FOR AN AFRODIASPORIC JUSTICE
XANGÔ AND THE MANDINGOS IN SEARCH OF THE RECOGNITION OF BLACK HUMAN DIGNITY
Abstract
The limitations of a justice represented by Themis are evidenced by the results of our system of racial control, constituted by colonial matrices that characterize racist ideology and aim at the depowering, depoliticization, and submission of black people. In this timeless conjuncture, how can we expect (and hope) that this justice will protect black lives, if black death is an ontological condition for the survival of racist societies? The abolitionist paths, opened at the punitivist crossroads by Exú, lead us, through unruly movements that entangle a Sankofanian methodology that dispatches the Judeo-Christian ideology, to the quarry that sustains Afrodiasporic justice ruled by Xangô, structured in counter-colonial philosophies, ancestral and Afrocentric knowledge that rescues black legality that has been denied, reorienting the foundations of human dignity since the Mandingo Charter. Setting fire to white, universalized and dogmatized legal plantations, the mandingas (ancestral rights), launched in colonial times, are the foundation for the Brazilian legal pluralism demanded by a multiracial democracy, mirrored in quilombism.
