we talk about equality of
opportunities is always very difficult
because it is complex but it is also very
necessary in the current times and for
able to talk about equality of
opportunities
I would like to start with the help of
you paying homage to a
great fighting fighter that this
brutally murdered in the
Rio de Janeiro and that it was a woman
black lesbian woman who was giving
face to face and fight for
social transformation
Frankie must stay alive
between us the fighting spirit of marielly
must remain between us
so I would like to start this
talk for a minute of silence
to marielly franco
[Music]
marie frank gift
[Applause]
females will talk a cool thing
I want to start very positive and this month of
March I complete a year that I defended
my doctoral thesis
I made my defense in college.
education that today is one of the
best universities in the world
if I’m not mistaken it’s better in America
were 16 years of
all funded by money
public university in order to
I could defend my thesis in the
2017 but I will tell you one
It’s a secret, it’s no secret that I
I love telling this story from my
nine years
I knew I wanted to be studious.
I wanted to be a very
Early yes, but I have a memory.
very strong of a period of my life
and my brother we were alone in
house in the night of school like all
the poor family had no one
to take care of the children then
my mother was going to work and
Stuffed breakfast in everything
more could not enter those account
things can not get in the kitchen if
Someone call me and says I’m taking
Bath never say that you are
not always these guidelines and
one of the things that we had to
do yourself to study because my mother
My father worked outside and had no
time to be with us and I remember
that was an extremely pleasurable thing
For me, I remember exactly the situation.
one day I was studying for a
and then I open there like we do not
he had to open the rooms where
put away the clothes and put the books
He was studying and I remember one day that
I was studying for a test that I
I’m not mistaken, it was Portuguese. I tried.
dig into memory this week to see if
that was it but anyway
and I remember the feeling of feeling that
was changing while I was learning
After a few minutes studying, I speak
Wow, I know how to do it now, this is
tactical and then those things as a child
on that date is doll have some want to be
Fireman, that’s the way I was thinking.
Wow, what would someone pay to do
This has been his whole life and it has been and
one is thus a light in that moment that
obvious at that moment did not know what
it was being an intern in my family is
huge at the time I think only one
person had managed to take a course
university but that appeared in the
my head at that time and during the
my life was chasing me and then I
I managed to make an academic career
to do a doctorate sandwich at last today
I’m a research professor.
formed and would really like to
life doing that there then you
must clearly be ours, how cool
This woman is black and she is Northeastern.
this woman is a woman she is part of
a minority how she managed to
at nine years to think of a goal and
achieve this goal with
assertiveness
That’s when I should do what I can
here I tell you in the formulas
of the things I’ve done for
reach my goal right
the formula that secret formula of
people who dedicate themselves
but that’s not what I’m going to do I do not
I’ll do it
for the following reason you credit your
success only to your individual effort
is you to reproduce a class logic and
racist and I ‘m going to tell you why
in Brazil today only 14% of the population
can complete higher education
I am part of that 14% who who is who
have graduation or are doing the author or
already concluded that the studious people
Who has master’s degree?
Who has a doctorate or is studying
who is black and has a doctorate here was
potato brother
but we are here before a
I am a minority brother and we are a minority
absolute is this minority it is reflected
also in the numbers you see in the
surveys as I said 14% of the population
generally have higher education that people
is on a much larger average in the public
only 0.5 per cent of the population has
doctorate degree
only I do not even have the numbers
related to race because
historically in Brazil race has never been
an issue as if we have never been
I had racism so I said that
number here as the general number and now
you see the logic of what I’m going
call meritocracy here that the
history than anyone can with
their individual effort if only 14% of
people have a college degree in Brazil
people will say that 86% of people in the
Brazil did not want or did not strive
to take course superior to good we will not
require both after all
upper is not any compulsory degree
school
Let’s talk about literacy today in
brazil today we have 14
millions of illiterates are many people who
You do not have the willpower to learn
read and write right
child is a lack of
determination is not it
only it gets more serious still my dear ones
When do you think who these are?
