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With the largest population of African descendants outside Africa itself, Brazil was the very last country to abolish slavery in "the new world" And Brazil has the reputation of having one of the most murderous police forces on the planet which appears to be in competition for highest kill rate with the organized crime there. And that was before Bolsonaro was elected president.
On 9/11/2018, a court panel voted 3-2 on Tuesday to drop a racism accusation against Jair Bolsonaro, who leads polls ahead of October’s elections and was stabbed and injured last week during a campaign event.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled the candidate had the right to voice rude and disrespectful opinions toward blacks in a 2017 speech.
Bolsonaro said at the time that members of rural settlements founded by the descendants of slaves, called “quilombolas,” are “not good even to procreate.” He also talked about the weight of those slave descendants using a measure that Brazilian farmers apply to animals.
https://www.newscenter1.tv/i/brazil-top-court-spares-leading-candidate-from-racism-trial-2/
Bolsonaro’s triumph will leave many millions of progressive Brazilians profoundly disturbed and fearful of the intolerant, right-wing tack their country is now likely to take.
Over nearly three decades in politics, he has become notorious for his hostility to black, gay and indigenous Brazilians and to women as well as for his admiration of dictatorial regimes, including the one that ruled Brazil from 1964 until 1985.
“The extreme right has conquered Brazil,” Celso Rocha de Barros, a Brazilian political columnist, told the election night webcast of Piauí magazine. “Brazil now has a more extremist president than any democratic country in the world ... we don’t know what is going to happen.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/oct/28/brazil-election-2018-second-round-of-voting-closes-as-bolsonaro-eyes-the-presidency-live?
With the largest population of African descendants outside Africa itself, Brazil was the very last country to abolish slavery in "the new world" And Brazil has the reputation of having one of the most murderous police forces on the planet which appears to be in competition for highest kill rate with the organized crime there. And that was before Bolsonaro was elected president.
This isn't going to start well, be well, or end well.
Read more about how extreme poverty and rampant corruption has led way too many black and brown people ratcheting up their toxic masculinity angst by voting for Bolsonaro anyway. https://theintercept.com/2018/10/18/jair-bolsonaro-elections-brazil-police-brutality/
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