Lorena Improta plans to have more children with singer Léo Santana. For now, everything revolves around little Liz, who turned 1 at the end of September. The girl, by the way, has caused a revolution in the couple’s life and the presenter ended up revealing an episode that happened recently and made her reflect on the issue of racism.
“Liz had a few months to live and I didn’t know how to deal with the curls. As a joke, she said that the strands were on top. This struck a chord with some black women, who came to tell me, in a polite way, that what I had said it wasn’t nice. I apologized and that’s when I chose to study and do racial literacy”, began Lorena.
Even with an interracial relationship since 2017, the presenter and dancer, 29, never thought or discussed racial issues with Léo Santana. “I’ve always seen him as an equal. I know this is complicated, but for me, at the time, there was no such thing as color, the difference in social class where we come from. Inside our house, it wasn’t something that caught on. For me, it was always as if he didn’t exist. But today, I know that thinking like that is bad because I need this information, about his life and vice versa, I see it in a different way. This really woke me up when I got pregnant “, explained Lorena to Marie Claire magazine. “I had to have a black daughter to wake up about racism,” she acknowledged.
Lorena admits that she didn’t have much information, but with the arrival of Liz, things changed. “I’ve been trying to learn for my daughter. Because one of the most important things I’ve learned is about empowerment. Showing her how special she is, the value of her beauty. This is very strong within my home. I’ve been doing this since she was born. I say ‘you are beautiful’, with her facing the mirror”
She admits that being racially aware is fundamental in our society. “It makes you seek to have anti-racist attitudes and pass this information on to other people”, she highlighted that she has been making some specific content on social networks to help those who do not have access to information or have not yet awakened to this subject. “I don’t judge because I hadn’t woken up before either,” she completed her.
Source: Folha
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