(163) June 19, 2010
The world we are naked. Like any passion exposes us, shows us that we are deep or want to be. If something caught my attention in this first week of the championship is the habit of believing ourselves better than others. Television these days left to see that side discriminatory usually have the Argentines: "If you win one of these African teams you have to kill you," but look how the ball hits the Korean "Look at these umbrellas, potted or not before the rainbow, now almost won against Italy ..."
That's not all. There is a global face of this post-apartheid South Africa that almost nobody wants to see and which largely explains why this our daily discrimination. The football tournament that will undoubtedly enjoy, has its counterpart. In order to build the ultra-modern Green Point stadium - with capacity for 70,000 spectators at a cost of 440 million euros, had to evacuate hundreds of residents. Dave Zirin, one of the most famous sports journalists of the United States these days said: "This is a country where surprised by the levels of wealth and poverty placed contiguously. The World Cup, away to help change this situation is just a magnifying glass that magnifies all the flaws of this system. "The sentence against what might seem, does not come from any social activist or a Marxist scholar, and I said, belongs to a known Communist. Thousands of poor people have been displaced by the construction of infrastructure directly or indirectly related to the football World Cup. Hide poverty, preventing the world know the real South Africa.
What lies behind this spectacular assembly? What lies beneath this facade five stars? What mean the vast slums of cardboard and cans hidden in the margins, away from the lights of the big South African cities to receive tourists from all over the world? At the bottom of this scenario, set as a clock, you can see a historical racism that fails to die and piles of words against discrimination that do not fit with reality. We are all against any discriminatory concept, but life gets tired of showing us every day just the opposite.
look in this sense that racism strictly said, as "scientific theory" whereby, for example, blacks are inferior, and sometimes, many times, worthy of exploitation and even killing, is a discourse of modernity, closely linked to that has been called Eurocentrism. It is based on historical material on which this prejudice is based. Western Europe will be the center of the world system. The domination of the Indian and African slave labor in America will make a "contribution" essential that Marx called primitive accumulation of capital worldwide. Africa as regards the exploitation and plundering of the poor has been and still is so grotesque and brutal among historians that there is no consensus on the figures of the modern-day slavery. Some speak of 10 million enslaved. Other have been suggested 60 million, of which 24 million went to America, and Asia 12 million to 7 million in Europe, while the remaining 17 million would die in the crossing. Blacks, inferior beings, animals often treated as legally reduced to the status of things. To describe this drama Ki-Zerbo spoke of "the human bleeding has been black Africa." A devastating picture.
And here we pause to say that the exploitation of native peoples and African slavery in America is not an externality, something adventitious, or a simple conflict with the humanism that has been claimed. Quite the contrary, constitutes the foundation material. Today we talk about discrimination as if that rule had nothing to do with the very existence of Western modernity. In a word: discrimination is integral to the very configuration of capitalist modernity. This is the crux of the issue of racism in both modern phenomenon. The same civilization whose moral philosophical foundation claimed to be the exercise of individual freedom was substantially supported, in economic terms, the enslavement of millions of human beings. These roots explain the large and small who continue to suffer discrimination. And of course it's not wrong to inquire into possible psychological issues that throw light on the reasons for our prejudices. Will also require ethical statements that indicate the roads that lead to respect for others. But any of these approaches will be biased if we omit to refer to the civilization that today condemns his word discrimination, sustained systematic rooted in segregationist practices that continue to live.
may be that in addition to screaming, emotions, and legitimate celebration, this world is accompanied by some awakenings. Awakenings that as goals, open the close game of life. A life that deserve to play together because it just belongs to everyone.
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