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Saudis charge membership of the Legal Organization and excitement against israel. Those are the headlines needs. Continues herron al jazeera us off to witness. Ah, oh. Oh, oh me. I grew up with a black queen with she was my mom and she was also miss panama. With boy, oh, he was 1980 and she was the 1st black woman to ever when did miss panama concept . 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. My mom owns a shipping company. I used to work with her. And people would call and ask for the queen. Oh 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 like her company. And we like, i shipped a barrel with the queen. Ah, b, i local, who should they be usa in panama act, i mean, lowest in those or change the answer though, represent dollar form full on us. Even gun us. Less eat had they. But in santa e last e, as the sudan, or i see kate gloria kind of money this in a law he had the alien this cornel sheila ah, so its the night of the pageant and my mom looks beautiful. Shes wearing an amazing gown and the entire city of cologne, where shes from, everyones watching the pageant. She has the most amount of points, and hes clear to everyone that shes winning. But some people were not about to let that happen. A friend of my moms 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 cortisol in there for now . No say, explain. So no saw process thomas in order de la loca leader pretty. But under laws marquee yonder know, then we know that a lot more that i you, it, they joel it by the early mikey, your, kimberly had altima, e and may, but i wont, bo boerger your noise star. I to the end or lacking separate who does ego letter upon thee, nor toil, lacking separate wound up. Okay, your sail up and it wont tuck amy rocker. Its miss panama. In beauty pageants, contestants always get the questions in advance. Thats how it works. Thats 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, but a block are winning. The peasant officials the side that that night. For some reason, they want to add an extra question. Ah, a then of your own thought about the orders. Ether about the lotus a and senor carlo doogie yearly, so that but i wont back up seal saki left again the while i lay they can stand guinea, that kid believe a gala view. The disposal, say gassett concert amana 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 thats what i think they were thinking. And if i go of young body by him, which i took it down in a cool elevator, uniform, dental ally, daily go legal tally. Youll articulate pylee dog on the metal kwame lady here. No, no, they will not lay love you. I know said wic, a sour, also mana, i see get annoyed seat in england. Elise with whom 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 youre, youre gonna yeah, i so thats what happened. They tried to stop her, but they couldnt. She is unstoppable. She one. And ive always known that my mother was miss panama. That you know, shes fabulous. But now that im older, i realized that this isnt just a story about my mom. This is a story about my country. Why in a country that a 60 percent black i country that was built by black people . Why would anyone doubt that black women could represent the country . Why is the panama that hes marketed to the world, the panama . That is reflected back to the panamanians. Why its so light skin. Why is it so rich . And most importantly, how did we get here . Ah, and the street 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 blanca. Oh, you know, so dont know in that are more than 3 methodical directly. Northrop concept, although a usa look is neg, i look latha. No, so during the day and im or a support de la. So seymour or law goes like a bay most into lady c on constant. The main thing was when i was little, i asked my mom, why cant 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 didnt say anything else, but i understood that people like me were not on tv. I mama mama, either one of your finger lifting. I dont want the warmer, but im younger than a girl. I know what i can guess a line, greg. I dont or good, i will get myself annoyed. Im in a minute. Let me look what amy on the la cora mutual mental that represent that up on emma organ. O jean, our a saw are 30 people they were yes her there when i miss. Ah, i know. Got so many of them. You sound like a usa go garage and by living on gina, he is also not very illegal. But are you going us . You know, luca not su alona phenomena. There last are no good. You every person thought it up on my own conclusion. Elisa 8, give us a legal welcome. Gotcha. By yeah. Gina, i got huh. What does that even mean or not . I turned on by letting i, you know, so basically that means that youre out of place and this is what makes me angry. The idea that black people dont be long black people are part of the foundation of panama. At one point africans and their descendants. Outnumbered europeans, 5 to one is leaking in the think they think look a little auto see and this is gonna be the end of my life. I think coldwell dont need to see those annoying after i cannot this bloody so eat the leaking years of the month. Only both been stolen, good stuff. I dont it 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. Im going i sped by the gibberish mom and dad to send them what scandal, advice, average and b and b s inside the we have a low game mental had the wants the info to fund. I mean, yes. If you got one new, 2010 was the 1st census since the fortys to ask individuals if they consider themselves black, but the pen indian senses is conducted by staff who canvass, door to door and many effort panamanians claim that they were never asked the question on didnt bio panama . If they dont have an uncle gloria, im on you this nozzle. I mean they represent them. The low case bay. You see no d. C. Handle that wound or in panama . I bet on us. Or when you i bit of an alpha della co lord elliana to buy asap. So community, but i think i mean thing and couple yet. So new. I dont know what i i even know what they upward bulletin platter laddie. We have see that casey thing and vice ah, laurie is fine with brown hair and brown eyes. Theres a lot of trouble with beauty pageants, but thats another conversation. You know, it meant something that somebody from calon occupied that space that a woman from cologne, a majority, black, seedy in my jordy, black province. You know, her face on the screen, her face and the newspapers. That is important. You know, especially for people for ah, one no more yogurt. Im easy or no. No symptom of being before