The myth of peaceful racial integration.

Throughout its history, Brazil has specialized in coining half-truths as absolute truths and indisputable facts; all this to cover up veritable genocides committed by our ruling classes and their vile contempt for the subordinate classes and their interests.

Darcy Ribeiro, author of a masterpiece that unveils the DNA of our formation as a people, categorically dismantles in his book "The Brazilian People" the myth of peaceful racial integration falsely propagated by our elites.

According to the anthropologist, "our national unity resulted from a continuous process, up to the present day, of great violence and political segregation, in a colossal and deliberate effort to suppress any ethnic identity."

The painful massacre resulting from a conception of deculturalization of the indigenous and African matrices that, together with the European one, make up our formation as a people, is worthy of the great genocides committed by humanity.

Through the lens of two non-negotiable concepts – colonization and Saviorism – we have embedded and crystallized the idea that the social order and its miserable, age-old differences are sacred, immutable, and inflexible.

Previously segregated in slave quarters, deprived of rights and any sense of citizenship, we turned our abolition into a farce, a hoax, a lie.

We continue to punish these beings as second-class citizens due to the ancestral lineage of the plantation owners; we use other methods, although we still employ state force to maintain social order and perpetuate the lie of our “peaceful” integration.

We don't provide jobs, but rather underemployment, with wages barely worthy of survival; we've replaced slave quarters with slums and favelas, lacking basic sanitation, schools, and health centers; we no longer have the whipping post, but we employ police force and death squads; we haven't changed the way we continue to enslave.

Through unconsciousness, through the pernicious maintenance of the sacred order.

In this tragedy that is our formation, beneath an apparent cultural uniformity, lies the perversity generated by our social stratification, where a privileged layer, with a slave-owning mentality, opposes the descendants of Black Brazil, of Indigenous Brazil.

Contemporary times inconveniently reveal our racial disintegration, where the once enslaved classes, now marginalized, are mere statistics on television news.

They have no history or foundation, just like their ancestors.

We continue to propagate an untruthful narrative, and the other matrices that make up the Brazilian people have not yet been liberated, as Darcy Ribeiro denounced, a perspective that remains highly relevant today in understanding Brazil.