My Search For Yanga and the Black Mexicans of Veracruz, Mexico! - Were The Olmecs Black?

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  • Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024

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  • @YolandaHernandez-sf7bw
    @YolandaHernandez-sf7bw 7 месяцев назад +7

    Gracias for presenting this informative piece on African descendants in Mexico. Thank you for the information on Yanga, the man, and the town.

  • @andrulemon
    @andrulemon 6 месяцев назад +7

    Thank you for doing this video. I love that you did this trip. My friends and I are going to go now.

  • @scientiapotentiaest
    @scientiapotentiaest 5 месяцев назад +8

    Saludos desde Querétaro, México. En mi caso mi mestizaje es muy evidente: Mi abuelo paterno era un mulato (negro), mi abuela paterna era castiza (blanca); mi abuelo materno era práctcamente un otomí de la Sierra Gorda de Querétaro y su esposa era una mestiza tendiendo a blanca de esa región. Esto es, en México no existe mucho prejuicio en cuanto a elegír pareja, afortunadamente. Por lo menos en la mayoría de los casos.

    • @victorrangel3204
      @victorrangel3204 5 месяцев назад +1

      Please author of this video check it out. If you cannot think of what would happen to black folks after generation of mixing then you are in a mental stalemate just like the melting pot set on low heat and therefore only lets you see differences in pigment vs seeing the evolution of genes mixing. You have walked the streets of my native country pls take the time to ask yourself what genes are infront if you. Especially in Mexico City. Who you think built that?

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  5 месяцев назад +1

      You imbecile (referring to Victor). Obviously I know many things about your native country that you don't know. I don't know your parents but they did a horrible job teaching you how to write in English or Spanish. Obviously they put forth little effort in developing your spirit but I think it may be commonplace amongst your kind. Your comments are unintelligent. Obviously from the video, several of the people IN MEXICO have an opinion different from yours. Since they are actually there, that invalidates your idiotic commentary. The mental stalemate is from lying Latinos like you that want to deny the history and current reality of discrimination against blacks in your 2nd world country. They government had to pass legislation because of racist devils and the history of racism in your country. So I guess the government was wrong also? You are probably in America now causing violence, getting handouts, and spreading disease, you POS

    • @TheJr3311
      @TheJr3311 4 месяца назад

      @@AfricanDiasporaPressAmerica is the WHOLE Continent…. If you born in Europe you will be European. ….. Born in Asia you will be Asian…….if born in Africa you will be African…….!!!!! Comprende…….

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  3 месяца назад

      @@TheJr3311 Wow , that was brilliant

    • @teresapercar9838
      @teresapercar9838 Месяц назад

      ​@@victorrangel3204, ???????????

  • @perlaaguilar4196
    @perlaaguilar4196 2 месяца назад +1

    I am from Veracruz ❤really love my town and greatly appreciate you when to visit Córdoba I lived very closely. Also Mata Clara I had a boyfriend from there beautiful black man. Unfortunately my mother😢separated us and brought me to the States 😢never forget him. I pray he’ll be okay. I ended up marrying here and have a family but he’ll always be in my heart ❤️

  • @bos-G-state7359
    @bos-G-state7359 6 месяцев назад +3

    Is there any way i can order a shirt from the yanga store and have you heard of Costa Chica Guerrero

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  6 месяцев назад +1

      I don't know how you can order a shirt. There are several business opportunities in Yanga from what I saw. I have heard of Costa Chica. Perhaps I'll be able to visit in the future.

  • @nancymosby7369
    @nancymosby7369 7 месяцев назад +4

    Beautiful 🤩

  • @PartidoIzqMex
    @PartidoIzqMex 29 дней назад +1

    The first free people in America and the first black president were Mexico with Vicente Guerrero

    • @Reyes_e
      @Reyes_e 26 дней назад

      Ya meant afro Mexican

  • @seldomsceen
    @seldomsceen 26 дней назад

    I too often wonder about the pyramid fascination and connection between African Egyptian pyramids and the ones in Central America. It can't possibly be a coincidence

  • @BigbrotherIrv
    @BigbrotherIrv 14 дней назад

    Amazing documentary! It’s sad that Mexico is neglecting its African citizens, but it will change thanks to videos like these

  • @willieterrell1618
    @willieterrell1618 4 месяца назад +1

    I am glad I found this video. Shout out to Vera Cruz❤
    I too want to visit vera cruz, mexico. Also I would like to add that I had no idea that there are black mexicans. I guess no matter if we speak spanish,portugese or english there is a common thread not always acknowledged. But I wish the best for our people no matter what language spoken❤

  • @ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m
    @ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m 7 месяцев назад +34

    Just for clarification. We Latinos identify with nationality first over race. I bet uf you were to ask them they will say they are Mexican first and black second.

