Coherence has been conspicuous by its absence for decades. The national liberation movement was led down the path of the deepest romanticism, awarding medals to the few self-illuminated individuals who had the courage to present themselves publicly like that.
The small group dedicated itself to discrediting everything, pretending to be afraid that someone would overshadow them and the "enlightened" minority would cease to be a minority and the old-time independentistas would be diluted in a human mass "too large" to continue being prominent.
The character I am talking about is worthy of scientific study. There is in it a praxis of failed politician who discards the tools of the field; based on a kind of fictitious pride from where denial is continuous and accusatory disqualification reigns freely. In effect, we are talking about a clear colonized complex, but one that is not admitted by the subject. A concept that demolishes the pretended superior native, xenophobic, far from reality and the corresponding adaptation to the times. An overflow of political-social romanticism that turns everything into a parallel world and moves away without regret from our social and cultural reality, from the identity that the Canarian People has in the 21st century.
Feelings predominate, eclipsing their own authenticity and merit. For example, not feeling Spanish is confused with not being Spanish: they call themselves independentistas, but they affirm that the Canary Islands are not Spain and they themselves are not Spanish: when everyone knows that we independentistas have a problem, of state, our land was militarily invaded by that foreign power and they appropriated it without letting go until the present. As long as their armed forces remain in the Archipelago, this territory belongs to Spain and, therefore, those of us who do not agree are called independentistas. When the Canary Islands are not a Spanish property and are self-governed, there will be no independentistas. It's very simple.
I don't feel Spanish either. But I admit the problem and face it politically, with seriousness and the tools that exist in the society we have. I am an independentista, with all that it entails. I do not cease to be a companion of the people who keep alive that current of opinion of Canarian society, a minority in all respects, but I fight every day to stop being in the minority and I am so concerned about the social failure of capitalism, that I waste energy in solidarity with the most vulnerable and punished sectors. Because they are my people too, whether they are independentistas or not.
I don't consider myself above anyone, but not below either, and if at any time I disagree or they disagree and we seem not to understand each other, I don't invent enemies for that: I believe in the right to disagree before compulsory consensus.
Being Spanish by force is not a personal problem for me. At least not the most important one. I am one of those who believe that the problem of the Canary Islands being under Spanish administration, for the Canarians, is always a problem of State: a primordial question that prevents us from developing as a society with property.
We are not going to fix this with romanticism and fictitious reconquests. We are not going to do it by copying clichés from the last century, cardboard and outdated. Nor by clinging to social networks or with virtual plots that, many times, defocus reality and intoxicate us with pure fantasy. But there is a formula to achieve administrative independence: let no one be demoralized by the above.
Please, I ask from the heart: let's all get our feet on the ground. Let's leave the personalisms aside; the dreams for the rest; and let's work seriously for a Canary Islands free from Spain and that offers a better society than the one we have now. Because, as everyone knows, it's worth it and the rest is straw.
