Brazilian politician Fabiana Bolsonaro used blackface to make a statement on a transgender lawmaker.
São Paulo Legislative Assembly lawmakers are calling for Bolsonaro to be removed, filing a complaint with the Ethics Council following a plenary session during which she applied blackface as a form of protest. She was speaking out against the appointment of transgender federal lawmaker Erika Hilton.
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NEW: Brazilian politician Fabiana Bolsonaro performs blackface to show trans people that putting dark foundation on her face doesn’t make her black, just like changing your body doesn’t make you a different gender.
The incident was reportedly a protest against the appointment of… pic.twitter.com/ia631G3lH3
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“As a white person, everything I’ve experienced as a white person, I’ve decided to put on makeup to dress up as a black person. To cover myself up and let only the outside show,” she said, according to a translated version of the video. “and here I ask, so what now? Have I become black? I felt society’s contempt for a black person who should have never existed. I ask you, the ones watching me, as I paint myself black, I feel firsthand the pain that a black person has felt because of racism. Because of not being able to get a job. I actually have an aunt who, before the 1990s, went looking for a job, and she is black. She said that during the job interview she did great, but then the people conducting the interview said the following: ‘You’re great, I’d really like to hire you, but you’re black, and here we don’t hire black people.’”
“And so I ask you, am I black now? I’m feeling the pain of a mother who has a son who suffers everything he suffers on the streets because he’s black. Isn’t that it? The struggle. This is exactly what I want to show,” she continued. “There’s no point in me putting on makeup, I don’t know the pain you’ve gone through. There’s no point in me pretending. I don’t know the pain that black women at that federal government event felt when they slept in the stable. But right now I’m not black. I’m painted black on the outside. Come on, I identify as black. So why can’t I, then, chair the commission on racism, the anti-racism commission? Why can’t I advocate for this? Why can’t I address this issue?”
“And then I see, I come and tell you, do you know why I can’t address this issue? Because I’m not black. I don’t know the pain at the core that these people felt, the tears that fell, I don’t know what they went through, I can only imagine. I imagine with great anger what they went through, the pain they experienced. But I don’t know what they went through in my essence, because I’m not black,” Bolsonaro added. “And here, now, taking off this makeup, I tell you, as a woman, I am a woman. It’s no use dressing up as a woman and I’m not here to offend transgender people; quite the contrary, I’m saying ‘I am a woman. I want to be seen as a woman – The woman of the year cannot be transgender. Because this is taking away. For example, the woman who invented the vaccine to help people walk again after an accident – she is a woman, but someone took her spot to put a transgender woman as woman of the year. So what I’m saying here is that transgender people must be respected, yes. We’re seeing the biggest increase in history in the murder of transgender people, and they must be respected, yes. I do not want any trans person to face and kind of prejudice. I don’t want any trans person to be murdered for being trans, nor to be discriminated against for being trans. But I also don’t want any trans person to take my place. Where is that? It’s not my place to speak. I am a woman.”
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