Should we consider this difference as racism, even legally?
It is cruel to choose the index that most accurately shows social inequality in Brazil. But if needed, access to sewage is probably the most perfect and painful portrait of injustice in our country.
In Brazil, the population without access to the sewage system consists mainly of people of color, without primary education and with income up to the minimum wage. Analyzing by income range, the numbers scream loud.
Among the poorest people, those earning up to a quarter of the minimum wage, 56% have no access to wastewater. Above the five minimum wages, the rate is 10%.
When it comes to access to the water network in the poorest segment, 29.1% is not connected. Imagine how these millions of families manage to live in houses without water or sewage, the difficulties, the danger to their health.
There is a large regional difference for people without access to wastewater. As expected, 43% of them live in the Northeast, 9% in the Midwest, 19% in the North, 15% in the Southeast, and 14% in the South.
If you turn this portrait into a photograph, it must be in color. Of the population outside the sewer system, 56.7% are brown, 10% black, and 32.1% white.
But should we consider this difference as racism, even legally? I argue that yes, in this video.
André Forastieri is a journalist, partner of the Compasso consultancy firm and founder of Homework. Learn more about your work atandreforastieri.com.br
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Source: Terra
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