Hey bro, A friend saw my old picture and said I looked......well weird. After looking at it for a while I agreed with her and changed it!
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Re-read my comment "With all the horrors that occurred in the past I do not need to carry hate in my heart. It will nurture no one, including myself."
There is no glorifying of the colonization period, nor celebration of the past in my words. Just no hate. Like you said, all those folks are gone. There is nothing to be done about the past. Nothing we do today can change it. I refuse to waste my time and energy on hating people that are dead, I refuse to live in the past, I refuse to carry a disgust that is not mine.
As for accepting that Spaniard is part of my heritage- yes it is! Hating the conquerors will direct hate to myself and that is, again, a waste of my time and energy. Life is too precious to waste it on hate.
As for the pure/mixed debate... I thought we agreed to disagree? :)
Have a great day and thanks for such stimulating conversation!
Juan, I know you are just now reading Bartolome' de las Casas and I appreciate your passion and anger. I already shared what my reaction was to the same information.
With all the horrors that occurred in the past I do not need to carry hate in my heart. It will nurture no one, including myself.
We already disagree with regards to the mixture of the bloods- and this is ok. Ultimately, who is mixed is a moot point because we don't all have $$ to drop for a mtDNA test.
But think on this, regardless of whether or not we are mixed, divisive action will not help us move forward.
Compai, La Casas unfortuntely is one of the main architects of the extinction myth. In order to get Spain/crown to understand what was happening on the islands he exagerated immensly on what was occuring in Kiskeya. AS an eyewitness he faithfully reported on the atrocities that were taking place, but he needed to sensationlize the story to a greater degree in order to get a sympathetic ear.
On Jamaica: I would not be surprised if Nativfe mtdna is very high in Jamaica. In aruba the Native mtdna is at 80 percent. Showing that the smaller the land mass the higher the percentage( of course we are dealing with mixed blood populations). IN Kiskeya the mtdna results indicate that the Taino remained relatively un-mixed for a longer period of time than in Puerto Rico. That said I would imagine that Cuba must have locations with even less admixture than those remote locations in Kiskeya.
All the best compai........
I see, sorry about that. I am thinking that it is asking you to create a new login, it's weird. It remember my name and password from last time, I clicked to enter, it rejected me. I re-typed the password I thought I used, and it let me in. It is supposed to let in absolutely anyone.
it sin the library at the museum just ask the guard next time you go, be careful what people send you especially if you don't know the person it might be a virus or something
there are boxes in the library that have boxes with artifacts from all different cultures, it is an educational box that you can take out for research, i don't know who that person is or the post that you speak of
no, i was confused, i am working on a box for the museum, however i will not be doing it in the museum, i will be creating the box at home i am just getting the measurements
Compai, The guy is not making sense because he is speaking from a very Spanish/Eurocentric perspective. This is the same mind frame that established a color scheme in the DR using Indio and to negate black as if Indians were white. No worries, we all know the truth and can see through the bovine excrement!
Garifuna and Karifuna are overwhelmingly Arawakan. Garifuna's numeral system is French and they have borrowed from English and Spanish as well but that doesn't mean it's not indigenous. For example Maya uses a lot of Spanish words but it's still Maya.
NICE TO MEET YOU TOO. SEVERAL EVENTS ARE BEING SET UP FOR ME AND REINA. WE ARE TAKING DOWN 24 OF OUR PAINTINGS FROM THE BRONX BOROUGH PRESIDENT'S GALLERY THIS WEEK. WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THE NEW EVENTS. ALSO THE 6 NEW PAINTINGS YET TO BE UNVEILED. BO'MATUM (THANK YOU) AGUILAR
The Account of the Indies is a book I have to take in small measures, among others Like Bury my Heart in Wounded Knee and A Small matter of Genocide...
I think you'll find the Red Earth, White Lies a fun read. I did. As for the political context. Remember, Juan, that nothing exists in a bubble- everything is related and connected. He argues that "-ologists" maintain a status quo which in turn influences politics, which influences policies and then the people. So, even though we are not really interested in politics, we need to keep in mind that it does affect our lives...
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Re-read my comment "With all the horrors that occurred in the past I do not need to carry hate in my heart. It will nurture no one, including myself."
There is no glorifying of the colonization period, nor celebration of the past in my words. Just no hate. Like you said, all those folks are gone. There is nothing to be done about the past. Nothing we do today can change it. I refuse to waste my time and energy on hating people that are dead, I refuse to live in the past, I refuse to carry a disgust that is not mine.
As for accepting that Spaniard is part of my heritage- yes it is! Hating the conquerors will direct hate to myself and that is, again, a waste of my time and energy. Life is too precious to waste it on hate.
As for the pure/mixed debate... I thought we agreed to disagree? :)
Have a great day and thanks for such stimulating conversation!
With all the horrors that occurred in the past I do not need to carry hate in my heart. It will nurture no one, including myself.
We already disagree with regards to the mixture of the bloods- and this is ok. Ultimately, who is mixed is a moot point because we don't all have $$ to drop for a mtDNA test.
But think on this, regardless of whether or not we are mixed, divisive action will not help us move forward.
On Jamaica: I would not be surprised if Nativfe mtdna is very high in Jamaica. In aruba the Native mtdna is at 80 percent. Showing that the smaller the land mass the higher the percentage( of course we are dealing with mixed blood populations). IN Kiskeya the mtdna results indicate that the Taino remained relatively un-mixed for a longer period of time than in Puerto Rico. That said I would imagine that Cuba must have locations with even less admixture than those remote locations in Kiskeya.
All the best compai........
I think you'll find the Red Earth, White Lies a fun read. I did. As for the political context. Remember, Juan, that nothing exists in a bubble- everything is related and connected. He argues that "-ologists" maintain a status quo which in turn influences politics, which influences policies and then the people. So, even though we are not really interested in politics, we need to keep in mind that it does affect our lives...
I look forward to your comments on the book.