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world famous is co goes with the rising stalls of the sport to together on their reports from mexico, se se, it's been described as valet on horseback, combination of artistry and technical skills, often compared to synchronized swimming. but for these, the question being, and it's got the most, that it's about much more than the performance. most of our, the women of mexico's traditional rodeo or chat idea teams of 8 show of their horsemanship and a series of coordinated high speed and often dangerous exercises. precision is vital which are the, it's a lot about geometry and synchronization between one side and the other about creating mirror effects. it's also the only equestrian sport that is written inside settle, which makes it even more complicated. from a cultural standpoint, it is a part of mexico, it's our national sport. the. 7 inspired by the women fighters of the mexican
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revolution, it's got to moves us follow strict guidelines to per surface store equal and cultural authenticity from the exercises to simulate confrontations and battle to be elaborate. dresses made by artisans from around the country. a way for these women and girls to connect to their national heritage. it is also the most of them come from a long line of titles with knowledge and love for the new generation. after more than 30 years and it's got a mussa, alejandro moreno is proud. her daughter is carrying on the tradition, located beloved by like i think women are key to the longevity and importance of charter area. why? because we choose to keep our children here. if women didn't want this tradition to continue, we could send our children to play football or baseball. instead. the 1st ride started the 1950s, wasn't until the early ninety's,
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if they were recognized as an official part of mexican rodeos. traditionally male dominated. in that time, women have gone from a secondary role as supporters of their fathers, husbands, or brothers to arguably the most popular event on the show them this kind of move that, but i mean being an escrow mussa is competitive, requires teamwork, and is uniquely mexican. but mostly it's a lot of passion and for many women it's also a lifelong commitment, bringing together family tradition and national pride. well honoring the bravery of those who came before them. julia galle, i know i'll just euro mexico city. that's it for me nor kyle witness. isn't it the the
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the 40 years later, people still remember where they were when she was crowned. because for the very 1st time, the country acknowledge that black is beautiful and the panama is black. the 73. my mom on says shipping company. i used to work with her and people would call and ask for the cream it was so funny and people, you know, sometimes when i would go to pick up
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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 like her company and like i shipped a barrel with the queen, the locate, the usa in panama, i mean, always seeing those boats and, and see the order to present data for, for learn us even gonna last see how they put in c m e last e has the sudan on to actually get the need. this is the how you doing this? going to see the so east the night of the pageant and
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my mom looks beautiful. she's very an amazing down on the entire city of cologne, where she's from, everyone's watching the pageant. she has the most amount of points and it's clear to everyone that she's winning. but some people were not about to let that happen. a friend of my mom ended up to see that mir catalina to yadi, a woman who used to own miss panama. he turned to her and said, hey, it looks like the black or is going to when she responded over my dad. the let me go so in the phone i know say explain so no sort at all. so it's almost in, oh, there is a locally that pretty flat on the nose. mucky john, don't know. $39.00 or lower. the more that i, you a, they don't buy the other you making your community another was
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d. e and maybe one soap or can y'all noise style like duty and or lacking separate who does ego letter on the north to your liking separately moved up. okay. you'll stay up and have them talking me about ok. it's missing panama, beauty pageants, consistence always get the questions in advance. that's how it works. that's how it 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 blacker is going to win, right? when the owner of the pageant these have, you know, he's to fit up at a block are winning. pageant officials decided that that night, for some reason, they want to ask an extra question, the a, the, i don't that i'm about the orders. this is about the lotus. a is a new capital gain. the lease are stopped but
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a who desktops usa do. let's begin to call a lady, they can sign you need that date for leaving kayla new. the dallas postal sick icicles sort of minor legal question on legal question that no one have the chance to study for right. but a question that, you know, maybe maybe a research girl would probably be smart enough to figure out. i mean, at least that's what i think they were thinking. and that's like the young by the binomial choice, i get on an equity raise or uniform dental, late dahlia google tag. you're allowed to take a look sally. the find them at the one me lady had no, no i knew were not a love you. i don't know so quick. i sat on sort of minor to actually get northeast a new lease so who hello. he gave me the who to me my
