The arrobas is a unit of measurement used to weigh cattle that is equivalent to fifteen kilos and to which Bolsonaro already resorted in 2017 to ensure that he went to a quilombo (former communities founded by black slaves in the interior of Brazil) where “the most Afro-descendant lightweight weighed seven arrobas”.
“They don’t do anything! I don’t think they are even useful for procreation anymore. More than 1,000 million reais is spent a year on them,” said Bolsonaro, who at the time was a deputy for the Social Christian Party (PSC), who also promised that in case of being elected president would end all land demarcations for Afro-descendant and indigenous communities.
“You can be sure that if they arrive there will be no money for the NGOs. There will not be a single centimeter demarcated for indigenous reserves or quilombos. Where there are indigenous lands, there is wealth,” he justified.
During this meeting with his followers, it was Bolsonaro himself who recalled that the Prosecutor’s Office already denounced him in 2018 for using expressions of this typeafter deputies from the Workers’ Party (PT) and the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), as well as the National Coordination for the Articulation of Quilombola Black Rural Communities (Conaq) presented a protest.
The doors of the Alvorada Palace were the scene on other occasions of racist expressions by the Brazilian president, who leaves no free opportunity to express all kinds of reflections before his acolytes, such as when, for example, he said that “black power” hair is a “breeding of cockroaches”.
Source: Ambito
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