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ah, she was my mom and she was also ms. panama with boy. oh, he was 1980 and she was the 1st black woman to ever when did miss panama concert? ah, 40 years later, people still remember where they were when she was crowned. because for the very 1st time, the country acknowledged that black is beautiful. and that panama is black. ah, would 173 pool.

my mom own such shipping company. i used to work with her. and people would call and ask for the queen. i know it was so funny and people, you know, sometimes when i would go to pick up a barrel, they were kind of disappointed to be honest with you. i think some people call just to have some sort of connection with her and her company. and like i shipped about with the queen, ah ah,

who should there be a shot in panama after mino? is she in those or change and see the represent data for for learn us even gun us last. eat how they but in seattle a last they suit daniel. i see kate gloria kind of money. this in a lie. he had the again this cornel sheila. ah, so it's the night of the pageant and my mom looks beautiful. she's wearing an amazing gown and the entire city of cologne, where she's from, everyone's watching the pageant. she has the most amount of points, and he's clear to everyone that she's winning. but some people were not about to let that happen. a friend of my mom's ended up seated near catalina t 80, a woman who used to own miss panama. he turned to her and said, hey, it looks like the blacker is going to when she responded over my dead body. ah,

with lamazzo gold also? is there phone or no say explain so no saw process, thomas n ortiz de la loca leader. pretty fernando north marquee yonder. no, don't we know that a lot more that i you it. they joel it by the early mikey, your kimberly had altima in may, but i won't go poor k yano star. i to the end or lacking separate who does ego letter upon thee, nor toil lacking separate wound up. okay, your sale up in a room, ducking me, rattle, car. it's miss panama. in beauty pageants, contestants always get the questions in advance. that's how it works. that's how has always worked. you get the questions you prepare your answers. very simple. but the night that my mother was competing, something different happened right when it looks like the blockers going to win. right? when the owner of the pageant is having a hissy fit about

a block are winning the pageant officials the side that that night. for some reason, they want to ask an extra question. ah, a thing of your own time about the orders. ether about the lord is a and signor, god will do gay yearly so that but i won't back up seal sankey left again while i lay they can stand guinea that good. but alleviate gala view the disposal say gothic also minor a legal question, a legal question that no one had the chance to study for right. but a question that, you know, maybe maybe a rich girl would probably be smart enough to figure out. i mean, at least that's what i think they were thinking. and if i thought of young body by them, which i took it down in equal elevator europe on dinner late, i live go legal tally. you'll articulate pylee dog on the metal kwame lady here. no,

no, they will not lay love you. i know said wic asada also mana, i see get annoyed seat ending when i lay. so when i lo, he gave emily who to me my hey, emily going back alia, going out on the me, mama, the made the during fema i for go super yoga gentle. so you're, you're gonna yeah, i so that's what happened. they tried to stop her, but they couldn't. she's unstoppable she one. and i've always known that my mother was miss panama. that you know, she's fabulous. but now that i'm older, i realized that this isn't just a story about my mom. this is a story about my country. why in a country that a 60 percent black, a country that was built by black people?

why would anyone doubt that black women could represent the country? why is the panama that he's marketed to the world, the panama? that is reflected back to the panamanians. why is it's so light skin? why is it so rich? and most importantly, how did we get here? ah, in the streets exotic night with no so drove in, but on my north echo today, but our most at this the nearby jessa bowery, martin cul de la mu head barranca. oh you know,

so don't know in that are more than 30 methodical directly. northrop concept, although a usa, luke is no good. i look latha. no. so the only thing that i'm or a supporter, luasa seattle, or la garza a bay most in the lady c o constant. the main thing was when i was little, i asked my mom, why can't my hair be blunt? oh, the princess is on t v or blond than yeah, my mom just said lamar. black people are not blunt. she didn't say anything else, but i understood that people like me were not. i mean what, what have you been ongoing for the? i don't want the warmer or america than a girl. i know what i can guess a laundry go or good afternoon. so they don't

