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Present Tense, Ep. 07 - Racist Inequality
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Present Tense addresses contemporary Brazilian themes from the experience of two characters and the analysis of a researcher expert in the subject.
Throughout the season, the series addresses topics such as the impact of pesticide use, violence against the LGBTQIA+ population, violence against women, structural racism, precarious work, fake news, the importance of Public Healthcare, and demarcation of indigenous lands, among others.
Citation
Main credits
Mac Niven, Rodrigo (film director)
Rios Corrêa, Clarice (screenwriter)
Oliveira, Juliana (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Rodrigo Mac Niven; editing, Gabriel Medeiros, Felipe Bibian, Renato Martins.
Distributor subjects
Sociology; South America; Latin American Studies; Race + Ethnicity; Afro-LatinKeywords
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My father said that I
asked him some questions
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that were very interesting.
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\"Why aren\'t there any
people of my color
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On TV?\"
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If I ask here who has
already been attended
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by a black dentist, for
example, has anyone ever been?
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I remember as if it were today
how they looked at me.
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It was a look of judgment.
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I was the only black member of the team.
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He just stood there, looking at me,
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I don\'t know, I think he
didn\'t believe that
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a dreaded person could be
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a dentist.
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And as my father always said:
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\"You are black, you will have difficulty,
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but you don\'t have to bow
your head to anyone\".
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More than half of the Brazilian population
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declares herself black,
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but inequality in the labor market is huge,
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mainly in executive positions.
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The challenges to solving these problems...
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I didn\'t have this perception
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of the race issue.
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When I arrived, I saw myself as
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one of the few blacks on
the course and campus.
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At first it causes some discomfort,
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but became stronger after graduation,
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that I started to face the job market
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even specializing,
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doing the two-year residency,
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I had this insertion difficulty.
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And it was in this period of
residency that these race issues
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and social classes arose,
even more so because of the
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contact with a more vulnerable population.
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Every black person has their moment
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to understand yourself as black
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and how that body belongs to society.
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Since, in my family,
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no one was a dentist
no one had an office
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so I needed to have ways to stand out
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somehow being one of the best, right?
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Everything I could do to
improve myself more
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I was hugging.
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It might have been a way to protect me
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in this relationship of races
within the institution.
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There were students there who, for example,
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graduated, they already had an office ready.
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So I needed to acquire all the tools possible
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so that when I left,
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I could also have my space in the market.
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The selection processes required,
in addition to graduation,
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in addition to specialization,
a master\'s degree, a doctorate...
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I\'m here finishing a work
for the master\'s degree,
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which is in health in the
work environment.
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I still have to prepare
a speech, it\'s 10 minutes.
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The general theme is \"Men\'s health\"
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and I\'m going to participate
in a table that\'s about...
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the health of black, trans and albino men.
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I started working with my
father when I was 14 years old.
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I was his office boy.
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He was the dispatcher, I was his backup.
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I walked through all the shops,
went to all the registry offices,
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all public bodies.
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In the morning I went to
school and in the afternoon,
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he came for lunch and I went with him.
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And when I was on vacation, I worked.
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He used to say: \"Black, really,
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have to value itself, study, work
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and have dignity, seek
recognition as a person,
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as a professional, seek the rights\".
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My dad didn\'t go to college.
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He studied Accounting Technician.
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My mother didn\'t have a chance
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in fact, she didn\'t study, right?
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And then she became a housewife.
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Today she works as a domestic worker.
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After my father passed away, she was, like, sad
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and depressed, she said:
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\"How am I going to put food inside the house?\".
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My brothers were out of work,
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I was an intern at the time he passed away,
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so I took care of her.
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She was really...
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clueless.
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So, I gave guidance...
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The income was mine.
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Today, as an analyst,
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I take care of marketing actions,
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I am responsible for the budget part,
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which is the part where you review all the costs
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of the campaign, any action you are going to take.
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And I\'m responsible for the call center,
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I supervise the team as a whole
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and I\'m the second person
in the department,
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looking to become a manager
of a mall in the chain...