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email he going to have you got out on the me mama timothy during sima ice like go. so basically you're going to say your name, your name. yeah. so that's what happened. they tried to stop her, but they couldn't. she's on stop bubble. she one. and i've always known that my mother was miss pamela. that you know, she's fabulous. 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, very 60 percent black country that was built by black people. why would anyone doubt that a black woman could represent the country? why is it panama that ice market into the world, the panama, that is to reflect the backs to the panamanians. why is it so light skin? why is it so rich? and most importantly,
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how did we get here the, the street exotic night? the street the most or throws in front of my nose. i caught them, but i most does need to be just by holy michel de la move head, veronica the you know, so don't know that i'm only been talking to right in the concept. the usa locust negate are looking on the last that no. so during the day and i'm on a supporter license to gamble for the course, i could be most into lady c on constant. the main thing was when i was
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little, i asked my mom, why come by here be blonde? the princess is on tv or blonde. 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 a bad. i'm like a mom on the the i don't want the one my name, you'll get the negative and i don't know what i can move across the lines that i got. oh okay. for people who felt like annoying. i mean made is what i'm a little putting me on the left for a mutual mental that represent that up on. i'm a plugin or do you know uh a so if they do with people the way, yes sir, they would, i mean the,
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i know you've got all the time, you know that can you, you must have got action by media. you know? yes. are you in there for the illegal? but are you going to assume? no. okay. we're not see the phone on me yet. they are the last on the yes. can you every person that ends up on my own composing to invest in a little bit here? so it give us that need to help them get us in by good idea what the study even mean or no. good afternoon by living 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 be long, a black people are part of the foundation of panama at one point africans under defendants. our number to your opinions,
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5 to one is a. so they need to think they think, look forward to seeing those as being the i see the link to the color. so you can see my goal is to then get stuff. i only did it by the 19th century, white fear of black uprisings, and that desire to establish regional support and unity lead to a campaign of presenting a non black image of panama to the world. but if i give it to the mom in their system, can do it by average. cindy and essentially the with the mental health via sports fans or to fund. i mean, you're saying do you think of a one day or 2010?
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what's the 1st census seems to 42 as individuals if they consider themselves black, but the pen of minion census is conducted by staff who canvass door to door and many effort panamanians claim that they were never asked the question number 8, and they don't represent echo will be over here, kind of mind, you know, what i mean? they represent the case. may you see? no, you see in the, in the bottom of it, but it's on us when we, i but it's an off the to byers this out. so can be able to, but i think i mean thing and completely so new, i don't know if i even know what the portfolio that's we have see that can see thing and place the around here. and there's a lot of trouble with beauty pageants,
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but that's another conversation. you know, it meant something that somebody from cologne or to buy that space that a woman from cologne, majority, black city, you know, my dirty black province. you know, her face on the screen, her face and then use papers that is important. you know, especially for people from the one the easy got no, no same team being before momentum. we're most you memphis it up again. yep. no point on being the super simple gonna eat, but i'm just looking at it as if we agreed. so you will see on the way when i'm head of more in the center, present the opposite side of a book local. you'll see the road. yes, i will if you like out you can. okay. so for a moment though. yeah, legacy felice. better got a little you know, since the motor,
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if you need me on the go to menu on who not to me. ok. i for them they can see, don't they? i put in the said, don't, don't the operating be a long the see i like, who's the c? i said in may that i said, corner name. so i can i see doughty, who gave you most of this. i represent them, me throwing c a and the ok, i think the new a 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 padges to use all the things between me and my mom because all my riots situation
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on my stones throwing woods. let's go. my husband will lose their job. so that's why i was just balancing the, the things i told the people that i want to see nadia. yeah, i'm not. yeah. i was led to the end to get but i think the a thing for then tell me little political they care the present time and go up there like the police. i could do them to pray, must be good to go the most in for the class. i forgot it though latin is to see the haines a come come with your gate up. i philip rollings. yeah. more. yeah. and i organize