forget when someone can noise, i mean it is a lot on the look what amy, only luck warren is mutual mental that represent that up on emma organ or gene. our a saw are 30 people they were yes her there. what i mean, i guess on me i'm, you sound like a you must have got us in by living and you know, he is, was a 100, but he only go are you going us? you know. okay. oh not susanna. finance mean yet there last our name, can you hon. and thought him up on, on my own gone pushing dead resin elisa. he was only go home garage and my leg. i gina. i got huh. what does that even mean or not? i turned on by letting i, you know, so basically that means that you're out of place

and this is what makes me angry. the idea that black people don't belong black people are part of the foundation of panama. at one point africans and their descendants outnumbered to europeans, 5 to one is the making end of the think they think look in the middle auto see in this is bonnie on b v. ending whenever, i think go, don't need to see those annoying after i got this clearly. so the, the leaking is the theme i voted both persona. kids got my own minute by the 19th century, white fear of black uprisings and a desire to establish regional support and unity led to a campaign of presenting a non black image of panama to the world. i'll get it

when i spoke with the mom and dad to send them what scandal, advice, average and b and b s sensor the we did have a low game mental head via the info fun. i mean, yes, they think of more new. 2010 was the 1st census since the forty's to ask individuals if they consider themselves black. but the panamanian senses is conducted by staff who canvass door to door and many offer panamanians claim that they were never asked. the question or didn't by group on on it and they don't know, but when i call blowing, i got a minute. this is not what i mean. they represent them to look s b u c no d c handle and wound up in bun. i'm a bit as one us on when i bit of an alpha delica, lord elliana will buy asap. so call me other people. i think i mean thing and

couple yet. so new. i don't even know what i i even know what they up. what bulletin clara levy, we have see that you see thing and vice ah, laurie inside the 9 and a half inches with brown hair and brown eyes. there's a lot of trouble with beauty pageants, but that's another conversation. you know, it meant something that somebody from going on occupy that space. a been a woman from cologne. i majority black city in my jordy, black province. you know, her face on the screen, her face in the newspapers. that is important. you know, especially for people from putting ah, one no more yogurt. i mean the gun. no. no same theme of being. if we're momentum, we're mostly manville ada breaking up law all with them being full not being never

seen done for the most look like are you laughing threaten with the legal of them, you know, super to put on eat, but i'm still didn't act as a very good either. yeah, we'll see on the real number head of money enough is the represent the opposite side of the book. lot or you'll get it as you will audio sally violette, garcia, you can all guys have all momento who? yeah. legged felice. but i got a report on it, you know, since the more if you leave, i meant it me on will your for job one i'm and the like almost go long move and whole lot to me but i further they carry, see don't they? upper india said jo don, they are brandy a la la who's dcea la who stacy, i you said a name that i said color names that i couldn't see. daughter who gave you most our best represent them. brewing caea, if a living among them. um, i mean on the market on for okay, i can have my medical side. bob longer it is,

the meal, is it, remove it? good. people say my mom's when was revolutionary. but actually her radical activism began as a high school student years before her pageant career. i got involved in beauty pages to ice out the things between me and my mom, because all my rad situation on mine stunned throwing words go may, how long loose or dark. so that's why i was just balancing the, the things out whole lot more than give me about the simple i was yeah, yeah, yeah. i was on the to the enter your product, our and then for this young group of political, they kinda, they brought it down. i'm going to hang with

louis brewing sick. a didn't was your brain muscle, c, l. it? it will be a no. c, m p. pass up or radical latin is lucy, are they la haynes, a common common your gate up? are they like ruins? yeah. laura. yeah. and i will the nice riley's and brought this in 5 on the rise of the people know we was fighting for jobs for 24 people. we will fight him for better location. we will fight him for better health system. can he? i'm ok for it out can go, you know, for a, my achy, that the will pork and also to home or st deal going wrong model. he know you're not a, but if you know that will be in as a base it on knows around the mind. quinta, alec, while i mean the a panama is best known for the great inner ocean highway, the panama canal,

the canal zone, a strip of land extending 5 miles on either side of the canal is leased to the united states and is administered from the canal zones balboa ah, a, my great grandfather on my mother's side came to panama in the early 20th century. he was one of the 10s of thousands of black men who came from across the caribbean, looking for work in panama, in places like the canal, or the railroad. ah, a balloon is a beautiful province, rich province in so many ways culture, you're rich. it's also a port for the panama canal. ah bolt. if you walk through the

