I've been to Brazil and that's a place where racial slavery lasted the longest, and where by far the largest number of Africans were taken. And white supremacy runs rampant.
You'll struggle to see Afro Brazilians in the wealthy areas of Rio or even Salvador, and if you do find them there they're likely to be homeless or on their way back to the favela from doing some kind of shitty work.
This despite the fact that the majority of Brazil’s population is black and that Brazil has the largest population of black people in any country on earth aside from Nigeria.
In fact I had a run in with the police in the 2 weeks i was there. On the way bk to the airport, the car was packed with my equipment.
I was with 2 white Brazilians in the front of the car and I was in the back. As we left a police car followed us and pulled us over. He didn't demand to speak to the driver or see his licence. They demanded that I get out of the back of the car then the policemen pointed his gun in my face and started shouting. I don't know Portuguese to well but the officer took his gun off safety. I kept my hands in the air where they had been the whole time and said nothing. I thought "if your gonna kill me, kill me" not out of bravery but just simply as a reaction to the absurdity of it all.
Then then white Brazilians ran over and pulled up my top to reveal my waist to the officer, and I immediately understood. The officer had been shouting at me to pull up my top and show that I did not have a gun on me; he assumed that I was a favela drug dealer accompanying my two rich clients somewhere because why else would an Afro Brazilian be in a car with two rich kids?
The 2 white Brazilians claimed that the policeman had been getting ready to shoot me. The police shoot black children. That's why when ppl say "Not all white r racists" I just laugh.
These good non racist white ppl are never to be seen when sh*t get's heavy
And just because those white Brazilians did what they did also means nothing because they were working for me and plus if we set the bar as low, as a white person not wanting a black person killed, then it's not even worth having this discussion. They didn't change how I view whites in regards to their racism one bit
No. Never P.Rico. But I know the white P.Ricans are on top and the black P.Ricans are on the bottom
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