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Uh... what the flip? What's up with the whole 'Negro' thing? Does this sound a bit racist?
Excuseme but first, It wasn`t a race riot, simplily because the problem wasn`t about race, It was social conflict due to tensions between americans (of any race) and panamenians (of any race too). The point here is that the problem was about an abuse and not about racial discrimination.
As a Panamanian I find this article inaccurate, non-neutral and completely based on one side of the conflict. In school we've been taught that the Americans started the incident, and the American pulled a gun when the vendor asked for the 10 cents, and the vendor never did pulled out a knife. I'd suggest a complete rewrite of this article with cited sources from both sides of the conflict, or deletion. -- ...RuineЯ| Chat... 19:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Just to confirm. The vendor actually put out a Machete. However, this was not on Panama City, Panama, as panama was just part of La Gran Colombia. Therefore it wasnt the panamanian goverment, but the Colombian one. —Preceding
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16:57, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Almost correct. Panama was a "department" of Nueva Granada (now Colombia). Gran Colombia was the union of Venezuela, Ecuador and Nueva Granada (Colombia), which included the Isthmus of Panama. This union was promoted by Simon Bolivar.
Some studies tell that the watermelon vendor, Mr. José Manuel Luna, was from Peru; according to these, he took out a knife indeed, not a machete. - - mcerrud ( talk) 19:01, 2 October 2008 (UTC)mcerrud
Nueva Granada/Colombia are still not mentioned anywhere in this article, but they should be. A casual reader might assume that Panama was independent at the time. I'd make the change, but this is the first I've heard of this event so I don't consider myself qualified to wade through it. Rwestera ( talk) 06:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
In what sense, except humorous, is this properly denominated as a "war"? Scholarly sources and the article itself pretty clearly refer to it as a "riot" which is precisely what it seems to be: some drunks get in a fight over a slice of watermelon and it got way out of hand before the big guns rolled up and ran everybody off. Sometimes I just don't get the people who edit Wikipedia but it's beyond my skill set to fix this problem. Perhaps some good soul will pick up the cause. Economy1 ( talk) 14:25, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
In addition to the one source listed in the article (Daley 1990), I'll include a few sources that should be helpful in improving the article:
Peloneous c 18:28, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
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Uh... what the flip? What's up with the whole 'Negro' thing? Does this sound a bit racist?
Excuseme but first, It wasn`t a race riot, simplily because the problem wasn`t about race, It was social conflict due to tensions between americans (of any race) and panamenians (of any race too). The point here is that the problem was about an abuse and not about racial discrimination.
As a Panamanian I find this article inaccurate, non-neutral and completely based on one side of the conflict. In school we've been taught that the Americans started the incident, and the American pulled a gun when the vendor asked for the 10 cents, and the vendor never did pulled out a knife. I'd suggest a complete rewrite of this article with cited sources from both sides of the conflict, or deletion. -- ...RuineЯ| Chat... 19:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Just to confirm. The vendor actually put out a Machete. However, this was not on Panama City, Panama, as panama was just part of La Gran Colombia. Therefore it wasnt the panamanian goverment, but the Colombian one. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
143.166.255.42 (
talk)
16:57, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Almost correct. Panama was a "department" of Nueva Granada (now Colombia). Gran Colombia was the union of Venezuela, Ecuador and Nueva Granada (Colombia), which included the Isthmus of Panama. This union was promoted by Simon Bolivar.
Some studies tell that the watermelon vendor, Mr. José Manuel Luna, was from Peru; according to these, he took out a knife indeed, not a machete. - - mcerrud ( talk) 19:01, 2 October 2008 (UTC)mcerrud
Nueva Granada/Colombia are still not mentioned anywhere in this article, but they should be. A casual reader might assume that Panama was independent at the time. I'd make the change, but this is the first I've heard of this event so I don't consider myself qualified to wade through it. Rwestera ( talk) 06:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
In what sense, except humorous, is this properly denominated as a "war"? Scholarly sources and the article itself pretty clearly refer to it as a "riot" which is precisely what it seems to be: some drunks get in a fight over a slice of watermelon and it got way out of hand before the big guns rolled up and ran everybody off. Sometimes I just don't get the people who edit Wikipedia but it's beyond my skill set to fix this problem. Perhaps some good soul will pick up the cause. Economy1 ( talk) 14:25, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
In addition to the one source listed in the article (Daley 1990), I'll include a few sources that should be helpful in improving the article:
Peloneous c 18:28, 21 October 2017 (UTC)