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Brazil: African Americans in Brazil:

You can't compare apples to oranges or in this case white to black. From the white supremacist, master race culture of the US, a drop of African blood makes you impure, soiled and savage- aka Black. In Brasil, the ideal social class to be in is the lightest skin color or white and so the more drops of whiteness that you have give you a better opportunity to move up and have a higher station in life. In other words, your numbers are wrong. There are over 98 million Black folks representing over 54% of the population. What I know and consider to be white people here in the US are not the same as what people consider to be white in Latin America. The Spanish and Portuguese had been interacting with Black Africans for hundreds of years and so there was more of an acceptance to have Africans exist in and interact with and even contribute to the general society and culture - slave and freed man alike. The white people that infected north america were of a different, more sinister type of humanity. They saw all beings not white as being savages, uncivilized, animal like creatures. In the colonies of North America, Africans were treated with the highest most unimaginable degree of cruelty, evil and hatred. Equally treated were the indigenous natives who were given gifts of small pox infected blankets and king james bibles. Whites in the northern colonies of the americas stripped all dignity of manhood, erased all memory of culture, religion, family and civility from each African that was dragged off of slave ships. White people maintained control of their property using terror, extreme violence, rape and the total disregard for human decency. That deeply ingrained mentality and attitude still exists today and the black people whose ancestors were brought here as slaves, understand this reality and either just accept whatever the master government can give to them, or break free of those chains determined to earn a life of respect, decency and equality. And so what about a Black president? Mexico had one 200 years ago. The road to the White House (which was built by slaves) has been a very violent and very costly one. To this day, 8000+ Black men are murdered every year in the US - no longer from the direct action of cowards wearing white pillowcases over their heads but with the saturation of US favelas with white powder and lead bullets. And yes slavery was 'officially' abolished in the US was before it was in Brasil but slavery still exists in the US- there are over 2 million US citizens in prison today. Many of these people are earning pennies on the dollar doing manufacturing jobs for the prison industrial complex. The Black and Brown men on the streets of the US face discrimination, racial profiling and a glass ceiling that castrates them from being men and responsible fathers. Now, I'm not saying slavery was a walk in the park for anybody but I have not seen any evidence of extreme horrors existing in Brasilian slave history. It is documented history that Africans fought freely alongside of Portuguese soldiers in the 15th century in defense of this new land that became Brasil. Even slaves had access to culture and justice. Africans were allowed to keep their African heritage and family units. I understand that Brasil's Black and Brown people also have a tough go at life these days but they have an advantage. There are over 100 million of them and so they have within their numbers the power to change the conditions of their existence- by vote of by force. They don't have 5 year old children calling them nigger and spitting on them, they don't have to avoid driving through communities where it is ok to hang with a noose an effigy of your president from a tree in their front yard. Brasilians don't have thousands of (truly) white people stockpiling up weapons and survival gear in preparation for the day when they take their country back from the mongrels. And so all of this to say that Brasil has an opportunity to change its course in wanting to be like the current models of 1st world civilized society and can embrace its wealth of natural resources and culture that every bit includes the Blackest samba dancer the Brownest remote Amazon villager. Brasil has a chance to be the world's true melting pot. and an economic super power - surpassing the hypocrisy of the US and the ineptness of the Chinese. The US African Americans who are able to should invest in Brasil. They should invest in providing the tools to empower their extended family with self sufficiency, education and mobility. Brasilians must make the climb out of poverty and out of their marginal communities by their own bootstraps but we can show them the way. We can break the cycle of the great white saviors with their bibles and blues eyes always coming to rescue what they see as poor helpless degenerate ghetto people from poverty. So don't worry about racism, its nothing like what we have here in the US. But DO worry about corruption and thievery as the government and ruling class has for so long been trying to be something they are not, a 'white' North American, North and eastern europe society (which is full of corruption and theivery). Brasil is something better than that and it is time for every single person there recognize their uniqueness and to seize this golden opportunity of having the world stage the next 3 years to show the world what is truly Brasilian - ther world cup soccer team,the carnival, the samba and hip hop, the feijoada, the beautiful big butt women, the vast oil and natural gas supply, the labor force of 130 million people all wanting the same thing - to live peacefully with order and progress. So to the US Blacks- get your head out your ass and go help Brasil if you are able to. To the Blacks and Browns of Brasil- look around you and realize there are no white people holding you back, everybody has an equal chance to live the Brasilian dream. All you have to do is help your neighbor get there to.

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