harry reid laughing at us – arise americans we are under attack
for those of you who think Obama meant change for Americans , I think this is what he meant: to Give Amnesty to His Aunt and 38 million other illegals. He is working with his former enemy McCain to make this happen, yet another reason voting is a bad joke in the US
Burst Reid’s trial amnesty balloon today — phone and then fax register at www.numbersusa.com
DEAR OPPONENTS OF AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS,
We don’t know if Senate Majority Leader Reid really meant it yesterday when he told a Detroit reporter that he expects an amnesty to go through the Senate in the spring without much of a fight.
But even if he was talking carelessly in an off-the-cuff comment, his declaration has spread throughout Washington and has become a TRIAL BALLOON.
If we don’t prove Sen. Reid wrong immediately, Senators may start to believe that there won’t be much of a fight if they bring up an amnesty early next year.
Tens of thousands of you MUST call your Senators TODAY if we are to burst that balloon and send the right message to Reid and Pres-Elect Obama, as well as the rest of the Senate.
Phone notes are posted on your personalized Action Buffet corkboard and faxes will be posted there soon. As you know, the phone notes contain talking points, plus all of your Senators’ phone numbers.
As always, you can also reach all the Senators’ Washington D.C. offices through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
(We are not putting up phone notes or faxes for Senators who are retiring or who were defeated in the elections.)
Seeing as how today is the day before Thanksgiving, I suggest that you try first calling the local offices of your Senators.
It is important that the entire staffing organization of each Senator knows that Sen. Reid has put this putrid turkey on the nation’s table just before holiday and that plenty of constituents already have noticed the stench and are demanding that it be removed.
You are likely to hear that there is no such bill before the Senate and that they have heard nothing about it. But you MUST make it clear that the LEADER of the Senate has said there WILL be an amnesty bill in the spring and that it WILL pass with little opposition.
Demand to know if your Senator will oppose the Comprehensive Amnesty bill that Reid says Obama and McCain have agreed to push.
I’m sorry to ask you to do this during your holiday preparations. But think about some of the original meanings of this occasion. Isn’t it about giving thanks for the ability to come through really tough struggles? I don’t think anybody who has failed to struggle for their community can feel the true spirit of Thanksgiving tomorrow.
Thank you for taking a few minutes to make some phone calls. They don’t have to be long. We just need thousands of them all day.
THANKS AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING,
over and over again I see Mexican Males – illegal aliens , who dont just look Indian and european. With Smashed noses and dark skin and Asian eyes, they look African and maybe Asian too, but Mexicans deny their African Slave ancestry out of racism. There were more African slaves then white skinned Spanish in Mexico.Frankly, I have never seen such ugly, orc-like males in my life. Even Black Americans are better looking then Mexicans,because at least they aren’t short.
Racism in Latin America has always been more insidious than in the U.S.. The Latin method is to allow any
body with a hint of white blood to call themselves white. Fat lot of good it does them, though. By letting mixed race people call themselves “white,” the Latin system tricks mestizos and mulattos into imagining the game isn’t rigged against them personally – just against those poor bastards who happen to be a little darker than they are.”
Mexico’s Forgotten African Roots
The African ancestry of many of what we know as Latinos is fairly well known. Slaves were taken from different parts of Africa and brought to the “New World,” which could mean they were taken to anywhere from Massachusetts to the Caribbean or South America. But what about Mexico? As cultural anthropologist Dr. Bobby Vaughn said, “If you are like most people, you probably have never heard of Afro-Mexicans and are completely unaware that they exist.”Just who are the Afro-Mexicans? They are the descendants of African slaves who were brought to Mexico as early as the start of the 16th century. Some of these Africans were also slaves who had escaped from bondage in North America. Like their African-American counterparts, many of today’s Afro-Mexicans also have European and indigenous people who populate their family trees.
Vaughn, who is passionate about these forgotten roots, wrote his Ph.D. dissertation, Race and Ethnicity: A Study of Blackness in Mexico, on the subject. While Vaughn was an undergraduate student at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, he spent his junior year studying Spanish in Mexico City. Vaughn’s Mexican immersion started his curiosity about the history and culture of Mexico and its people. He’s been traveling to the country and taking down notes ever since.
On his site, AfroMexico,Vaughn covers the African presence in Mexico extensively. He especially explores the presence of African descendants in Vera Cruz and the Costa Chica region. According to Mexican anthropologist Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran, the black population in colonial Mexico was 20,569 in 1570 and 15,980 in 1742.
According to Vaughn:
The black population in the early colony was by far larger than that of the Spanish. In 1570 we see that the black population is about 3 times that of the Spanish. In 1646, it is about 2.5 times as large, and in 1742, blacks still outnumber the Spanish. It is not until 1810 that Spaniards are more numerous.
But this legacy is not talked about much—not even among historians and anthropologists. “To this day the deep cultural and economic impact that Africans had in Mexico is neither accepted nor acknowledged in the official history of Mexico,” said filmaker Rafael Rebollar Corona who directed the film The Forgotten Root. With his film, Corona meticulously documents this hidden history about Mexico.
Esther Iverem, creator and editor of SeeingBlack.com, says this about the virtual silence among historians regarding the Africans in Mexico:
Like in much of Latin America, a caste system based on race and color was instituted in Mexico. Those who were whiter and more visibly European received more privileges and social mobility, while darker or more visibly African peoples were typecast as servants or menial laborers. Historians have furthered this bias by emphasizing the European aspects of the culture, or by defining the country’s mestizo heritage as a mixture only of White Spaniards and native peoples.
With The Forgotten Root, Corona reminds us of the African roots in music such as son jarocho and other musical forms like marimba and Cuban son. He pays tribute to a culture that is not talked about much but is obvious from the look of those Mexicans (and their children) who have some of that African blood flowing through them
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