“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” Martin Luther King was revolutionary. Between the 50’s and the 60’s he fights for the black people rights. As time passed, many people joined him, like Nelson Mandela, not in the same place, but with the same goal. Their fight was against the racism presents in society, which remains until the current days.
We can notice the racism across the humanity history. The belieft in the existence of superiors and inferiors races has been used to justify the slavery and the genocides. In United States, after the civil war, the Ku Klux Klan was founded, an organization against all the black people, chasing and killing them. In the internet, bloggers in anonymous use a fake expression liberty to broadcast their racist ideas. In our country, not a long time agora, Marcelo from Brazil soccer team was called monkey by a fan and the journalist Maju, who presents the weather in Jornal Nacional, last week was called the same thing.
Even if the word “racism” just appeared and stood in the 20’s, the ideology started in the mid of the nineteenth century. According to the Aurélio dictionary, racism means “a system which affirms the superiority of a racial group over the others, professing, privately, the separation of them inside a country or even aiming the minority extermination. Racism isn’t a scientific theory, but an aggregation of preconceived opinions created by the humanity based on her intolerance.
For the people, race is about skin color, hair type and socioeconomic traces. Nothing more primary! Among the 6 billions people in Earth, excluding the monozygotic twins, no one is identical. People with the same skin color can present huge genetics divergencies, like a brazilian black compared to an australian native or an arabic. In the other size, similar genetics individuals, when submitted to different selective forces, can adquire a lot of appearance. We have about 30 thousands genes in our cells, and just dozens are responsible for our color or face size.
We can conclude that the racism isn’t a good thing, and it doesn’t exist in nature before the man, the sovereignty feeling and the intolerance. When the kids are born, they don’t present any kind of prejudice, including the racism, but the society transmits it to them. Ethical attitudes are assimilated very early by kids. It’s where the schools enter. The education and scholarity are fundamental factors to reduct the stereotypes and preconception and to aware people about ethic values and racial equality.
“The pianokeys are black and white, but they sound like a million colors in your mind.” — Maria Cristina Mena, The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena
Meu discurso em inglês para a finalização do livro da Wizard. Peguei vários textos e fontes, inclusive um do Drauzio Varella.
