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As a child, racial prejudice or racism was never discussed in the family, because this topic was seen as taboo throughout society, although my mother had suffered from it basically in silence for many years, through gestures, phrases, opinions and criticisms. denigrating towards their black person or people or through racist jokes that continue to be welcomed and sadly celebrated even by black people themselves to this day with absolute naturalness...
Then I had to grow up to face the same prejudices and racial discrimination that my mother had suffered and unfortunately discover that these manifestations of racism are seen among many Cubans, whether black or not, as something very “normal”; so it helps you understand why it is "normal" for a police officer, whether white or black, to stop you more often than white people to check your ID since you are the only black individual (suspect) in in the middle of the street, in a taxi, on a train or on a bus.
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