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BROWN IS NOT BLACK, BROWN IS MULTIRACIAL

Lula’s government wants finish Multiracials off.
The Brazilian Multiracial Movement (Mestizo Nation) was in the General Committee convened by the Chamber of Deputies, in Brasilia, to discuss the Statute of Racial Equality, where the Multiracial representative criticized the project, denounces discrimination against Multiracials by the Brazilian government and droppist groups and the racial conflict between Blacks and Multiracials.
MR. LEÃO ALVES – I am very happy to be in this event, because there are treated much about the Black (preto) people and Brown people, but the Browns usually are not called to give their opinion about the issue. Usually, people decide by Browns. This is very interesting.
There are 3 points in the Statute of Racial Equality directly related to this issue. The Statute classifies all Brown as Black or Afro-descendant. Now, we know that at least in the Amazon region, which is not small – more than half the national territory – in the Amazon region, to be a Brown means, first of all, be a Multiracial “Caboclo”, whose identity is not based on African origin. Their identity is based on the encounter of the Native Indigenous identity and the identity of the peoples of Europe.
This politics, by signal, has caused profound damage to the work that has been done to combat racism and discrimination against the Multiracial “Caboclos” population in the Amazon.
The Statute also goes against the Declaration of Durban, which, in General Matters, item 56, talks about the Multiracial people, born of the meeting of various ethnicities. And talks about something that is ocurring: The main way to deny these people, something that has occurred, that is to say they do not exist: “There is not Multiracial. There is not Brown.”
There is a propaganda to prevent a person say that is a Brown. They say “brown” (pardo) comes from “sparrow” (pardal), but the word comes from the Latin “pardus”, which means leopard. It is the deconstruction of identity, so that the person does not take as Multiracial or Brown.
A third point is the increasing of something that is already occurring in the Amazon. There is already ocurring a racial conflict between Blacks (negros) and Multiracial “Caboclos”. The racial war will not be provoked by the Statute, no. It has begun.
Recently – by signal, this is already in the official site of the government, of the CONSEA – was drafted a letter in the Meeting of the Black and Communities of Terreiros of Roraima, that call for finish the law establishing the Mixed Race Day, adopted in the States of Amazonas and Roraima [https://www.planalto.gov.br/Consea/static/documentos/Outros/Carta_Roraima.pdf]. To protect us from this policy of destruction our identity, we had to create a legislation. The Multiracial Movement in Amazonas, Roraima and Paraiba States has conquest laws that create the Mixed Race Day.
Because it is need that people learn to respect the way other people identify theirselves. In the Amazon, this conflict occurs mainly in relation to “Caboclo” population. In the Amazon, it is good accent it, slavery was mainly of Indigenous and “Caboclo” populations. And more: the Indigenous slavery, in a sense, was far more violent than the slavery undertaken against Blacks. Why? Because the Indigenous was a national slave and African slave was a imported slave. If an Indigenous was killed, it was enough replace it with another. But the African, no, he costed dearly, because it was need to pay tax, rate.
Violence against Indigenous populations and “Caboclo” slaves in the Amazon was terrible, and this policy that classifies Brown as Black virtually transforms the Amazonian “Caboclos” in Blacks, which has no historical connection with the their cultural formation. This is a kind of statistic ethnocide. If I am not mistaken, in the site of the SEPPIR, in statistics on the Black population of the Amazon, they add up Black and Brown. But Brown and “Caboclos” do not exist only in the Amazon. From the coastline, in the direction of the border, the Multiracial population will increasingly assuming the characteristics of the descendants of Indigenous.
It’s good accent it, in relation to identify Brown only as descendent of African, that in Amazon there is conflict between Mulattoes and Blacks now. A Mulatto girl was attacked by assuming be a Mulatto girl. The Mulattos are also suffering this process. They hear that “Mulatto” comes from “mule”. But we know that the word comes from Latin “mulus”, which means hybrid, or comes from the Arabic word “muwallad”, which means Multiracial.
I am a Mulatto. This is my identity, and I demand respect for my choice.
Thank you.
Brasilia, Brazil, November 26, 2007.

Brazilian Multiracial Movement
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Alpha Phi Alpha & Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc.-Stepping

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for Black college students, was organized at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1906. The prejudices of the time, even at a relatively liberal institution such as Cornell, placed an extra burden on minority students. The first unit of this national fraternity, organized by college men of African descent, was called “Alpha Chapter.”

The seven visionary founders at Cornell, Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle and Vertner Woodson Tandy, labored in years of severe economic struggle and racial conflict in the United States. Despite their difficulties of organization in this untried field of student life, the early fraternity pioneers succeeded in laying a firm foundation and remained steadfast in their goals.

The Fraternity initially served as a study and support group for minority students who faced racial prejudice educationally and socially at Cornell. During those beginning days, the Jewel founders and early leaders of the Fraternity worked to lay a solid foundation based on scholarship, fellowship, good character and the uplifting of humanity.

The Fraternity has grown steadily in influence throughout the years. 125,000 men have been initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha since its founding in 1906. It has been interracial since 1945. There are now 350 college chapters on campuses, and 350 alumni chapters in local communities, located in 44 states, the District of Columbia, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Africa
Plus we have Alpha Kappa Alpha stepping at the Black College Expo 2007 in Los Angeles our thanks to Tares Price found of BCX.
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