E-Newsletter [October 2022]

BY CARMEN ROBLES

NATIONAL HISPANIC

HERITAGEMONTH SEPTEMBER15TOOCTOBER15

With both Jamaican and Cuban roots, Al McFarlane is definitely an Afrodescendiente, aka Afro-Latino. A descendants of African peoples regulated to Latin American countries who: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Were forcibly dispossessed of their homeland,Africa.

Were transported to the Americas and Slavery Diaspora for the purpose of enslavement. Weresubjectedtoslavery. Were subjected to forced mixed breeding andrape. Haveexperienced,throughforce,thelossof mothertongue,culture,andreligion. And/or have experienced racial discrimination due to lost ties or partially losttiesfromtheiroriginalidentity.

In this 21st century Afrodescendants are experiencing Ethnogenesis, the reestablishment of the mind or the “Resurrection” of a people who have lost the identity of ‘Self’ due to 400 years of “Slavery. McFarlanemakesthisthemethe foundation of his multi-media platforms. His office/studio Marcus Garvey House bears the name of Marcus Moziah Garvey, a Black leader from Jamaica who organized the first important American Black nationalist movement (1919–26), basedinNewYorkCity’sHarlem.

Conversaciones de Salud, an off shoot of Conversations with Al McFarlane, celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2022 by sharing an interview with Al McFarlane conducted by The HistoryMakers on June 20,2018.

Interview: “Media executive Al McFarlane wasbornonSeptember15,1947,inKansas City, Kansas. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1965 to 1966, and the University of Minnesota School of Journalism from 1969 to 1971and graduated from there with his B.A. degree inmasscommunications

2022HISPANICHERITAGEMONTHSalutesAlMcFarlanemediapioneer AlMcFarlane

McFarlaneworkedasareporterfortheSaintPaul

Pioneer Press before moving to General Mills where he worked as the community relations coordinator from 1971 to 1972. He then was hired by the Midwest Public Relations division of GraphicServicesasvicepresident,apositionhe held from 1973 to 1976. In 1974, McFarlane became editor-in-chief at Insight News, a community newspaper serving African and AfricanAmericanresidentsofMinnesota.Healso established McFarlane Media Interests, Inc., a multimedia marketing and information services firm with newspaper, internet and broadcast properties. McFarlane purchased the rights to InsightNewsin1975.

In 1992, McFarlane served as chairman at Minnesota Multicultural Media Consortium, a marketing and advertising sales advisory for Minnesota African & African American, Hispanic, AsianandNativeAmericannewspapers.Healso was named president of the Black Publishers Coalition,whichmanagedregionalandnational advertising contracts for Black newspapers and the member group of print media investorowners in Chicago, Toledo, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Minnesota. In 1996, he organized ethnic newspaper owners in the formation of the MinnesotaMinorityMediaCoalition.

In 1997, Insight News initiated a series of public policy forums, “Conversations with Al McFarlane.” McFarlane served as host of the series that aired in partnership with the community radio stations KFAI and KMOJ, in Minneapolis. In 2002, McFarlane worked as president and CEO at Midwest Black Publishers Coalition, Inc. In 2010, McFarlane won a Federal American Recovery and Restoration Act grant that provided the University of Minnesota a $3.7 million grant to create public computing centers in targeted ethnic and urban communities to increase broadband access and awareness. McFarlane also launched Garth McFarlane & Mudd, LLC, a national media buying and promotion firm in 2011. McFarlane was also elected chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation Board of Directorsfrom2015to2017.

AlandhiswifeBobbieP.FordMcFarlanehave fiveadultchildren.”

1822...BICENTENARYOFTHE

REPUBLICOFBORICUAN...2022

PostbyBORICUAZOShardbyCarlosJiménezFlores,CarolinaPuertoRico

PUERTORICAN, YOU MOST PROBABLY NEVER BEEN TOLD ABOUT THIS. During the 19th century (the 1800's) there were attempts to "liberate Puerto Rico from the Spanish yoke", bothfromtheINSIDEofthecountry,andfrom theOUTSIDE.Thereisaratherunknownevent in our history (if not totally) that occurred exactly 200 years ago, (1822) and is importantinourhistoryasapeoplebecause itconstitutesoneofthefirstseriousattempts toindependencePuertoRicofromSpainfrom THEOUTSIDE.

The protagonist was a German warrior (otherssayhewasFrenchandothers,Swiss) namedHENRILOUISVILLAUME(LuisGuillermo Lafayette) DUCOUDRAY HOLSTEIN who had foughtalongsideNapoleon'stroopsandtime later,alongsideSimonBolivar.

In late 1821, some citizens, traders of Puerto Rico and other people convinced him to participate in a revolution against the Spanish authorities of Puerto Rico, apparently with the support of the United Statesgovernment,organizedI'mgettingan invasion from NY. (United States moving chipsbehindthescenesDumbass)

In Puerto Rico I had an ally named PEDRO DUBOIS (a native of Guadalupe and resident of Naguabo) who was in charge of getting BORICUAS (that's how these foreigners identified us at that time) to join the cause. DUBOIS entrusted the plan to a French resident in Fajardo who reported it to the authorities and led to the Spanish mobilizationinternationallytofailtheplan.

General slave uprising planned black across the country. The plan envisioned an invasion that would be given by AGUADA and PONCE and proclaim an independentstatecalled,theREPUBLICOFBORICUA,with anewCapitalCity...YOMES.

ThisnarrateshistorianHectorAndrésNegroni:"Withthe reverberating title of GENERAL IN CHIEF OF THE REPUBLIC OF BORICUAN OF PUERTO RICO, Ducoudray Holstein managed to assemble an expedition of 27 ships, 600 men and 10,000 rifles" (other sources give other numbers) ... "While perches were gathered for the invasion, the mulatto PEDRO DUBOIS was actively engagedinpromotingtheinsurgencyintheeasternpart ofthecountry."

This narrates historian J.L. Vivas Maldonado: "The failed revolutionaries,however,hadgivenPuertoRicanhistory its first "Proclamation of Independence". The document circulated in 1821 Pedro Dubois and Pedro Brignet from Naguabo, offered Puerto Ricans the creation of the REPUBLIC OF BORICUAN, with a constitution where guaranteed the establishment of the 3 basic powers: legislative, ju dicial and executive; free trade and the equalityofallbeforethelaw"

ThisnarrateshistorianHectorAndrésNegroni:"InPuerto Rico a raid of heads was carried out and after a summarytrialtheywereexecutedonthewallthatsame year. "

Boats stocked up? a hundred men? General in Chief? Thousands of rifles? invasion by Aguada and Ponce? Capital Mayagüez? Mass slave uprising? Declaration of independence? Do they arrest big heads? are they shooting them at el morro? ... WHAT ABOUT US? I HAVE NOIDEA! 1822 ... BICENTENARY OF THE REPUBLIC OF BORICUAN... 2022