Carolina De Robertis Quotes

Palo's Three Older Brothers Had Died In The Paraguayan War, Conscripted By The Argentinian Government, Taken Off By Force Along With All The Black Men Of Their Generation, Because, Palo Told Young Santiago, They Needed A Way To Not Only Win Their War But Also Rid This Country Of Us In The Process, Two Birds With One Stone. Buenos Aires Was Too Black For Them, One Third Of The Population, That's Enough Blackness To Swallow You Up! To Get Strong On You! And So They Sent Our Fathers Off To War And Opened Floodgates To European Steamships So That White Men Would Pour Into The City To Replace Us, And Their Plan Worked, The Bastarda, Look At Our City Now.

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