Black Pallbearers Indicate Ingrained Racism in Peru | USA on Race
This is a sad but very true story; the reason the Census does not "take names" and justify that by saying there are not many blacks is because they are not recognized as an ethnic group or otherwise they would have rights. Meanwhile, Latin people strive to marry "lighter and lighter" as a process of striving for European-like whiteness.
Venezuela's late president, Hugo Chavez, was strongly against these types of apartheid racist practices. Because of his stamina in vigilance and beliefs that all Venezuelans and Latin Americans should not be discriminated against, the policy makers revised the Constitution to that effect. This act gave the Afro Venezuelans the right to be Afro Venezuelans - with a legal identity as an ethnic group who could legally protest wrongs done to them.
This is a sad but very true story; the reason the Census does not "take names" and justify that by saying there are not many blacks is because they are not recognized as an ethnic group or otherwise they would have rights. Meanwhile, Latin people strive to marry "lighter and lighter" as a process of striving for European-like whiteness.
Venezuela's late president, Hugo Chavez, was strongly against these types of apartheid racist practices. Because of his stamina in vigilance and beliefs that all Venezuelans and Latin Americans should not be discriminated against, the policy makers revised the Constitution to that effect. This act gave the Afro Venezuelans the right to be Afro Venezuelans - with a legal identity as an ethnic group who could legally protest wrongs done to them.
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