Stop killing us - by Cidinha da Silva

Every time a stereotypical black character like this appears in entertainment programs on Sundays, the Monday of black children and teenagers at school will be a horror film that will last for weeks, months and years, depending on the character's duration. on TV. And the families of these children will lose precious hours, days, weeks and months of education, leisure and enjoyment teaching them to react, not to succumb, to keep their heads up, to preserve their self-love in the face of so much targeted and objective violence. Racist examples on television will also inspire situations of racial discrimination at school, minimized by tired and unprepared teachers, to say the least. Black children and teenagers who have not had self-love survival lessons taught at home will feel alone, unprotected and wronged. One day they will lose patience and may come to blows with racist colleagues, as a last resort of self-defense. Then they will be labeled as violent, they will be stigmatized at school, they will lose the incentive to remain in that environment, they will easily escape and the reduction of the age of criminal responsibility will be seen as a solution to remove them from social life sooner and punish them for having reacted, in the same way. as best they could, to racial oppression.