What is breathing? It is a mechanical act that our body exercises automatically. It starts with the air entering through the nostrils, goes through the pharynx, passing through the trachea, and reaching the bronchi to finish in the lungs.                What is breathing? It is a mechanical act that our organism exercises automatically. It starts with the air entering through the nostrils, goes through the pharynx, passing through the trachea, and reaching the bronchi to finish in the lungs. George Floyd, a 46-year-old American black man was killed by asphyxiation by a white policeman, Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis, on May 25th. They were eight minutes, that he felt the policeman's knee over his veins as he babbled 'I can't breathe'. The policeman's suspicion was that he had a $20 counterfeit in his pocket. This murder was filmed by an unknown person who was walking down the street and posted on the Internet, opening discussions and political manifestations about systemic racism in the US. An unemployed worker; the father of Diana, a 6-year-old girl. George Floyd did not hear his daughter on June 3, sitting on his uncle's shoulder saying 'Daddy changed the world' in front of the crowd demanding justice. Cases of racism appear stronger, thanks to the internet, all over the world. And the whole world was touched by the case of George Floyd. Here in Brazil, the President of the Palmares Foundation, Sergio Camargo said in a conversation through WhatsApp that "blacks are the cursed scum that shelters vagabonds. A miserable body" since last year this man has been under the gaze of the institutions that defend blacks in Brazil. Statements of this kind about Blacks and the movement that protects them are not contemporary. He acts as if he was not part of the black race, the majority of Brazilians. What scares is that he is Black, the son of a specialist in Black literature. Yes, we know that he, regardless of his parents, sets his own course, but thanks to his parents, he probably never had to fight for bread, never lacked water, never had to use a bus to go to school among other inequalities that Blacks in the periphery are forced to live. What is breathing? Breathing is what little Diana said: 'Daddy changed the world' (Painting by Cândido Portinari: 'Sitting Girl')