Journalist Jackeline Oliveira expressed her deep unhappy with a scene he witnessed on Friday night (July 19) in a samba circle in Praça Tiradentes, in downtown Rio de Janeiro.
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At this event, produced and attended mostly by black people, A couple of white people began to imitate monkey gestures and sounds in a mocking manner.
Unable to believe what she was seeing, Jackeline decided to record the situation. For her, what she witnessed was an act of extreme violence. “Racism is a form of violence that affects black people in multiple ways. Everyone reacts differently and sometimes the reaction is to do nothing. My response was to film and alert security,” she said.
In the video recorded by Jackeline, The couple is seen performing exaggerated imitations of monkeys, jumping and making characteristic noises. At one point, the woman pretends to pull something off her partner’s head and eat it, replicating another common monkey gesture.
Reactions and complaints
The event’s production team also condemned the couple’s attitude. “A scene like this is absolutely unacceptable in Pede Teresa. We received this video early today (Saturday) and disgust takes over our thoughts and words. Disgust. Disgust for all this whiteness disguised as peace and love that comes in samba,” the organizers wrote on their social networks.
It’s a statement, The organisers reaffirmed their commitment to the anti-racist struggle and expressed their intention to report the couple to the Civil Police. “Samba is a space of existence and resistance for black people. We don’t just have fun, we express our humanity and our ancestral culture. White people should be respectful and know that we will not tolerate this kind of behaviour in our samba,” they stressed.
Jackeline, who works in the office of Councilor Mônica Cunha (Psol), along with Pede Teresa’s production and lawyers from the Rio City Council’s Commission for the Fight against Racism, said that on Monday they will contact the Civil Police to formalize the complaint. The journalist hopes that the couple will face charges for the crime of racism.
“Racism is painful and brutal. It makes us question whether we should have reacted differently. It is so brutal that it makes us attack each other. I didn’t call the police at the time, but after reviewing the video, I knew I had to report it,” Jackeline commented on her social media.
In testimony Jackeline Oliveira said that the flagged casal imitating macaques in the samba dance was “extremely willing to commit a racist act.” The homem is a carioca and a woman would be an Argentine who is in the city participating in the Latin American Musical Education Forum.… pic.twitter.com/4SxzeYURkn
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Recognition and subsequent actions
During the day, followers of the Latin American Forum of Musical Education – Brazil Section profile identified the woman who appears in the videos as a participant in a recent event. The forum asked its Brazilian section to initiate an investigation process so that proceedings can be carried out in accordance with the law.
In a statement, the forum said: “Dear people who follow the Latin American Forum of Musical Education (FLADEM) and Fladem Brazil, videos of two white people imitating monkeys during a samba circle in Praça Tiradentes – Rio de Janeiro are being spread. One of these people participated in our XXVIII Latin American Seminar on Musical Education. We want to clarify that these individual acts have no relation to our activities and we categorically repudiate any act of racism.”
The International Board of Directors of FLADEM concluded its statement by reaffirming its commitment to sociocultural integration and solidarity, stressing that racism is a crime that must be vehemently repudiated.
RAONI ALVES
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