Too much bite to trust us
- "We have put all the strength in these elections in the town and in the streets. The dynamic has been very good in the atmosphere of the abertzales of the locality. But the results leave us in that 20 percent lap. Like the inertia of the rural world."
"Most of the entities know us the old families of this town. Most of those who exist are people known for the old wives and men of this old town. They hate us or appreciate us, when, like most of the population.
But it is the Abertzale that assumes and enjoys its vasquity, to the point of making a country project for him and others.
Many of our neighbours and neighbours carry their identity as a burden, not being able to recognize that they bring more shame than pride in being Basque. It is too early to trust us.
I sent that message to a friend of Gipuzkoa on the eve of the popular vote. I started answering the phone on a sheep's shoulder, and those words came from me.
We have been chatting with a multitude of neighbours in their homes, because we have walked from door to door on the pretext of the vote. They know the closeness that recovers from what everyone has in their minds, what happened yesterday and what happened the day before, what happened now, worry and boredom. Most of the conversations in Euskera, while in the most subtle dialect, the need to retain it with caution.
Already on the way to the house, you remember the conversations and imagine that we've enjoyed them as if we were more of a relative. And yet we know that we are not going to get the majority of them to vote.
They carry their vasquity as a burden. That is why it has forced so many years of submission and contempt. As if they were the victims of a long, dark war, as if they were the victims of shame and despair, denying the treasure they have in their minds.
And with what Basque frictions, with whom we believe and express that the future and modernity can be built in our language, in our land and in our old people.
[For a long time, farmer, trade unionist and ARGIA collaborator, Mikel Avenida has presented an Abertzale candidacy in Itsasun (Lapurdi). The list heading Avenida did not achieve 20% on Sunday as I expected pessimistic the day before, a forecast that was almost twice, with 34.4% of the votes.]
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