‘I only spoke because it was an opportunity to draw Brazil’s attention to the matter,’ the singer said in an interview with the TV program Cultura.
Your Jorge he returned to talk about the case of racism suffered in October, during a show in Porto Alegre. In an interview with the program Living wheelthe singer denied naming a politician during the presentation.
When the case came to light, Paul Joseph Kolberg, president of the club that hosted the event, Grêmio Nautico União (GNU), attributed the dress and political gesture of Your Jorge on stage for disrespecting the audience.
“It seems to me that, afterwards, he made a political sign there, an L (…) It was a lack of decorum with the public, the way he was dressed, which was not suitable for an artist,” said the leader in an audio that was leaked on social media.
So, during the program TelevisionCulture, broadcast on Monday evening, the 21st, the musician said he only underlined the importance of Election Day, which took place on October 30, and praised the person in the audience who filed the complaint.
“I’m talking about the 30th, that the 30th is an important day, I’m not talking essentially about anyone or anything, up until then, up until then, the show has been very good,” he explained. “Whoever spoke about what happened was the public. And this person who made this complaint, did well,” she said.
“Because, when you encounter cowardice, the first thing you have to do is report it. There were people who didn’t agree with what happened to me there and they decided to talk about it,” she said. Seu Jorge said again that he didn’t hear the insults because at that moment he was using headphones and concluded:
“There were people who didn’t agree with what happened to me in that place, and I only spoke because it had been two days, and there were a lot of people who spoke out in my defense of racism.”
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