When I first articulated ideas around the notion of linguistic racism in 2019, there were many views on linguistic racism, or many assumptions arose after I theorized about it, in Brazil or elsewhere. Kroskrity (2020, 2021), for example, connects his insights on linguistic racism to language ideologies that promote whiteness as a supremacy; Bagno (2008) and Lucchesi (2011) rely their ideas on the so-called linguistic pluralism. While the former brings into question whiteness and privilege in the US, but not necessarily colonialism as the power from where racism results, the latter ignores absolutely both, whiteness as a privilege and the colonial power from where linguistic racism is originated. In this panel, I will explore ways of linguistic racism inspired by decolonial, and counter-colonial theories, sometimes not accredited as linguistics by mainstream linguistics, to inform linguistic racism as based on language as a zone of non-being for black people. Therefore, I seek to discuss how the zone of non-being imposed on black people by the psychogenetic approach of humanism is also set linguistically. As such, I intend to further the meaning of affirmative actions that come from language rights, or the humanist approaches in linguistics toward transformative actions that may take into consideration decolonial and counter-colonial voices from the colonized, racialized and endangered speakers who resist their own vulnerability by negotiating their language.