shavenferret said:
Brazil has always had the reputation for being really good with regards to acceptance of various races and colors. I'm really surprised that your nation would feel the need to implement a law with such a harsh punishment. That woman isn't going to be able to see her family. A kid just lost their mother for almost a decade for some smack their mom talked. |
People of various races and colors can feel accepeted here not because of the brazillian people but because of the laws we have. Relying only on people for feeling accepted or not is flawed. Even if we are acceptive (a little bit debetable statement), there will be always people who aren't, and general acceptance may change throught the years.
And as for the case I brought, you forgot the part where no more black people will deal with racist rants coming out of her in the next 8 years, especially the little girl she was attacking. I sympathize more with them rather than this racist woman. Racism is a crime here, and, as with any other crime, the criminal must go to jail, wheter this person has kids or not. But, I don't know if you read the full article, there it states "Even though the country has taken a stand against her, McCarthy, who lives in Paris currently, told the Post she has no plans to turn herself in to Brazilian authorities. Instead, she hopes to continue living in Europe". So don't worry about her, she will probably still be free. Free to be racist for more years to come, living her life with her supposedly existing kid, I must add
And it's not like black people live in heaven because of this law (well, compared to other coutries, it might be). Justice is slow (it took like years for the woman in the article I brought to get that sentence), can be expensive and, and although this law beautifully tackles more subtles cases of racism such as discrimination in company hiring, access to stores other establishments, I think that in cases like these, it usually ends up being less punitive in the end (fines instead of prison. In the law it states 2 to 5 years of prison, from that you can see how prejudiced the woman from the article was, she probably got the maximum penalty (5 years) and incorred in more tyés of crimes)
