Celpe-Bras 2024/1 - Tarefa 2: Estatuto Racial — Transcript

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1. 0:00You know the Racial Equality Statute, a
2. 0:21law passed by Congress in 2010 that
3. 0:24defines a set of rules to curb racial
4. 0:28discrimination. and establish policies
5. 0:32to reduce social inequality in Brazil.
6. 0:35Don't you? Many people might argue that
7. 0:38it is a law with very long text, over
8. 0:4060 articles, and language that is
9. 0:43difficult to understand.
10. 0:44The Senate bookstore launched the
11. 0:47Racial Equality Statute in simple terms
12. 0:49. The publication uses comics to
13. 0:52explain the main points of the law in a
14. 0:55simplified and direct way. Let's talk
15. 0:59now with writer Madu Macedo, who wrote
16. 1:00the text. The drawings are by Felipe
17. 1:04Modesto. Good morning, Madu.
18. 1:06Good morning. How are you? Everything
19. 1:08good?
20. 1:08Everything is great, Madu. I have the
21. 1:11booklet right here on my screen, right?
22. 1:14Did the idea for the booklet come from
23. 1:17a request from teenagers, or did you,
24. 1:19as a writer and observer of your
25. 1:21surroundings, identify a difficulty
26. 1:24people have in understanding the
27. 1:26statute? Well, in truth, we noticed
28. 1:29this lack of awareness from most people
29. 1:32regarding our legislation, because it
30. 1:35is technical, more complex language, so
31. 1:38our laws end up being very distant from
32. 1:41the general public. Since I was a
33. 1:44school principal, I thought it would be
34. 1:46interesting to start bringing this into
35. 1:48schools, right? Cool material so that
36. 1:51schools, or rather, teenagers, can
37. 1:53start to understand things that I, at
38. 1:55least, didn't have the opportunity to.
39. 1:59And then, talking to the president of
40. 2:01Belo, he found the idea interesting. So
41. 2:04we started making this collection.
42. 2:07How has the feedback been? Are people
43. 2:08saying, "Wow, I didn't know that was in
44. 2:10the Racial Equality Statute"? "I saw it
45. 2:12here in the comic, so that's what it
46. 2:13really means," and so on. How has the
47. 2:15response to this publication been?
48. 2:17Well, very big, which makes both me and
49. 2:19Felipe very happy, right? Because we
50. 2:21put a lot of care into this work, with
51. 2:24exactly that intention, right? That
52. 2:26people understand more clearly a
53. 2:28language that isn't always accessible
54. 2:31to the entire public. I receive a lot
55. 2:34from all over Brazil, mainly from
56. 2:37schools, you know, about projects being
57. 2:39carried out and how it has reflected
58. 2:42positively in municipalities, even with
59. 2:44an increase in reports, because
60. 2:47students start to realize that it's not
61. 2:49normal. You know the Racial Equality
62. 3:11Statute, a law passed by Congress in
63. 3:142010 that defines a set of rules to
64. 3:17curb racial discrimination and
65. 3:20establish policies to reduce social
66. 3:23inequality in Brazil.
67. 3:25Don't you? Many might argue that it is
68. 3:28a law with a very long text, with more
69. 3:31than 60 articles and language that is
70. 3:33difficult to understand.
71. 3:35The Senate bookstore has released the
72. 3:37Racial Equality Statute in simple terms
73. 3:40. The publication uses comics to
74. 3:43explain the main points of the law in a
75. 3:46simplified and direct way. Let's talk
76. 3:49now with writer Madu Macedo, who wrote
77. 3:51the text. The illustrations are by
78. 3:54Felipe Modesto. Good morning, Madu.
79. 3:57Good morning. How are you? Everything
80. 3:58good?
81. 3:59Everything is great, Madu. I have the
82. 4:02booklet here on my screen, right? Did
83. 4:05the idea for the booklet come from a
84. 4:07demand from teenagers, or did you, as a
85. 4:10writer and someone who observes their
86. 4:12surroundings, identify that people were
87. 4:15having trouble understanding the
88. 4:17statute? Look, in truth, we noticed
89. 4:20this lack of knowledge among most
90. 4:22people regarding our legislation,
91. 4:25because it's technical language, more
92. 4:28complex, so our laws end up being very
93. 4:31distant from the general public. Since
94. 4:34I was a school principal, I thought it
95. 4:36would be interesting for us to start
96. 4:38bringing this into schools, right?
97. 4:40Great material for schools, meaning
98. 4:42teenagers can start to understand
99. 4:45things that I, at least, didn't have
100. 4:47the opportunity to. And then, talking
101. 4:50to the president of the Senate's Abel,
102. 4:52he thought the idea was interesting. So
103. 4:55we started making this collection.
104. 4:57What has the feedback been like? Are
105. 4:59people saying, "Wow, I didn't know that
106. 5:00was in the Racial Equality Statute"? "I
107. 5:02saw it here in the comic, does it
108. 5:04really mean this and that?" What has
109. 5:05the response to this publication been
110. 5:07like?
111. 5:07Look, it's been great, which makes both
112. 5:09me and Felipe very happy, right?
113. 5:11Because we do this work with a lot of
114. 5:14care, exactly with this intent, for
115. 5:17people to understand more clearly
116. 5:19language that isn't always accessible
117. 5:22to the entire public. I hear from all
118. 5:25over Brazil, especially from schools,
119. 5:27about the projects being carried out
120. 5:30and how this has reflected positively
121. 5:33in municipalities, even with an
122. 5:35increase in reports, because the
123. 5:37student starts to realize that it's not
124. 5:40normal.