establishes and deepens important keys about the diverse Afro-Cuban religious beliefs. For closing the workshop, an artist of Spoken Word, Andrei Mendoza Mira, a. k. a. Papa Goza, from the project Di.
Verso, which is also encouraged by the CIR, brought excitement to the dialogue with the song It’ s a phrase. The lyrics denounces racism and simultaneously enhances the self-esteem of the black subject.
Listen to the phrase Then they say you’ re angry, and you become black Then they say you’ re black, and you get angry John Doe does not advance because he thinks like a black! The White has a brain and the Black has only a dick Excuse me for the phrase, thereafter I get angry if I they say I’ m black, But I get blacker when I am really angry because of something The White had brain to enslave the blacks And there are still dogs biting black flesh. That’ s why I get angry, don’ t you see that I am becoming blacker? And it ' s not because they say I’ m black that I get angry Go see in the penitentiaries how blacks and whites are, Paying in confinement a past mistake And there, if they get angry, the white and blacks boys, They will be treated like dogs and they will be equal, Because those who had betrayed are no longer blacks or whites. Dark skin is inmate; clearer skin is only a convicted. Thus, I feel angry, so that they can see I ' m black And I compare some place in Cerro with The Beach or Vedado, And Siboney or Jaimanitas with The Cuevita or Guanabo, And you will see that the black resides where the white has left from, But I ' m still black, and woe betide the person who gets angry. If they find it annoying, I’ m glad; I’ m black, but not lazy I defend what I do, I hold on to my dark skin, And they can call me nigger, and I will never get angry. It is just a phrase
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