World : (en) Anarkismo.net, Bananas and anti-racism: beyond irony by BrunoL (pt)

The right side of Barcelona and the Brazilian national team, Daniel Alves, starred in an 
episode where irony and spontaneous reaction gave rise to anti-racist debate worldwide. On 
Sunday, April 27, 2014, the whole world saw him eating a banana thrown Bahian this player 
for a Spanish club supporter (Valencian) Villareal, opposer Catalans. Daniel ate the 
banana and continued playing. Used irony to combat prejudiced attitude, applause and fans 
across the country. ---- His teammate, fellow playmaker and player selection, the former 
Santos Neymar, launched the campaign on twitter and immediately mobilized the media to 
millions of anonymous celebrity. Ready the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff former 
guerrilla, followed the steps via microblogging. In parallel, the commotion already racked 
by global murder of DG (Douglas Rafael Pereira da Silva), dancer warms Program (bastion of 
positive miscegenation and mestizaje Cheer apolitical), engaged the cast of the leading 
broadcaster in the end cause of prejudice racial.

For more commendable is that whenever any initiative in this sense it is necessary to 
qualify the debate and at least try to cross a more political agenda and less emotional. 
The slogan "We are all monkeys!" Will become a new icon of the culture industry, taking 
advantage of the bad timing of the Brazilian image abroad (with the systematic murder of 
african-Brazilian citizens), the Ministry of Tourism launched the # CopaSemRacismo, 
through millions of shares on social networks.

The result can be the same. On the one hand, becomes public attitude Daniel Alves, this 
generates endless adhesions, and serves as a discourse of legitimation for the portion of 
Brazilian society that sees integration as a positive factor. On the other hand, this same 
plot, most of which is apolitical, does not engage in the struggle for basic civil rights 
of african descent territorialized population. I speak of residents remaining Quilombo 
recognized and unrecognized, the contemporary version of favelas, slums, shacks, villages 
and suburbs endless. In this same struggle includes the agenda of the quota policy and the 
requirement that the Secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR) is more 
active and aggressive in defending the staves of the majority.

In the era of media coverage and the absence of a sector of massive black movement and in 
the streets, would most aggressive and a sports icon. Something similar to the role that 
fulfill the boxer Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), when in 1966 he refused to serve in the 
U.S. Army and go to the Vietnam war. Ali marked a historic moment, projecting the champion 
of the people (as they were known heavyweights in boxing) beyond the chatter and taunts 
that both marked.

We welcome the spontaneous reaction of professional athletes in general little or nothing 
accustomed to position themselves socially, even when oppression strikes. In this sense, 
overcome the paradigm of Pele off the field (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) is a small 
advance. But to celebrate an immediate and media engagement where hitchhiking all missing 
and hypocrites ever, would be a big mistake.

This country needs to reconnect with yourself, staring African slavery and Indian genocide 
like the Holocaust that befell our people. Definitely not with irony and humor that face 
planters, masters and overseers of the woods.
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