streets of cologne, you would see a lot of poverty. you will see meetings that are falling apart, that are not for people to live in, but people are living there. and you would see a city that has been abandoned by the rest of the country. ah, i moved to the u. s. when i finished high school, it was shocking to me that most people in the us have no idea that their country occupied panama build a fence around the canal and said, this is ours. keep out. not only that, but the u. s. important jenko policies into panama and created separate living areas for white workers and black and brown workers. this quantified anti black and segregationist practices that had existed since enslaved africans were 1st brought to panama, bakery america basis, in different employers,

or coming up with the american soldiers leave segregated for the rest of the group . for the great 2 separate phone, the all area was, is for americans or the european white. they live in panama and then the silver for any big but white a you could ok. i live that in north america. not been on my said, or sheila, no. e, i can see lack of a consult, but i think i'm enough to earn what i'm 200 meter classic is looking long and so on . seeing him indicate and help you. i'm glad i'm or both of them are visible. someone who will who neck that at the him into left one. okay. bucklin balanced and being k. obviously the dumb sacramento loom goodbye. they took 3 months at the former. if it says anything branch i set up

again, i can cancel as a demo with you in laws, a local courses out exclusive. i meant it. i said calamari, nevada, cuz it up and she did all that is easier and i figured that glassy yo for yeah, of course ashy. cynthia, a garage on academic, which i, ah, the thing is not only believe that racism is, is from someone else to you is as so you to yourself in that's i think is the most important thing that we need to work as a black community is to work in embracing our blackness to make the youth

feel constable in their own skin to let them say yes, a young black and white. oh, why? why also to like one. so we are, but my be miss universe with the morning. and here comes the night of the miss universe. it i am glued to my tv. ah, i caught everybody a call my family called lawn. i said, make sure to watch this, this, this is the we we got to make is 3, because your is the 1st black woman that gonna do this. the 1st name on the

list of 12. so my finalist is miss scotland. ah, so my finalized number 2 as miss panama yuma, whether there's a 4 with gun or warriors, lady i thought, let go ahead. the feel for the phones are for the seaboard case, as a warning, it came, but i'm only like you out of the non overlap re marquee a will not represent that. they like the unmade, i represent our panama. it will go several months when he read in, when they call gloria, to define the ice cream, my long l. o . my mom to in when miss universe. but very few contestants from panama had made it

to the top 12 before. and for the people in colony who were watching for all the black people in panama, that was a major victory. one movie, how ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, by good be who? ala. that's where i farrah my brain is hope all of you the burgess i'm here. gary. i'm which a hint. then k s bill our may not it bit are like a you're ready to sign. i called armano russia. e s a for me been sammy into. ah, she made history. it hurt me to my heart when she came from. so career. i'm in a didn't receive her good. there was supposed to come in, take all around panama, and it was she,

she did something for us. our people we did. so when she returned the burner man, we saw the underlying problems of not given her the recognition that other girls had received. we had a group that was out who worked in the black community. one of the members just jumped in and said, hey, let's give her a car. well, we did it. we had that car available. and when i bought a big, big boat the showed this is a gift of the black community to her queen. ah yes, there is discrimination towards black people in this country. just see who are the

ones that have benefited most this month. the offspring of those that word and did over there we are far more than that. give us the recognition. ah. go to common you does the common the 1st black miss panama? of yes, it was a chase in the and the whole spectrum. and is the history only because you know, another little girl black line me with the always she was miss barnum, i could do it to or if she went to miss brun, i'm a, i could be an attorney, i could be a george, whatever she wants to we is she going to drink to be ah,

when my mother was competing for the crown, she was fighting to change the future. she was standing before her country with that deep sense of possibility. sharing her story has helped me to recognize this type of power from black women across the country. whether they're working to change the census, or fighting for the right to where natural hair from the bears of, or cultural traditions to the young generations. asking questions about her history . i see that there queens everywhere. ah, i saw an official airline of the journey with

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