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riley's and brought this thing filed with the rise of the people know we will, society for job opportunity for people we will fighting for, but advocation we will fighting for, but i have system good. you almost good for it out. good. well, you know, what am i a dot the will fuck and also the most, and you can one, might he know united, but the funeral be in is in face. it's another notion wrong to mind. quinta, i think what i mean to the panama is best known for the great inter ocean highway, the panama canal, the canals on the strip of land, extending 5 miles on either side of that can help is leased to the united states and is administered from the canal zone style by the
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my great grandfather on my mother's side came to panama in the early 20th century. he was one of a tens of thousands of black men who came from across the caribbean, looking for work in panama, in places like the canal or the railroad. the loan is a beautiful province, rich province in so many ways, culture, you're rich, it's also a port for the panama canal. the boat. if you want to the streets of cologne, you would see a lot of poverty. you would see me things that are falling apart that are not for people to live in, but people are living there. and you will see a city that has been a band and by the rest of the country, the i moved to the us when i
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finished high school. people's shocking to me, the most people in the west 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 us important didn't group policies into panama and create its separate leaving areas for white workers and black and brown workers. this clarified on type, black and segregation, as practices that had existed since and placed africans were 1st brought to panama degree american basis. and they put in place of with the american soldiers youth segregated from the rest of the group. so they create 2 separate. so the whole area was used for americans or the europeans white. they live in panama, and then the super for anything but what a
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good. okay. i didn't, i didn't know if somebody kind of came by them. i said all to the, i'm a i can see that clinical, so i think i'm gonna get you on way down to the end of the minute lesson is okay long. it's going to see him in the cloud items or the same as of the 7th. i'm, well, that's gonna be, i mean, does the, and the meeting k, obviously the supplemental the 3 months here before. now, if it's anything potentially set up in the composer, that's the ones you in those included, those are not exclusive. i mean that i sort of got a level here, negative guess f m c data is, is another thing that glassy a joyful. yeah. the closest you think the uh, the,
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the, the, the thing is not only believe that racism is, is from someone else to you is as you to yourself invest, i think is the most important thing that we need to work as black community is to work in embracing our blackness to make the you'd feel comfortable in their own skin. to let them say yes, i am black. what? the wild satellite from
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the in here comes the night of the miss. you live or it? i'm glue to my tv. i caught everybody a call in a family called loan. i said make sure to watch this. this is a so we we go to make is 3 because your is the 1st black woman that going to do this the 1st day on the list of 12. some i find list is miss scott. one, the semi final is number 2. is miss panama. what
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are this? a 4 with the lady i saw in the hands of the full phone was offered, you see bookcase as of one of the key, but i'm really lucky out of the agreement. i gave a letter that percent that they liked and made a 100 percent valid by them. uh, it will go to the us. and when they call floria to define the ice cream, i love the my mom to in when miss universe. but very few contestants from panama had made it to the top to us before. and for the people in cologne, who were watching for all the black people in panama. that was a major victory movie. ha, ha, ha, ha. yeah. yeah. uh huh. i get to a law. that's what i said in my brain is so part of the purchase of
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the gabby i'm which i had a good expert our main of it, but i could you already this article i'm on o. s b s the e s a for me bring some you to a she made history is heard me to my heart when she came from. so inquiry. yeah. i, you know, they didn't receive a good that was supposed to come in, take all around panama is, you know, she, she did something for us. what people we did. so when she returned to burn them or we saw the underlying problems of not given her, the recognition that other girl just had received. we
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had a group that was a work in the black community. one of the members just jumped in and said, hey, let's give her a car. when we did it, we had that car available and we'd have both a big, big boat to show that this is a gift of the black community to our queen. the yes, there is discrimination towards black people in this country just to see who are the ones that have benefit this most is not the false free of those that work. and that every day we have 5 more than that. give us the commission,
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the kind of menus become in the 1st black mist, panama of yes, it was a chase in the end. the whole is spectrum. and is the history only because you know, another little girl black letting me was to always she was most farnham, i could do it to all if she went to respond to me, i could be an attorney. all i could be a judge, whatever she wants to be. is she called dream to be the 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
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