people that they are not just numbers
seventy percent of people
illiterate in Brazil are black
Guess the 70 percent skin color
of those people who do not have a course
upper brazil
let’s talk then the wage difference
today a white person earns double one
average salary is twice that of a person
black wins salary
in simplistic meritocratic logic the
people will then be able to say that
black people strive to dedicate themselves and
they work less than people
white
after all, if success is
consequence of his or her strength of
and black people have less
success than white people
logical rationale would be
black people have a lower level of
schooling are the worst jobs in
have the worst wages and there in the
the other side are part of the majority of
prison population
so it is necessary before the people
to reproduce certain logics that are
common people to reflect on the
social phenomena deeply reflect
about the meaning of reproducing
our daily lives
meritocracy
is nothing more than a myth a myth that
was created just after the great crisis
1929 to be able to say that if you
want to get out of the crisis just work
study and dedicate
is it really was a 11 is in Brazil is
a version of america mg now nothing else
the world and a crisis without
previous and the answer is to study
dedicate and work beyond being timely
I think it’s very current
that’s why we’re bombed
daily by history than by those who
Do you want to
which is essential for people to find
that inequality is a problem of the
individual
It’s critical that we believe that.
daily so that at school
Do you hear that?
That is why in television programs
we are bombarded by stories of
people out of misery and
worked and dedicated themselves to the night
as if it were just to be able
to overcome what is not said is that being
human being is a social being and a being
Social
the human being is susceptible much more
social relations is the context
than your own effort
individual and this is built and
historically we are also not told that
this society creates opportunities
different groups of
people more than this society
creates different degrees of difficulty
certain groups of people to
able to justify the existence of
inequalities
this is the background to racism and
chauvinism
are people who have a degree of difficulty
to access the opportunities still
who occupy a place of
subalternity in society and therefore
inequality is justified as this is
historically constructed, it is important to
people understand that this same black people
what could we have concluded by
meritocratic logic that is lazy
that if you do not work you will not
dedicate enough this same people
black was enslaved for 300 years
in this country
it was this same people who were abandoned to
own luck
after abolition, we need to understand
that this city here where we are
has now been the last in the world to
slavery
my campinas was a place that the
slave owners threatened to be able to
tell me what to send here
ie the city was built on top
of black blood as well as vice versa
the European people received incentives and
lands to be able to settle in Brazil
What I mean by that I want
say that a past of different
opportunities has generated a gift with
equalities deep so it is not
possible to talk about merit in a
country with the fifth highest rate of
feminicides in the world women in this
country are dying just because they are
women
it is not possible to speak of merit without taking
that this country is the
the first in the world in assassinations of
transsexuals and transvestites
it is not possible to speak of merit without
question the privilege structure
about which this country was built not
it is possible to create a different future without
provide equal opportunities
so before talking about meritocracy
it is necessary for us to reflect because
among the 12 lecturers of ted I am the
single black
if we are more than 50% of the population
will the black people of campinas
could not talk about several others
themes
It is necessary to reflect because you
are majority that have superior course here
did not have university professors
black people think of leaving in memory who
had
at most one I did not have any
is that black teachers have not
ability or willingness or vocation to
university professors is
It is necessary for us to reflect
domestic worker is the daughter of a
domestic worker of another
domestic worker
these women are imprisoned in a
model of society that
opportunity is hereditary and
important we are here nobody has
blame for having a privilege born with
them but you have a responsibility
bigger
when you pass these privileges
as if they were hereditary
when you proliferate ideas and
these hereditary privileges
So the message I want to leave here is
that we can not think of a future
worthy if we do not think of equalizing
the opportunities
the story of women like me
overcome racism exceed the
machismo and many other issues
that permeate the lives of black women
country should not serve to strengthen
the myth of meritocracy to the contrary has
what to do for us to think about
need to provide
opportunities for a people who are
historically excluded in order to
think a little more I’ll paraphrase
angela davis it is necessary to shed light
on the present so that you can
same time and illuminate the future
thanks
[Applause]
opportunities is always very difficult
because it is complex but it is also very
necessary in the current times and for
able to talk about equality of
opportunities
I would like to start with the help of
you paying homage to a
great fighting fighter that this
brutally murdered in the
Rio de Janeiro and that it was a woman
black lesbian woman who was giving
face to face and fight for
social transformation
Frankie must stay alive
between us the fighting spirit of marielly
must remain between us
so I would like to start this
talk for a minute of silence
to marielly franco
[Music]
marie frank gift
[Applause]
females will talk a cool thing
I want to start very positive and this month of
March I complete a year that I defended
my doctoral thesis
I made my defense in college.
