White Brazilians Don’t Want to Accept Their Racism In Controversy Over African Head Wraps

Summary: Almost every small town in Brazil — especially those in the interior state of Minas Gerais — has its town eccentric, that person the whole town knows, takes care of, and looks after like a sort of patrimony. Ibiá, where I was born, had Zé Tem Dó. With him, I learned about the symbolic value of certain objects. I was aboutfour or five years old. My mother was a seamstress and Zé collected spools of thread.