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  7 месяцев назад +11

      Everyone calls Hispanics Mexicans, not just the Blacks. You can take that qualm to the whites that you mixed people worship.

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  7 месяцев назад +18

      @User...You are talking about Latinos' rhetoric, not their reality. I've been to Spain and several Spanish speaking countries. I grew up around Hispanics. You all put white Anglos over your own nationality. You are submissive to them and long for their acceptance as "legitimate" white people. Furthermore, Latin countries are racist against their own Black countrymen and women. Latinos are race first, not nation first.

    • @ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m
      @ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m 7 месяцев назад +9

      @@AfricanDiasporaPress if that is true why most Latino nations have their largest group being the mixed race population? Our mixed race population reaches about 50% of any given Latino nations. In the USA it about 5 to 15% percent. If we were really racist , our mixed race population wouldn't be so high. It would look more like usa population with people staying with in their race.

    • @ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m
      @ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m 7 месяцев назад

      @@timasuna1756 hi good to see you.

    • @bos-G-state7359
      @bos-G-state7359 6 месяцев назад +1

      I would love to see what an ancestry DNA test results for them would look like

  • @ArmandoFonseca-w6b
    @ArmandoFonseca-w6b Месяц назад

    Nice video ❤

  • @DanielHernandez-rl6mc
    @DanielHernandez-rl6mc 5 месяцев назад +2

    I had an uncle was from coatzacoalcos Veracruz and he was African descent RIP tio amancio

  • @juliotoral1174
    @juliotoral1174 7 месяцев назад +1

    I live near NY if you go back to Veracruz look for La isla de enmedio

  • @petejones1964
    @petejones1964 2 месяца назад +2

    American Israelites need to watch this video because these are people the other Israelite that been scattered from slavery

  • @pablosanchez132
    @pablosanchez132 5 месяцев назад +4

    Hey. I spent a year as a doctor in Yanga municipality (10 minutes from the central town) . Great video essay, love your positivity. Another famous town for ethnically black Mexicans is Cuajiniculapa. I think all Mexicans recognize you come from a an American mindset, still enjoyed your work

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  5 месяцев назад

      Thank you.

    • @TheJr3311
      @TheJr3311 4 месяца назад

      You are right. An United States of NorthAmerican mindset …….

  • @seldomsceen
    @seldomsceen 26 дней назад

    I Find it very interesting that there are no documentaries that I can find that truly dive into hacienda/ slavery life, especially that touch on the subject of Africans involved during that time. It's almost as if it's being purposely suppressed and skipped over as if they don't want to open that box up and inform people

  • @enocmedina5032
    @enocmedina5032 5 месяцев назад +1

    I was born in Cordova and raised in Yang an I reside in Loris sc in the USA now.

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  4 месяца назад

      Cordoba and Yanga are under the radar but both seem like wonderful places to live.

  • @jdhi1515
    @jdhi1515 5 месяцев назад +1

    This is or was a Black community outside the Port City of Vera Cruz just passed the town of El Tejar de Medellin.

  • @fractode
    @fractode 7 месяцев назад +3

    "Gaspar Yanga was a Gabonese captive that [sic] was forced into slavery in Mexico."
    More than likely, he was "forced into slavery" in Africa, by other blacks, then sold to the Spanish, who sold them to fellow Spaniards who had colonized Mexico.

    • @RosalindGash
      @RosalindGash 7 месяцев назад +6

      Those "other blacks" were enemy tribes. Africans were not enslaving their own people. The reason you, and many others, think like this is because all you see is skin color and don't make any differentiation between the separate tribes and cultures. Elevate your thinking.

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  6 месяцев назад +5

      Obviously he was taken captive in Africa and forced into slavery in Mexico, which is exactly what I said. If you have a true issue or can add something to the discussion then please do so. Your comment added "0" to the discussion.

    • @Sorcerythesource
      @Sorcerythesource 5 месяцев назад +2

      Why contribute this

  • @stewart2589
    @stewart2589 2 месяца назад

    2 foreigners killed in Yanga? Strange because I go there all the time to see family and haven't heard of it

  • @hughharrell8528
    @hughharrell8528 7 месяцев назад +3

    Excellent presentation!

