There is no racism in Brazil, says Mourão when speaking of the death of a black man by beatings | Brazil

“It’s a shame that there. At first, security is not fully prepared for the work they have to do,” said Mourão, who was later asked if the case shows a problem of racism in Brazil. “For me, in Brazil there is no racism. This is something they want to import to Brazil. It does not exist here.”

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At the insistence of journalists, Mourão maintained his position by denying that there is racism in the country. “No. I’m telling you calmly. There is no racism here.”

Mourão said he lived in the United States in the 1960s, when there was a strong segregation of “colored” people in several American states. It was at that moment that he said for the third time that there is no racism in Brazil.

“I lived in the United States. Racism is there. I lived for two years in the United States. In my school where I lived there, people of color were separated,” he said. “I’ve never seen him here in Brazil. I left Brazil, I went to live there, I was a teenager, I was impressed there. This in the late 1960s. Even more: people of color sat behind the bus, not He sat in the front. This is racism. There is no such thing here. “

For Mourão, what exists in Brazil is “inequality.” “This is something that exists in our country. We have brutal inequality here, the result of a series of problems,” he said. “And most of the poorest people, who have less access to the goods and needs of modern society, are people of color, even though we are a totally mixed society.”

When asked why blacks are the most constant victims of police violence, Mourão responded. “This was not police violence. It is a security issue,” he said. “Naturally, that person who is socially disadvantaged, or who lives in an area that is more difficult to locate there, a slum, where they are exposed to the issue of organized crime, they are trafficked, all of this, most of the people who they live there, sadly, they are people of color. “

Later, the reporters reminded Mourão of the case in which a motorcycle messenger suffered racist insults by a resident of a condominium in Valinhos (SP). And they questioned whether this is not proof that there is structural racism in Brazil. “Today, this is not a structural thing. It is a personal thing,” he said. “I put it here clearly: I saw structural racism and I saw people who, for lack of education or for any other reason, treat other people in a way totally incompatible with life in society.”