became Vinicius A flag for millions of Brazilians feeling their anger in front of racism This goes far beyond sports. The angry scream of the Real Madrid star also infected the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “It is not possible to have such a strong racial prejudice in so many football stadiums in the middle of the 20th century! The world is insulted in every stadium it plays,” he said. The Afro-Brazilian movement aimed to go beyond expressions of anger. “Vini is not alone,” said MNU (United Black Movement) representative Luka Franca.Protest in front of the Spanish consulate in Sao Paolo.
“Vinicius is an unfortunate media case, but unfortunately far from being the first in Spain,” said Susana Bragato of the São Paulo newspaper. folha, and he remembered the insulting songs he had objected at the time. daniel alves. Famous columnist Merval Pereira or sphereargues that unlike the former Barcelona player, the Madrid player took a step forward to face the situation. “His resistance, with the brilliance of his football, is driving changes in the structure of the world’s most watched and perhaps most lucrative sport. It’s a billion-dollar industry that has lost a lot with its image tainted by racism.”
Pele and Ronaldo, the victims
Major Brazilian players have had to deal with discrimination at different times. Unsurprisingly, Pereira recalls that the team that won the 1958 World Cup “selected only blacks after the third game”. no less Pele17 years old, Garrincha and Djalma Santos. “oh king“He didn’t seem to have learned anything from his own biography.”He spent most of his life denying that he was exposed to racism.“. Pereira remembered the same thing Ronaldo NazarioComing out to defend Vini Jr, he was “slow to reconcile” as an Afro-Brazilian. While playing for none other than Real Madrid in 2005, he made a comment about racial discrimination that has brought him heavy criticism. “I think all blacks suffer (racism). I, the white one, suffer from too much ignorance“.
The former star changed her mind when her father became the victim of prejudice and discrimination in the housing estate where she lives in Barra da Tijuca, south of Rio de Janeiro. For this reason, the residents preferred to use the service elevator as a social partner. Ronaldo’s father attacked and gave a lecture on racism at his grandchildren’s school.
In general, the media thought that the Lula government lived through what happened in the Valencia stadium. The only non-compliant was Justice Minister Flávio Dino, who offered to settle the attacks against the player in Brazilian courts.
discrimination history
The Vinicius case, however, forced Brazilians to once again look into the mirror of the same problem. In fact, it was Lula herself who protested last April after two black customers accused Carrefour of discriminating against them at two supermarkets in Sao Paulo and Curitiba. “If they want to do it in their own country, let them do it, but we will not accept racism in this country,” he said.
Lula knows by heart the conspiracy that has plagued her country since the end of the 19th century, when slavery was freed. Even the Labor Party (PT) governments have failed to put an end to a discursive, economic and material practice that continues to suffer. However, the PT’s anti-racist rhetoric facilitated the possibility that millions of people would perceive themselves as Afro-Brazilian. More than 32% of the population of 214 million make claims of origin, which at one point was embarrassing for Ronaldo.
But at the same time, the Afro-Brazilian community is the one most affected by urban violence. Over the past decade, increasingly militarized police have killed more than 33,000 civilians, of whom at least 75% are black. There were 45,503 deaths in 2019. The Brazilian Forum of Public Safety estimates that in the last two years of the far right’s power, almost 80% of victims of police operations in 2020 were Afro-Brazilian.
“The same perception as Lourenço Cardoso, the author of the book”Branchitude: Studies in Branca Identity in Brazil. For Academics”Brazil has always been a racist country“For structural and institutional reasons. These deficits allowed Bolsonaro to be elected president, even after humiliating indigenous communities and protecting blacks.”I don’t even think they serve breeding“. The same crimes were heard in Valencia.