Bebel Gilberto apologizes for stepping on a Brazilian flag during a show in the US: ‘It was a thoughtless act’

Bebel Gilberto apologizes for stepping on a Brazilian flag during a show in the US: ‘It was a thoughtless act’

Daughter of João Gilberto, Bebel Gilberto received comments from the former secretary of culture

Daughter of Joao Gilberto, Baby Gilberto caused controversy by trampling the flag of Brazil during a concert in San Francisco, in the United States. The singer performed last Tuesday, 19, and the situation was even commented on by the former secretary of culture of Jair Bolsonaro, Mario Frias (via The Day).

“Sorry to do this, but do you think I’m proud to be Brazilian or not?,” she said. baby during the show, receiving different answers like “yes” and “no”. Then she performed the song “Banana tree”.

On twitter, holidays shared a record of the moment and criticized the singer for her attitude: “These people don’t feel anything for Brazil. They just like to benefit from what the people can give them. The Brazilian flag belongs to Brazilians, but some insist on expressing how much they hate their own country.”

On the social networks, baby spoke about the attitude, apologizing for the actor having become a “gift to the far right.” “It was a thoughtless act of mine, because if I had had time to think it over, it would have occurred to me that I was giving the extreme right an image with which they could distill their disgusting hatred and false patriotism – these people who kidnapped the national symbols and corrodes Brazilian democracy with its authoritarian project of power… It was for this reason that I dropped the name of the unspeakable in my impulsive gesture on stage,” he wrote.

“Immediately afterwards, however, I realized that the flag also belongs to all Brazilians and I apologized to the public,” he said. The singer also responded to the comment of holidays: “The Excellency Secretary of Culture, however, ignored this part of the video and did what he knows how to do best. No, it is not writing Portuguese with errors, but manipulating the information to instigate the fanatical base that follows him. here’s the full video in which I apologize.”

baby he concluded: “I love Brazil and I am sure that soon the hateful radicals will be swept into the dustbin of History.”

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Source: Rollingstone

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