Vinicius Junior: I came, I saw and I won! – 05/24/2023 – Juca Kfouri

Vinicius Junior won!

His outrage and his words forced the white world to bow down.

Red card annulled, racist VAR referee suspended, Valencia fined, choir odient stage banned, La Liga president execrated.

Vini Jr. changed the level of anti-racist struggle.

And more is needed. It is mandatory to stop the game.

It is already more than clear: notes of repudiation, the most varied statements, manifestations of solidarity with the victims, none of this has been enough to expel racism from football stadiums, here and around the world.

It has also been ineffective to punish the one or two idiots caught monkeying around in the stands.

Leaving the field, stopping the game and not coming back will be the best attitude, able to teach racists and top hats.

Because, deep down, the paper is an accomplice, implicitly or explicitly.

Most consider mimimi, activists’ cries, for thinking that racist acts only reflect the desire to provoke opponents, destabilize them, as well as homophobic choirs.

Others are more cynical, like the nefarious figure of the president of La Liga, the entity that organizes the dying Spanish league, Javier Tebas.

Assumed Francoist, supporter of Vox, the Spanish extreme right-wing party, whose president, Santiago Abascal, was in Várzea Grande (MT), in December 2021, to participate in a meeting promoted by federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), in the so-called Deep Brazil Congress, of the Conservador-Liberal Institute, founded by the son 03 of the fascist former president of Brazil.

Nothing should be expected from Tebas from what he has already done, that is, the pito in Vinícius Júnior and the minimization of horror.

It is urgent to stop the ball and put the racists in the corner.

The issue goes beyond Spain, as we know, and it is necessary to forget once and for all the ostrich posture.

Saying no to racism, as FIFA does, is little, it’s innocuous, it’s nothing.

Piercing the ball, paralyzing the show, also pierces the fascist bubble in search of hegemony in the 21st century.

Plagued by criminal bets, homophobia, misogyny and racism, football is perhaps the ideal activity to kick-start with a view to combating all of this, in a didactic and easily understandable way.

“Imagine the pain, guess the color”, says one of the most beautiful initiatives against racism.

As little as we white people are able to feel the pain of the offense firsthand, with a little empathy, everyone can be affected by firm behavior, breaking with this state of affairs.

Let’s remember Didi, Mané Garrincha, Pelé, Marta, all with black skin, all Brazilians elected one day number 1 of Planeta Bola.

None of them, like anyone else, can be the victim of as many curses as those heard in the real Planeta dos Macacos, the one that was present at the Mestalla stadium, in Valencia, to attack Vinícius Júnior.

And don’t come up with two or three scapegoats to excuse the act of thousands.

It’s time to stop the ball and think. It’s time to stop the ball and punish. It is time to stop the ball and execrate the racists, the homophobes, the misogynists, in a word, the fascists.

It will never be too much to repeat and repeat what the martyr Martin Luther King once said: “What bothers me is not the noise of the bad guys, but the silence of the good guys”.

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