{"id":54385,"date":"2017-07-05T22:21:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T22:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54385"},"modified":"2017-07-05T22:24:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T22:24:42","slug":"fighting-for-black-lives-in-colombia-the-people-do-not-give-up-damn-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54385","title":{"rendered":"Fighting for Black Lives in Colombia: \u2018The People Do Not Give Up, Damn It\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fighting for Black Lives in Colombia: \u2018The People Do Not Give Up, Damn It\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Root<\/a>
\n2017-07-01<\/p>\n

Lori S. Robinson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This story is the first in a three-part series looking at the fight for rights of black people in Colombia<\/a>. This first piece explores the history of Afro-Colombians<\/a> and the impact of the recently ended war with the FARC<\/a>. Subsequent stories will examine the current political environment.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Black activism started in Colombia<\/a> when Africans arrived in chains.<\/p>\n

Spaniards were early kingpins in the trans-Atlantic slave trade<\/a>, first importing kidnapped Africans into what was then New Granada<\/a> in the 1520s\u2014a century before the British brought this epic crime against humanity to North America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Concentrated along the country\u2019s Pacific coast, enslaved people were forced to do agricultural labor and, primarily, to mine gold. This region became majority black during colonial times. It still is…<\/p>\n

…Colombia never had legal segregation after slavery, like the United States<\/a>. The national narrative of Colombia, like most of Latin America<\/a>, has been that inequality is economic, not racial, and that significant racial mixing throughout the country\u2019s history proves that racism doesn\u2019t exist. According to Perea, Colombians have gone so far as to say that \u201cracism was solely an expression of North American culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the largest numbers of black Colombians have been isolated, abandoned by their own government, without educational or employment opportunities, living in poverty…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The national narrative of Colombia, like most of Latin America, has been that inequality is economic, not racial, and that significant racial mixing throughout the country\u2019s history proves that racism doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8,6940,23674],"tags":[25918,27203,1865,27202,3234],"class_list":["post-54385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-social-justice","tag-afro-colombians","tag-angel-perea","tag-colombia","tag-lori-s-robinson","tag-the-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54387,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54385\/revisions\/54387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}