"Ironically, to the distress of the immigrants[Anglo Americans who had moved to Texas], the general's report[That most Anglo Americans didn't want to be naturalized as Mexican citizens and isolated themselves from Mexicans] was published in the same year[1829] that Mexico's first afromestizo[African ancestory, with other ancestory thrown in- usually Spanish or Indian] president, Vicente Guerrero, issued the nation's emancipation proclamation and abolished slavery"
-Recovering History, Constructing Race p. 199-200.


Other countries are always ahead of us. Mexico had a black president in 1829 for fuck's sake, and we haven't had one ever. Also, I heard that the Philippines and Indonesia have had female presidents- what's keeping us?