  • @bigharp0949
    @bigharp0949 7 месяцев назад

    I wish you could’ve held that camera a little more steady, but thanks for sharing bro. 😂 Gaspar Nyanga was a Prince from Nyanga region in Gabon who was sold into slavery. There were many different tribes of people who landed in Mexico with him but in time they all came to recognize him as royalty, and a strong leader. So he was chosen to lead the people out of slavery and they became cimarrons (Spanish for “runaways”) and established Maroon communities. This movement created a great rift in the slave trade and slave traders as they feared more slaves would rebel upon hearing about Gaspar Yanga’s successful 30 year rebellion. There are many other quilombos all over Central and South America and there are many Afro-Mexicans who are proud of their heritage and culture and can trace it all the way back to West and Central Africa. There is also an Afro-Mexican museum in Guerrero. Many Afro-Mexicans today are still fighting for their right to establish themselves as a separate race from others and also are fighting for recognition from the government in general. I’ve traveled to Mexico (Chichen Itza) and my tour guide explained to me about the silence. They were African Chiefs/Generals/leaders who came from Africa and established themselves in Veracruz…The story of the Amistad rebellion is another amazing story of how the slaves revolted. These slaves were sold into slavery by King Siaka, a self-proclaimed King/Chief who sold neighboring tribes into slavery. Sengbe, was another great leader like Gaspar who was chosen to lead the revolt. In the Amistad were Mende, Gbandi, Temne, Gola, Kono, Sherbro, who all spoke the Mende language and were part of the secret Porro warrior society. The Porro goes across tribes. They all had the secrecy, the oath and loyalty to the secret society. That’s why they were successful. Their individual names changed but they eventually returned to their homelands and their families recognized them. Years later, they are still remembered, revered and honored by the families and tribes to this day. 🙏🏾🤲🏾

    • @bigharp0949
      @bigharp0949 7 месяцев назад

      *not the silence but the Olmecs civilization.

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  7 месяцев назад +2

      OK. Nice info. Thanks for sharing.

    • @bigharp0949
      @bigharp0949 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@AfricanDiasporaPress you’re welcome bro. Thank YOU. 🙏🏾

  • @SiaYawaAamuntatAanakh
    @SiaYawaAamuntatAanakh 7 месяцев назад +5

    Thank you for this video! It's so educational and this story needs to be told! I've learned so much. I'm a brown skinned female of Nubian Native American decent Yamassee Creek and Muskogee. I've posted this on my Facebook page to help educate people.

  • @PFNewsScienceResearch
    @PFNewsScienceResearch 7 месяцев назад +8

    The black people?
    So out of the thousands upon thousands of languages why you guys only use English words to describe yourselves?

    • @gluebox
      @gluebox 7 месяцев назад +7

      The unfortunate reality is that was an imposed label and while it’s upheld by many, it actually doesn’t have favorable definition, nor favorable legal stance. It is a term made popular by specific individuals backed by Americans of European descent, in a long string of names in which NONE correctly identifies particular people. The name “Afro Mexican” is also problematic. Afro being the name of a hairstyle popularized in the 70s and has zero to do with any cultural identity for the different groups of highly melanated peoples.

    • @Omisaide
      @Omisaide 7 месяцев назад +6

      Colonized minds... British empire was the last largest one

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  7 месяцев назад +4

      Very nice discussion on this thread. Thank you.

    • @israellindsay3698
      @israellindsay3698 3 месяца назад

      Every time they did it was taken

  • @urmbero452
    @urmbero452 7 месяцев назад +5

    Awesome! The first man on earth has the "Hu" Which means person of color. Human being man of color. Aka Black man is the first man on Earth!

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  7 месяцев назад +2

      Thanks for sharing that.

    • @urmbero452
      @urmbero452 7 месяцев назад +1

      Your welcome. Love that Interview.

    • @1EQUALS-INFINITY
      @1EQUALS-INFINITY 6 месяцев назад

      iF IT WAS THE FIRST, HOW DID THEY KNOW IT WAS A MAN OF COLOR, IF THERE WAS NO ONE ELSE TO COMPARE IT TO?

  • @rodolfoescobar4403
    @rodolfoescobar4403 4 месяца назад

    Al héroe Yanga , se le conoce como antecesor del levantamiento de la gente negra en esta región de México.
    Yo lo vi en los libros de Texto en la escuela primaria.

