The Downfall of Black Ethnicity

The Downfall of Black Ethnicity / Mackandal – Manuel Aguirre Lavarrere
Mackandal - Manuel Aguirre Lavarrere, Translator: Chabeli

The downfall of the black man's ethnicity is a phenomenon that is part
of universal history. In the Americas this ethnic downfall arose when
the African stopped being called African but Negro, as a result of the
slave trade.

Taboos against blacks and mestizos emerged precisely from the loss of
ethnic origins, which implies a constant discrimination that is
constantly being recreated.

Cuba is, perhaps, symbol of a failed abolition. Afro-Cubans are still
suffering the consequences of slavery and racism. In Cuba, the vice of
Socialism and its policies to turn the individual into a mass, lead to
the abolition of all rights and to the constant whitening the
individual's mentality.

If an ideological concept is assiduously systematized, as happens in
Cuba, and it is never separated from the social context, regardless of
the real aspirations of the citizens, it is clear that we are witnessing
an exclusionary political context that exclusively responds to the
interests of the only party.

Cuban socialism is founded on political and ideological exclusions. It
establishes differences between men because of their ways of thinking,
and it makes these differences stand out offensively. Cuban socialism
emphasizes not only political differences, but also differences based on
skin color.

This phenomenon of branding each other has existed, and it continues to
exist, within all structures of totalitarian power, where the weakest
ones are exposed to submissiveness, physical and mental abuse.

A society that truly fights prejudices and racism of all kinds is a
society that gives its citizens the opportunity to stand up for
themselves and be protagonists for change, without discriminating
against its citizens because of their skin colors or their ethnicities.

As long as this continues to happen, it will always be a stigma for our
nation and psychological shock with the individual human person. It will
always be the oppression of one over each other. It will provoke hatred
and fear towards differences. The country will be nothing more than a
mere reference.

Man must have the right to what he aspires, without having to take any
differences into account, but the fulfillment of his demands and respect
for his freedoms.

Translated by Chabeli

28 June 2012

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