Brazilian-style racism and sexism remain positive and operative

In the middle of the year, the Atlas of Social Mobility made public a series of data on the chance of a child from the poorest half of the social pyramid reaching the richest tenth. Out of every hundred, not even two (1.81%) reach the richest 10%. They are much more likely to go down than up: 17 out of a hundred will end up in the poorest 10%. Two-thirds, according to the Institute for Mobility and Social Development (IMDS), remain where they were at birth, almost always with average to precarious access to education, health, sanitation and all sorts of rights inscribed on paper, but denied in reality.