Understanding ethnicity, racism and cultural integration: using theological tools to tackle racial problems.

Gregório  Tchikola

Autores

Gregório Tchikola Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação do huambo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7915-9046

Resumo

Since George Floyd died, we have seen “rainbow groups” (black, white, coloured and Asian people and Latinos) strongly speaking out against racism and protesting against police brutalities. This has been watched all over the world. These groups have been waving banners with the following words written on them: “Black Lives Matter”. I am tempted to uphold with no mistake that we are in the presence of new social movements fighting for equal opportunities: the melting pot movements. Could we say that the lives of hundred millions of black people killed while fighting for their rights to exist during and after the colonial period will finally be honoured by these social movements? Could we say that the world has finally changed for better after George Floyd’s death? We hope so.

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