Black people are being erased from the Judiciary, criticizes lawyer and rector of Zumbi dos Palmares Faculty.
Lawyer José Vicente, rector of the Zumbi dos Palmares Faculty (SP), issued a warning about the relationship between the black population and the Brazilian justice system: "Black people remain erased and invisible throughout the structure of the Judiciary," he said.
247 - Lawyer José Vicente, rector of the Zumbi dos Palmares Faculty (SP), highlighted the difficulties faced by Black people in accessing the Judiciary. "Black people remain erased and invisible throughout the structure of the Judiciary. We don't have Black judges or justices in the Superior Courts," he said in an interview with... Migalhas website.
According to research by the National Council of Justice, the number of Black judges in the judiciary is very low. In the State, Federal, and Labor Courts, for example, the number of Black judges does not exceed 1% in each branch. The number of white judges occupies the largest range among the "yellow," "brown," "black," and "white" profiles.
A national survey conducted by the Brazilian Association of Magistrates (AMB) in 2018 also indicated that, out of 1.941 respondents who took the state magistracy exam at the first-instance level, only 12 people were approved for positions reserved for Black people, representing 0,6%.
"We want justice operators to have much more plurality and diversity, and to have many young black people participating in their structures and collaborating to build a justice system that is plural, diverse, and that respects and values the integrity of which it is itself constituted, which is the miscegenation of black and white people in the Brazilian population," he stated.