The letters -- I mean, posts -- just keep piling up.
John K.: [...]
I won't get into Mexico's complex and troubled racial history, which
like every other nation in this hemisphere included the marginalization
and slaughter of Native peoples and the subsequent enslavement of
Blacks (the two in particular were linked in Mexico's case because of
Bartolomé de las Casas); one aspect of this history has been an
enduring racism against its large indigenous Indian population, which
has resulted in periodic flareups such as the war in Chiapas; a racism
of a different but intense sort against its native Black population,
which has long been presumed not to exist; and, among the
White/European ruling élites, against the visibly mestizo majority,
which is evident in Mexican-language media, politics, business circles,
and so on. Related to these forms of racism is Mexico's guiding
mestizaje ideology, from which the Black "third root" has been almost
completely erased and effaced in both official and popular discourse.
[...]
rootwork the rootsblog: this is so hapless its kinda funny
its like where have you been the last 50 years
dont you folk know its bad form to be overt w/the racism these days
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