racism

Co-author Emmanuel Guerisoli
The recent racist mass shooting in Buffalo has a global history preceding it. In fact, the terrorist’s “manifesto” praises Argentina on its first page, for its alleged racial situation.

We recall that the struggle for ethnicity reveals a racist past deeply in tune with the Eurocentric eugenic discourse that blinds us to a multiplicity of minorities.

“This Committee will not rest until it sees behind bars these human beasts (Western-Indians) unworthy of being called citizens; settlers who bite the hand of this land (East) that opens its arms to them to get them out of poverty, and they will pay for this affront”. These were the words of Romulo Calvo, the president of the pro-Santa Cruz civic committee.