During the present campaign, Marina Silva has not even mentioned her Blackness once! Having enlisted the support and sponsorship of major Brazilian elite figures, her political agenda sorely fails to include the needs and demands of the Black population as priorities. Instead, in an over 200 pages long document outlining her program, only four pages address the issues of our people - note that we are talking about a country that 126 years ago still held Africans in bondage and used us to fuel the society. This happened too recently not to receive proper attention, especially since racism is and continues to be the founding and structuring pillar of this so- called and mythical "racial democracy".

Brazil ha signed treaties and agreements for Human Rights in the United Nations which demand that public policies be effectively applied in order to lessen disparities created by slavery with regards to race or ethnicity Ten years ago, the racial quotas for Black and Indigenous students in public universities began functioning as one of those measures to decrease the aberrant racial inequalities that pervaded all aspects of Brazilian society. Since then, there has been a leap from 4% of Black students who graduated from college to 20%. Despite the questionable issues and insufficiencies of this policy, it represents a progress when compared to the governments that preceded former and current presidents Lula and Dilma respectively, both from Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers Party). Instead of expanding and improving these corrective policies, Marina Silva in her government program proposes that a restraint of 10 years be applied for racial quotas. Indeed, she recently declared that the quota system should only be a "temporary, emergency and reparatory measure of historical debt with an expected date to end." The question is: how can a society that has been profiting from the atrocities perpetrated against African people for four-fifths of its history repair such injustice in 10 years? For Marina it is possible for such is the level of her insanity and obscenity.

Furthermore, conveniently ignoring the fact that African religion has been the main element of resistance during slavery and that it has allowed us to remain alive, Marina, herself an evangelical and supposedly defender of a secular state, recently stated that African religions are sects. In a scenario where Yialorixás and Babalorixás (priestesses and priests of Candomblé) are being driven out of their communities by drug dealers at the behest of leaders of evangelical churches while African religious temples are being destroyed every day, Marina Silva has shown where she stands. Recently, she publicly supported Pastor Marco Feliciano, a Black man who does not know he is Black and is a father in one of the thousands of Evangelical churches that are taking over the country. Feliciano showed himself as one of the major demonizers of African religions and affirmed that African people suffer because they are descendants of an ancestor cursed by Biblical figure Noah. Feliciano who was president of the National Commission for Human Rights was defended by Marina and not surprisingly he is one of the major supporters of her candidacy alongside with Neca Setúbal, heir of one of the main banks of Brazil, and Geraldo Alckmin, the current fascist mayor of the city of São Paulo.
We are therefore left with no other option but to denounce Marina Silva, Feliciano, and any other person who blocks our path to African liberation. These people are threats to the renaissance of our people and betrayers of our ancestors. We cannot and do not support a government that seeks to set back any of the few but significant improvements our people have achieved so far.