{"id":59849,"date":"2020-06-30T01:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T01:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59849"},"modified":"2020-06-30T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T01:18:09","slug":"in-brazil-the-death-of-a-poor-black-child-in-the-care-of-rich-white-woman-brings-a-racial-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59849","title":{"rendered":"In Brazil, the death of a poor black child in the care of rich white woman brings a racial reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Brazil, the death of a poor black child in the care of rich white woman brings a racial reckoning<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2020-06-28<\/p>\n

Terrence McCoy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nDemonstrators in Recife, Brazil<\/a>, demand justice for the death of 5-year-old Miguel Ot\u00e1vio Santana da Silva, the son of a black maid who fell from the ninth floor of a building while under the watch of his mother’s white employer. (Leo Malafaia\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

RIO DE JANEIRO<\/a> \u2014 In the early days of Brazil’s<\/a> coronavirus outbreak, when businesses and churches went dark, anyone who could stay home did. But not Mirtes Souza. She worked as a maid, and her duties cooking and cleaning for a wealthy family were to continue.<\/p>\n

One day this month, she left the luxury building to walk the family\u2019s dog, leaving her 5-year-old son, Miguel, in the care of her boss. But security footage broadcast widely in Brazil showed the woman leaving him unattended inside an elevator and the door closing.<\/p>\n

The boy rode it to the top of the building and wandered outside. When Souza returned from the walk, she found him crumpled on the pavement outside the luxury building. He\u2019d fallen nine floors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a domestic worker,\u201d Souza said in an interview. \u201cBut if I was white, and he\u2019d been white, would this have happened?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sar\u00ed Gaspar, Souza\u2019s employer, has been charged with culpable homicide in the death of Miguel Ot\u00e1vio Santana da Silva. She has asked for Souza\u2019s forgiveness in a public letter…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The alleged negligence of a wealthy white woman entrusted with a poor black child has helped kindle a nationwide reckoning over racism in a country that has traditionally claimed to be largely free of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,459,8,26,23674,394],"tags":[30946,30947,30948,30945,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-59849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-socialscience","tag-miguel-otavio-santana-da-silva","tag-mirtes-souza","tag-sari-gaspar","tag-terrence-mccoy","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59849","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=59849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59851,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59849\/revisions\/59851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}