Is this a thesis statement?

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Nicolas Guillen uses the power of symbolism to convey the earnest dream of a man wanting to change the racial disparity between blacks and whites in “Un ***** Que Canta”

Basically, it's a poem about this man wanting peace between black and whites, and a society where they can one day work together. And the poet uses symbolism in his writing to send the message. Does this qualify as a thesis statement?

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No.

“Un ***** Que Canta” does not convey a thesis:

the·sis
noun
1.  A statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.
    "the central thesis of his lecture"
2.  A long essay or dissertation involving personal research, written by a candidate for a college degree.

Your premises:
There exist different races of human beings.
One race is white, another is black.
There is a war between white and black.

Your modus operandum:
Begging the question.

There is no such thing as race.  Human beings are not a mixture of pure races. Since the discovery of the molecular basis of inheritance it has been shown that human beings are all the same species. At the sites below you can learn where we came from, and more:

http://www.ted.com/talks/nina_jablonski_breaks_the_illusion_of_skin_color.html
http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/Default.htm
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/index.htm

Ethnocentric intolerance is a worldwide phenomenon and has occurred all through history.  It is not universally expressed as intolerance based on visible phenotype, as you can discern for yourself by asking what arbitrary visible phenotype if any separates the conflicting parties in the examples below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Genocide

There are far too many examples to list here, even from the last 100 years.

Educate yourself; you will be pleased with the results.

•	Where we live: 
Christopherson, Robert. “Geosystems: An Introduction to Physical Geography” (Prentice Hall, several editions available)

•	Where we came from: 
Jurmain, Kilgore, Trevathan, Ciochon. “Introduction to Physical Anthropology” (Cengage Learning, several editions available)

•	What we have been doing: 
Roberts, J.M.; Westad, O.A. “History of the World” (Oxford University Press: 2013)

Hourani, Albert “A History of the Arab Peoples” (Actually the history of Islam, per the author.) (Harvard University Press: 2002)

•	World society and culture:
Macionis, John “Society: The Basics” (Pearson, several editions)

•	Philosophy of Science: 
Sagan, Carl “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” (Ballantine Books: 1997)

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