Tommy Knocks
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Of course, I just said, the blogger googles his stories, but its much more complex than googling incidents.Those are real news stories that can be Googled it is not as if they are fictional. Other Afro-Brazillian bloggers and news outlets have written about it. When blacks are being treated unfairly disproportionately to whites I'm sorry I'm not going to just sum it up to classism. Furthermore, the favela slums have always been majority brown and black (I just Googled and found the info, you should do the same). Why is that? They weren't abel to pull themselves up by the boot straps and work their way into the rich part of town like the whites? No, it is simply due to systematic racism.
You can even watch the documentary Black in Brazil by Henry Louis Gates which was filmed all over Brazil and interviewed Afro-Brazilians.
The definition of brown in brazil is a lot different than us. People I would consider black, are white there. People that I would consider white, are black there. It's much more complex than you think. Let me show you how a baile funk party looked to me.
To me. its about 90% white hispanic, they look like mexicans to me . but to brazilians, this is 80% black. You see now how english articles will be a little bit more complicated when reading.
I'm not saying brazil doesnt have problem, what I am saying is it is wrong to equate brazil's social problems to america's. America's problem is by far more cut and dry, brazil is far more complicated.
For example the govt is trying to help the black people from north brazil, they've implemented affirmative actions, however, brazilians are so fukking mixed, they're having a hard time figuring out who is black and who is not.
check out this documentary.
out of all the girls interviewed...only one looks black to me, the other ones I swear they gotta be trolling, one chick looks Amerindian or something. another one has blonde fukking hair.
this is why I wrote.
a rich black brazilian would get 100times more respect than a favela dwelling cac. half of the favela are actually white hispanic. over there it's playboys vs poor. blacks do make up a large percentage of the poor, but that's for obvious historical reasons. but as far as them being nazi toward black...that's false. as I was once told in brazil "how the hell are we hating someone for being black when our grandmother is probably black."
considering more than half of brazil is poor......most of them are far from racist. I felt way more unity out there, then out here.
I guess systematic racism was the wrong term to use. I mean the nation itself (not the govt but the people) is more accepting of black people and culture, is what I meant to say. Brazilian culture has a strong african fusion. It embraces its african ancestry, I mean after all the majority have some type of black ancestry in them, whereas america is a lot more dry bread and everything black is looked down upon, even hip hop which is global now. Miley twerking is evil, brazilian women samba dancing is beautiful.