•
76% of afrocolombians live in poverty.
• 42% don't have a job.
• Only 2 of 100 afrocolombians go to college.
• Only 2 of 100 afrocolombians go to college.
These
are some of the facts that this video shows us...
"Q: Where does the idea of this film
begin?
A: I wanted to make a film
about respecting our differences, how it’s important to respect the right
to be different and think differently. I also
wanted to explore what happens when there is no
respect for our differences-- the violence that
surges and wounds that occur when these
differences are not honored.
During the first part of my research I walked the streets of Caracas.
Caracas is a violent city. But it wasn’t about gun
violence. It was about tiny offenses that occur
everyday and how these seemingly insignificant assaults—a look, a
gesture, and a word—can
wound."
Based
on Mariana Rendo's answer, I can say that she wouldn't think that what shows
this video is right because she said: "(It's) just like racism. We are
allegedly a very open society and there is a lot of talk about homosexuality.
But concretely, there is no civil right protecting gays, there is no progress.
It’s just a discourse with words." And we can apply this to racism against
afrocolombians because they aren't receiving the same as the rest.
Personally
I thik that we can see the "priorities" that other have in all the
facts that this video showed us. For example the one that said that the rate of
illiteracy of afrocolombians are three times bigger than the rest.
Afrocolombians
are a huge part of Colombia's population since Colombia is considered to have
the fourth largest Black/African-descent population in the western hemisphere, following Haiti, Brazil and the USA.
We have a lot notable Afro-Colombians, these include Colombian scientists like Raul Cuero, writers like Manuel Zapata Oliverlla and politicians: Piedad Córdoba, Paula Moreno Zapata, and Luis Gilberto Murillo, Miss Colombia 2001 winner and fashion model Vanessa Alexandra Mendoza Bustos, first Olympic gold medal winner for the country Maria Isabel Urrutia, Major League Baseball player Edgar Rentería and the wonderkid/football player Eder Alvarez Balanta.
