Then, it is right that majority are, as a culture, amazigh. But amazigh itself is many cultures and races.

1. The Agreements of Angra de Cintra signed by Morocco and Spain
after the defeat of Morroco in the War of Ifni, recognized the rights of Spain
on Sidi Ifni with no linkage to the Western Sahara. The fact that Sidi Ifni at
the time was enclaved in French colony in the North-East-South and it was non-contiguous (was sandwiched) with the West Sahara makes the argument even harder.

2. The core argument of this article is UNGA Resolution 1514: Declaration on the granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples: As the name of the declaration says it, the resolution was a general Declaration to all colonial powers at the time, including British, French, Spanish…and others. The article makes it sound that it was a special resolution for the Spanish colony of Western Sahara. It was not. The difference is important because if this resolution was about the
Spanish colony then its legal weight in international law would have been heavier for Spain than a general resolution.

3. The author and the rest of official Moroccan position conveniently overlooked that the Madrid Agreement signed by Morocco, Spain and Mauritania, gave Morocco the 2/3rds of the Western Sahara but the Southern 1/3rd was given to Mauritania. Mauritania, under pressure from the Polisario gave it its portion and declared neutrality, Moroccan troops then invaded the Mauritanian portions and Morocco annexed it indefinitely therefore Morocco acknowledged in signing his illegal presence in the southern third by the Madrid agreement.

4. Moroccan officials, as the article’s author does, often confuse the position of international law on Western Sahara. They base their position on historical allegiance ties between Western Sahara prior to 1884 and the Kingdom of Morocco, they also cite the advisory opinion Morocco asked from the International Court of Justice in October 1975. Anyone who reads this decision will realize that the Court was not conclusive. It did recognize there were SOME ties of allegiance by some tribes but these ties didn’t amount to any sovereignty claims by either Morocco or Mauritania prior to 1884, and since the the territory was not terra nullus ( there were people in there), therefore the legal status falls under decolonization, and the only legal solution will be through self-determination aka referendum. Here’s the conclusion of that that decision, you can google it:

“Having considered this evidence and the observations of the other States which took part in the proceedings, the Court finds that neither the internal nor the international acts relied upon by Morocco indicate the existence at the relevant period of either the existence or the international recognition of legal ties of territorial sovereignty between Western Sahara and the Moroccan State. Even taking account of the specific structure of that State, they do not show that Morocco displayed any effective and exclusive State activity in Western Sahara. They do, however, provide indications that a legal tie of allegiance existed at the relevant period between the Sultan and some, but only some, of the nomadic peoples of the territory, through Tekna caids of the Noun region, and they show that the Sultan displayed, and was recognized by other States to possess, some authority or influence with respect to those tribes.”

Amazigh socioeconomic and political strength is not the same as Arab power.

Why is morocco even called an Arab country?? if we were so equal, it should be recognized simply and “plainly” as a Moroccan country,since you say we’re all the same & mixed right??

Racism is an action and control system.. A system that is created to oppress people from succeeding poltical and economical wise. Amazigh people have no system in place to stop any Arab from succeeding because we have no power..

Why did it take Morocco so long for our language to be even recognized? It’s racism

Yes, Amazigh people can be prejudice and misjudge Arabs, but we are not racist., Arabs have the power and control, amazighs do not have power and control, or even equal power and control!

This is 2013, we must learn to distinguish the two.

All you’re doing is blinding yourself. Denying the fact that racism and discrimination does exist and our country, but you chose not take sides because you want to be identified as Moroccan or Mixed.. Well blinding yourself does not make it go away. You create this Utopia, instead of addressing the problem so we all can have equal rights.

You’ve written this article based off of your emotion, which emotion is opinion. If you accumlated a survey with value statistics and facts, this article would have been thrown in the trash, because amazigh people do not have any power in this country. Arabs do..

Until we all have equal power, then I’ll be the first to applaud you on how wonderful this piece you have written.