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‘I am not a racist’: Cubans debate prejudice against blacks FEATURE 02/16/2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010


‘I am not a racist’: Cubans debate prejudice against blacks


FEATURE

02/16/2010

HAVANA — Half a century after Fidel Castro’s revolution claimed to have done away with racism, Cubans are publicly debating a stubborn strain of discrimination and prejudice that associates blacks here with quarrels, crime, sex and rum.

“I am not racist, but I don’t want my daughter to have a black boyfriend. No way!” said Celia, a 52-year-old former teacher of mixed race. “When she became a young lady, I told her: ‘I married your father to go forward, not backwards.’”

Experts discussed the problem on local television for the first time just recently, but ordinary Cubans readily acknowledge that racism is pervasive in Cuba, a former Spanish colony and the destination of hundreds of African slaves.... MORE


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