The right side of Barcelona and the Brazilian national team, Daniel Alves, starred in an
episode where irony and spontaneous reaction gave rise to anti-racist debate worldwide. On
Sunday, April 27, 2014, the whole world saw him eating a banana thrown Bahian this player
for a Spanish club supporter (Valencian) Villareal, opposer Catalans. Daniel ate the
banana and continued playing. Used irony to combat prejudiced attitude, applause and fans
across the country. ---- His teammate, fellow playmaker and player selection, the former
Santos Neymar, launched the campaign on twitter and immediately mobilized the media to
millions of anonymous celebrity. Ready the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff former
guerrilla, followed the steps via microblogging. In parallel, the commotion already racked
by global murder of DG (Douglas Rafael Pereira da Silva), dancer warms Program (bastion of
positive miscegenation and mestizaje Cheer apolitical), engaged the cast of the leading
broadcaster in the end cause of prejudice racial.
For more commendable is that whenever any initiative in this sense it is necessary to
qualify the debate and at least try to cross a more political agenda and less emotional.
The slogan "We are all monkeys!" Will become a new icon of the culture industry, taking
advantage of the bad timing of the Brazilian image abroad (with the systematic murder of
african-Brazilian citizens), the Ministry of Tourism launched the # CopaSemRacismo,
through millions of shares on social networks.
The result can be the same. On the one hand, becomes public attitude Daniel Alves, this
generates endless adhesions, and serves as a discourse of legitimation for the portion of
Brazilian society that sees integration as a positive factor. On the other hand, this same
plot, most of which is apolitical, does not engage in the struggle for basic civil rights
of african descent territorialized population. I speak of residents remaining Quilombo
recognized and unrecognized, the contemporary version of favelas, slums, shacks, villages
and suburbs endless. In this same struggle includes the agenda of the quota policy and the
requirement that the Secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR) is more
active and aggressive in defending the staves of the majority.
In the era of media coverage and the absence of a sector of massive black movement and in
the streets, would most aggressive and a sports icon. Something similar to the role that
fulfill the boxer Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), when in 1966 he refused to serve in the
U.S. Army and go to the Vietnam war. Ali marked a historic moment, projecting the champion
of the people (as they were known heavyweights in boxing) beyond the chatter and taunts
that both marked.
We welcome the spontaneous reaction of professional athletes in general little or nothing
accustomed to position themselves socially, even when oppression strikes. In this sense,
overcome the paradigm of Pele off the field (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) is a small
advance. But to celebrate an immediate and media engagement where hitchhiking all missing
and hypocrites ever, would be a big mistake.
This country needs to reconnect with yourself, staring African slavery and Indian genocide
like the Holocaust that befell our people. Definitely not with irony and humor that face
planters, masters and overseers of the woods.
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