you’re the one speaking truth here, Mexico hides its racist past and present- we notice here in the USA that the only ones forced to leave because their own people and country won’t help them are the “little brown ones”. We never see any of the Telenovella light skinned, tall, blonde, clear eyed ones as illegals.

Slavery in the Aztec Empire was very different from what Europeans of the same period established in their colonies.

Although slaves were owned and regarded as property by the Aztecs, they still had a number of privileges. According to the Aztec law, slaves were allowed to own their own property and many could be seek legal opportunities to become free. Gaining freedom for slaves was by no means unheard in the Aztec society. When they masters died many slaved also gained freedom. Slaves in the Aztec Empire could even own other slaves. They could buy their liberty, and be set free if they were able to show they had been mistreated or if they had children with or were married to their masters. I could go on and on….

Cherokee were slaveholders, although they eventually incorporated their Black slaves into the tribes after the Anglos ethnically cleansed the Cisappalachian territories and exiled the tribe to Indian Territory. A few years ago the Cherokee tribe attempted to remove the descendants of Black Slaves from the tribal roles in order to exclude them from sharing in casino prophets. History is a tapestry of ethnocentric inhumanity, whitewashed and hagiographic stories, and the gradual complicated intermingling of peoples. we should celebrate the cultures and achievements of our ancestors, and no one need be ashamed of their ethnic background, but “pride” in an ancestry we neither chose nor created strikes me as narcissism at best and bleeds into xenophobia and racism.