Thread by @mariliacout

1/ About white privilege, checking one's privilege and what to do with it

Brazil is a predominantly brown country, considered to rank the highest or very high in the miscigenation rate

2/ Genetically, it still has European predominance (pretty mixed and browned):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

3/ Our Europeans, however, have strong Middle Eastern roots:

4/ But racism is strong and violent in Brazil, especially now. Neonazis in Brazil attack and kill Northeasterns and Indigenous people.

5/ I have a rare phenotype in Brazil: I'm white, blond (don't look at the profile, that's fake old woman's blond hair which is BTW now red) and I have green-grayish eyes. I was frequently considered a foreigner and international airport employees automatically speak English to me

6/ I did some digging and discovered that beyond the recent generations of aristocratic scum, down around the XVIth century, part of my descendents were Jewish. At that time, Isabel de Castilla and Ferdinand Aragon conducted the most massive persecution of Jews in Iberia

7/ The money stolen from Jews funded the American Invasion. The Jews that were in hiding at the Coutos and Coutinhos (look at my name) had two choices: convert or be chopped in pieces, their land salted.

8/ Why don't I look like other dark-skinned Sephardic Jews from Iberia? Great question: the Sagres Nautical school, which develope the fast boats that invaded the "New" World, was a "productive cultural exchange" with the Vikings.

9/ So, there you go: a bunch of blond Jews in Europe. Mystery solved. In Iberia, with a significant Scandinavian contribution. My immediate relatives who are conservative Catholics (also not typical of Brazil, where we have Liberation Theology), were insulted by my findings.

10/ Good! That's what I wanted: I wished there was a Hell because that's where some of them would be. One of my grandmothers was a psychopath who took pleasure in terrorizing and hurting her black servants' children. There is 25% of *that* blood running through my veins.

11/ Yes, there is "bad blood" inside me. I carry the invader, the slave owner, the torturer inside me. What should I do? CLEAN IT OUT. Do exactly and precisely what they wouldn't do. Undo all their evil until none of my potential descendants has to feel this anger.

12/ It is important to know our past. I couldn't be prouder of my parents, for example, who may have taken the iconoclastic mission a bit too far: they are hard atheists. But can you blame them? I will honor them forever.

13/ And I am committed to my very brown continent: Latin America. As for the disgusting people who contributed genes to me, I promise to live to destroy their doings. I reject them in full. And yes, I acknowledge #WhitePrivilege, #WhiteSupremacy and #WhiteViolence.

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