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Comment on Motto of “We’ll Try”….is not good enough for Fall River by Ric Oliveira

Ric Oliveira — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:14:30 +0000

thanks for posting! All motto’s are welcome to be aired here!

Comment on Motto of “We’ll Try”….is not good enough for Fall River by RRB

RRB — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:01:16 +0000

” Hard work & charity are the virtues we live by “

Comment on Carnaval explodes in color by Ojornal Staff

Ojornal Staff — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:41:29 +0000

See you there next year

Comment on What we, Azoreans have known! by Ric Oliveira

Ric Oliveira — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:56:24 +0000

Hi Frank, Agreed! the level of African blood in the Azores is less than other parts of Portugal but the studies themselves are also deceiving as they have measured the DNA of those still currently on the islands and less studies have been conducted in the totality of the diaspora, which seems pretty impossible as well.
However, there were sugar canes in Sao Miguel, just little evidence of slave trade.
The Azores, Sao Miguel, lead the charge in being the first to outlaw slavery. But historically speaking there are many ship manifests which show a large number of missing slaves who docked in Sao Miguel. Not all of those slaves were Indian or European indentured servants and it seems there may have been some practice of looting human cargo. That said, I understand your point of view but just felt African covered all Africans.

Comment on What we, Azoreans have known! by Frank

Frank — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:11:46 +0000

Ric, when you say Africans populated the Azores, I think that needs to be clarified. The Africans were actually north Africans berbers or Moors, which is quite different than Sub saharan black africans. The Azores unlike Madeira and the Canaries did not have a sugar industry thus no need to import slaves as they did. DNA studies show the Azores as having one of the lowest amount of African genes in all of Portugal something like 3.1 compared to 11 in Madeira and up to 18 in certain parts of southern Portugal. This is all documented. If there is any more documented history on azorean ancestry i would love to hear about it.

Comment on Workshops to train Portuguese speakers to run for office by Frank

Frank — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:03:12 +0000

When is MAPS going to wake up and realize there is no Portuguese-speaking community? No Brazilian would vote for either a Cape Verdean or Portuguese for office or vice versa. Let’s help the Portuguese community get into office as we are an established group here in Massachusetts and let the other Portuguese speaking communities take care of themselves.

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Comment on Whitney Houston, superstar, Dead at 48 by Ojornal Staff

Ojornal Staff — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:09:38 +0000

So sad, I loved her so much. I fell in love with a young woman on Cape Cod to the “Bodyguard” song. We moved apart and I still love her and miss her so much.
Her name was Cathy and she was from Falmouth, and we moved to Maine and I had to leave to find a job and had to move. She was wonderful and whenever I hear that song I think of her and all our love.

Comment on Republicans want to deny child tax credit to illegal immigrants by Mike