A group of Black Brazilians, who attended the August 1--6 World Youth Day (WYD) in Lisbon, Porrtugal, in order to hand a letter to the pope about racism in Brazil and in the Church, now say they suffered racist attacks on more than one occasion during the event last week, the Crux website reports today (August 9, 2023).
One such act of aggression was recorded on a video on August 4 that shows a number of young Catholics, all of them white, appearing to make monkey sounds as they passed by Marcolino Vinicius Vieira, a Black Brazilian who was carrying the country's flag.
"I suddenly saw myself among those people. They were laughing at me and imitating the sound of monkeys," Vieira told Crux.
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