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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Afro-Peruvians have been invisible in this way, they never figure in history books in Peru until very, very recently.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
This despite the fact that a lot of African slaves had a very integral role in kind of shaping how Peru kind of came to be throughout the colonial period and into the present.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And a lot of the projects that Roberto has been involved with, with music like many other musician-activists have been to kind of use music as a way of kind of bringing attention to that locked and unacknowledged history

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
and to a certain degree to making that music become kind of a--kind of, more informal way of that kind of historical record.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Roberto also kind of expresses his solidarity with Leonardo and recognizes that in some ways the situation for Afro descendants being what it is, with them being rendered invisible, is much worse when you consider

[00:18:14]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
when you're talking about people who are originally from Peru since before the colonial period, so people like Leonardo's heritage.

[00:18:23]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
You know it says Afro-descendants after all kind of came to Peru with the Spanish and if the situation is bad for them, then it's even worse when you're talking about people who were even there before colonialism started.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Because of this Roberto always likes to work with youth, likes to work with young people, kind of talk about these issues, bring these issues to light, in particular, to always kind of question and question things,

[00:18:52]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
question how governments and official policies kind of regard the small minority groups and what things can be done about it.

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{SPEAKER name="Roberto Arguedas"}
Pero la lucha constante y ahora que yo veo jóvenes en el país que están luchando y afrodescendientes que ya están apuntando a algo y a ser vistos les están haciendo algunas cosas, que me parece que esta funcionando bien.

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{SPEAKER name="Roberto Arguedas"}
Nos está uniendo. Porque antes ha estado muy dividida y cada uno por ahí. Sin embargo, puedo hablar de Nicomedes y Santa Cruz, toda Santa Cruz. Pero voy a hablar de...

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