“I hate the Trump comparisons because Brazil is Brazil and the US is the US. That attack enraged Brazilian thespians but earned him Bolsonaro’s affections – and a job as Brazil’s culture chief. Photograph: TWITTERThe man chosen to run the government foundation promoting black culture has called for Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day to be scrapped and has branded many of Brazil’s best-known black celebrities and artists “parasites of the black race”. Mantovani has said Metallica was good for keeping drivers awake but called Brazilian greats Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil and pop star Anitta “aberrations” for depicting Brazil as a “type of brothel”. Taking office, he claimed Brazil owed its culture to Portugal which “civilised” rather than “colonised” his homeland.

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2020 10:06 UTC