the full weight of the law is more rigorously applied to black people. Those who administer justice do not adhere to the ethical standards of transparency and impartiality, but to the rules of discrimination. The proposal to deepen the analysis on racial problems and to enter into an agreement about them would be consistent with the current situation and reality in Cuba if, unprejudiced by the official ideology, the civil society and its institutions can have some space for
debating within a framework of rights and protection, respect and guarantees. It must be guarantee that those taking part in such a debate can do it from the perspective and the pride of their racial affiliation, or simply because, as Cubans, they feel the need to vindicate something still pending and that the hegemonic power pretends to continue ignoring: the emancipation, which inspired Afro-Cubans to contribute to the process of independence and to the abolition of slavery.
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