[Max Combined]

"There are many intelligent children," Baños said, and she added that she hopes they will leave and go to the United States, where there are more opportunities.

Oh great. Just what we need.

[judywillow]

The truth of the matter is that 85 or 90% of the Africans ever brought to the new world as slaves were brought to the carribbean where they were worked to death on sugar canes and then replaced after four or five years. That was a deliberate policy, which was viewed as cheaper than allowing slaves to have children.

Only in the United States did slaves live well enough to reproduce themselves and become self sustaining.

[Old Professer]

Does it always have to come back to song and dance?

[DJtex]

Jemmott and others in his group say Mexico is committing the worst kind of racism: ignoring the very existence of blacks.

This is tripe. Mexico, in general, did not create the stigma against Blacks, so they largely interbred with the Mestizos. Now they find a few very isolated villages that have 40-50,000 brownish-blacks. The USA has 3x Mexico's population but 200x as many Blacks. This Jemmott has too much time on his hands. He's making a problem where none exists.

[Servant of the 9]

The Mexican census does not acknowledge them, treating all Mexicans as one race.

It does enumerate people who speak indigenous languages, though, meaning Indians get more recognition than blacks, who speak Spanish.

They should claim to be Olmec.

Stone Olmec Head

So9

[Oatka]

The Mexican census does not acknowledge them, treating all Mexicans as one race.

Our next census ought to treat all Americans the same way.

[JudyB1938]

Maybe you're right after all about the Olmecs.

[blam]

This Is Luzia, the second oldest skeleton ever found in the Americas. She died in Brazil 10,500 years ago at the age of 20-24. A recently dated skeleton from an island off the coast of California is older, Spirit Cave Woman has been dated to 13,000 years ago.

If you're interested in Africans in America, do a search on the name, Clyde Winters (Afro-centric). Most of his stuff is 'off-the-wall' but, some is believeable.

[FairOpinion]

"A handful of historians and anthropologists have studied the tens of thousands of negros living in remote enclaves of Mexico -- no one knows exactly how many -- in villages founded as early as the 1500s by fugitive slaves."

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[Tuco Ramirez]

Well, you can't have it both ways...

In major league baseball, they've been talking about the shrinking number of blacks in the sport; black Hispanics (Sammy Sosa, etc.) are not considered "black".

Spinning just to invent a story...

[sphinx]

The Mexican census does not acknowledge them, treating all Mexicans as one race.

What a strange idea. Maybe we can send Jesse and Al down there to enlighten them.