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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SECTION 2
BLACK MEXICAN CIVILIZATIONS
The earliest people in the Americas were of the Negritic African race who entered the Americas as early as 100,000 years ago.
These included Black Pygmies, Black Negritic peoples and Black Australoids similar to the Aboriginal Black people of Australia, parts of Asia and India. The first North Americans were Blacks who migrated over the Bering Strait and not the Mongolians, Asians, or Melanesia.
Although archaeologists have used the label Olmec to refer to the Black builders of Mexico's first ancient civilizations, recent discoveries have proven that these Afro-Olmecs known as the Xi (pronounced she) People, were West Africans of the Mende language and cultural group. Deciphered inscriptions found on ancient Olmec monuments in parts of Mexico show that the language on the script used by the ancient Olmecs was identical to that used by the ancient and modern Mende-speaking people of West Africa. The colossal stone heads shown here are also racially identical in features to West Africans.
This face is typical Negritic, with the eyes that seem to slant, which shows a common, racial characteristic generally found in West Africa, the Sahara and in South Africa among the Kong-San (Bushmen) and other Africans.
The land in Africa has relinquished to the archaeologists and anthropologists the earliest remains of man and his ancestors, clearly showing that man originated in Africa. Scholars have dug up skeletons as old as 175,000 years, but places in Europe, including Italy, England, Russia, and Scandinavia have not yielded any bones older than 20,000 years. French anthropologist Gerald Massey claims that "the sole race that can be traced among the Aborigines all over the earth, or below it, is the Dark Race of Negrito type".
The relationship between Native Americans and Africans extended for thousands of years. Africans were actively in business with Native Americans long before Columbus got lost and wandered into the Caribbean thinking that he had reached India, thereby erroneously calling the Natives: Indians.
At one point the African and American continents were joined as can be seen by the similarity of tropical plants, animals and geographic traits with the appearance of them fitting together like a piece of a puzzle, indicating perhaps the reason why many gods of Central America are portrayed Black with Africoid features.
Unfortunately, when the white men came to Central and South America, they immediately began enslaving the Native Americans, and as a result, millions of them died from slavery, torture, murder and white man diseases.
At the start of the Atlantic slave trade, Columbus, on his return to Spain, crammed 1,200 Indian slaves into his three tiny ships, and after running short on labour supply because of the decimation of the Native population, white men then began to import Black slaves in order to meet the growing labour demands of their ruthless conquest and plunder.
Thus Native and African Americans share a common history of massive abuse, genocide and exploitation by the white man. Native Americans were even called by the same derogatory terms that were applied to Black people, and in some cases, treated even worse, not to mention the two whole continents stolen from them.
© John Moore - Barbados, W.I. (May 2005) ©. All rights reserved.
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