A big Brazilian retail chain called #MagazineLuiza announced that they are going to only allow black people to apply for their 2021's treinee program. The reason is to do justice due to the past of slavery and due to the institutional and systemic racism that many unfoundly claim to still exist.

ML belongs to a person who's a leftist was a strong supporter of the previous presidential administrations, so no one needs to wonder how in the world they would come to a such point.

#Brazil already has an antiracism law that keeps businesses from discriminating against people during a hiring process based on color, faith, gender, religion, etc, and also an #affirmativeaction law that defines quotas based on race at any kind of institution and also in businesses.

ML's program breaks both laws. It's a clear attempt to virtual signal and, we believe, an attempt to see the president or a secretary (minister) say something the media can use to label as racist and make news, but no one has made any annoucement about this and this is good.

Only people who are really supposed to be fighting this upfront and openly, like starting an investigation or a lawsuit, are doing so, like some representatives.

#racism #blacks #institutionalracism #systemicracism #blacklivesmatter #blm