Negro Rebellion
And "El Dia" also wanted Cuba to copy the Jim Crow laws from the United States, these laws  segregated blacks and mistreated them and had less rights than a white man. And they also argued that "dominated races do submit". But Afro-Cuban politicians were against this and became worried from the racism and anger that the rebellion caused. The reputation of Juan Gualberto Gomez, an Afro-Cuban was also damaged because he wrote a manifesto against the racism.