On the unfortunate events unfolded

Hi @ThisIsMerzo !

Glad we could meet this way, then maybe your awesome music can be heard and celebrated across the world.

You know, you are not to blame. We all are racists. In the end, deep down, we were born a certain color, certain part of land, certain culture. That identifies us as individuals, same as our fathers and our father’s fathers, our sisters, our brothers. So we all like our siblings, our equals. Expressing how much we like our culture is ok.

It is also ok to express the opposite. It opens our mind and liberates us for how we think and how we feel about those ones that actually didn’t had the same path of life as ourselves. To express any kind of disagreement or discomfort against other’s race, religion, culture, is also a good way to provide others a clear view to who we are, and allow them to judge our place in their lives.

So I would not consider you a racist, or a shitty individual, after all you are just like me, someone that still has a brilliant future ahead, and with a lot (really) to learn, and at the end, die with a smile across the face and a thank you from the bottom of the soul.

The way you will use this event for your future grown, as an individual and a leader which men and women will follow. If you will succeed it’s only up to you. Not to others. Not to anybody around you. Definitely not the Portuguese, whether they feed you, they clean after you, they build the houses you live or the cars you drive or the sidewalks you run on…

So from a 44 year old Portuguese man, who has learned to see people as they are and not as they behave, here’s my advice:

Seize the day and the opportunity as something to learn from, and make a better and positive tomorrow. So you don’t have to blame somebody else :)