“I’m Blacker Than You!” in Colombia

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Issue Sep 09-15 2026: The striking phrase “I’m blacker than you,” uttered by Estefanel Gutiérrez (a Cambio Radical congressperson) to Óscar Benavides (representative for the Circunscripción Especial de las Comunidades Negras, Afrocolombianas, Raizales y Palenqueras), hints at the nuances that the debate over collective rights-bearing groups will take on in the country amidst the “culture war” that is now beginning.

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