Kalimba reveals how he faces racism: ‘I heard a thousand times a nigger #% nigger’

One of the issues that have been on the table in Mexican society lately She is racist and discriminatory, condemning that at this point there are still people who marginalize others by the color of their skin, their origin, or their social class.

Given this, it was the singer Kalimba who spoke, since the musician and actor is part of the Afro-Mexican population. there was creative podcast Where the OV7 member talked about his career in the art world and also Address personal aspects, such as the way he deals with racism.

singer latin party He said it comes from Black family with pride. We hear the word ‘silly black’ a thousand times, because we were young.” He said that stressing his ethnicity was a recurring act, for example in his childhood, when other children were defeated in sports matches by Kalimba and his family.

“Almost all of my cousins ​​were athletes and when we got together to party at my uncle’s house we would go out to a little park downstairs Football and basketball challenges were held, and usually we were in control. So, the way they could hurt us when I say it in quotes, was to insult us because of our race,” the OV7 member’s brother also recalls. Ampalia Marechal.

However, not being afraid of discriminatory comments from people outside his family had something to do with Mainly because of the way his parents were brought up. This is emphasized:

“They taught me how proud I am and how beautiful our colour, our race, without belittling another race; Most of our parents (in their families) are black who married Mexican or white Latinas, Almost all of my aunts and mom are a bank, so he created us a completely different conscience. My cousins, children of black and white, were less of black and white children,” the music producer also highlighted.

“That’s why we have a completely different idea, you come to a place and ‘silly black’, yeah and you’re white and what’s going on?”

He also referred to the disqualification resorting to slavery, Taking the historical burden on this issue in the black race as a reference: “It’s so funny when someone comes to Mexico and says ‘damn slaves.’ It’s from: ‘I don’t think you’ve read your story.’ Most countries have an invasion, the United States was created from immigrants. We were slaves in Mexico when we were occupiedYes “.

Kalimba noted how wrong in his opinion it was to associate class, skin color, or origin with a particular activity, and called for stereotypes not to be perpetuated in society:

“In Mexico, we tend to insult the reality of many things, for example: ‘Pinche Indio, Pinche Negro’. We even talk about jobs. (…) If you say to someone: “You are a slave”, talk about how ignorant you are because you think my color is designed to do something; In my head the insult was to you, and it did not affect me,” he judged.

“In my personal life it has changed a lot, I have African and Cuban cousins ​​who lived through it. My close family comes from a black family with pride.”

Theatrical actor, too Joseph the dreamer He also spoke of other minorities who still suffer the scourge of discrimination today:

“We tend to reject everything we don’t understand, hence racism. The white race did not understand what it meant to be black, they believed that we had no soul, that it was a disease, and that there were many things. Today it happens with the LGBT community, and it happens with many other minorities, including how many years have gone by with manhood, To think that women were absolutely made for service, we rejected everything that we understood or understood,” concluded the artist.