Mexico, specialist denounce racist discourses seek to gain ground in different areas of society

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*Academics warn Afro-descendant peoples must continue to fight for the recognition of their rights *Colloquiums seeks to develop critical analysis that goes beyond the academic debate *Presence of Afro-descendant peoples must be demanded in all areas *Experts indicate there are at least 134 million people of African descent in Latin America

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00:00In Mexico, during the 16th International Afro-Indo-American Colloquium, specialists denounced the fact

00:06that racism seeks to gain recognition in various spheres, including politics.

00:10Let's see.

00:14Donald Trump's electoral triumph in the United States is a clear example of how racist

00:19discourse is gaining ground in terms of social acceptance, says this specialist.

00:27The rise of Donald Trump to the presidency creates a lot of questions, I think, for both

00:31the right and the left.

00:43Racism is gaining ground, as Durbin told us in 2001, how we see it as an important revival

00:49of the strengthening of hate speeches with a racist patriarchal harassment.

00:53The legitimization of these speeches and racist practices both in the political, media

00:57and cultural spheres.

01:05During the 16th International Colloquium on Afro-Indo-America, held at the Metropolitan

01:10Autonomous University, Iztapalapa unit, academics warned that historically subjugated Afro-descended

01:16peoples must continue to struggle for the recognition of their rights.

01:22Restorative justice, climate justice, digital justice.

01:31We go with these three key demands as a key anti-racist paradigm with historical reparation

01:36at its core.

01:41The colloquium on African-American people seeks to develop a critical panorama that

01:46goes beyond the academic debate and materializes in social actions.

01:53I feel that these types of spaces are extremely important because they generate reflections

01:58and because it is directly a call to action so that from the academic world we can also

02:04think about how to face these social problems that contribute to the perpetuation of practices

02:10that end up generating these social inequalities.

02:18The presence of Afro-descended peoples must be manifested in all areas to avoid the invisibility

02:24of their important contributions to Latin American culture.

02:30Through the invisibilization of these populations, bad practices are perpetuated.

02:42I believe that an important theme to visualize these populations is precisely to insist on

02:46the cultural presence in all aspects of these populations, in the different Latin American

02:56countries and in general in America, in all of America, from the north to the south.

03:06In Latin America, there are an estimated 134 million people of African descent, representing

03:1220 percent of the region's total population, most of them living in poverty or vulnerability.

03:23In addition to the ongoing struggle against racism, Afro-descended peoples seek to discuss

03:28new demands such as climate justice, Afrofeminism, and human and labor rights.

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