have passed nearly fifteen years since the incursion of barrismo as a social phenomenon in Colombia, but the bars still be perceived negatively, and the company continues treating us like second class citizens.
On April 12 expressions of violence common in our country again evident in football, Juan Guillermo Dominguez, who plays for Deportivo Cali, suffered a blow on his forehead with a strong element when the bus that was traveling came to campus Campin stadium in Bogota and was clumsily brought down the middle of the Millonarios fans who were about to enter his rostrum while two fans of Nacional, including a minor, were injured with knives in the city of Medellin, after confusing incidents during a protest outside the stadium for the bad timing of his team.
Two equally embarrassing facts, equally culpable, equally undesirable, as all those who defile our football, had reactions and consequences totally different reason: the victims.
Attack player of the Cali almost caused the cancellation of the match to be played by his team mates and colleagues refused to play protesting what happened to point that was needed, fortunately for advertisers, sponsors and broadcast rights holders, the behavior of club leaders who "persuaded" to their employees to fulfill their work and play will take place as scheduled.
Dominguez's case also caused signs of rejection, almost in unison, by the media, who interviewed classmates of the victim, made special coverings from the clinic where he was treated, told us his career as a professional, spoke with family members and the next day I had a guest on all the sports sections of news from TV, newspapers and radio programs.
Police joined the club's rejection of aggression in football, through the commander of the institution in Bogotá offered a reward of 5 million dollars for information that will help identify and locate the perpetrator. Contrary to the commonness of its operation, the police was as effective and caused the arrest of the attacker less than a week after the incident.
While in Bogotá attacking a player provoked reactions of players, press and police to deny the facts and to find the responsible in Medellín attacks on two fans just reported; there was attempts to suspend matches, did not tell us how they evolved the wounded, nor his friends nor the eyewitness had appeared on TV what happened, did not know who were the victims, offered no rewards, no perpetrator was arrested.
The previous comparison clearly shows how it is perceived in Colombia violence in football is only negligible concern and taken seriously when the victims are people outside the bar, on the contrary, when the victims are the same barristas, aggression becomes a media spectacle that generates simple hearing at shocking, but even that no longer causes the rejection of the beholder. Even justice comes into play in the media, the only judicial impact cases that get wet are the media for his spectacular, and sentences usually end with excessive or unjust to seek to be exemplary but end up becoming a scapegoat few.
E n the collective imagination of the citizens are barristas Second, we charged from the beginning with the stigma of vagrants, drunks, drug addicts, vandals, violent etc. minimizing the positive aspects of the bars and in some way justified to society that we are victims of our own violence (vs. barristas barristas), to the extent that when a barrister fell into disgrace and tabloids covering its normal to hear the case common people, and even the same bars, react by saying "well done, they kill those bastards."
D esprecio and indifference are not the only expressions of society towards the bar, in the last year have added legal and illegal demonstrations are aimed at us, on one hand the law was passed 1270, 2009, "By which created the National Commission for Safety, Comfort and Living in football and other provisions, repressive legislation that violates the most basic rights as to privacy and free association, on the other started to be part of the perverse "pamphlets" exclusive lists of groups of citizens (thieves, feral, prostitutes, drug addicts, social leaders, students and now bars) likely to be killed by groups illegal armed.
After a decade and a half bars in Colombia have made progress as setting their own identity, some degree of organization , international acclaim, an unusual growth and to a projection, but got no position with respect to the public as stakeholders valid, productive, decisive and influential, even as citizens with access to basic rights which must guarantee the rule.
A the bars the country owes us recognition, our barrismo social urges of a claim, but this does not depend exclusively on others is within each of the bars where we provide that type of organization we want to be and what place we occupy in society today we reject.
Ivan Sandoval
0 comments:
Post a Comment