Jean-Charles Gets Justice
A jury rejected the official Police account of the sad mistaken killing of a Brazilian man, Jean-Charles de Menezes, during the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings.
I'm glad.
That was a senseless death, albeit it is typical of Western society to lay the onus of guilt, and direct the totality of their hatred not to the fiends who bombed British citizens, but on the coppers who were trying their best to protect them. What can you do. That's the great sadness of our culture today.
I do have one quibble about this poster in his honour though.
Because so many Brazilian sports stars are black, the world seems to think that all of Brazil is of African descent. The actual percentage according to the last census is 67% caucasians, and the rest a hodge-podge of blacks, and indigenous Brazilians.
When I first saw this poster, I thought, wow, that looks a lot like Barack Obama!
Here is the real Jean-Charles, wearing his sweet Diesel t-shirt, looking happy to be living in the UK.
May he find peace today.
I'm glad.
That was a senseless death, albeit it is typical of Western society to lay the onus of guilt, and direct the totality of their hatred not to the fiends who bombed British citizens, but on the coppers who were trying their best to protect them. What can you do. That's the great sadness of our culture today.
I do have one quibble about this poster in his honour though.
Because so many Brazilian sports stars are black, the world seems to think that all of Brazil is of African descent. The actual percentage according to the last census is 67% caucasians, and the rest a hodge-podge of blacks, and indigenous Brazilians.
When I first saw this poster, I thought, wow, that looks a lot like Barack Obama!
Here is the real Jean-Charles, wearing his sweet Diesel t-shirt, looking happy to be living in the UK.
May he find peace today.
Labels: Breaking News, World Affairs
posted by vbspurs at
12/13/2008 03:04:00 am
3 Comments:
The cult of personality has legs.
By
chickelit, at Sun Dec 14, 04:12:00 am GMT-5
Very interesting! He doesn't look much like the drawing of himself.
Sad, sad story.
By
Darcy, at Sun Dec 14, 10:31:00 am GMT-5
Yes, Darcy, exactly. Doesn't look like him at all.
And that was why I mentioned that many foreigners have an erroneous impression about Brazilians' ethnic composition.
It literally colours their impressions, when they remember Brazilian. :(
Cheers,
Victoria
By
vbspurs, at Sun Dec 14, 05:48:00 pm GMT-5
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