WHO AM I? I use the pen-name Aníbal Benízkor. Of course, I am totally against all kinds of discrimination on racial, religious, ethnic, sexual or any other grounds. At first I wanted to remove these passages from this edition, but finally I decided to keep them because to remove them would be like denying that these prejudices once existed and would give readers an incomplete view of the work. Among other things, the work seeks to justify the Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885), the terrible campaign against the native peoples in which so many lives were exterminated. Although he tried to defend the figure of the persecuted gaucho, unfortunately he ignored the injustices committed against other social groups, such as Afro-descendants, immigrants and native peoples. THE PROBLEM WITH RACISM IN MARTÍN FIERRO José Hernández was a son of his time.
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