@MigrantScribble
Alán ♿ 🆓🍉
@MigrantScribble
1 year
Good morning to all except Mexican nationalists. My essay, “As a Black Oaxacan, I Have No Choice But to Betray Mexican Nationalism” dropped today in @Refinery29
As a Black Oaxacan, I Have No Choice But to Betray Mexican Nationalism

Mexican citizenship is supposed to protect us from human rights violations in the country, but it doesn’t for Black Mexicans. If citizenship is a contract between a nation and the citizen, I am...

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@MigrantScribble
Alán ♿ 🆓🍉
@MigrantScribble
1 year
In the essay, I reflect on experiencing a raid where only the Black Mexicans are asked to prove that we are Mexican citizens and the time I was accused of falsifying my passport.
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@QuinnFos
Quinn 🪶
@QuinnFos
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@MigrantScribble @BlackCatrachoBK @Refinery29 Let’s. Talk. About. It. I’m here for all of this!!!!
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@Mx_Nasssty
Joel
@Mx_Nasssty
1 year
@MigrantScribble @Refinery29 Omg I cannot wait to read!
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@EmeAquiFlores
Eme Flores
@EmeAquiFlores
1 year
@MigrantScribble @Refinery29 Based
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@gonzalezme1056
M.E.Gonzalez
@gonzalezme1056
1 year
@MigrantScribble @lorgia_pena @Refinery29 Love your essay Alan. The story of Black Mexicans like other stories of the African diaspora in LatinAmer need to be told and acknowledged.
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@HarshaWalia
Harsha Walia
@HarshaWalia
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@MigrantScribble @Refinery29 thank you for this.
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@miguelmyersatx
miguel_myers_atx
@miguelmyersatx
1 year
@MigrantScribble @Refinery29 Thank you so much for sharing your experience. As a first generation Mexican-American we sometimes tend to romanticize Mexico as this wonderful place our parents left, and not the fully nuanced imperfect country that it is filled with ugly histories and mistreatment of its people
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