The CUP candidate for mayor of Barcelona, Basha Changue, believes that a "country debate" is necessary to find out if it is necessary to ban some popular Catalan songs such as the popular habanera "El meu avi".
Everything comes as a result of a documentary that TV3 broadcast entitled Negrers. The slave-owning Catalonia that reviews the "Catalan slave-owning past". Changue believes that all "institutional recognition" must be accompanied by "material actions."
The CUP candidate, "Afro-Catalan" with Equatorial Guinean descent, points out that modern Catalonia "is built on the blood, sweat and bodies of hundreds of thousands of enslaved... and colonized people".
"From a political anti-racist perspective, reparation wants to say that no symbolism in the form of institutional recognition will be adequate if it is not preceded by concrete material actions such as: [...] stop paying with public money for popular celebrations of colonialism such as the Fira of Indians of Begur or nostalgic structures such as the Network of Indian Municipalities, formed by Arenys de Mar, Begur, Blanes, Calonge–Sant Antoni, the district of Sant Andreu de Barcelona, Lloret de Mar, Palafrugell, Sant Pere de Ribes, Sitges , Torredembarra, Tossa de Mar, Canet de Mar, Caldes d'Estrac, el Masnou, Mataró, Sant Pol de Mar, Tordera and Vilassar de Mar and which is currently financed by municipal councils and by the Generalitat, the deputations of Girona, Barcelona and Tarragona", writes in Crític.
The text has generated some commotion on social networks. A user asked Changue on Twitter if "habaneras like 'El meu avi' should also be banned" and Basha Changue replied that, despite "not being a simple answer", "a country debate" would be necessary.
There have been quite a few users who have expressed their opposition to the article by the CUP candidate. Some have come to disqualify and insult Changue. Other voices, however, have defended the opinion of the candidate for Barcelona
