2. • Casta is an Iberian word (existing in Spanish,
Portuguese and other Iberian languages since
the Middle Ages), meaning lineage, breed, or
race, to describe as a whole, the mixed-race
people which appeared in the post-Conquest
period. The social composition of Mexico
during the eighteenth century was based on
the existence of various castas or castes.
3. • It has been said that White people can't help
but to lie about Black people, it's as if they
had a genetic pre-disposition to do so. Others
say their lies represent their hopes, still others
say it's just a deep seated need to bolster
themselves by denigrating Blacks, others say
it's just normal White degeneracy. Whatever
the reason, even on so innocuous a subject as
an art genre, Whites still manage to find a
reason to lie about Blacks:
4. • Castas (Wiki)
•
During the Spanish colonial period, Spaniards
developed a complex caste system based on race,
which was used for social control and which also
determined a person's importance in society. There
were four main categories of race: (1) Peninsular, a
Spaniard born in Spain; (2) Criollo (feminine, criolla), a
person of Spanish descent born in the New World; (3)
Indio (fem. india), a person who is descendent of the
original inhabitants of the Americas; and (4) Negro
(fem. negra) - a person of black African descent,
usually a slave or their free descendants.
5. • Ilona Katzew (New York University)
• Since the sixteenth century, Spaniards had transposed their own
social schema onto their colonies in the New World. The
subordination of State to Church and the ideology of limpieza de
sangre (purity of blood)--where the absence of Jewish or Muslim
blood defined an honorable Old Christian--were factors
contributing to Spain's hierarchically organized society, whose
members had clearly delineated social roles. When the Spanish
colonized the New World, they brought with them this division of
society into nobles and plebeians. By converting the Indians to the
Christian faith, an imperative that gave justification to the
colonial enterprise, Spaniards became the aristocracy of Mexico
regardless of their origins or occupations.
6. • The supremacy of Spaniards (or whites) was remarked
at the end of the colonial period by Alexander von
Humboldt (1769 - 1859), a German natural scientist
who traveled in the New World: "any white person,
although he rides his horse barefoot, imagines
himself to be of the nobility of the country. Indians,
who, with the exception of their own nobility, were
associated with agriculture, became the tribute-
paying plebeians. Nevertheless, the Spanish system
admitted the existence of an Indian Republic within
the colony, which meant that the Spaniards
recognized the existence of an internal hierarchy for
Indian society.
7. • Because Indians were destined collectively to
become "New Christians," they merited the
protection of the Spanish Crown. Blacks, on the
other hand, were brought to the New World as
slaves and were in theory situated at the lowest
echelons of society; they worked as domestic
servants for the Spaniards and as laborers on
the sugar plantations, mines, and estates. Blacks
were considered a homogeneous group with no
rights and were redeemable only on an
individual level, once they had proven their
loyalty to the Church and their masters.
8. • In both cases above, the author is clearly
saying that ALL Blacks in the Americas were
brought there as Slaves, and that Blacks were
the lowest class. The truth is that the great
majority of Blacks in the Americas were
indigenous people: Many Black Spanish and
Portuguese citizens came to the Americas,
and as the paintings below clearly indicate,
Blacks were among the wealthy elite. See the
South Americas-2 page.
9. • News!
• Study - Humans were in America 100,000 years earlier than we
thought.
• By Gisela Crespo, CNN, April 26, 2017
• The remains of a mastodon discovered during a routine
excavation in
• California shows possible human activity in North America
130,000 years ago --
• or about 115,000 years earlier than previously thought.
•
• Blacks were the first and original settlers of the Americas;
• with Mongols crossing the Bering straits in the Clovis timeframe.
10. A racist story of the origin of
races for Peruvian children.
• The following is attributed to Monica Carrillo Peru blog.
• A book approved by the Peruvian Secretary of Education for
primary school use has a story about the origin of the races. The
story says all people were in a river. First, white people left the
river, and then using the waste water, the indigenous people
(Mongols) left the river, for this reason they were darker than
whites. At the end, using the dirty water, black people left the
river. Like everywhere else in the World, the Vile Albinos have
taught the Native Blacks (the Original people of the land), that
there presence there is the result of Albinos bringing them there
as Slaves. To what extent the lie is believed, is not known to us.
11. • MEANINGS OF WORDS USED BELOW:
•
• Mestizo; (in Latin America) a man of mixed race,
especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an
American Indian.
• Español/Española = Spanish
Casta = Breed
Mora = Black
Morisco = Moorish
Chino = Chinese
Lobo = Wolf
12. • Español con India = Mestizo
•
Mestizo con Española = Castizo
•
Castizo con Española = Español
•
Español con Mora (Black) = Mulato
•
Mulato con Española = Morisco (Moorish)
•
Morisco con Española = Chino (Chinese)
13. • Chino con India = Salta atras
•
Salta atras con Mulata = Lobo (Wolf)
•
Lobo con China = Gibaro
•
Gibaro con Mulata = Albarazado
•
Albarazado con Negra = Canbujo
•
Canbujo con India = Sanbaigo
•
Sanbaigo con Loba = Calpamulato
•
Calpamulato con Canbuja = Tente en el Aire
•
Tente en el Aire con Mulata = Noteentiendo (No te entiendo)
•
Noteentiendo con India = Tornaatraz (Torna atras)