Colombia Antirracista

The anti-racist approach explores the factors that aggravate the daily situation of Afro-Colombian, Palenquera and Raizal black women who were born in a racist country. It is a critical look, which invites us to see how racist practices are maintained over time, are reproduced with everyday language and go unnoticed, assuming as something normal in territorial and institutional cultural imaginaries.

Anti-racism is a social and political commitment that seeks to make evident the existence of racism as a modern system of oppression, to act on it and transform it until it reaches the radical defense of justice.

When we talk about the anti-racist approach, we refer to the foundations, methods, and critical position that evidence, analyze, and act to transform the ideology, patterns, discourse, and actions that justify and perpetuate power relations that distinguish between superior racialized beings and inferior racialized beings.

requires understanding the historical contexts that are redefining racism within the framework of the redefinitions of power relations that sustain inequality, discrimination, exclusion and denial of some beings over others, so the anti-racist approach must interrelate with anti-discrimination and oppression in all its forms.

The anti-racist approach also refers to the specific protection of individuals and peoples who have been historically affected by systems of racist oppression, exclusion and expulsion.

The anti-racist approach will protect for this case, the human dignity of women, girls and sexually diverse people of the black, Afro-descendant, Palenquero and Raizal people of Colombia, committing to the exposure and radical non-acceptance of racism and its historical, structural, institutional expressions. , everyday colloquials in the country, in a consistent systematic manner until it is normalized as a posture in thinking and acting and as an approach in the analysis and definitions of state and institutional policy. Until anti-racist thinking becomes a habit