Caetano is criticized on Facebook for supporting Marina.
Composer Caetano Veloso was attacked by internet users for a post stating that he would feel proud to see the face of candidate Marina Silva representing the country: “Disappointment! I admired Caetano!”; “I unliked Caetano”; “Politically zero to the left”; “Caetano, you're an idiot! A revolutionary fool without any cause!”
247 Since posting a message of support for Marina Silva's candidacy last Saturday afternoon, composer Caetano Veloso has become the target of criticism on Facebook.
In a message, the singer stated that he will feel proud to see the candidate's face representing the country.
Internet users commented on the post with messages such as: "Disappointment! I admired Caetano!"; "I've 'unliked' Caetano"; "Politically zero to the left"; "Caetano, you're an idiot! A revolutionary fool with no cause whatsoever!".
Read the full message posted by the singer on social media:
"MARINA FOR PRESIDENT. So much is stirred by that cry! The second woman president and – a detail of great importance that hasn't been remembered – the first candidate of color. With her elegant features, an obvious result of the mixture of mixed-race and mestizo heritage, Marina, besides coming from the heart of the Amazon (where the law makes almost desperate efforts to establish its empire), from the struggle alongside Chico Mendes, from the heroic phase of the PT (Workers' Party), she will signify the arrival of evident Black phenotypes in the Presidency of the Republic. That's no small thing. I will feel pride (we will all feel different things about Brazil) seeing her face representing our country in the images that will spread around the world. But there's more. Much more. The dignified tone with which Marina maintains, since her last major electoral attempt, the determination to carry forward the advances achieved by FH (Fernando Henrique Cardoso) and Lula. The inner consistency with which she expresses herself over the years (which is different from merely repeating the same thing). I am one of those who have always wanted the country..." ...take advantage of what this succession of fighters for democracy has bequeathed to us. I have already said in an interview that, unlike some leftist friends, I have no rejection of the liberal-based economists who are close to Marina. On the contrary, given the content of Eduardo Gianetti's first book, "Private Vices, Public Benefits?", in which the question mark defines the critical liberalism that expands through the pages, which do not even leave aside the suspected contempt of European philosophy for tropical man, and also the latest writings of André Lara Resende, in which the obsession with perennial growth is called into question, I see no reason to throw away the leadership of a woman with this history of technicians who are also thinkers. I will vote for Marina as I voted for Lula in 2002. And, moreover, as I voted for Marina in 2010. I cried in the voting booth during Lula's moment (there was all the symbolism of his arrival to the presidency and too many complexities in my life). I felt happiness voting for Marina in 2010: knowing that I was contributing to... "To strongly mark her presence in the national imagination!... Now, I see Marina's moment. Irresistible. Full of promises and insinuations. It is Brazilian society moving to grow with bearable pain. What lies ahead of us is our respectability as a nation. To refuse this would be to be blind to all light."