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The belief that the natives should live in a human zoo is racism. Jonas Marcolino Macuxí is a professor of mathematics and lawyer who belongs to the Macushi tribe in northern Brazil. Until he was 18,…More
The belief that the natives should live in a human zoo is racism.
Jonas Marcolino Macuxí is a professor of mathematics and lawyer who belongs to the Macushi tribe in northern Brazil. Until he was 18, he lived in extreme poverty with his people surviving through hunting and fishing. He strongly opposes closing indigenous people in a ghetto-like reserve. Macuxí told VoceControCorrente.it that 70% of his people want to live in modern civilisation, but the National Foundation of Indians explicitly forbids such a progress, wanting to keep the Indians in a primitive past.
Macuxí explains that the Indians used to have a natural exchange with the outside world. This changed after Second Vatican Council when so called theologians of liberation, environmental activists and political and religious indigenists and NGOs moved in, propagating a ghetto-ideology also championed by the Amazon Synod.
After Second Vatican Council, the Church in the Amazon changed radically. Macuxí says that the new …More
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He says that the "missionaries" (Marxists) of liberation have damaged them.