  • @juliotoral1174
    @juliotoral1174 7 месяцев назад +2

    Out the Port of Veracruz cristal clear water and white sand

  • @mississippi4589
    @mississippi4589 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great interview 👍🏽👍🏽

  • @Leezaist
    @Leezaist 2 месяца назад

    I lived right on the border of Mexico in San Diego and a lot of Mexicans know that they are Afro Latina. They just don’t wanna acknowledge it. It is still a lot of discrimination in Mexico when it comes to Afro Latinas, especially darker Mexicans.

    • @Reyes_e
      @Reyes_e 26 дней назад

      Nobody in Mexico calls themselves afro Latinos or latinas we are afro Mexicans all it is to it why would they acknowledge themselves as afro Latinos.

  • @Thehabanero_
    @Thehabanero_ Месяц назад +1

    My family is from this region. There’s African influence on certain things and descendants but one things for sure is that the olmecs weren’t black.

  • @DanielHernandez-rl6mc
    @DanielHernandez-rl6mc 5 месяцев назад

    Great video my friend thank you for taking the time to learn about our brothers and sisters ❤❤❤

  • @ClienteYanga40
    @ClienteYanga40 3 месяца назад

    Te invitamos a conocer yanga Veracruz contactanos para mas información

  • @colinchampollion4420
    @colinchampollion4420 Месяц назад +2

    They were Black after Spainards brought them from Sub Sharan African as slaves~ there's even a black slave statue with placard that explains their history which started in the 16th century 😂🎉!

  • @anarchism
    @anarchism 2 месяца назад

    mi abuelo era negroide. mi apellido es maya. gracias por la información

  • @BaddieLuvsBaddies
    @BaddieLuvsBaddies 6 месяцев назад +1

    The story of slavery and Africans being brought here was told n reverse .

  • @ixtacayaotl1205
    @ixtacayaotl1205 2 дня назад

    Ah man.. I was enjoying this video up until the indigenous erasure at the end.. I had the feeling that was gonna happen soon as the Olmec heads were brought up.. great info about Gaspar Yanga though! The books recommended are and have been disproven as largely pseudo and further more drives a wedge between indigenous and afro communities by claiming that the Olmec were originally black. I have no problem with unity but I draw the line when we start to erase the contributions that indigenous people have done. This kind of redirect is not helping anyone, and displaces indigenous people of Anahuac too. My respects, I wanted this to be true too but then I went to college and majored in "Chicano" and indigenous history. This isn't to say we didn't come out of Africa but to acknowledge our differences and human progress.

  • @cbbcbb6803
    @cbbcbb6803 4 месяца назад +1

    Giving recognition to any one part of out heritage does not, or should not, require us to deny any of our other heritages. We all have many many heritages. They all count. They are all valid. They all are important. They all are history. They are all human history.

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  4 месяца назад

      Did you even watch the video or did you just jump to a pea-brain conclusion? Where in this video did I deny anyone's heritage?

  • @standingbear998
    @standingbear998 6 месяцев назад +4

    they certainly were not african

  • @josehernandez-fs9ek
    @josehernandez-fs9ek 3 месяца назад

    Omat speaks good English!!

  • @portoalexandre745
    @portoalexandre745 6 месяцев назад

    Yanga came from today Angola. Changa fast, runner.

  • @toofoo8707
    @toofoo8707 3 месяца назад +2

    Olmecs were brown indigenous folk, anglo saxons have big 👄 and wide 👃🏻 too 😂

    • @toofoo8707
      @toofoo8707 3 месяца назад

      The modern Mexican is Mestizo aka half indigenous half Spaniard so yes we're a part white, Spanish white not anglo saxon white 🎉

    • @toofoo8707
      @toofoo8707 3 месяца назад

      Even in prison Mexicans ally with the Woods and Skins, is that a surprise or are you just mad you don't get accepted by them like we are?

    • @toofoo8707
      @toofoo8707 3 месяца назад

      african tribes sold other fellow africans to anglos over muskets 🎉

    • @toofoo8707
      @toofoo8707 3 месяца назад

      The only african offspring in Mexico are from runaways but we all originate from africa according to your beliefs so why get triggered 🥳

    • @toofoo8707
      @toofoo8707 3 месяца назад

      The only african offspring in Mexico are from railroad runners but we all originate from africa according to your beliefs so why get triggered 🥳

  • @Omisaide
    @Omisaide 7 месяцев назад +4

    I enjoy my trip south of the border where los morenos vivir...Dr. ivan Sertima lectures lead me to explore.... American Indigenous aka blacks were in Southeast nort America, Mexico, central and south america before the Mongolian strains poured in..olmec heads is not in memory of slaves...its sad people believe aka socalled Blacks or moors came here as slaves

    • @urmbero452
      @urmbero452 7 месяцев назад +1

      Moors were conquers!

