Known for Feuding With Immigrants, a TV Star Wants to Run a Town Many Call Home
The New York Times
A mayoral bid by a TV commentator known for her inflammatory messaging on race raises a larger question: How should Portugal address its colonial legacy?
AMADORA, Portugal — She is a former TV commentator whose penchant for provocation has won her fame, or at least notoriety, in Portugal: for instance, by describing calls for racial justice traitorous, and by referring to Black Portuguese by an old-fashioned term that translates to something like “Negro.”
Now the former commentator, Suzana Garcia, is running for mayor of Amadora, a city adjacent to Lisbon with one of the largest Black populations in Portugal.
The mayoral election in Amadora, set this year for Sunday alongside hundreds of other local races, is usually a sleepy affair, watched by few outside this working-class city of 185,000 that is home to many immigrants from former Portuguese colonies like Cape Verde, Angola and Mozambique.
