The country is currently experiencing one of the most difficult times in its recent history in health, social and economic terms. "Normality" is being questioned. More than ever, there is a need to change values, to break the paradigms of the naturalization of inequalities and discrimination.

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the depth of social and racial inequality. The people who are least able to protect themselves from the disease are the black population, who are unemployed, who live from informal commerce, who live in areas without basic sanitation, without hospitals, with few beds to treat any illness. The black women, who are responsible for caring for the sick, the elderly and children, are the ones who have been most exposed to contagion in order to provide minimal support for their families. Once infected, they are the group that dies most from Covid-19 or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Most have not even had access to a Covid test. black women still has to sew their own masks to protect themselves and their families, as there are not enough masks available for the population. They promote community solidarity actions in the favelas, collecting and distributing food and basic hygiene and health materials.

European colonization by slavery imposed toxic ideas, mentalities and structures on the country, the same on which Brazilian society is still based today, generating and perpetuating all kinds of violence against the black population on a daily basis, exploiting their labour and expropriating their knowledge and culture.

This year's events demonstrate the brutality of this violence: Jenifer Gomes, 11, shot in front of her house; Kauan Peixoto, 12, shot in the back and in the face; Kaue dos Santos, 12, shot in the head; Agatha Felix, 8, shot in the back inside a van; Kethellen Gomes, 5, and Kauã Rozario, 11, both shot; João Pedro Pinto, 14, shot inside his house and taken away by police in a helicopter. They all have in common the fact that they are black children, poor, live in favelas or neighborhoods without infrastructure, are the children of black mothers, are the head of the family and are victims of public security policies and practices. What's more, these cases tend to go absolutely unpunished. What kind of justice is this? Is this normal? Is it normal for the police, the institution with the mission of keeping the peace and guaranteeing the lives of citizens, to be responsible for almost 6,000 deaths a year? In Rio de Janeiro alone, more than 78% of people killed in police action in 2019 are black people and brown, and of these, 43% are young black men. None of this is fair or normal.

Brazil has the largest black population outside Africa. Unlike the USA, Brazil has a majority black population. How is it possible that in universities the majority of students are white? And in politics? In municipal, state and federal legislatures? And in the courts, regional or higher, how is it possible that we have so few black people?
In the private sector, in large national or foreign companies and corporations based in Brazil, why are there so few black people?