Racial quota is the greatest reparation policy in history, points out Anielle

The Minister of Racial Equality, Anielle Franco, said this Thursday (13) that the policy of racial quotas in universities was the greatest action taken by the Brazilian State to compensate for the damage caused to the black population over the last few centuries. “There’s nothing to discuss, it’s the biggest public policy of historical reparation in this country. Must go on. I don’t give up”, she said while participating in a congress promoted by philanthropic institutes and companies that sponsor this sector in the city of São Paulo. In addition to quotas, the minister said that she intends to expand the range of affirmative actions to different areas. “We think of a much bigger affirmative action plan, where we can guarantee access to culture. Where we can guarantee that we debate this extermination, the genocide of the black population, ”she added. The Minister of Racial Equality, Anielle Franco, participates in the 12th Gife Congress, with the theme Challenging Structures of Inequality, at the Latin America Memorial – Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil Anielle also commented on the difficulties to implement the policy that instituted that 30% of of trust from the federal government must be filled out by black people. “When we went to propose the 30% decree, we heard everything you can imagine – that it wouldn’t be possible, that it wasn’t the best idea. We hear everything, both from scholars and people who don’t work in the government, but who are always there, giving opinions”, she said. However, the minister said that she managed to guarantee the measure by directly sensitizing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “When I sat down to present the decree to President Lula, I told him: ‘President, we have no budgetary expenditure [com essa medida], but the political gain for the government and for you is unspeakable, immeasurable’”, he said about the decree that was published on March 21st. The action will help, according to the minister, to show that there are black people capable of occupying any position in the country. “To prove that we are very capable – not to have that story that we cannot hire black people – in all areas and places”, she emphasized. The objective is, according to the minister, for black people to occupy more and more spaces of power and reach, in the future, even the most important positions. “It also runs through a dream that Mari [vereadora Marielle Franco, irmã da ministra assassinada] there was, that I keep saying, which is for us to be able to elect a black vice-president or vice-president or president or president in this country.”

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