On November 20, the National Day of Black Awareness is celebrated in Brazil, an appointment that Vinicius and Rodrygo have commemorated. The two Brazilian attackers of Real Madrid adhered to the protest day with posts on their social networks.
Vini He published a composition of several images as Madridistas, highlighting one of the celebration of his goal in June against Mallorca that he did with his fist raised. It was the first goal he scored after George Floyd's death that sparked the anti-racist movement Black Lives Matter around the world. “National Black Awareness Day. Time to commemorate what we have achieved. But, also, day of saying that we are not going to stop. We are going to die fighting ”, wrote Vinicius in Portuguese on Twitter.
Rodrygo, for his part, chose to publish a blank profile portrait of himself with three hashtags: #ConscienciaNegra, #VidasNegrasImportam (which Vinicius also used) and #BlackLivesMatter.
Black Consciousness Day has been celebrated in Brazil since 2003, although some commemorations date back to 1995, and since 2001 it has been declared by law of national scope. In six states and about a thousand cities it is declared a public holiday. The date of November 20 commemorates the death, in 1695, of Zumbi dos Palmares, a warrior leader of the black slaves of northeast Brazil At the end of the seventeenth century he died beheaded after being betrayed by a colleague.