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Moving to Venezuela, a Land in Turmoil
The New York Times
2016-01-21
Nicholas Casey, a New York Times correspondent, is sharing moments from his first 30 days living in Caracas, a city in the midst of great tumult and change. Follow Nick on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Q&A: Race and Racism in Venezuela
Q. I’d like to hear your impressions on race and racism, since everyone seems to be mixed race in Venezuela.
—Silvia Rodriguez, Illinois
A. Race is something that has preoccupied me in my past reporting assignments, in which I’ve had a chance to watch not only how people treat each other, but how I’m received.
With a Afro-Cuban father and a white mother, I was never confused for a local during my five years reporting from Mexico. More often, I was confused for a pop singer named Kalimba. He seemed to be the only man in that country who had hair like mine and wore similar glasses…
…Of all the places I’ve lived, there’s only one where I felt uncomfortable being black. It was where I am from: the United States.
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