Wakanda in Mexico? Happpy #HispanicHeritageMonth

Vicente Guerrero: The first Afro-Mexican President of the Americas

"His presidency championed the cause of Mexico's common people, and abolished slavery on a NATIONAL level."

https://themazatlanpost.com/2020/06/22/vicente-guerrero-the-first-afro-mexican-president-of-the-americas/

#AfroMexicans

Vicente Guerrero, the first black president of Mexico, who was also a version of Abraham Lincoln for the nation. In 1829 President Guerrero issued a Mexico-specific decree to abolish slavery (which led to Texas slave owners removing Texas itself from Mexico a few years later).

In the Colony, in the states of Guerrero and Veracruz, there was miscegenation between black slaves and the native population of Mexico who were called “pardos” by the Spanish. They and the mulattoes were the results between the white boss and the black slave.

Black slaves were typically used by the Spanish to act as foremen, overseeing the indigenous populations, and many of the (mostly male) slave population actually went on to marry indigenous women. Therefore, and due to the many resulting mixed-race offspring, black ....

Mexicans were all but forgotten about for centuries, as their bloodlines mixed with other indigenous communities and mestizo peoples of Mexico.

Susana Baca:Molino Molero (The Crushing Mill)

There is the mill
Grinding my sorrow
Grinding my sorrow
Grinding my sorrow

by Susana Baca (Afro-Peruvian singer)

Afro-Mexicans: Dancing Their Way Back To Their Roots

Watch "Somos afromexicanos | @AJ+ Español" 

We exist. We’re here’: Afro-Mexicans make the census after long struggle for recognition

"The Afro-Mexican population are often overlooked in Mexico’s cultural mosaic, but this year marks a statistical first." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/afro-mexicans-census-history-identity

Momma Africa in Mexico!

The Afro-Mexican President That Liberated Mexico From Spain