Sorry – DUH, I meant to say cool to know about the arabs and jews being in that region so early on – I didn’t know that…..
taht’s all – jeebus! I gotta really be clearer!
You have to remember the slave trade started with the Portugues and the Arabs. Jews also financed some slave trade and the Dutch excursions to the New World. The first Synagogue is in Aruba (the Netherlands Antillies)
ishtar! – omg I didn’t mean that!!!!
yikes! – I am pregs and nuts apparently and typing way too quickly without thought
god help my half black son 😉
Sorry – DUH, I meant to say cool to know about the arabs and jews being in that region so early on – I didn’t know that…..
taht’s all – jeebus! I gotta really be clearer!
In both Texas and California, non-Hispanic people tended to call anyone who looked like they might possibly be from Latin American “Mexican.”
I have seen people assume that friends from the Middle East and India were Mexican.
You have to remember the slave trade started with the Portugues and the Arabs. Jews also financed some slave trade and the Dutch excursions to the New World. The first Synagogue is in Aruba (the Netherlands Antillies)
Why is that cool? What’s cool about it?
“bad freakin week that won’t be ending until NEXT friday”
I hear you, DH. Me too. Next Friday, about this time, should be great for me though.
I was born in Jamaica. I need my own census category. I was born a British citizen, later became a Jamaican citizen and then a naturalized American.
Lech -that’s a good story btw!
Cool unless you were from Africa. 🙁