latino World: African Influence on Mexican CultureW Bill Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06114184381454422387noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-91128496453281564832013-01-15T18:05:32.157-08:002013-01-15T18:05:32.157-08:00Yes, throughout the Western world, there is truth ...Yes, throughout the Western world, there is truth to your statement regarding miscegenation, as it was called. However, there were slave rebels like Yanga who kidnapped Indigenous women and made wives because there were not enough Black women to go around. And the ones who were available, actually “married” Spanish men for security.<br /><br />Mexico's liberator and first Black president Vicente Guerrero was son of an African slave mother who was “married” to a Mestizo.W Bill Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06114184381454422387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-19568001676553927452013-01-15T16:24:43.914-08:002013-01-15T16:24:43.914-08:00To be honest it is a lie that many intermixed beca...To be honest it is a lie that many intermixed because it doesn't make sense. If you look at Mexico they received slaves after many Caribbean countries like Dominican Republic, Cuba and Puerto Rico and they still have strong African features in many of those Caribbean islands and even Brazil.<br /><br /> Also blacks were not even free men until around the 19th century around 1810. Mexico still had a casta system and blacks were viewed as inferior and mixing was not as common as people think it was. If there was mixing it was more rape mixing then anything. The slave master sneaking out back and violating African slave women. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713119441078458095.post-23113201517008585602012-12-31T07:40:29.662-08:002012-12-31T07:40:29.662-08:00Mr. Smith,
Just wanted to say thank you. I really...Mr. Smith,<br /><br />Just wanted to say thank you. I really enjoy reading your blogs on the Black Mexican and Black Latino cultures. I'm full blooded mexican, but I look like a black and white mixed person (I get the black traits from my dad, he is from Guanajuato). Growing up, black heritage was never mentioned nor discussed as being part of Mexico. Have I not found your blog, I would of never known of so much Black presence in Mexico. I really appreciate all new found knowledge. Best of luck on the new year. <br /><br />Respectfully<br />Edgar Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com