The media is complicit in constructing the subordinate role of Black people, says Silvio Almeida.
On the Roda Viva program, a professor, philosopher, and jurist discussed structural racism: "How can we talk about meritocracy in a country that kills a 14-year-old boy who just wanted to study, inside his own home?"
Forum Magazine - Invited to the Roda Viva program this Monday (23), professor, jurist and philosopher Silvio Almeida pointed out the responsibility of the media in racism in Brazil. On the TV Cultura program, he debated the wave of anti-racist protests in the world and said that meritocracy has no place in a deeply unequal society like the Brazilian one.
“The media are absolutely complicit in constructing the social image of Black people in this subordinate position,” said Almeida, when asked about the topic. “There would be no possibility of having structural and systemic racism if there wasn’t a daily reproduction in the media of stereotypes of Black people, if there weren’t television programs that constantly normalize murder, death, and the condition of Black people as criminals,” he added.
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