Brazil’s Racial Reckoning: ‘Black Lives Matter Here, Too’ 

Brazil’s racial reckoning: ‘Black lives matter here, too’ 

Brazil’s Racial Reckoning: ‘Black Lives Matter Here, Too’ 

A week before the death of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis in May, Brazilians were mourning one of their own.

Fourteen-year-old João Pedro Mattos Pinto was killed while playing with friends during a botched police operation in a favela in Rio de Janeiro.

The two deaths happened thousands of kilometres apart, yet millions of people were united in grief and anger. “Black lives matter here, too,” Brazilians chanted in the weeks following the deaths.

But history keeps repeating itself.

Only last week, a police officer in São Paulo stepped on the neck of a black woman in her fifties. The video that surfaced showing the incident caused outrage. She survived, but so many do not.

Joyce da Silva dos Santos shows me a video of her son Guilherme celebrating his birthday with a big cake and candles. He was a 15-year-old with his whole life ahead of him. He had dreams of following his grandfather into the bricklaying business, of one day buying a motorcycle, too. But his dreams were cut short.

Last year police here killed nearly six times as many people as in the US and most of them were black.

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Jade só ia faltar mandar um "boa menina" e dar um pirulito pra coitada

O FLOYD ou ele ia adorar as reações da Yuu ou ele ia avançar no médico tipo "TA MACHUCANO MEU CAMARÃOZINHO PORQUE?!?!? SO EU POSSO-"

Tava tomando umas vacinas que eu tava atrasada e minha madrasta tava rindo do meu sofrimento (carinhosamente) e eu só consigo imaginar o Leona assistindo a Yuu com um enorme sorriso FDP enquanto ela toma vacina, Jack ia tá dando apoio moral ou tentando distrair ela pra ela não olhar pra agulha

Mona, tô enrolando pra ir tomar a quarta dose até hoje, e meu problema não é nem agulha. Eu só tenho uma ansiedade fudida, chegar na recepção e dar bom dia já deixa minhas pernas mole... QwQ

Que bom que deu tudo bem pra você ☺️

O Leona ia sorrir muito filha-da-putamente, sem dúvidas, ele ia ficar tirando onda dela, tipo, "você enfrenta Overblot todo mês e tem medo de agulha, minha filha?" O Jack já ia segurar a mão dela, e acho que ele ia choramingar que nem cachorro só pra fazer ela rir, mas se ela falar pra alguém ele vai negar até o fim do mundo. Eles vão estar casados com três filhos e ela vai contar isso pros filhos e ele vai dizer que é coisa da cabeça dela

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2 years ago

Anjo sei bem como é tbm não dou conta de falar com as Muié da recepção não por isso minha madrasta tava lá

E NOSSA O LEONA YUU IA TACAR A CHINELA ABENÇOADA NA CABEÇA DELE

Jack neném ia ser um anjo fazendo oque pudesse pra fazer a Yuu se sentir melhor mas AI se alguém ver ou ouvir, imagino muito ele segurando a mão dela mas se ele sequer ouvir alguém chegando perto ele já larga e fica tenso igual uma rocha

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