education that today is one of the
best universities in the world
if I’m not mistaken it’s better in America
were 16 years of
all funded by money
public university in order to
I could defend my thesis in the
2017 but I will tell you one
It’s a secret, it’s no secret that I
I love telling this story from my
nine years
I knew I wanted to be studious.
I wanted to be a very
Early yes, but I have a memory.
very strong of a period of my life
and my brother we were alone in
house in the night of school like all
the poor family had no one
to take care of the children then
my mother was going to work and
Stuffed breakfast in everything
more could not enter those account
things can not get in the kitchen if
Someone call me and says I’m taking
Bath never say that you are
not always these guidelines and
one of the things that we had to
do yourself to study because my mother
My father worked outside and had no
time to be with us and I remember
that was an extremely pleasurable thing
For me, I remember exactly the situation.
one day I was studying for a
and then I open there like we do not
he had to open the rooms where
put away the clothes and put the books
He was studying and I remember one day that
I was studying for a test that I
I’m not mistaken, it was Portuguese. I tried.
dig into memory this week to see if
that was it but anyway
and I remember the feeling of feeling that
was changing while I was learning
After a few minutes studying, I speak
Wow, I know how to do it now, this is
tactical and then those things as a child
on that date is doll have some want to be
Fireman, that’s the way I was thinking.
Wow, what would someone pay to do
This has been his whole life and it has been and
one is thus a light in that moment that
obvious at that moment did not know what
it was being an intern in my family is
huge at the time I think only one
person had managed to take a course
university but that appeared in the
my head at that time and during the
my life was chasing me and then I
I managed to make an academic career
to do a doctorate sandwich at last today
I’m a research professor.
formed and would really like to
life doing that there then you
must clearly be ours, how cool
This woman is black and she is Northeastern.
this woman is a woman she is part of
a minority how she managed to
at nine years to think of a goal and
achieve this goal with
assertiveness
That’s when I should do what I can
here I tell you in the formulas
of the things I’ve done for
reach my goal right
the formula that secret formula of
people who dedicate themselves
but that’s not what I’m going to do I do not
I’ll do it
for the following reason you credit your
success only to your individual effort
is you to reproduce a class logic and
racist and I ‘m going to tell you why
in Brazil today only 14% of the population
can complete higher education
I am part of that 14% who who is who
have graduation or are doing the author or
already concluded that the studious people
Who has master’s degree?
Who has a doctorate or is studying
who is black and has a doctorate here was
potato brother
but we are here before a
I am a minority brother and we are a minority
absolute is this minority it is reflected
also in the numbers you see in the
surveys as I said 14% of the population
generally have higher education that people
is on a much larger average in the public
only 0.5 per cent of the population has
doctorate degree
only I do not even have the numbers
related to race because
historically in Brazil race has never been
an issue as if we have never been
I had racism so I said that
number here as the general number and now
you see the logic of what I’m going
call meritocracy here that the
history than anyone can with
their individual effort if only 14% of
people have a college degree in Brazil
people will say that 86% of people in the
Brazil did not want or did not strive
to take course superior to good we will not
require both after all
upper is not any compulsory degree
school
Let’s talk about literacy today in
brazil today we have 14
millions of illiterates are many people who
You do not have the willpower to learn
read and write right
child is a lack of
determination is not it
only it gets more serious still my dear ones
When do you think who these are?
