Crises afflicting Black peoples have intensified to near-genocidal proportions
Evidence
In 1912, the anti-Black movement in part inspired by American influence in Cuba reached a culmination. The suppression of an association of Black voters, the Partido de los Independientes de Color, led to armed revolt and “the ensuing racial war, still insufficiently studied, led to a nationwide extermination of blacks of quasi-genocidal proportions.” Casal, op. cit., p. 14. This was “the little war of 1912.” Casal recalls as a child listening to the stories in her family: “A grand-uncle of mine was assassinated, supposedly by orders of Monteagudo, the rural guard officer who terrorized blacks throughout the island. Chills went down my spine when I heard stories about blacks being hunted day and night; and black men being hung by their genitals from the lamp posts in the central plazas of small Cuban towns.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2129 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Black nationalism persists as a latent force that recurs during crises; Blackness itself is criminalized as a threat irrespective of acts; Exploitation’s contradictions across the Black world produced radical ideologues. (+2 more)
Related
- Cuba’s 1912 racial war reached quasi-genocidal extermination of Black Cubans (similarity 0.91)
- Cuba’s 1912 ‘little war’ ended in a quasi-genocidal extermination of Black voters and activists. (similarity 0.85)
- Black nationalism persists as a latent force that recurs during crises (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Cuba’s 1912 racial war reached quasi-genocidal extermination of Black Cubans
#exemplifies(0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2129 - Suppressing Cuba’s Black voters’ party triggered a quasi-genocidal racial war
#exemplifies(0.80) - Blackness itself is criminalized as a threat irrespective of acts
#expands(0.50) - Exploitation’s contradictions across the Black world produced radical ideologues.
#complicates(0.35)