Fun & The Such.

digi-egg:

Who can count backwards from ten

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dimexvive:

thinkmexican:

Sebastien de la Cruz: The Face of the Future

Racist tweets reveal blacks and whites living in the past; Mexicans must assert presence

11-year-old San Antonio native Sebastien de la Cruz was dressed in his hometown’s team colors, a black and gray traje de charro, for his big moment: Singing the United States national anthem in front of millions watching game 3 of the NBA finals between the Spurs and Heat.

It seemed fitting that a young mariachi from a city once part of Mexico and whose team is named after an iconic piece of American culture (spurs) borrowed from Mexican cowboys (espuelas) would sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

After all, San Antonio is almost half Mexican, the seventh most populous city in the US, and the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the US. With a median age of 32, it’s also one of the youngest of the largest US cities. In many ways, it’s the city of the future: Young, and increasingly Mexican.

Sebastien was not only representing his city, he was putting a face to a huge demographic shift that has taken place in the United States over the last 20 years.

At an official count of 33.7 million, Mexicans now make up 11% of the total US population. A young community (median age 25) with a growing presence in regions outside of the Southwest, Mexican Americans may surpass German Americans as the largest ancestry group by 2040.

As you may have already read, many on Twitter, both black and white, responded with hatred and ignorance when they saw little Sebastien singing the US national anthem on TV last night.

Such attacks on an 11-year-old underscores the need for US Mexicans to assert our presence by forming a collective voice to not only educate but to defend our youth and culture. If we’re the future, let’s start acting like it!

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Pinche gente culera que no acepta el futuro.

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knowledgeequalsblackpower:

anotherafrica:

SYMBOLS & MYSTICISM #18

Appropriation or Representation. How do we decide?

Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra from the 1963 epic drama of the same name.

I say it’s more alarming than both those things. White people actually believe that the Egyptians were White and that Cleopatra was White. That’s why the West is obsessed with Egypt (forming multiple Egyptomania crazes). They have adopted it as their own exotic history. For that to happen, they must imagine the Egyptians and Cleopatra as White. They ignore the fact that Egypt is in Africa and that ancient Egyptian civilization shared more in common with other African civilizations than it did with the White civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea. They portray Egyptians as White or, recently, tan. I’ve seen this in multiple so-called “historical” documentaries on the “History Channel.” That shit is simply not accurate. The reason they make them White is because they’ve literally appropriated the history as part of their own history. It was the greatest civilization in ancient history and for that reason, White supremacy insists ancient Egyptians were White.

And they’ve been claiming it for so long now that they have seriously forgotten that the ancient Egyptians were African.

African Egyptologist Cheikh Anta Diop documents how early Egyptology invented the myth that ancient Egyptians were white in The African Origin of Civilization.

Also, Cleopatra was not White. With the way they keep making stories about her, you would think they know a lot about her. But they actually don’t know much about her at all. What they do know mostly comes from Roman sources which were written hundreds of years after her death and the Romans hated her (because she was a woman, she had power, and she was foreign) so they didn’t have any reason to be particularly accurate. She was the ruler of one of the richest empires in the world and yet today she’s remembered as a seductress. It’s preposterous.

So, no. I don’t think its simple appropriation or representation. I think it’s mythologizing and whitewashing. If Egyptian civilization can be turned White, any ruler.. any group.. any achievement.. can also be White washed. That’s scary to me.

And White people will pretend like it doesn’t matter. But if it didn’t matter, then why do they keep trying to make them White?

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