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In Brazil, of every 10
days of our history,
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seven were under slavery.
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This leaves a deep imprint
on working relationships,
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since it was through work that
slavery expressed itself,
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in its initial form,
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precisely, in the economic interests
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of European powers, particularly Portugal,
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in the Brazilian case.
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And this, then, is part of this mortar
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that make up the institutions today
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in the country.
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In addition to contemporary discrimination
and manifestations of racism,
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which precisely feed back
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this structural logic, in this case, Brazilian.
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When I arrive, the first thing I do
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is to check emails,
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see what event is happening.
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Then I go down, I go to the mall,
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I see how everything is, if something is missing,
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or if it\'s ok, if I can play another campaign
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which will start later.
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it\'s a very dynamic routine,
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marketing is that.
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The non-qualification issue
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is heard by the black population
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since May 14, 1888.
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Because this work served and very well
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throughout the period of slavery
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It was at the moment that it becomes
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wage earner that, all of a sudden, we have
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a non-qualification of the black population.
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So you\'ve got a narrative that\'s needed
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to bring to Brazil the European immigrant
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to qualify.
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And several scholars
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demonstrate that the Europeans who arrived,
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with few exceptions, they also did not have
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all this qualification that was shouted, right?
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Who printed this one?
It was her, was it?
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Yes.
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The truth had its whitening project,
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a project linked to eugenic visions
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which were very much in evidence at the time.
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And today we have the result of it all
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and a renewal of this discourse
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in a contemporary way
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which is, again, the idea
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that there are no qualified people.
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I graduated in Administration
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with qualification in Marketing.
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In this journey of seeking an internship,
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I felt uncomfortable in one of the selections.
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The way they treated me, the questions,
the way they looked at me,
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made me intimidated.
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I was the only black of that selection.
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At the time, I had curly hair,
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and all the people who were with me
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their hair was either straightened,
or they were straight hair,
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And then I said: \"I\'m going
to straighten my hair,
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I\'ll have to do it, against my will,
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to get a better job,
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to see if now they don\'t look at me wrong,
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don\'t look at me differently.\"
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And I worked at some other companies
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and there were people who didn\'t
treat me like a person...
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They passed and didn\'t see me,
they made me invisible.
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It\'s very sad, isn\'t it?
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I felt it was because of the color,
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I was the only black one actually
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in the administrative sector.
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I took it home to tell,
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then my sister: \"And you want to
stop straightening your hair?
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Are you seeing it?\".
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\"But I can\'t take it anymore
relaxing, brushing...\"
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It doesn\'t belong to me, I don\'t
think it was my identity.
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The sign that it is possible
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you express all your identity
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in something that is so yours,
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like your hair, isn\'t it?
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In addition to all the issues we discuss
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the phenotype of a black person,
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without it being connected
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to failure, to an idea of no ascension,
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because obviously it
impacts mental health
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of black people,
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this makes them more depressed,
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them quit jobs,
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many times, for this aversion
of this work environment
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to their own blackness,
which is an issue for Brazil.
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Brazil is obviously not resolved
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with its blackness, with its Africanness.
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We know that certain themes
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are not addressed in
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regular undergraduate classes.
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For example, if I think about the
health of the black population,
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in my undergraduate course in
dentistry, I saw very little.
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If I ask here who has already
managed to be attended
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by a black dentist, for example,
has anyone ever been?
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By a doctor?
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There are so many of us and, in the
space of the health work market,
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we are invisible.
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It makes us think, right?
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Society imposes that our aesthetics,
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our hair, our color
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does not match the health area.
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I could realize,
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through social networks and talking to people,
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that, more and more, people were looking for
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black health professionals
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and they weren\'t finding it.
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So I took some of my life
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and some of these conversations, of these analyzes
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of social networks and I started to think,
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and if there was a place where people,
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mainly blacks could
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find those professionals they want?
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Today the black person feels represented,
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welcome, heard, looked at.
