Sérgio Camargo, former president of the Fundação Palmares and candidate for federal deputy for São Paulo, lost his lawsuit against Martinho da Vila after the singer called him a “black man with a white soul”.
The statement was made in an interview with TV Cultura’s Roda Viva show last year. On that occasion, Martinho criticized the management of the foundation, which “would have been created to deal with problems of black culture” but is now commanded by “Camargo, a radical Bolsonarista”.
“He’s a black man with a white soul, as they say,” he continued. “On the hard side, he wants to be white. He thinks he’s white. He feels white.
In the lawsuit, the candidate asked for the interview to be removed from the Internet and for compensation of R$ 20,000 for nonpecuniary damages.
Also in August of this year, the 18th Civil Court of Brasília had already rejected the former manager’s application. The Federal Court of Justice has now upheld the firstdegree decision and dismissed Camargo’s appeal. The information was published by Globo’s Ancelmo Gois and confirmed by sheet.
The current candidate took to Twitter following the TJ’s decision. “I was racially attacked by Martinho da Vila. I sued him for it, but I lost. I conclude that the judiciary has understood that because he is black on the left, he has a safe conduct to commit racist crimes. So another Jabuticaba appears in our legal system. Legal system: protected racism,” he said.
Camargo said at the time of the interview that Martinho violated his honor, and when he showed the part of the petition he intended to use to sue the court, he highlighted an alleged judgment attributed to actor Morgan Freeman in which the artist that would dismiss the meaning of a black conscience—or white or yellow—in favor of a human conscience capable of ending racism.
“In the inscription to the action (to be completed), Morgan Freeman teaches that racist blacks must learn on the left,” Camargo said on social media shortly after the artist’s interview.
The phrase, which Camargo has posted on social media on other occasions and typically appears on rightwing profiles on Black Consciousness Day, wasn’t exactly said in those words by Freeman. The actor’s testimony is based on an interview he gave with Mike Wallace on the CBS network’s 60 Minutes in 2006.
When asked by the journalist about Black History Month, which takes place in October in the United States, the actor called the celebration “ridiculous” and questioned its onemonth limit. “Black history is American history,” he said. He then states that he envisions the end of racism associated with the end of the distinction between black and white men. “You don’t say, ‘Look, that white man named Mike Wallace!'”