Adelfa Callejo comments on Obama

[libyloba 0]

Here's an interesting excerpt about the Negritos of the Philippine Islands...

Ati woman

Negritos often appear in the traditional myths as having been created alongside the Malays and then for one reason or another, depart. Very often, these myths do not reflect a positive image of blacks or even the brown people who are the protagonists in them. People end up black out of divine punishment or some other mishap. A Sulod myth makes blacks wandering beggars for having offended a divine ancestor who tested his children's respect. Even the Sulod failed the test and so both the itim (black) and brown people are cursed to beg or toil and only the maputi (fair-skinned/Europeans) are blessed with wealth for doing little. Likewise, in several Visayan myths, an ancient ancestor goes into a rage over his lazy children and the children flee to different parts of the house to escape his wrath. The cultural traits of the children's descendants are then set for posterity based on the part of the house in which they hid: fat children having hid in the pantry; the handicapped having descended from clumsy children who had accidents in the scramble; powerful descendants issuing from children who hid in high places like the rafters; and interestingly, blacks descending from children who hid in the kitchen. In an interesting Bukidnon tale, both blacks and whites are descendants of children who defied God's order to intermarry, one black with one white, and ran away with mates of their own color. But some obedient children stayed and married as divine mandate required and they became the Bukidnon and other brown peoples (Eugenio 2001, pp.84, 288, 335, 336).

http://agta.4t.com/literatureandlegends.html

That's very interesting. Well according to some scientist modern man came out of Africa about 50000 years ago. Anyways, this all make me remember Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream” speech. "One day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

[one...two...tree 2,762]

That's very interesting. Well according to some scientist modern man came out of Africa about 50000 years ago. Anyways, this all make me remember Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream” speech. "One day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

That dream is coming true everyday in this country, but it's an ongoing process.

[panamania79 2]

in El Paso on Wednesday, comedian George Lopez made light of the tensions between Latinos and blacks in a campaign appearance for Mr. Obama. Surveying the crowd in a city that is 81 percent Latino, the 46-year-old Mr. Lopez drew laughter and applause when he took this swipe: "For all the people who say Latinos won't vote for African-Americans, I'm looking out in the crowd and 80 percent of us are darker than him, including me. Throw that out the window."

There's a nugget of wisdom there. There is a prejudice against dark skin among Latinos, as well as in many cultures.

Oh my,the stories I could tell.Like the 3 sisters I went to school with in Panama.One of them was darker,and her own family would make fun of her hair and features.

In the Philippines, the dark skinned indigenous people are called, negritos, and many Filipinos make jokes about them.

"Negritos?" Spanish is spoken in the Philippines also ?

About a third of tagalog is Spanish. They were run by the Spanish for hundreds of years.

For 500 years,I believe.

[panamania79 2]

Here's an interesting excerpt about the Negritos of the Philippine Islands...

Ati woman

Negritos often appear in the traditional myths as having been created alongside the Malays and then for one reason or another, depart. Very often, these myths do not reflect a positive image of blacks or even the brown people who are the protagonists in them. People end up black out of divine punishment or some other mishap. A Sulod myth makes blacks wandering beggars for having offended a divine ancestor who tested his children's respect. Even the Sulod failed the test and so both the itim (black) and brown people are cursed to beg or toil and only the maputi (fair-skinned/Europeans) are blessed with wealth for doing little. Likewise, in several Visayan myths, an ancient ancestor goes into a rage over his lazy children and the children flee to different parts of the house to escape his wrath. The cultural traits of the children's descendants are then set for posterity based on the part of the house in which they hid: fat children having hid in the pantry; the handicapped having descended from clumsy children who had accidents in the scramble; powerful descendants issuing from children who hid in high places like the rafters; and interestingly, blacks descending from children who hid in the kitchen. In an interesting Bukidnon tale, both blacks and whites are descendants of children who defied God's order to intermarry, one black with one white, and ran away with mates of their own color. But some obedient children stayed and married as divine mandate required and they became the Bukidnon and other brown peoples (Eugenio 2001, pp.84, 288, 335, 336).

http://agta.4t.com/literatureandlegends.html

She's cute.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Here's an interesting excerpt about the Negritos of the Philippine Islands...

Ati woman

She's cute.

I agree. Beautiful smile.

[panamania79 2]

in El Paso on Wednesday, comedian George Lopez made light of the tensions between Latinos and blacks in a campaign appearance for Mr. Obama. Surveying the crowd in a city that is 81 percent Latino, the 46-year-old Mr. Lopez drew laughter and applause when he took this swipe: "For all the people who say Latinos won't vote for African-Americans, I'm looking out in the crowd and 80 percent of us are darker than him, including me. Throw that out the window."

There's a nugget of wisdom there. There is a prejudice against dark skin among Latinos, as well as in many cultures.

I agree. She may be a Hispanic leader but that doesn't has to thinks for us. Besides One of my college teacher once told me that one drop of "black" makes a person "black" then in that case 95% of Latinos are Black. I wounder where she falls .

Interesting question. I know in my wife's native country, the darker skinned people are usually the house helpers, etc. It's sad...Spike Lee did a film years ago about the phenomenon of prejudice of skin color even among blacks.

What,Jungle Fever ? Halle Berry and Samuel L.Jackson did a good job playing a couple of crackheads.

[panamania79 2]

in El Paso on Wednesday, comedian George Lopez made light of the tensions between Latinos and blacks in a campaign appearance for Mr. Obama. Surveying the crowd in a city that is 81 percent Latino, the 46-year-old Mr. Lopez drew laughter and applause when he took this swipe: "For all the people who say Latinos won't vote for African-Americans, I'm looking out in the crowd and 80 percent of us are darker than him, including me. Throw that out the window."

There's a nugget of wisdom there. There is a prejudice against dark skin among Latinos, as well as in many cultures.

I agree. She may be a Hispanic leader but that doesn't has to thinks for us. Besides One of my college teacher once told me that one drop of "black" makes a person "black" then in that case 95% of Latinos are Black. I wounder where she falls .

Interesting question. I know in my wife's native country, the darker skinned people are usually the house helpers, etc. It's sad...Spike Lee did a film years ago about the phenomenon of prejudice of skin color even among blacks.

What,Jungle Fever ? Halle Berry and Samuel L.Jackson did a good job playing a couple of crackheads.