society has the moral obligation to live up a structured conversation on this issue every day and in every possible space. Racism remains as a social punishment and there are many stories of lives marked by such a pain. The State keeps on losing opportunities for discussing the topic in the public sphere. It also ignores the recommendations from March 2011 by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination( CERD). Through the lens power, it becomes further away the possibility of being radical before the urgency to publicly discuss something that can help define the immediate future of the Cuban society in a very hostile environment marked by inequalities, where the black population continues to be the most vulnerable sector. Both the National Conference of the Communist Party( 28-29 January 2012) as its VII Congress( 16-19 April 2016) sidestepped the demands of the civil society regarding the need of a national action plan against racism, which is a common proposal for various citizen platforms, including CIR, the Negritude Brotherhood, the Afro Cuban Collective, and the Racial Unity Alliance. The CIR civic activism is placing the racial issues in the public sphere and it opens thusly the possibility of reinvigorating the struggle for integration. We must show and prove that skin pigmentation is not, by nature, a cause for denying the social, economic and political progress of both men and women disinherited by history and society.
The facilitators ยด networks must strengthen the communities through a participatory pedagogy, and also must be able to translate, interpret, recognize, understand and manage the situations of racism. The dialogue is not only urgent. It must be also systematic, as both racism and discrimination are elements of violence rooted in Cuban society. In both the private and the public spheres, the masks of miscegenation and affection never cease to remind people of African descent that they are black. The building of stereotypes and prejudices is part of the logistics for operating racism as an armored unit of silence and intolerance. Along with the traps of poverty and inequality, the technology of demobilization marks the lives of many people. Among them, the African descendants bear the brunt.
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