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The black movement is at war with the mayor of Rio, Marcelo Crivella – accredited bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. This week, the mayor vetoed Bill 346, which declares Quilombo da Pedra do Sal, in the port area, intangible cultural heritage of the municipality. The place, considered to be the bamboo of samba, is one of the most important in the history of blacks in the pas.
It was the drop of water in a troubled relationship. At the beginning of last year, the city council suspended the sponsorship of Casa do Jongo, in Morro da Serrinha, in the north. The site was closed for three months, leaving about 400 children in the community. The jongo, a cultural event of the African matrix, received the title of intangible heritage of Iphan in 2005. At the same time, the NGO Institute of New Blacks
Part of the sponsorship of blocks and schools of samba was cut by the mayor, who has since taken office in the prestigious carnival of Sambdromo – one of the major cultural events and tourist of the city. Crivella also delayed the contract renewal of the Yabs Fair in Madureira, in the North Zone, specializing in cooking and music from different parts of Africa. "The initiative of this bill comes from the black movement itself, which came to offer me something in relation to Pedra do Sal, precisely because some routine events were banned," said Councilor Fernando William (PDT), the author of the PL vetoed it
The city denies the charges and alleges a technical problem to veto the project. "Acts of reversal of material property and registration of intangible property as cultural heritage are the sole responsibility of the executive branch of the three levels of government, "he said in an official note.
" Thus, any proposal from the House of Councilors under the separation powers, the mayor "he is forced to veto it, regardless of his character".
The writer, composer and lawyer Nei Lopes guarantees that it is unconstitutional decision of the mayor, which he accused of racism. "It is an act in the harmful history of blacks in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, as well as a violation of the provisions of Articles 215 and 216 of the Federal Constitution" said Lopes. "These articles guarantee the protection of the state on everything that represents a reference to the identity and memory of Afro-descendants as trainers of Brazilian society."
Heritage
A Pedra do Sal is part of the archaeological site of Cais do Valongo, recognized as a World Heritage Site by Unesco last year as a place of "sensitive memory" – even in the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz in Poland, and Robben Island in Cape Town, South Africa, where Nlson Mandela was imprisoned.
"The most important Valongo, the most important site of African wildlife in the Americas, the only material vestige we have of the landing of Africans enslaved," says Milton Guran, a member of the International Scientific Committee of the Unesco Slave Route Project, which seeks to map patterns of disposition in the world.At least 2.4 million slaves pbaded through the docks.
"The wharf symbolizes the material, immediate, port of landing, but all the tragedy of the traffic in the Atlantic, this crime against humanity." According to the antroplogo, all other sites recognized as heritage Global have connected this slave to Africa.And this is a crucial difference regarding the recognition of the state of slavery in Brazil.
Pedra do Sal, in turn, was the place where the Negroes met to play, to play apoeira and also to do their cults. "
" From the point of view of Unesco, the fact that the mayor vetoed the bill that makes Pedra do Sal an intangible cultural heritage of the municipality does not change anything, "says Guran. "But a huge lack of respect because he refuses to badume a place of world renown, being part of a well-placed heritage of humanity."
For Guran, Crivella does not rule over the city as a whole. "He governs for a theocratic, racist and exclusionary political project," said the anthropologist. "The right of veto is enshrined in this policy."
(Roberta Jansen )
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