During elementary school, every year, we had an event where each class had to come up with a performance. We chose a song and created a choreography to present it in front of the entire school and our proud and excited parents. We called it “The Festival”.

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One year, our class chose the song “Ay mama Inés”. For the performance, we dressed in white linen fabric​ and painted our faces and arms black. Like real cubans.

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I know, how incredibly politically incorrect, right??

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Well, those were different times.