momentum. Were most you man fill it up again. Yeah. Law always ambia phone. That being love, it was in done for the muscle cloth that you left and instructed like all of them. Yeah. I know super, super good eat, but im still not as, as a gregory though. Yeah. Well see on they will now will head of mod enough. Is there a difference in the opposite of the book . What all youll get it as you gloria sal leone. If youre like out um you can. Okay. Have all momento, who your lady, phyllis, patrick alma . Not in the motor, if you leave, i meant it me on will your for job on im in the lab will not go long move and whole lot to me or k i for them. They get a c gone. They upper india said jo don, they are brandy a la la house, dcea le, whos d. C. I had sent a name that i said color name so i could and the daughter who gave emotion better represent their me growing sia isabel than among them. Um, i mean, and a mobile home for, i guess, has mechanical stuff all along with it. Good people say my moms 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, did things between me and my mom because all my ra yet situation on mine stand throwing words for good may how long loose or dark. So thats why i was just balancing the, the things at home none of them didnt. If i went the symbol, i want to see nadia. Yeah. Not. Yeah. I was on the to the end day care product our and then for the intel rural political they kinda, they brought it down and go to relying with lewis and the brewing 2nd didnt was your brain muscle, c, l, it . It will be a no c, m. Put it back up or radical latin is the see. Are they, la haynes a common come on your gate up at the level of things. Yeah. Laura. Yeah. And i organize rileys and brought this in 5 on the rise of the people we was fighting for job for 24 people. We will fight him for better location. We will fighting for Better Health system. Can he . Im ok for it out can go, you know, for a my acheed that the will pork and also there i more st deal going wrong model. He know youre not right, but if you know it will be in and well base it along nelson. I dont mind quinta, alec well, 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 can out is leased to the United States and is administered from the canal zone spell bow. Ah, a my great grandfather on my mothers 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. A loan is a beautiful province, rich province in so many ways culture, youre rich. Its also a port for the panama canal. Ah, both if you walk through the streets of cologne, you would see a lot of poverty. You would see buildings 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 abandoned by the rest of the country. Ah, i move 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 tinker policies into panama, and create its separate, leaving areas for white workers, and black and brown workers. This clarified 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 from the rest of the group. For the great 2 separate phone, the all area was used for americans order. You appear white. They live in panama, and then the super for any big but white a you could ok. I live that in. Not that many cannot combine on my said all sheila, no a i can see laquisha also, but i think im in the few on what im 200 meter glassing. If okay, long its gone, cnbc can in the can help you. Im glad id i me or both of them. I recently saw uncle wiggle, neck grabbing him into the front. Okay. Youre not going to balance them being k, i v a c t m a supplement alone. Goodbye. They took 3 months. Yeah. The formal, if it says anything branch, i set up a component. So if a demo with you in laws locals also allow exclusive i meant it. I said it can be lumpy, negarra, guess it up on. She did all that is easier and i said the glassy, joyful yan people. Yeah. Cause you, cynthia. A runners will nothing. The medical char ah, living is not only do believe that racism is, is from someone else to you is as so you to yourself, in that 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 youth feel comfortable in their own skin, to let them say yes, a young black and white. Ah, why via satellite one thought we are, but might 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 semi final as number 2 as miss panama humans, whether theres a 4 with gun alone or warrior. The lady i thought let boil a hand rafino boy phones off wendys, seaboard case as a warning. It came by my new york you out of the novel gallop mackey. A letter to present that they let the anita represent our panama. It will go. So when, when, when he read in, when they call gloria to define that ice cream, my long l. O. My mom did in when Miss Universe, but very few contestants from panama had made it to the top 12 before. And for the people in cologne, who were watching for all the black people in panama, that was a major victory. One movie her ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, bye good. They who . Ala, thats where i farrah my brain. Is hope all of you. The book is aaliyah gary m, which a hint then k s bill our may not get back to your regular circle, nominal russia. E s o for me when sammy into ah, she made history. It hurt me to my heart when she came from. So career. Im in a didnt 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 to panama, 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, lets give her a car. Well, we did it. We had that car available and when a bow, a big, big boat, the showed this is a gift of the black community to her queen. With peers, there is discrimination towards black people in this country just to see who are the ones that have benefited most this month. The offspring of those that were and did over there we are far more than that. Give us the recognition. Ah your dick, im a need to be common the 1st black miss panama of yes, it was a chase in the and the whole spectrum. And heres the history only because, you know, another little groat black line. Me with the always she was miss varnum. I could do it to, oh, if she went to miss one am i, i could be an attorney. I could be a george, whatever, but she wants to we is she called dream to be a 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 theyre 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. Every month youll have someone from home thatll say, oh please, i need my me for days with the economy and free full and children and spread around the world. How does the family survive in moderns improperly as to pull about full p pope your oil . Every spice, if anything, my new home, i just feel like im stretching myself. 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