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We understand that the person
who is going to seek
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the professional is handing
over their body, their mind,
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to someone who needs to take care of them
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and needs to understand, look, welcome, touch.
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The touch issue was much discussed.
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Afrohealth is a platform
that connects patients
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to black health professionals.
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I remember now an experience I had,
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that I finished attending a gentleman,
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I think he was around 60, 70 years old,
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and he said he was going to
leave the office very happy,
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because, for the first time,
he had been attended by
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a black doctor.
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It shouldn\'t be a surprise to
see a black man in a lab coat,
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or in an office, etc.
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So we even deconstruct it, right?
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This way.
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Well, that\'s it.
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Afrohealth is being built with great care.
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And that\'s a way too
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to point out ways of the future
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for the next generation.
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Almost 70% of people
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who start an enterprise are black.
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Seven out of 10 new deals
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are also created by the black population in Brazil.
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Fine. Here\'s what I thought was unread.
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I thought it was from my cell phone.
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It was unread.
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We had the idea and needed to see
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whether it made sense to other people.
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Whether people would use the product.
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So we created the online form
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and posted on social media.
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\"Guys, I\'m creating a platform
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that connects patients to black
healthcare professionals.
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We want to understand the
needs of the population
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who can use this service.
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Could you fill in?\"
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And this form began to be shared
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and filled
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both by professionals and patients.
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The black population is used to
make entrepreneurships historically,
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but often
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due to lack of employment opportunities.
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So, there are several dimensions
that need to be placed
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for entrepreneurship to be a possibility.
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So, we\'re talking about
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a precariousness of work
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due to a lack of decent employability,
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something that can give support
and give happiness too
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for the person who is working.
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And there are several initiatives
that aim at another place,
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a really dreamy place,
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a place where the person also
has all the legitimacy
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to develop.
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And, in this process, I
discovered Vale do Dende,
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like a business school
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that has this Acceleration program.
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And then we were selected for Acceleration,
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and we receive mentorships, consulting,
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on marketing, legal aspects,
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financial.
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We present the final PIT where we compete for
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a value that is seed investment.
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In addition, there is intrinsic motivation,
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that is needed here, now.
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It\'s not... ah, I felt like it,
I\'m just going to make money.
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I know it isn\'t.
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You who are going through a process like this
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have a much greater motivation, and I wanted
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you to share this with us.
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How are we going to do the
first part of the training?
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You have four minutes to present...
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Vale do Dende is a social holding
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which aims to foster the ecosystem
of innovation and creativity,
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with a focus on diversity.
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This initiative was created in 2016,
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but it started from an anguish
of more than 10, 15 years,
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of four partners,
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we saw, especially in Salvador,
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a huge waste of talent.
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When Vale do Dende was created,
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our great ambition was to reposition Salvador
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as the most creative capital in the country,
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aiming to provoke the creative economy ecosystem,
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for this ecosystem to be strengthened
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and thus enter the radar of large companies
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and major national and
global investments as well.
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We have as our main objective
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to foster the local Afro-
entrepreneurship ecosystem
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much for considering that
it is an ecosystem
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that is still not on the
radar of these companies
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for many reasons.
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The very fact of saying \"afro-entrepreneur\"
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is already a narrative that still needs to exist
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because of all the processes, right?
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Whether silenced, veiled or structural racism
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that we live, right?
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In four minutes,
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I will have the cell phone facing you
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Good afternoon. My name is Arthur Lima
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and I will present about Afrohealth,
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connecting black patients and
healthcare professionals.
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We realize that most
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of these entrepreneurs, who are people
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extremely creative, resilient,
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because they go through several issues,
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of social vulnerabilities,
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but are not seen as experts,
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are not credited as entrepreneurs.
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So, that way, they stay out of investments,
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credit and, above all, training.
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So, when we created the Accelerator,
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our goal was precisely to bring
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ammo, bring a strengthening
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to enhance what already existed.
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We are about 114 million inhabitants
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across Brazil,
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We move about one trillion reais per year
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and we received about 1,200 reais less
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than white professionals.
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And we only hold about 800
high-profile positions.