people that they are not just numbers
seventy percent of people
illiterate in Brazil are black
Guess the 70 percent skin color
of those people who do not have a course
upper brazil
let’s talk then the wage difference
today a white person earns double one
average salary is twice that of a person
black wins salary
in simplistic meritocratic logic the
people will then be able to say that
black people strive to dedicate themselves and
they work less than people
white
after all, if success is
consequence of his or her strength of
and black people have less
success than white people
logical rationale would be
black people have a lower level of
schooling are the worst jobs in
have the worst wages and there in the
the other side are part of the majority of
prison population
so it is necessary before the people
to reproduce certain logics that are
common people to reflect on the
social phenomena deeply reflect
about the meaning of reproducing
our daily lives
meritocracy
is nothing more than a myth a myth that
was created just after the great crisis
1929 to be able to say that if you
want to get out of the crisis just work
study and dedicate
is it really was a 11 is in Brazil is
a version of america mg now nothing else
the world and a crisis without
previous and the answer is to study
dedicate and work beyond being timely
I think it’s very current
that’s why we’re bombed
daily by history than by those who
Do you want to
which is essential for people to find
that inequality is a problem of the
individual
It’s critical that we believe that.
daily so that at school
Do you hear that?
That is why in television programs
we are bombarded by stories of
people out of misery and
worked and dedicated themselves to the night
as if it were just to be able
to overcome what is not said is that being
human being is a social being and a being
Social
the human being is susceptible much more
social relations is the context
than your own effort
individual and this is built and
historically we are also not told that
this society creates opportunities
different groups of
people more than this society
creates different degrees of difficulty
certain groups of people to
able to justify the existence of
inequalities
this is the background to racism and
chauvinism
are people who have a degree of difficulty
to access the opportunities still
who occupy a place of
subalternity in society and therefore
inequality is justified as this is
historically constructed, it is important to
people understand that this same black people
what could we have concluded by
meritocratic logic that is lazy
that if you do not work you will not
dedicate enough this same people
black was enslaved for 300 years
in this country
it was this same people who were abandoned to
own luck
after abolition, we need to understand
that this city here where we are
has now been the last in the world to
slavery
my campinas was a place that the
slave owners threatened to be able to
tell me what to send here
ie the city was built on top
of black blood as well as vice versa
the European people received incentives and
lands to be able to settle in Brazil
What I mean by that I want
say that a past of different
opportunities has generated a gift with
equalities deep so it is not
possible to talk about merit in a
country with the fifth highest rate of
feminicides in the world women in this
country are dying just because they are
women
it is not possible to speak of merit without taking
that this country is the
the first in the world in assassinations of
transsexuals and transvestites
it is not possible to speak of merit without
question the privilege structure
about which this country was built not
it is possible to create a different future without
provide equal opportunities
so before talking about meritocracy
it is necessary for us to reflect because
among the 12 lecturers of ted I am the
single black
if we are more than 50% of the population
will the black people of campinas
could not talk about several others
themes
It is necessary to reflect because you
are majority that have superior course here
did not have university professors
black people think of leaving in memory who
had
at most one I did not have any
is that black teachers have not
ability or willingness or vocation to
university professors is
It is necessary for us to reflect
domestic worker is the daughter of a
domestic worker of another
domestic worker
these women are imprisoned in a
model of society that
opportunity is hereditary and
important we are here nobody has
blame for having a privilege born with
them but you have a responsibility
bigger
when you pass these privileges
as if they were hereditary
when you proliferate ideas and
these hereditary privileges
So the message I want to leave here is
that we can not think of a future
worthy if we do not think of equalizing
the opportunities
the story of women like me
overcome racism exceed the
machismo and many other issues
that permeate the lives of black women
country should not serve to strengthen
the myth of meritocracy to the contrary has
what to do for us to think about
need to provide
opportunities for a people who are
historically excluded in order to
think a little more I’ll paraphrase
angela davis it is necessary to shed light
on the present so that you can
same time and illuminate the future
thanks
[Applause]
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