I was reading an article regarding the African history that lies in Puerto Rico, but it is rarely or has never been recognized. Why is this?|||I've wondered this also. There is not any good reason why it should be ignored because MANY of the original settlers of Puerto Rico were slaves taken from Africa and "seasoned" there before being sent to North America. Good question.|||I don't know - I would be interested in knowing more about it.|||Because Puerto Rico as Cuba, Dominican Republic is a mixed society ,and history books clearly say so! As a matter of fact we have a sying , that goes like this; y tu aguela donde esta? and your grandma .where is she? ; because if black she is in the kitchen! Here is another saying ; el que no tiene de dinga tiene man-dinga! ;he who has no indian then has dinga;[African blood] so we arebthaught this ,that our forefathers are from Spain ,Native Indians and Africans. so is the reason in a casa you are apt to se the black ,or brown or white child from the same family, and we are proud of this ,that we call the darkest ones amongs us ;negrita as a cuddly way of hugging! And in a recent study done by the gringos who control us , we came in with more native traces than any other ! Most of our towns have indian names , our catholism is laden with African beliefs, our stories are full of courageous battles from the indians ,one in particular where they killed a white man then waited 3 days to see if he would come back to life, [being told the story of Jesus by the Dominican friars] the man not waking up started the fight for the indians freedom and to recapture their land , too late tho, but the mixtiure of the natives with both the whites and blacks is evident all over the Island , Yauco tho is mostly Indian! We are very proud of our ancestry , our language ;Spanish Ingles comes in second as is associated with the colonial power! Dahling go read some good books on Puerto Rico , not thought in school , because our real history s not being thaugh, instead the surrender of Spain brought us a different version of our heroic struggle ,our youts are being thaught by the controlling colonial power,[U.S.A.]they leran from Northen books , their presidents, the gringos history not our own ,this is why wheter black, indian or Spanish history is distorted in Puerto Rico, our children learn the oppresors history, THEIR version of our history! Saludos. Trying to find my self in this laberinth of lies1

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