“Not being racist is not enough: you have to be anti-racist”, is the slogan of the play Infiltrado en VOX, directed by Claudia Coehlo and Anahi Beholi and performed by author and performer Moha Gerehou, at the Teatro del Barrio in Madrid (Calle Zurita, 20).
The messages issued by various political parties empowering racism have become almost commonplace: immigrants have been criminalised on election posters, it has been spouted in Congress that “having a DNI does not mean being Spanish” or that “Spain is a historic project that cannot be open to just anyone”, it has been proposed to deny visas to citizens of all Maghreb countries and this weekend far-right political leaders used the riots in France to launch an attack on the Muslim community, claiming that “Europe is threatened by mobs of anti-Europeans”.
In this book, activist and journalist Moha Gerehou recounts his experience as a racialised person within the far-right party, where he infiltrated, and asks whether racism would disappear if these parties did, and it seems that it would not. According to the author of the work, “we have skyrocketing levels of prejudice, stereotypes, there are police identifications based on racial profiling, there is a law on foreigners and immigration policies that do not remove racialised people from social exclusion, the CIEs are not closed, there are no protocols regarding racism in the classroom…”. The foundation will take place from tomorrow Thursday until 16 July on Fridays, Saturdays (7.30pm) and Sundays (6pm). Tickets for the show can be purchased here.
