Wait, so the First Mexicans were Black ?

Vincente Riva Palacio was a Mexican politician and intellectual who happened to be the grandson of the great Mexican revolutionary and President Vincente Guerrero who won Mexico their independence. Palacio was widely respected during his time, helping to fight off the French intervention of Mexico during the mid-1860’s while also in later years adding to the intellectual prowess of Mexico. After his election to the Supreme Court of Justice from 1868–1870, he dedicated himself increasingly to writing. One of his most famous works in which he collaborated with Mexican archaeologist Alfredo Chavero and others was entitled México a través de los siglos (Mexico through the centuries). In this historical work Palacio and others acknowledge the Black indigenous presence in the Americas. It states the following:

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As for our continent, there are hardly any footprints of the black man, its existence in it was in a very distant time, the first in the world the black race and spread all over it by virtue of the union of the continents, or when he arrived in ours, did the Otomi already exist here? Its disappearance presents it to us as an expelled race and by previous consequence; but they are indications against the autochthonous characters of the Otomí race and a fact traditional in our concept matters a lot, until recent times the priests of black, as if it were a souvenir of the introducers of the first cult.

As a clear trace of the black race, we have some little heads from Teotihuacan, and we have seen a very clear serpentine mask. Regarding those little heads, we will say (foot in the innumerable burial mounds of the ruins of that great city they are found among various objects: they are made of clay and end in a neck or appendage. According to Mr. Orozco, they were placed in the burial mounds to commemorate each person's death. And in fact, examining them carefully, it is observed are not formed ad libitum, and comparing them It is noted that the artificers copied certain people. Among them are some with flattened and flat noses, and protruding lips, which could only be applied to individuals of the black race. 

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