By Ian Jobling • 3/27/09
Leukophobia doesn’t get any more blatant than this. Brazilian President Lula da Silva:
[The economic] crisis was caused by no black man or woman or by no indigenous person or by no poor person… This crisis was fostered and boosted by irrational behaviour of some people that are white, blue-eyed. Before the crisis they looked like they knew everything about economics, and they have demonstrated they know nothing about economics.
Leukophobia doesn’t get any more blatant than this. Brazilian President Lula da Silva:
[The economic] crisis was caused by no black man or woman or by no indigenous person or by no poor person… This crisis was fostered and boosted by irrational behaviour of some people that are white, blue-eyed. Before the crisis they looked like they knew everything about economics, and they have demonstrated they know nothing about economics.
If you’re inclined to lend credence to this kind of racial demagoguery, you need to read this. Hopefully, such crude scapegoating of “greedy white men” will provoke a backlash.