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My question is who exactly is this film targeted at because Black people could care less of the side/opinions of white supremacists??? Also, don’t come at me with the whole “A Black activist backed this!”. Any Black activist who puts white adult’s opinions and feelings on a platform over black children, can burn and rot.

the number of people ive seen acting like being queer and jewish is a get out of racism free card is nauseating

this gross racist person literally explicitly said that the purpose of this film was to humanize wilson and their entire explanation of the film centered on how we shouldn’t be angry at the fucking murderer because society is the problem, as if we can’t talk about white supremacy and individual culpability at the same time. if you look at miller’s own words this film was an attempt to construct a narrative of white innocence and black people are wrong to be angry at individuals because racism is systemic.

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En Guanajuato- Diputada (del PRI) a indígenas: no los imagino detrás de un escritorio, sigan vendiendo nopales y artesanías

La sociedad mexicana glorifica a las indígenas del pasado, pero desprecia las del presente

Mexican congresswoman tells indigenous community asking for jobs, that she only sees them belonging en el campo and selling artesanías and nopales

Mexican society glorifies the indigenous of the past, but disregards the indigenous of the present

English transcript of video:

Community member: “we need employment, why are you here presently in Leon, there are no jobs in our communities”

Another community member: “We suffer many things but the most important would be lack of jobs because we have places to live, we just don’t have jobs”

Congresswoman: “you all spoke of jobs, when you ask for jobs, I think it is necessary to talk about what our abilities are..”

“I don’t imagine, and I say this to you with respect, maybe I’m saying something wrong, but I say it with a lot of respect, I don’t imagine an indigenous woman, dressed like she dresses, with that….”

“we imitate you, we imitate your way of dressing, which isn’t the same because the dignity with which you dress,  the dignity with which you carry that reboso(shawl), with what you bring in those shoes,

is part of what we immitate, and we immitate because it is a dignified way of dressing-

-I don’t imagine you all in a factory, I don’t imagine you all “cleaning” in a building, I don’t imagine you behind a desk

I imagine you en el campo (in the fields), I see you in your houses making artisan crafts, I think of you, and I visualize you making the work of your indigenous communities

I can’t imagine you leaving your lands, your houses, and then losing that-

losing that tradition, when I hear the Chichimecas and the Pames in the markets of San Luis de la Paz, selling nopales (cactus), which is dignified, which is something we need, selling the products of the earth,

I don’t know who would do it if not you-

it isn’t undignified, it is something that we need, it is part of our culture and way of life,

some of us make money behind a desk, others by working the fields, others by cutting los nopalitos, I know-

I know the labor is hard, I understand like you say it is, because we also come from there

However, let’s analyze and think of that future, as indigenous nations, as indigenous peoples, you all could not be substituted by anyone-

It has always bothered me when Mexican-Americans or people who identify as Chicana/o in the U.S use the term “Aztec” very loosely. I grew up in South Central (53rd and Central was my street), and I saw so many cholos talking about Aztec pride this and that, some with tattoos of the calendar etc. 

1. Not everyone from Mexico is of Aztec decent.

2.People always say “well it was the most popular/important civilization” blah blah, NOT TRUE.

3. Many people think the Aztecs invented Nahuatl…again, NOT TRUE.

Every single “Chicano” organization always has Aztec dances and similar events,  NOT EVERYONE FROM MEXICO IS OF AZTEC DESCENT!! 

…When the Spanish arrived to the continent (especifically to what is known today as Veracruz) and met the mesoamerican cultures they had a wide arrange of knowledge and structured civilization in sharp contrast with the “savages” they expected to find

Among the many, many accomplishments are:

A full written system based on hyeroglyphs (I.e. the Dresden Codex)

Irrigations systems based on channels collecting rain water and aqueducts, and hidraulic systems to avoid floods

Agriculture, particularly the Chinapas (the so-called “floating gardens”)

Arquitecture, not just the pyramids and religious art, but had a complex layout to their major cities (plazas, playgrounds, merchant districts etc.)

Mathematics and Number system based on 20 numbers who already had their equivalent to the zero number.

Astronomy and as such a full understanding of space and time (i.e. The Calendars, they understood the cardinal points)

Medicine (They already extracted the active principle of aspirin)

Philosophy and a dualism-based thought system

Education available for ALL the social strata, even the women (women could reign too btw)

Indentured Servitude (Yes they had slaves, like almost all ancient cultures had, but it was NOT hereditary, they could buy their freedom and have possesions of their own, couldn’t be sold without their consent)

I could honestly be here all day, but those are the most significant ones, also these do NOT refer solely to the aztecs, they were developed by ALL the cultures that thrived on the Mesoamerican lands.

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