How to read black history

An African tradition says that as long as the lions do not know how to write, the stories will benefit the hunters; and that would be the problem with blacks in the Americas, that their history has not been written by them. This is not to say that this has been done with bad intention, but that it has at least been done without understanding them; that would be the need throughout the last contradictions, which plunge blacks with other problems; like those of the political contradiction, in which the forces that clashed after the IIWW in the West still struggle.

In this sense, the blacks' vindication would have been assumed by Western liberalism; but as a cause and explanation of his own problems, to which it attributes universal value in his Eurocentrism. Even behind Frantz Fanon's speech of Blackness, beats French revolutionary rationalism; the only case of a genuine search for identity of its own by the blacks in the Caribbean, was that the Rastafari movement; which known for its unbridled political apathy, suffered repression in Cuba for that independence.

The other case, like that of black Cubans, was subordinate to that of the revolution; with a contradictoryly white leader, in a racist tradition like its white Creole culture. The most prominent figure of that movement, Don Walterio Carbonell, allied to its elites, was brutally repressed; even if he has the dubious merit of that subordination, explaining the black story according to the Leninist discourse of the revolutionaries.

The Leninist prism imposed by Carbonell came from Russia and was unaware of the reality of black people; like the Marxism it modified, it was due to the revolutionary effervescence that gave rise to it in the excesses of the monarchy. That is what change a political figure like Morúa Delgado, who came to head the democratic body of the republic of Cuba; and therefore erased from that black story, as now the Democratic candidate himself denied the blackness of a black who hesitated to vote for him.

Moura’s skill was discarded, responding to bourgeois interests, which were the ones who could work for the negro; because contrary to revolutionary extremism, it did not react to excess, and therefore was not excessive as Estenoz's racial radicalism. As an example, it was that same tradition of Capitalism what avoid the excesses of absolute Monarchy in England, impeding the violence of revolution; contrary to the feudalism of England Colonialism in the West Indies, where they emulates the same excess of the French, not the integrationism of the Spanish.

This explains Estenoz's constant vindication as a hero but printed in the black discourse as a poetic for Western idealism; the other force that feeds revolutionary excesses, with its binary reductions between Good and Evil, which it draws from Christianity. All them are prey to this binary determination, which Christians took from the Manicheans and imprinted throughout the West; and that is the universal value that black people can repair, recasting the world with the very reading of their own history.