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Cousin9999:
In Brazil, thousands of people took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and more than a dozen other cities across the country over the weekend, demanding justice for Moïse Kabagambe, a 24-year-old Congolese refugee who was beaten to death last month. Kabagambe was attacked on January 24 after he demanded back pay from two days of work at a Rio de Janeiro beach kiosk where he served beverages. Security footage shows three men repeatedly beating Kabagambe with a club and a baseball bat over the course of 13 minutes.

Oswaldo Sergio Mendes: “The Brazilian state is racist. It is a Nāzi state. It is a homophobic and xenophobic state. And it has to stop. We are here at this huge protest in solidarity with all the families who suffered these barbaric crimes.”

Kabagambe’s family left Congo and fled to Brazil in 2011, when he was a child.

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/8/headlines/brazilian_antiracist_protesters_demand_justice_for_immigrant_killed_over_unpaid_wages

Moise’s brutal murder exposed the precariousness faced by African refugees in Brazil. In addition to racism, they suffer from contempt for their origin. Many African immigrants have higher education and doctor’s degrees, are multilingual, but cannot find work and end up accepting any function, even carrying stones, in order to support their families.

The Brazilian usually denies the racism that covers our entire society. When he was a presidential candidate, someone asked the far-right and current president what he would do if one of his sons married a black woman. Bolsonaro, who says he is not a racist, gave an answer that clarifies what the majority of the people of the country he presides over thinks: “There is no risk, my children were well educated.”

There are cases, however, that expose racism more clearly than others: in August 2009, Januario Alves de Santana was detained in a Carrefour supermarket as he was preparing to leave in a new car. Five security employees brutally assaulted him, accusing him of stealing the car. Almost beaten to a pulp, the young man was rescued and taken to a hospital. And then it was learned that he had just bought the car in 72 monthly installments.

Originalsly:
Brazil is pretty much like the "Jim Crow" era of the US .... Blacks are half humans. Argentina ... land of 'Messi the Great' ... wayyyy worse.

Cousin9999:
All of South and Central America is trash except Guyana.

Originalsly:
Not really... they are all wayyy more developed than Guyana but when it comes to the rights of Blacks ... no comparison to Guyana... Suriname ... French Guiana ... Belize and Panama.

Nicoswit:
walkbrazil4k this happened in brazil