MESSAGE TO REV. JESSE JACKSON AND THE BLACK LEADERS: THE US NEED A LESSON ON THE HISTORY OF MEXICO

Such a fuss rose, again, in the United States among the Afro American leaders, of course, stirred up by the perverse media that comprises Mexican journalists suffering the Anti-Fox Delirium Tremens, because of the issuance of postal stamps by the Government of Mexico to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a most cute, tender and lovable and most popular character that depicts a boy “Memín Pinguin” and his mother “Ma’Linda” that means “Pretty Mom” with Black ascendancy.

Due to the words by Mexican President Vicente Fox that were intentionally misinterpreted and then sent as a bait for the US Black leaders who subsequently bit the whole of it now, every move in regards to the Black people is taken as an offense.

First of all, not all Black population nor Black character is a property of the United States, and/or the US Black leaders and second their baseless rage comes from the lack of knowledge of the history of Mexico.

The Mexican society, a mix of Spanish, Native Indian, Afro, Chinese, Arab, Jew, etc., is ABOVE ALL a REAL MIX. Ours is ONE SOCIETY, not different ethnic groups living in separate neighborhoods. 90% of the Mexican population is MESTIZO. One single individual probably is the recipient of more than 5 or 6 nationalities. It is very common to find in a family, we are speaking of same mom, same dad and five or six children, in all shades of skin color, ranging from ivory white to very dark or black, from straight and blonde hair to curly black hair.

Also, Catholic Christianism was and is a paramount factor: the Mexican society is not taught, by no means, to hate anybody. Much less for being of a different nationality or religious creed. This is inconceivable in the Mexican society, as, again, we Mexicans are MIXED: MESTIZO.

Notions of hate or race superiority are absolutely unknown to and hard to understand for Mexicans.

And the Afro population brought to Mexico back in Century XVI, slowly merged into the Mexican society, and it did so well that these days only very few small villages can be found in the Southeast and Southwest of Mexico where very small groups with very light Afro features live.

Remember The Alamo!
Also,US must know that one of the reasons former Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna went to fight for the former Mexican state of Texas, was because the US people that was invited to live and work there, had planned ahead to seize the state and re-establish slavery. One of the slave trafickers was Davy Crockett. This was unacceptable for the new-born Mexican nation as one of the reasons it fought for its freedom was, precisely, the abolishing of slavery.

Immediately afterwards the independence of Mexico, the Mexican Government would give free land to the fugitive Afro slave then called “cimarrón” - runaway - that could make it into Mexico. Of course, not many could make it.

The Black slaves were welcome and automatically protected by the Mexican State.- Just as it keeps it doing today: Our laws state that when a person gets into Mexican territory as a slave, for whatever reason, just touching our land, our Constitution makes him/her free and gets the full protection of our State.

So, should the Black leaders had ever taken a minute to know their neighbor south of the border, would never have been taken as an offense by a few simple words said in a rage against the blatant, senseless, cruel and stupid racism that is fed in the formula to the their babies by the Anglo-Saxon society in the land of the braves and the home of the free.

Memin Pinguin character is a Black boy living in extreme poverty with her loving Mother Ma’Linda, and while they lack almost everything, he being a very young boy and while attending school, works in part time jobs to help her and she earns money by laundering the clothes of the neighbors. She is so loving and good-hearted that she earns the hearts of Memin ‘s schoolmates, and their way of seeing life teach us that no matter how hard living is to earn, love will compensate any material lack as long as they have each other.

Memin Pinguin and his mother give a message of love, respect, responsibility and optimism even in the middle of the most extreme poverty. This is a recognition of the human essence of the Afro people.

This is the core of the comic book story of Memin Pinguin. If after knowing the history of the Mexican nation, the universal essence of the Mexican society and the story of Memin Pinguin, the Black leaders consider it offensive, then this will make us wonder what are they, as leaders, fighting for.

Mexico does not know how to be racist. Mexico has not learned hate. These Black leaders should know better.

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P.S. Memín = Billy