Chavez said that racial discrimination is embedded like a poison

The leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez, during the Aló Presidente #221, on May 8, 2005, from the state of Anzoátegui, announced the creation of a Presidential Commission for the prevention and elimination of all forms of racial discrimination and other distinctions in the Venezuelan education system.

“This Presidential Commission must develop an entire plan for the prevention and elimination of any form of racial discrimination, because racial discrimination is out there like a poison,” Chávez said.

He said that racial discrimination was injected, so black is associated with evil. “We Venezuelans have a strong black component in culture, in conscience, in blood, and that here in Venezuela there is a very strong community of Afro-Venezuelans,” he added.

In that regard, he invited the Venezuelan people to join. “We count on you and count on us for the task of building a society of equals, we must erase all vestiges of colonialism even in the most remote places,” he said.

“We must erase all traces of racial discrimination throughout this country of equals and brothers, regardless of the color of our skin, regardless of any other particular consideration,” he insisted.

He recalled that the Venezuelan elite, the one that dominated the country for a long time, well, carries a burden of discrimination in its soul, and not only in its soul, in its actions of a government that it despises, that believes it is superior.