Help us to make possible the production of “THE ERA OF THE CONDOR”
Join us on the journey to realize a video to promote racial and ethnic inclusion, fostering peace. Join our crowdfunding project which is about the realization of a music video for our new song “The Era of the Condor”, fostering awareness about ethnic and racial integration as well as environment issues in Peru. Thanks for sharing!
Hi, we’re “Supremacía Terrenal Band”, we live in the Upper Amazon of Peru. We’ve recorded a brand new song and it’s got a huge message. We believe it’s worth a professional video production in order to raise awareness and spread the word. Here’s where we need your help. Together we will create something really really great and impressive. It’s about interracial relationships, about racial and ethnic inclusion. The story of the video is meant to reprove intercultural and inter-ethnic exclusion, which is actually a big problem in Peru. Marginalization still exists, can you believe it! A kind of everyday racism which dictates the lives of many indigenous people who speak their native languages. This problems are even stronger in conflict zones where illegal mining in Peru is realized. Layers of problems ranging from organized crime to political corruption merge with forced labor and human trafficking. The same is happening in areas where illegal forest exploitation occurs.
Along with indigenous people, Afro-Peruvians are among the poorest communities in Peru. Racial discrimination in Peru—based mainly on the color of one’s skin—remains prevalent, and many indigenous and Afro-Peruvians feel discriminated against, particularly in the areas of housing, employment, and education. Despite an official apology by President Alan Garcia in 2009 for centuries of exclusion and discrimination by the state, the socio-economic and political needs of Afro-Peruvians and indigenous people continue to be ignored by successive national governments, and the political parties do not take these ethnic groups into account in their political agendas.
The hardest thing about being black or indigenous in Peru is seeing how children are discriminated against and how this affects their identity and their self-esteem to the point that they want to deny their own race.
