How long will racism continue to kill?

A girl, a woman, a human being: exposed, vilified, and libidinously torn apart by enslavement, by spoliation, by the "madness" of racial superiority. Sarah Baartmann, an African princess, who received the shackles of the circus in its most negative aspect: exposing human beings in a cruel and misguided way; calling them bizarre.

Moise, an African from Congo, a young worker: victim of a beating to death in the fertile stronghold of a bourgeois elite of backwardness, neglect, arrogance, and the swagger of the new "Neros" of Barra da Tijuca. BARRA, paradise of lust and voluptuous arrogance of the "pitboys" of the sand who do nothing but sentence people to death: indirectly or directly. 

What separates Moise and Sarah? Two centuries of interregnum between their deaths. He died in Brazil in 2022; and she in 1815, in France; she was 26 years old and he was 24. “Sarah's brain, skeleton, and sexual organs continued to be displayed in a Paris museum until 1974. Her remains only returned to Africa in 2002, after France agreed to a request made by Nelson Mandela.

Dr. Angela Kimbangu (lawyer) said it very well on the program “A Tone of Resistance” on 247: “I am resistance.”

And truly calling someone a warrior is an understatement, as it can suggest (only) belligerence; and fighting against structural racism is for the RESISTANT. Violence has been advocating an unacceptable cause: DISCRIMINATION; therefore, we need to eradicate it from the annals of Brazilian history. 

It is also an assumption that colonialism and imperialism are involved in this misfortune; as phenomena of political, economic, social, and cultural domination, they did not manifest themselves in the same way in all dominated or dependent societies. In Brazil, for example, it is important to highlight an aspect of cultural colonialism in relation to other cases of domination: our "Brazilian" identity does not stem from a supposed recovery of a pre-colonial moment, as happens with societies in Africa and Asia, for example, but from a process that begins with colonization itself, as a discontinuity of the Portuguese society that carried it out. The consequences of this circumstance are relevant to the discussion of the possibility of independent intellectual production in our country, especially anthropological production, defined here as permanently critical knowledge of the categories, molds, and theories in which it invests. Anthropology also needs to embrace anti-racism and raise its loudest voice against the members of the national Ku Klux Klan (which in Brazil) has been eliminating people. How long will racism continue to kill "Saras," "Moses," and dreams?

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