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And that\'s why Afrohealth was born.
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We want to make an impact
by fighting racism,
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promote quality health
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and encourage the Black Money movement,
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the idea of consuming where
I see myself represented.
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Thanks.
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I\'ve already changed a few things, okay?
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The Diversity Seal program,
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which is a program that
dialogues with companies
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so the companies are committed
to the city of Salvador,
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to carry out projects, actions,
activities and programs
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to combat racism in the labor market.
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When we present to companies
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the Diversity Seal,
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we say it is a way of dialoguing
with the organization,
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regardless if at that
moment it does any action
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to combat racism.
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So companies need to
present an annual plan
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with actions that will respond
to this demand from society.
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Once this plan is approved,
the company has one year
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to effect this.
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At the end of the year,
this plan is evaluated
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and the company may or may not
have renewed this certification.
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Over the years, several companies
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have noticed how much difference
it can make to implement
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policies and practices in this regard.
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And the difference from
an ethical point of view,
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of relationships and how they
take place internally,
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but from an economic point
of view as well.
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There are several studies,
from Harvard Business Review,
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American Sociological Review, Mackenzie,
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who have also studied this topic.
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These studies will show that companies
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that promote racial equity
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and they are the best in this promotion
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tend to have more expressive results,
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from an economic point of view
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than the average of it\'s industry.
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This here is what? December?
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My father said that I asked him some questions
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that were very interesting.
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\"Why aren\'t there any people of my color
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On TV?\"
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He spoke like this:
\"People don\'t hire,
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they don\'t give a chance\".
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He gave excuses.
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Then you start to wonder
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and then you will understand the whole story
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of the black people, all the suffering,
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the history of Brazil...
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The history... is, really...
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I always liked history,
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and the history of Brazil is sad,
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of the blacks who came to Brazil,
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how it was done.
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It\'s really sad.
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So nowadays when you see a person
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who represents you on television,
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or anywhere,
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or when you arrive to deliver a resume
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and you are greeted by a person who is black,
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you say: \"Here I will have an opportunity\".
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But if you enter a company
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in which you don\'t see a person who represents you,
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you say: \"This is not my place\".
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And you sabotage yourself.
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In general, in institutions,
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white employees access jobs
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through referrals.
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The same surveys will show
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that, in the case of blacks who
are in these same companies,
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the form of access is by public posting,
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either by internet,
democratized means of access.
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And that implies saying
that you having a population
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almost completely white
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within an institution,
if it makes the nominations,
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the tendency is that they are people
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that form part of the same coexistence,
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who have the same cultural background
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and in many cases it will be white people,
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most of the time, like
those already in the companies.
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This one, I was questioning you,
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because then there is no TV charge
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with this balance, because
the other TV has no balance.
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When we think about executive positions,
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all the stereotyping comes in too.
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The black is not thought
for the place of decision,
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executive of a particular company,
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because the black is not
seen by many companies
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like the one able to lead teams,
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processes, make decisions
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Acceleration is being a
very interesting process,
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it\'s intense,
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but it is interesting, extremely gratifying.
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So the person, Arthur and Afrohealth
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who entered Acceleration,
it will be completely different
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when it comes out.
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For us, it was a matter of necessity,
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to have a social impact, right?
And an opportunity too.
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We do this last feedback process, right?
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You see yourself, for example,
bringing in a data asset,
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like business, you know?
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This is an asset that you
are not considering.
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Did you understand?
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-I understood.
-The data issue.
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Yes.
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In how many months will you be able to deliver
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this platform, after resources arrive?
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That\'s not clear.
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This, in a way, leaves it very loose.
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From the moment you can recognize
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a problem, bring a solution
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and from that,
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have a different look and have, above all,
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a path of sustainability, this is social business
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and this is afro-entrepreneurship.
00:22:32.851 --> 00:22:34.019
Thanks!
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-Thanks.
-Thanks a lot.
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It was a very rich day,
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some feedbacks a little harsh,
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but that\'s how it is, we need to absorb
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and I go home to rest a little,
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and then improve the presentation
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and be prepared for the last day.
