The Phrases of frocolombianidad Are aimed at the identity and the ethnic, material and immaterial contributions by those Colombians descendants of Africa.
This identity construction is part of the daily reality of Colombians and includes a series of values such as: historical or ethnic rights of citizens, territorial heritage, political and ethical project, etc.
Below, I leave you a list of quotes on Afro-Colombianism from the main historical and political representatives of Colombia.
You might also be interested in this link to Gabriel Garcia Marquez , One of the most outstanding Colombian writers in history.
Top 23 phrases about afrocolombianidad
1-"Afro-Colombians have a truly effective weapon: the smile!".
2-"When an Afro-Colombian speaks to me I do not look at the color of his skin, but the color of his feelings."
3-"There are no races, the only race that exists is the human race."
4-"My black skin is not a badge of shame, it is a glorious symbol of national greatness."
5-"Negritudes are the fundamental basis of culture in Colombian society."
6-"Without black there is no flavor, as the song says".
7-"No one is born hating another person for the color of their skin".
8-"I am the dream and the hope of the slave."
9-"The culture of the black, racisal, Afro-Colombian and Palenqueras communities is considered as a fundamental pillar for the social, cultural and economic development of the nation. It is important to strengthen the participation of society by eradicating discrimination and racism. These commemorations imply many challenges of social inclusion for these peoples, and culture is a powerful mechanism to achieve this."- Moisés Medrano, Director of Populations of the Ministry of Culture.
10-"If the path provided by the 1991 Constitution is correct, and it is, it is relevant to think what it means to ignore history, referents, data, figures and not have a collective memory of one of the most significant foundations of The Colombian society and its black communities. Which have a series of cultural manifestations that have preserved through generations and have allowed them to cement the multiethnic and multicultural nation."- Moisés Medrano.
11-"The memories of enslavement are the memories of abolition, resistance, dignity, ancestry, culture, territory, citizenship and its history. This memory that contributes to create opportunities, already foreseen in the national legal system and distant from many of the black, racisal, Afro-Colombian and Palenqueras communities."
12-"To be Afro means to have part of a universal legacy that must be known, transmitted, divulged, respected... for being different and at the same time unique."- Alfredo Vanín.
13-"Words carry an ideology, a meaning beyond the semantic. Words that denote a false inferiority are often used. That is, they pronounce and deeply hurt the self-esteem of the people who suffer them."- Alfredo Vanín on the adjectives used against Afro-Colombians.
14-"Satan is black, the different, the beast, which must be mastered, and these meanings have been reproduced in an uninterrupted way over the centuries,"he says. The idea is that we begin to reflect on that, let us realize that it is not possible to perpetually condemn or demonize a human group only because in a period of humanity, European expansion decided that it had to be done."- Alfredo Vanín.
15-"He always goes to say"black"as something disastrous or bad. So the task remains to give new meaning to words. For example, the word"black"did not exist in Africa. Therefore, no people of the world has been called"black". That is a term that put the colonizer, the trafficker."- Alfredo Vanín.
16-"Pigmentocracy is a misconception of colonization. African traffickers found themselves in Africa with worlds sometimes superior to the civilizations they knew. But to justify ethnocide they had to disclose the supposed inferiority of the Negro, and degrade it."- Alfredo Vanín.
17-"We the weaned daughters of Africa are giving birth to our stepmother America."- María Suárez Rivero and Chabela Ramírez Abella.
20-"I can hardly speak of Afro-descendants because I mean my black compatriots without any discrimination in the soul, without the need for a single brand. Perhaps, for the reason that I grew up in an area of Antioquia bordering the Chocó, where we alternated with each other without feeling differences with endearing, mutual affection. Perhaps, because there I grew up watching my countrymen Antioquenos and coffee growers, fishermen, merchants, Chocoan miners without any notice of differences. Perhaps, because I always heard the beautiful story in my elders about the great-grandfather of co-founder of Quibdo. Perhaps, because I had to get to know one of the biggest frauds that have been made to the nation when the foreign gold and platinum mining companies withdrew and left pensioners and workers in Chocó with the pension charges." - Álvaro Uribe Velez, former president of Colombia.
21-"We want Colombia to be a country free of any type of discrimination, guaranteeing equal treatment for Afro-Colombians and for all communities."- Juan Manuel Santos.
22-"Positive discrimination is still discrimination! It's in the name!".- David Osorio.
23-"Celebrating Afro-Colombianism is celebrating the end of slavery as a way of recognizing ourselves as a people in the nation and also recognizing our heroes of the country."- Jesús Agualimpia, editor of the newspaper 21st Century Pacific .
References
- (2011). National Afro-Colombian Day: to be black is to be Colombian. 4-3-2017, retrieved from eluniversal.com.co.
- District Secretary for Women. (2015). May 21 National Afro-Colombian Day. 4-3-2017, retrieved from sdmujer.gov.co.
- Osorio, D. (2011). Happy? National Day of Afro-Colombianity. 4-3-2017, recovered from deavanzada.blogspot.com.
- Agualimpia, J. (2014). Why May 21 is Afro-Colombian Day? 4-3-2017, retrieved from lamanoamiga.com.co.
- Virtual Center of News of the education. (2007). Words of President Uribe in Afro-Colombian days. 4-3-2017, from mineducacion.gov.co.