The day of CONSCIOUSNESS1*, whether black, white, pink, or any other color, should literally be a day of KNOWLEDGE, of COMPREHENSION, of UNDERSTANDING... but for a "group" that (supposedly) doesn't believe in absolute, objective, and impartial truths, a word never has a clear meaning, even more so when it's used for political purposes. This is also the case with "consciousness" in the context of this "day." Because, officially, it was created to reinforce the awareness of Brazilian society, but especially of whites and blacks, about the past of slavery and the present of "structural racism"*, its true significance is much less noble than it appears to be, if it is based on dogmatic and distorted narratives or interpretations of facts that serve as support for political agendas with ulterior motives: the domination of cultural narrative; The imposition of a new system of injustice and oppression that especially benefits an "elite" of cynical opportunists and, therefore, also the imposition of an irrational system of beliefs that is not systematically based on the truth of the facts. And, like any self-respecting narrative, these "anti-racist" narratives are also fallacies: moral, logical... For example, believing that white people cannot suffer racism or that every white person of European origin is socially privileged simply for being white...
1*Date ''celebrated' only in Brazil
* An example of distorting reality, when stating that, even today, in this year of 2025 AD, there is a structural system of negative discrimination against certain racial segments in several countries, including Brazil, disregarding both the improvements in this situation and the factors, elevated to the status of politically incorrect heresies, that explain the persistence of social and racial inequalities...
Furthermore, a true Black Consciousness Day would not be about victimhood, distortion of facts, "good" pseudosciences... but about true education, the praxis of philosophy in its essence and specific to the topics in question. So, it wouldn't just be about raising awareness of the evils of Black slavery, of how unjust and cruel it was, but also about any evident form of oppression against any human group or individual who, a priori, does not deserve it.
It would also be about commenting that Black Africans also enslaved themselves (and still do??) and that it wasn't only white Europeans who enslaved them, as evidenced by the Muslims who promoted the sub-Saharan slave trade, which was as important, or even more so, demographically as the Transatlantic slave trade.
It would also be about celebrating the (legitimate) achievements of Black Africans and their diaspora, but also about raising awareness of the social problems in which they are disproportionately represented, such as crime, without pushing a kind of "benign" supremacy over this group, which I have termed "positive racism," exactly as has been happening... And that this celebration, as well as the awareness, should not be limited to just one racial or ethnic group.
It would also be about not promoting the generalization of historical guilt of groups, even more so when it is an unfair generalization about a vaguely defined group (by the criterion of race), such as the narrative of "white guilt" in which whites are "collectively" held responsible for African slavery, as if all whites were directly guilty of what happened centuries ago and which was committed by specific groups of individuals, in addition to omitting who are the most historically responsible for most systems of oppression ever erected in a society or human community: political-economic and/or cultural "elites," who are also usually the greatest beneficiaries, and which is still a great contradiction in relation to true social justice, by creating scapegoats instead of addressing responsibility to those who were or are directly related to the commission of certain crimes on a social or collective scale.
Finally, it would be about the true education of all facts or truths related to the topic, for example, about the existence of human races or phenotypic variations, instead of, contradictorily, denying that they exist while promoting racialization about everything and supposedly well-intentioned, but which divides and confuses, more than unites and enlightens. It would be even more surprising, but very unlikely in the current scenario of the first half of the 2020s, if, in addition to promoting education about the existence of human races, education about their differences (cultural, cognitive...)** were also promoted, in the most polite way possible (as I have been doing), without this resulting in a hysteria of totalitarians that would overshadow true dialogue. The reality, however, is that this day has become the day of UNCONSCIOUSNESS, and not only of black people, but also of all those who agree with the date, with yet another date on the "Orwellian" calendar...
** That it should be noted that these are also statistical differences and that, not only or necessarily the differences, but the social, cultural, and cognitive situation of each human population is not absolutely doomed to perpetuate forever, as it can be altered or changed, but not in the way these supposedly "democratic" people think, if it comes to "eugenic" practices, promoting differential fertility targeting of specific groups, for example, encouraging those identified as "more intelligent" and/or "more rational" to have more children, and doing the opposite with those who present the opposite profile, and that it doesn't need to be done in an imposing way, as I once thought, offering social benefits both to those who are desired to have more descendants and to those who are desired to have fewer. Yes! More lies from this "group" of "Orwellians" that have been propagated in their indoctrination networks, that eugenics cannot be practiced and be successful and that it is always an immoral practice.