{"id":43950,"date":"2015-11-13T02:36:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T02:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43950"},"modified":"2017-04-14T01:42:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T01:42:58","slug":"brazils-black-lives-matter-struggle-even-deadlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43950","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s &#8216;Black Lives Matter&#8217; struggle \u2014 even deadlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-11-03\/brazils-black-lives-matter-struggle-even-more-dire\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil&#8217;s &#8216;Black Lives Matter&#8217; struggle \u2014 even deadlier<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/programs\/aglobalpost\" target=\"_blank\">GlobalPost<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\" target=\"_blank\">Public Radio International<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-03<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willcarless.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Carless<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The police committed more than 1 in every 6 of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\">Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s<\/a> homicides between 2010 and 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And 4 out of 5 of those who are slain overall were under 29 years old \u2014 and of African descent.<\/p>\n<p>These startling figures come from an analysis of official homicide data by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/news\/press-releases\/brazil-lowering-age-of-adult-criminal-responsibility-will-consign-children-to-medieval-prison-system\" target=\"_blank\">Amnesty International<\/a>. The problem spans far beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\">Rio<\/a>, and more recent incidents have raised concern that it&#8217;s not going away.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, five police officers in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\">Rio de Janeiro<\/a> were arrested after a cellphone video showed them altering a crime scene by placing a gun in the hands of a black teen they had just shot dead.<\/p>\n<p>Echoing United States movements like <a href=\"http:\/\/blacklivesmatter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">#BlackLivesMatter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/rise-october-nyc-police-brutality-protest-results-multiple-arrests-report-2155195\" target=\"_blank\">#RiseUpOctober<\/a>, activists in Brazil are fighting to draw attention to the problem of killings of young black Brazilian men, frequently by police. One of the leading local movements is Amnesty International\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/anistia.org.br\/campanhas\/jovemnegrovivo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jovem Negro Vivo<\/a>,\u201d meaning \u201cYoung Black Alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of several awareness campaigns that are also aiming to dismantle a stricture that&#8217;s long existed in the country: a reluctance to talk about important social issues in terms of race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> to point out racism,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inesc.org.br\/biblioteca\/textos\/alexandre-ciconello\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandre Ciconello<\/a>, a human rights expert and adviser to Amnesty in Rio de Janeiro. \u201cIt\u2019s a taboo for the elite of the country and for politicians and authorities. They always say \u2018Brazil is a mixed country, we are not the US, we are not South Africa,\u2019 and if you raise racial questions, you\u2019re seen as trying to separate that.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article and listen to the story\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-11-03\/brazils-black-lives-matter-struggle-even-more-dire\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police committed more than 1 in every 6 of Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s homicides between 2010 and 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,83,21,1467,8,26,23674],"tags":[21883,21885,16382,7162,21884,21882],"class_list":["post-43950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","tag-alexandre-ciconello","tag-jose-mariano-beltrame","tag-pri","tag-public-radio-international","tag-theresa-williamson","tag-will-carless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53510,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43950\/revisions\/53510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}