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During the assembly of his third government, Lula was heavily criticized for recreating ministries in the social area, among them, Human Rights and Citizenship and Racial Equality. The prompt reaction of the Brazilian government, starting with the president himself, when opening his press conference in Japan, as soon as the news about the new racist attack on the player Vinicius Jr., from Real Madrid, in Valencia, ran and astonished the world in Sunday night, shows how right Lula was.
What at first took on the air of a diplomatic incident, soon showed its positive effect, leading the Spanish government and sports organizations to announce a series of measures against racism on football pitches. Before, it is good to remember, Vini Jr. he had already been the victim of 10 other racist attacks, without any action being taken, and the wave spread across the country. It took the player to explode in the face of infamy, identifying his executioners in the public, for the world press to condemn Valencia’s actions.
Shortly after Lula called for effective measures to “not allow fascism and racism to take over the football stadiums”, the Minister of Human Rights Silvio Almeida, a 46-year-old black philosopher, lawyer, writer and professor, was pleasantly surprised by this government , published a series of messages on Twitter, showing their indignation and charging the Spanish authorities.
“And behold, the president of La Liga decides, instead of showing solidarity with @vinijr, to attack the athlete on social media. of something that cannot be considered just “episodic”, because, especially in Europe, it has become a space for the manifestation of racial hatred. Sports organizations are paralyzed and sponsors are silent”.
In the end, Almeida remembers that “if one of the best players in the world needed to do something about it, imagine what happens to those who don’t have the same visibility. It is in their name too that measures need to be taken”.
It is also worth remembering that today the Brazilian population is mostly black and brown, and that, historically, it has always been relegated to the background, without respect for its most elementary rights.
The following day, Minister Flávio Dino, of Justice and Public Security, announced that he was considering resorting to the principle of “extraterritoriality”, which makes it possible to activate a provision of Brazilian law for exceptional cases of crimes committed against Brazilian citizens abroad. “This is an extreme remedy, of course, but it can work, it may be necessary”, justified the minister.
In the same line, Anille Franco, black minister of Racial Equality, endorsed Dino’s speech in defending the “combat at the root of the problem”.
“As long as I have blood running through my veins, as long as I am at the head of this Racial Equality portfolio, which President Lula’s federal government has recreated, we will be taking care of the black Brazilian people, whether here or abroad, because there is a thing that plagues our black community is racism. And this evil is a case that we need to fight at the root”.
I ask: if we were still being governed by the previous president, what steps would have been taken? When Vini Jr. he was assaulted and had his honor offended several times last year, for the same reasons, there was no reaction from the Brazilian government.
Lula is usually more criticized for his successes, in defense of the poor people, the environment and national sovereignty, which are not recognized, as we saw now on the trip to Japan, than for his mistakes, which are not few, exploited to exhaustion. in furious editorials, as if nothing in this government was any good, until it submits to NATO, the Central Bank, the market, the big media and the gang from Paulo Guedes.
Some sectors of society still find it difficult to understand that, on January 1, 2023, power changed hands in Brazil, which was once again governed primarily by the majority of its poor, black and northeastern people who, after all, elected Lula president . The rest, as the Vini Jr. case showed, with the presence of blacks and women in the ministry, is a consequence.
Life goes on.
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