What does being black in Puerto Rico ? . Wednesday March 26, 2014 12:48 Raymond Gomez Hits: 56 Section: Themes - Email Policy . print PDF . Being black in Puerto Rico means to be ugly , vulgar, dirty, smelly, irresponsible , crude , unreliable, awkward ... equivalent to being unable to do even simple things done well. That the only thing they serve is to make raw labor under the sun, where you need to push hard , as long as it does not require much thinking. Perhaps the least bad of the cases used to play some sports that primarily require ordinary skill or physical prowess. Or maybe dancing or playing bomba, plena or any other kind of tropical music. That is what it means to be black in Puerto Rico ... for some people. But for us, no doubt, means the opposite. Being black in Puerto Rico equals the antithesis of all the above. How many times have we heard ? The black if not done entry, makes the output has bad hair and nose of black , Many blacks together, gives warmth , At the moment it got dark , Youre doing black thing , The black strip pal always mount , You have to improve the breed . Who can forget the images of dehumanizing degrading treatment suffered by Haitian brothers at Fort Allen in Juana Diaz in the fateful year 1982 . Or the treatment given to our immediate neighbors who live across the Mona Passage , locking in the Detention Center in the former Ramey Base Aguadilla . Compare the difference in treatment both with which, in contrast , are Cuban refugees , for whom it was created special laws with preferential treatment. Hidden racism for political pretexts , which can not be justified , but choose them, before exposing the real reasons . If something everyday is preferred , consider the jokes and tasteless comments that are made against the Dominicans, for involuntary reasons that arrive on our shores at risk of losing their lives. They forget that in the past were the Puerto Ricans who crossed the Channel for similar reasons. Some argue that it is not racism and other cultural condition that causes us to reject anything that is foreign. Again , we see racism is disguised to be confused with acute and widespread xenophobia. So why then did not hear jokes and comments with the same racial connotations of other foreign groups that live with us here? It turns out that things sometimes are more equal for some than for others. But luckily , following the activities of Sunday, March 23 last , in Aguadilla , Humacao , Loiza , Mayagüez , Ponce, San Juan and Barrio February 27 Board of Loma del Chivo in the Dominican Republic , where in addition demand the immediate and unconditional release of Oscar López Rivera Puerto Rican brother , we were able to celebrate the first day of free enslaved people after the abolition of slavery 141 years ago . Here in this historic event on Sunday showed that while our ancestors were uprooted from their land , uprooted from their homes and separated from their haunts , and after centuries of social , economic and development opportunities disadvantage , are and always will be a race of unbreakable spirit . We learned that the nefarious behavior by a repeated - consciously or unconsciously - against others who do not have the same level of pigmentation in the skin, produces debacle of spirit and moral both the victim as well as victimizer . It does not matter that we obviously we assume black or black , the definition of who we are and be the decision lies with us. That positions are always from our perspective, in our view , not from the other. To be black in Puerto Rico means just that ... BEING BLACK . - See more at: elpostantillano/politica/9655-raymond-gomez.html # sthash.LUDSuqVP.cl9szf0Z.dpuf
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