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Indigenous people in what is now Mexico were the first people to domesticate corn 

The oldest human skeleton to be found in the Americas was found in Mexico. The remains date back 13,000 years.

Vanilla was first cultivated by the indigenous people of Mexico

Cacao was also first cultivated by the indigenous people of Mexico which gave us chocolate

Mexico has the largest indigenous population in all of North & South America

Native people of Mexico independently invented the wheel despite claims saying there was no knowledge of it in the pre-colombian Americas

The earliest archaeological evidence of the use of rubber was by the indigenous people of Mexico

The first country in the New World as well as the only one in North America to have an indigenous president is Mexico

Nahuatl, an indigenous language of Mexico, is one of the most (if not the most) spoken indigenous languages in North America with over a million speakers

Turkey’s were first domesticated by the indigenous people of Mexico and all of the commercial domestic turkey varieties today descend from the domestic turkey raised in Mexico

Indigenous people of Mexico had pressurized plumbing before it was introduced to the Americas by Europeans

Their creations -

Heartbreaking because I would feel the same way!

  Damn :(

Because I’m done talking about racists today.

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“Bae, I need a good swimsuit catalog photo for my portfolio.”

Me: I gotchu.

“Bae, I'ma go grab a table real quick, make sure you get me one cheese and one pepperoni.”

Me: I gotchu.

“Bae, they wasn’t ready for us!  You stay coming through with the assist!”

Me: I gotchu.

“Bae, you really killed it last night with that deep condition.  My hair is so on point right now.”

Me: I gotchu.

“Bae, I know you don’t swim, but thanks for coming out to the pool with me today anyway.”

Me: I gotchu.

“Bae, you know what I’m thinking right now?”

Me: I definitely gotchu.

“Bae, let’s hit this dance class and show em what’s up.”

Me: I gotchu.

“Bae, make sure I don’t give the ‘gram too TOO much, but just enough.”

Me: I gotchu.

“Bae, I got this temporary septum for you. Do ya hair like mine so we can match tonight.”

Me: I gotchu.

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Well...MOST of the time you’d be right,but...NOT TODAY! see you when you’re seventy...grey and probably still crying

Same way black people cannot be racist (we have no power over others) black men cannot be oppressors of anyone. Black men cannot deny black women loans cause we own no banks. Black men cannot deny black women quality healthcare. Black men cannot deny black women quality housing. Black men cannot mass incarcerate black women cause we own no prisons. Black men cannot stop black women from attending college being as though black women hold more degrees than black men. Black men cannot shoot down black women and get away with it like white cops aka Race Soldiers. There is no black male patriarchy being as though 75% of black households are headed by black women. Black women can have abusive black men thrown in jail for domestic violence but black people cannot do the same to white supremacist because they own the system……big motherfucking difference.

……and this is the problem I have with black feminist. The whole “black men are the enemy”, black men are oppressors like white men is nothing but white feminist propaganda. Most black feminist don’t know or ignore the non-white washed origins of the feminist movement. It was birth out of hatred for black men being allowed to vote before the white woman. White women felt betrayed that former slaves was not only offered the privilege to vote but that it came before her and that hatred for black men is still deeply embedded in the white feminist movement. And now sadly you hear traces of that hatred towards black men seeping into the black feminist movement to where its starting to resemble a gender separatist cult. Black men are not your enemy and never was. Do “some” black men acted out in a chauvinistic abusive ways toward black women? Yes. Is that a problem in the black community? Yes. Can it be compared to systematic global white supremacist patriarchy? Hell No.     

Timeless (2016) S1E012 - The Murder of Jesse James 

Bass Reeves, protrayed by Colman Domingo. Rufus Carlin, protrayed by Malcolm Barrett.

Watch it  here , get Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth  here

He was assigned to bring in the notorious female outlaw Belle Starr. Once she got wind who was after her she turned herself into the federal court.

Reeves was one of a few Marshalls who would venture into Indian territory *oklahoma*. After the age of 67 he retired in 1907. He enjoyed his short lived retirement as a police officer in Muskogee Oklahoma, his assigned beat had 0 crime reported until he died at the age of 71 of Bright’s disease.

By Alexis Okeowo

The first town of freed African slaves in the Americas is not exactly where you would expect to find it — and it isn’t exactly what you’d expect to find either. First, it’s not in the United States. Yanga, on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, is a sleepy pueblito founded by its namesake, Gaspar Yanga, an African slave who led a rebellion against his Spanish colonial masters in the late 16th century and fought off attempts to retake the settlement. The second thing that is immediately evident to vistors who reach the town’s rustic central plaza: there are virtually no blacks among the few hundred residents milling around the center of town.

Mirroring Mexico’s history itself, most of Yanga’s Afro-Mexican population has been pushed to neighboring rural villages that are notable primarily for their deep poverty and the strikingly dark skin of their inhabitants. Mexico’s independence from Spain and new focus on building a national identity on the idea of mestizaje, or mixed race, drove African Mexicans into invisibility as leaders chose not to count them or assess their needs. Now many blacks want to fight back by improving the shoddy education and social services available to them and are petitioning for the constitution to recognize Afro-Mexicans as a separate ethnic group worthy of special consideration.

“The two races that are most discriminated against here are the blacks and the indigenous — but it is more accepted against blacks,” says Hemeregildo Fernandez, a doctor in Yanga and one of the few blacks still living in town. His office is tucked on a narrow street that juts off the main square, where the rotund man with warm brown skin and salt-and-pepper hair receives a fluctuating stream of patients. The majority of the black Mexican population works in agriculture, fishing or construction, and while, like Fernandez, some have achieved notable positions in coastal towns, he says, “Most blacks have no economic power.”

Many of the country’s Mexicanos Negros (black Mexicans), as they are called, know that their ancestors arrived in chains on boats that docked at ports in the sultry, steamy state of Veracruz. But they don’t know much else. Indeed, Afro-Mexicans say that much of the history of los mexicanos negros is untaught or ignored by the rest of the country. Apart from Yanga, Afro-Mexicans claim Vicente Guerrero, who served briefly as President in the early 19th century and gave his name to the state of Guerrero, as one of their own, as well as revolutionary José María Morelos, who was executed by the Spaniards in 1815.

Black Mexican activists estimate the population of Afro-Mexicans at about 1 million, but there are no official figures. Earlier this year, they petitioned the National Institute of Statistics and Geography to include the Afro-Mexican population as a separate category in the next census, in 2010. Official statistics do not recognize blacks as a separate ethnic group (56 indigenous groups are officially accredited, the largest ones being the Nahuatl and the Maya, numbering more than 2 million each). As a result, Afro-Mexicans say they have been left out of institutional programs and are without a cultural identity. The group Mexico Negro A.C. is linking with similar Afro-descendant organizations in Latin America that have achieved success in securing better treatment. “We no longer want to be detained by security agents in our own country who say that in Mexico there are no blacks,” says Rodolfo Prudente Dominguez, an activist with Mexico Negro.

The Afro-Mexicans face considerable hurdles. Prevailing stereotypes paint the group as happy to live the simple life apart from the rest of society, with no interest in education. The all-black shantytowns near Yanga lack schools, and eager young migrants who move to bigger cities for work complain of blatant discrimination. A report released late last year by Mexico’s Congress said that roughly 200,000 black Mexicans who reside in the rural areas of Veracruz and Oaxaca and in tourist cities like Acapulco are out of the reach of social programs like employment support, health coverage, public education and food assistance.

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