Estatuto da igualdade racial: uma tentativa de indenização racial no Brasil?

Abstract

In our daily lives and even more, in the historical roots of Brazil it turns out that it is a racist country and therefore still deeply prejudiced and discriminatory. In this sense, the study understands that the need for and emergence of Law No. 12,288 of June 20, 2010 (with approximately a decade of existence), entitled by the Statute of Racial Equality is timely. A legal policy of affirmative action that refers there are a set of other rights necessary for there to be a minimum of reparation in the process of excluding blacks in more than 400 years of history in Brazil (Cologne, Empire and much of republican history). Thus, methodologically the study after a bibliographic deepening of history sought to focus on the content of the Statute and highlight its relevance to a real implementation process, even if still late and concurrently unfavorable. We highlight a process to which Brazil has a huge debt to the black population. Speaking in a country with democracy requires reflecting on its history. The history of Brazil's development and growth is stained by blood and pain of innocent black people. Although there are reports that slavery was "mild" and/or that it has indeed ended, we find that in many respects related to equal rights, opportunities and conditions, not yet. It only modernized, as we sought to elucidate in the examination and highlight of the Statute of Racial Equality as an attempt at redress.