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Another black man was horrifically murdered in Brazil. Last Thursday, João Alberto Silveira Freitas, 40, was beaten to death by the securities of the international franchise of supermarkets, Carrefour, in Porto Alegre.

This happened the day before our national Black Consciousness day, that in some cities can be considered a holiday (by the way, it's a holiday here in São Paulo City). This sparkled a wave of protests across Brazil, where the protesters went to stores of the said market to say enough is enough. Like some protests from Black Lives Matter, there were some looting (which I don't condemn at all) and of course, the media's coverages classified that as acts of "vandalism", as if the killing of Black people isn't a big deal and stores/material stuff are far more important than a person's life.

As if this whole situation isn't fucked up enough, our vice president, Hamilton Mourão said "racism doesn't exists in Brazil" and as far as I know, Bolsonaro hasn't said a word about this (and knowing his reputation, I know it'll be something worst than what his VP said).

Lewis, once again, is using his platform to talk about important issues and I'm so here for it. Thank you, Lewis. Everyone needs to know that in Brazil, we have George Floyds being killed everyday, be it by the police, mall/markets securities or our racist system as a whole.

I haven't found any link about this in English, so I'm just translating things I read/heard about this awful case. There's this post with a video with the looting but nothing else.

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In the country where we still ask ourselves who killed Marielle, and have not brought into justice any of the alleged conspirators, a country that fought a few years ago for justice for Amarildo, another black man tortured, murdered and dumped by the police, now we have João Alberto, who was murdered inside a supermarket for… being black.

He was only 40. He had 4 children. He was planning to marry. He had suffered an injury at work and did odd jobs to survive besides receiving a pension. He was saving money to buy a vehicle to transport food for companies and supplement his income. He was black. 

He said he couldn’t breathe. He begged to breathe. He begged for help. No one did. His soon to be wife watched him die, not being able to stop the men from beating him. No one helped.

João Alberto was not stealing. He paid and was leaving the supermarket. They alleged that he started the fight, when in the video cameras of the supermarket only shows he was caught being dragged back inside beaten by two white men. 

What made the men beat him to death? A joke he made, playfully. Apparently, only white people can make inoffensive jokes and get to still live in this country.

To my Brazilian followers: the reason I am writing this is English and not Portuguese is so this can reach out to more people outside this country. This needs to be known by other people, Brazil needs to recognize its racism. More people should know about this. Racism is still killing people all over the world and people need to be held accountable. It has been a long time coming, countries need to unite and discuss their problems with racism and come up with better legislation for this hate crime and to help end systemic racism, helping people of color that get stuck in poverty, marginalized because of their skin.

This story should not be national news. It should be international. 

This is shameful and absurd. It is depressing. But it must no be ignored while we pretend things get better. It must be dealt with, people must be held accountable, justice should be done for so many people, not only those who come to the media. There are billions suffering right now because of racism and xenophobia. 

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