BROWN is not BLACK, BROWN is MESTIZO

The Worker's Party (PT) government wants finish Mestizos off.
The Brazilian Brown-Mestizo Movement (Mestizo Nation) was in the General Committee convened by the Chamber of Deputies, in Brasilia, to discuss the Statute of Racial Equality, where the Multiracial representative criticized the project, denounces discrimination against Multiracials by the Brazilian government and droppist groups and the racial conflict between Blacks and Multiracials.
MR. LEÃO ALVES - I am very happy to be in this event, because there are treated much about the Black (preto) people and Brown people, but the Browns usually are not called to give their opinion about the issue. Usually, people decide by Browns. This is very interesting.
There are 3 points in the Statute of Racial Equality directly related to this issue. The Statute classifies all Brown as Black or Afro-descendant. Now, we know that at least in the Amazon region, which is not small - more than half the national territory - in the Amazon region, to be a Brown means, first of all, be a Multiracial "Caboclo", whose identity is not based on African origin. Their identity is based on the encounter of the Native Indigenous identity and the identity of the peoples of Europe.
This politics, by signal, has caused profound damage to the work that has been done to combat racism and discrimination against the Multiracial "Caboclos" population in the Amazon.
The Statute also goes against the Declaration of Durban, which, in General Matters, item 56, talks about the Multiracial people, born of the meeting of various ethnicities. And talks about something that is ocurring: The main way to deny these people, something that has occurred, that is to say they do not exist: "There is not Multiracial. There is not Brown."
There is a propaganda to prevent a person say that is a Brown. They say "brown" (pardo) comes from "sparrow" (pardal), but the word comes from the Latin "pardus", which means leopard. It is the deconstruction of identity, so that the person does not take as Multiracial or Brown.
A third point is the increasing of something that is already occurring in the Amazon. There is already ocurring a racial conflict between Blacks (negros) and Multiracial "Caboclos". The racial war will not be provoked by the Statute, no. It has begun.
Recently - by signal, this is already in the official site of the government, of the CONSEA - was drafted a letter in the Meeting of the Black and Communities of Terreiros of Roraima, that call for finish the law establishing the Mixed Race Day, adopted in the States of Amazonas and Roraima [https://www.planalto.gov.br/Consea/static/documentos/Outros/Carta_Roraima.pdf]. To protect us from this policy of destruction our identity, we had to create a legislation. The Multiracial Movement in Amazonas, Roraima and Paraiba States has conquest laws that create the Mixed Race Day.
Because it is need that people learn to respect the way other people identify theirselves. In the Amazon, this conflict occurs mainly in relation to "Caboclo" population. In the Amazon, it is good accent it, slavery was mainly of Indigenous and "Caboclo" populations. And more: the Indigenous slavery, in a sense, was far more violent than the slavery undertaken against Blacks. Why? Because the Indigenous was a national slave and African slave was a imported slave. If an Indigenous was killed, it was enough replace it with another. But the African, no, he costed dearly, because it was need to pay tax, rate.
Violence against Indigenous populations and "Caboclo" slaves in the Amazon was terrible, and this policy that classifies Brown as Black virtually transforms the Amazonian "Caboclos" in Blacks, which has no historical connection with the their cultural formation. This is a kind of statistic ethnocide. If I am not mistaken, in the site of the SEPPIR, in statistics on the Black population of the Amazon, they add up Black and Brown. But Brown and "Caboclos" do not exist only in the Amazon. From the coastline, in the direction of the border, the Multiracial population will increasingly assuming the characteristics of the descendants of Indigenous.
It's good accent it, in relation to identify Brown only as descendent of African, that in Amazon there is conflict between Mulattoes and Blacks now. A Mulatto girl was attacked by assuming be a Mulatto girl. The Mulattos are also suffering this process. They hear that "Mulatto" comes from "mule". But we know that the word comes from Latin "mulus", which means hybrid, or comes from the Arabic word "muwallad", which means Multiracial.
I am a Mulatto. This is my identity, and I demand respect for my choice.
Thank you.
Brasilia, Brazil, November 26, 2007.

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[Tyrfingr]

Brown is not Black, Brown is Brown.

[willoxbr]

Ganhou o meu respeito!!! Um brasileiro que conheceu sua LEGENDA...

[Marllon]

@paulolic You're highly misinformed. Most Brazilians are triracial mestiços, not biracial mestizos. It is much more common to find a triracial mestiço in Brazil than it is to come across a caboclo. Caboclos are a small minority, and there are less of them than triracial mestiços, mulattoes, and blacks.

[Marllon]

Also, the caboclo/mestizo population in Brazil is hardly visible in comparison to the populations of Afro-Caucasian and/or triracial descent. The overwhelming majority of Brazilian mestiços are a mix of African and Caucasian or a triracial mélange of African, Caucasian, and Amerindian.

[Marllon]

The title of this video is heavily misleading. Brazil has a very small mestizo population. Mestiço and mestizo are not the same thing.

Mestiço = Portuguese for mixed-race (encompassing any kind of racial admixture).

Mestizo = Spanish for a specific racial admixture of European and Amerindian backgrounds only

The Portuguese translation for 'mestizo' is caboclo.

This video is discussing politics concerning Brazilian MESTIÇOS, and not mestizos/caboclos.

[Apophisbr]

@paulolic pq vc não se define como branco ou índio? acho essa parada de misigenação... e do sujeito ser pardo, caboclo, cafuzo, marmeluco, ou sei lá o que uma forma de manipulação, um jeito dos brancos dividirem os outros grupos, não estou falando em termos genetico, mas sim em termos sociais...

[paulolic]

@Apophisbr Quanta tolice e preconceito. Não tem argumentos e escreve absurdos como este: "se são uma mistura de branco mais índio é só eles deciderem se são brancos ou índios ou negros". Quem é você para dizer a nós mestiços como devemos nos identificar?

[Apophisbr]

enquanto isso os brancos riem da cara desses otários, pois eles são uma espécie de capacho dos brancos, aqui tem um lugar chamado congreço nacional, lá é onde ficam os bandidos mais bem sucedidos do país, acho que lá no congreço tem cerca de 600 a 700 bandidos importante, que representam o "povo brasileiro" desses 700 nem 5 deles são negros, tem uns 10 mulatos, o resto é tudo "branco", quanto aos caboclos, se são uma mistura de branco mais índio é só eles deciderem se são brancos ou índios.

[Apophisbr]

ou negro, moro no Brasil, o que aconteçe aqui é que alguns "mulatos ou pardos" dizem ter uma identidade própria por serem mestiços, o preconceito aqui é muito grande contra negros, quando vão te descriminar não querem saber se você tem sangue branco, o que importa é a cor da sua pele, é isso que esses estúpidos não entendem,eles descriminam os negros, por isso querem ser pardo, para se diferenciarem dos negros e tentar ser parecidos com os brancos..

[comincents]

light brown is light brown

brown is brown

dark brown is dark brown

Browns unite

whiteys watch out