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Cardi B has come up with a funny way to commemorate Cinco de Mayo by showing off her impressive dance talents. She has also made fun of her alleged Mexican ancestry.
Every year on May 5, Mexicans celebrate Cinco de Mayo to commemorate their victory at the Battle of Puebla in 1862 over the Second French Empire.
The rapper from the Bronx shared a video on Twitter in celebration of this festival in which she performs to a remix of the well-known Mexican song “La Chona.”
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“HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO you filthy Americans !!!!!,” she wrote in the post’s caption.
Following her post, a fan commented that she was “never beating the Mexican allegations,” to which she responded and pointed out that since it had already been alleged that she was Mexican, she should “embrace” her roots.
“I mean they claim I’m Mexican… I might as well embrace my new nationality lol,” she wrote in a since-deleted tweet. In reality, however, the rapper has Dominican and Trinidadian roots.
Cinco de Mayo is a yearly celebration held on May 5 to celebrate Mexico’s victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, led by General Ignacio Zaragoza.
A stronger French force ultimately destroyed the Mexican army at the Second war of Puebla and captured Mexico City. Zaragoza passed away from illness a few months after the war.
However, after the American Civil War ended in 1865, the United States started providing money and weapons to the liberals in Mexico, putting France and the conservatives in Mexico on the verge of defeat.
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French forces will be withdrawn from Mexico, Napoleon III declared at the opening of the French parliament in January 1866.
The American secretary of state, William H. Seward, responded to a French call for American neutrality by stating that French disengagement from Mexico should be complete.