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Afrohealth was one of the 5 selected to the seed investment
of R$10 thousand from Vale do Dende Acceleration program.
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Race relations and overcoming racism,
00:23:14.593 --> 00:23:16.795
everything that involves this theme,
00:23:16.795 --> 00:23:19.865
is a discussion of Brazilian society,
00:23:19.865 --> 00:23:22.067
it\'s a discussion of another country
00:23:22.067 --> 00:23:24.336
that we want to build
00:23:24.336 --> 00:23:27.139
and, therefore, is the place of
whites in this discussion.
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One must look at what it means to be white
00:23:30.175 --> 00:23:32.711
in a racist country, historically and today.
00:23:32.711 --> 00:23:40.519
what does that mean and
what, as a white person,
00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:43.355
it is possible to do
00:23:43.355 --> 00:23:45.757
for a society that is anti-racist.
00:23:45.757 --> 00:23:47.959
It is not enough to be neutral.
00:23:47.959 --> 00:23:50.195
You have to be anti-racist.
00:23:50.695 --> 00:23:52.564
That\'s the only way we\'ll
build another one
00:23:52.564 --> 00:23:54.633
development model,
00:23:54.633 --> 00:23:56.701
another model of society,
00:23:56.701 --> 00:24:00.172
in which everyone feels,
in fact, included.
00:24:02.808 --> 00:24:04.643
When people know what I do,
00:24:04.643 --> 00:24:06.645
know a little bit about my work
00:24:06.645 --> 00:24:07.479
here at the mall,
00:24:07.479 --> 00:24:09.714
and say: \"Wow, you\'re a marketing analyst\",
00:24:09.714 --> 00:24:11.016
the person identifies with you,
00:24:11.016 --> 00:24:14.019
they say: \"I can, she represents me\".
00:24:14.019 --> 00:24:15.620
People see that it\'s possible
00:24:15.620 --> 00:24:17.756
a black person to be in a
00:24:17.756 --> 00:24:19.991
high position,
00:24:20.258 --> 00:24:22.427
because I feel in a high position.
00:24:25.363 --> 00:24:29.100
So, we try to open paths
00:24:29.100 --> 00:24:33.371
for the possibilities of this child, this young
00:24:33.371 --> 00:24:34.206
for tomorrow.
00:24:34.206 --> 00:24:39.077
That he can be a dentist, doctor, physiotherapist,
00:24:39.077 --> 00:24:42.314
can be a nurse, and be a teacher,
00:24:42.314 --> 00:24:44.216
can be in different spaces.
00:24:44.616 --> 00:24:47.586
It is a way of building, in the job market,
00:24:47.586 --> 00:24:49.020
a fairer presence,
00:24:49.020 --> 00:24:51.857
stronger in the future.
00:24:52.724 --> 00:24:54.993
Today I believe that
00:24:55.827 --> 00:24:57.329
my mother is proud of me
00:24:57.329 --> 00:24:59.498
and if my father were here, he would be proud.
00:24:59.498 --> 00:25:01.366
So I\'ll look for...
00:25:01.867 --> 00:25:03.068
other flights,
00:25:03.068 --> 00:25:04.336
management...
00:25:04.970 --> 00:25:06.838
director, who knows...
00:25:07.772 --> 00:25:08.740
I\'m not afraid.
00:25:08.740 --> 00:25:10.075
I\'m not afraid.
00:25:21.686 --> 00:25:26.057
In 2015, only 12.8% of the university population was black.
00:25:27.492 --> 00:25:36.801
Although more than a half of the Brazilian population is black, less
than 5% of the companies executives are. In black women case, it\'s only 0.4%.
00:25:38.670 --> 00:25:49.180
In 2019, the salary gap between whites
and blacks reached it\'s highest peak since 2016.
The average monthly revenue of blacks
equaled 55.8% of the whites.
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 26 minutes
Date: 2020
Genre: Expository
Language: Portuguese
Grade: High School, College, Adults
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