got probation and my brother was transferred to Combinado Sur Prison . It hurt and hurts the way I was removed from sports , music and school , as well as from my partner , friends and family . Nine years have passed and the wound is still open . An impulse of denunciation appears in every song , whatever the subject I address , and my disagreement with injustice is always there , waiting to really commit , over and over again , a contempt or a public disorder . I write again and again about it , because I remember it , because I am still living it .
* This term is used in Cuba to call people with white skin and crimped hair .
A Very Short Poetry Book
Plus-Pain Inspired by Harmony : The Plus-Pain ( 1935 ) by Gustavo E . Urrutia ( 1881-1958 )
My skin is the incarnation surface of the punished person , Prison , insane asylum , hospital , enslaved regime , Policy that dominates and discriminates against the homeless , Excluded , persecuted , suffered and marginalized .
Control mechanism , territorial surveillance , Brutal arrogance , spiritual conquest , Forced to abandon practices and customs , Thusly the imperial mask operated on the summit .
If the king can put to death , racism can kill , A murder that the white judge will later justify , Although it is an obligation of the state and its welfare , that the people become a social hygiene .
The shepherd neither bully nor paint a color of bar , The shepherd is modernized without oppressing his sheep , He guarantees , benefits , reviews , even if it is complex , His flock of militias and always moves away from the damage .
But in my Cuban land there are prejudices of colors , A plus-pain of Gustavo Urrutia and blacks with their pains , There is white what does not look black and there are values That went to where the rays of sun do not reach .
Land of my grandfathers , slaves of white masters , Land of the mayoral with the whip in his hands , Land that during the colony prayed to its African gods , So that today Afro-Cubans do not suffer .
The IQ , the weight of the brain , The angle of the nose , the discontent of a people , The size of the sex organ , skin color , being treated as a dog , Altitude of the cheekbones , you can see that it is a black .
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