Ética no enfrentamento ao racismo institucionalizado durante a pandemia do covid-19: uma análise sobre as respostas governamentais

Abstract

Faced with abyssal levels of social inequality in Brazil, the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 will affect, mostly, more vulnerable portions of the Brazilian population, such as the black population. This study aims to explore the fight against institutional racism in governmental responses from an ethical perspective. The methodological path chosen is a qualitative study. As for its aims, it is an exploratory research. As sources of data, documents were collected from governmental responses to the pandemic. In this paper, the analysis process was based on elements of critical discourse analysis. The results address the deconstruction of a black identity in spite of the eugenic culture, going through corrupt behaviors; mass incarceration and unemployment; as well as the impacts of the pandemic on the black labor market, the search for racial equality and antiracist protests. In conclusion, from the perspective of virtue ethics, prevails the figure of black community trying to build their identity. From the perspective of responsibility, the racist white people who see the black community as useless. In the deontological perspective, the figure of the negationist state that violates the dignity of the human being was identified.