  • @sanadoe9365
    @sanadoe9365 2 месяца назад

    Cambodians are the first ancient blacks on earth ❤😊

  • @annacherish5734
    @annacherish5734 4 месяца назад +2

    They’re beautiful people .. but, not all black people are from Africa .. they were black natives , so Afro Mexicans is not the right term, black Mexican , la negra

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  4 месяца назад

      Thanks for commenting Anna. All humans originated in Africa. It is not as if humans rose up separately in different countries and just happen to be the same. As I stated in the video, the first humans that came across the Bering Strait were black. Over thousands of years the environment of Central and South America favored blacks, or natives, or Africans or whatever you want to call it. The first settlers of the Americas were black and also I believe blacks came across the Atlantic BEFORE slavery. I also believe in the Maafa, which many people refer to as "slave trade"

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  4 месяца назад

      To state it more simply, I believe that there were waves of blacks to the Americas, as opposed to them coming up out of the ground in the Americas.

  • @victorrangel3204
    @victorrangel3204 5 месяцев назад +1

    Stfu when you ask the homie if he comprende like a colonizer you out there to learn not for attention

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  5 месяцев назад

      Wow. By your words, you look like you did not finish pre-school in any country.

  • @Reyes_e
    @Reyes_e 26 дней назад

    Olmecs where not african and us afro mexicans didnt come to be till the 1500s

  • @BaddieLuvsBaddies
    @BaddieLuvsBaddies 6 месяцев назад +3

    You Guys need to drop the word Afro … Most of us are not Africans our ancestors has always been here we didn’t come from Africa.

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  5 месяцев назад +5

      humans originated in Africa. At some point, they came from Africa.

    • @shumonbrown5229
      @shumonbrown5229 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@AfricanDiasporaPresslots of people possess the natural inclination to detest anything BLACK(African ancestry) even moreso than Anglo-Saxons... they just do, although we know why. For instance, Anglo-Saxons will say the color of Jesus(not his proper name) doesn't matter... however, why then did they paint him white...

    • @MattmanKey84
      @MattmanKey84 4 месяца назад

      If you're falling for that "we aren't African, we're Black Indigenous Americans" agenda, that's only a theory, not a fact.
      That theory only rose up on social media per Russian Troll farms around 2015/2016, when Trump started running for president. It's a Black QAnon claim rooted in WS.

    • @Raisemytemple
      @Raisemytemple 4 месяца назад

      The Concept of man coming from one place is illogical if you really think about it.

    • @sanadoe9365
      @sanadoe9365 2 месяца назад

      @@AfricanDiasporaPressall blacks came from Cambodia 🇰🇭. Cambodians the first ancient blacks on earth. Cambodia has the older elephant that’s most related to the mammoths 🦣

  • @vicks42tube
    @vicks42tube 3 месяца назад

    Brother, correction. America is a continent, not a country. The United States is only a country in the Continent of North America, just like Mexico and Canada. Reffering to the United States as America sounds a bit arrogant and should be corrected, or a perhaps a petition to change the name of the Americas to some other name to keep the US of North America from sounding offensive to the rest of the Americas . Aside from that, your reseach of the African Mexicans was great. More info on his subject should be reveilled. Queep the faith.

  • @AmandaSteel-r7r
    @AmandaSteel-r7r 28 дней назад

    Please be careful in Bianca most dangerous place be careful

  • @joseisrael1119
    @joseisrael1119 3 месяца назад

    Bro you're reaching in some of these statements 😂

    • @AfricanDiasporaPress
      @AfricanDiasporaPress  3 месяца назад

      Well set me straight Jose. Where was I wrong?

    • @joseisrael1119
      @joseisrael1119 3 месяца назад +1

      @@AfricanDiasporaPress first of all, stop using the Olmec head as a representation of the Yangon people in Mexico. Those sculptures are thousands of years old whereas the runaway slaves are but a few generations old. I'm happy for the Yangons but they are not native to the Americas. They however, deserve the right to a happy and fruitful life anywhere they want to live, including Mexico.

    • @joseisrael1119
      @joseisrael1119 3 месяца назад

      The president you called a black man was not black but was a mixture of Mexican native and Philippino. You guys need to stop with creating your own delusional fantastical history. It's similar to white washing history.

    • @Reyes_e
      @Reyes_e 26 дней назад

      He's looking for acceptance and approval like they all are. ​@@joseisrael1119