What it means to be Black in Brazil

Racism rooted in slavery has not gone away in Brazil - and it took time until its existence was even acknowledged.
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Brazil imported more African slaves than any other country in the world: over 4 million people. Despite the ancestry forming a big part of the population, the development of a national Black identity was hindered after the country’s abolition of slavery in 1888.
Brazil didn’t have an apartheid system like South Africa’s or Jim Crow laws like the United States, and its mixed population was seen as a symbol of harmony between races. The idea of Brazil being a “racial democracy” affected how Brazilians saw the role of race in their own lives - until the myth was debunked.
“Several people were raised with certain privileges for being a light-skinned person, but still suffering some discrimination and not understanding exactly why is that so,” explains lawyer and diversity studies professor Thiago Amparo. “Only by understanding the history of Brazil, the [social] construction of whiteness and their own Black ancestry, they start to self-identify as Black.”
The rise in the number of Brazilians who self-identify as Black came as a result of the Black movement’s fight to denounce racism in the country and to promote positive references of Blackness. Many achievements have been made over the past decades, such as the implementation of affirmative action practices. However, challenges remain. Seventy-five percent of people killed by police in Brazil in 2019 were Black, and socio-economic characteristics of this population widely differ from those of white people.
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[@KuronekoJS]

“Too light to be black, too dark to be white” that is our reality here...

[@gozolino]

This is the life of a pardo. Not black and not white

[@jao581]

Pardo com orgulho e você?

[@ulti-mantis]

@Paul Charles You should ask the racists

[@renewedservant7]

That’s me, a fellow Mexican 😔

[@sebastian707]

I AM WHAT I AM What’s an “african feature”?

[@Rojomoto405]

Fun Fact my ancestors were able to leave Brazil and go back to Nigeria and they established a community between themselves.

[@Gee91]

My brother I am also nigerian but also Sierra Leone 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

[@americasfavoritebrazilian2399]

Great News...Tell them Thank You! Promote more of this

[@ericjohnson7234]

Cool, is that able to be reproduced?

[@luisfelipefaria9404]

wow, that is so interesting!!

[@luisfelipefaria9404]

if you have any videos about that, i’d more than interested to watch

[@triniboy775]

Question: What it means to be black in Brazil? Short Answer: A generally unpleasant experience.

[@binklol]

The same for America

[@laindoer333]

@Freddy Douglas I wouldn't say all of the Western World. I know many of my black friends who feel more comfortable, here, in the UK than they would in the US.

[@laindoer333]

@Freddy Douglas Wdym? I'm literally quoting what my friend said- they said racial inequality is far far far less common in the UK than the US but racism still happens. I know and understand that racism is a problem but in other countries, racism is less prominent in society. Also, are you suggesting that I can't speak to black people? I really cannot tell.

[@laindoer333]

@Freddy Douglas I do know I don't speak for all people of colour and her experiences as a black person may differ from others. Also, I am a "person of colour" I'm just not black. And yes, I do understand.

[@laindoer333]

@Freddy Douglas I'm very sorry about the negative experiences you've had, I'm just saying citing the experiences of my friends. Yes, I do believe that racism is very underhanded here but I'm comparing to places like the US and Brasil.

[@Kardamitiano]

I'm Brazilian. I was never considered Black by Whites because I was too black to be white. Ok then, so I started calling myself pardo. But some of the black movement folks started calling me out because I should be calling myself black, but then some of the more orthodox people of the black movement said I was too white to be black. Really confusing when even the Black movement won't reach a consensus. Until then I'll call myself pardo/mixed.

[@delaguilawalter]

Yes, this video wants to give reasons to people over there to join the BLM but it is not the same phenomena. Actually some of the actions of BLM promote racist disparity.

[@clebercarvalho8682]

Calma, a pira dos não ortodoxos é que se o Estado começar a nós olhar como 8% da população e não mais 50%, eles vão dar uma c*gada pra nós, e isso foi a Gabi Oliveira (militante) quem disse isso. Mas fique tranquilo, eles já estão começando a quebrar a cara com essa estratégia política, e todos viveremos em paz, pelo menos nessa questão.

[@christopherliang6879]

I have to say that things in America in 2020 is still better than in Brazil because in the United States every State is different. In most of Brazil, the black population is extremely high. When the black population becomes the majority, there will be inevitable breakdowns within the community. I mean I am Asian-American and I never considered myself the same as Indians because we were, are, and still are different. And even Italians were not considered white enough for most of American history (not even talking about Eastern Europeans)

[@ChristianDoretti]

Do it, don't let people from the outside to determine your identity, if these people consider Spain brown then you know how much they know about the things that surrounds them.

[@protruth5133]

Black and white are not races their colors. Indigenous Melanated phenotypes are brown skin. Our hair is black. Caucasians are pink skin. We don’t call Japanese and Koreans etc yellow for their race.

[@kiritugeorge4684]

If "I don't see colour" was a country, it would be Brazil.

[@joseribamarjr5164]

Yes.

[@kia2917]

Ultimate8Bit Ahhhh we found the “I don’t see color” person

[@kmilammpp]

I am from Brazil and you are right Kiritu! 😂 (laughing but crying)...

[@kmilammpp]

Ultimate8Bit in Brazil the problem is racial, and black people that is not blind with pain and trying to be white knows that! It is not social, because it is different to be white from the hood and black from the hood... two totally different experiences!

[@joaopedroaguiarfmatos1473]

We still have our racial problems but brazil is probably the nearest country of this reality so far

[@juliano.f6186]

You actually missed an important point os the racism base. When European people moved to Brazil, they were gifted with lands in south and north Brazil, but when the slavery ended, the black people didnt receive nothing, that made this population be pushed to the periphery of the city, where simple and poor houses were built, originating the favelas

[@jholotanbest2688]

Why would black people receive indigenous lands? That is almost as bad as giving the land to withe people.

[@ivyhung8961]

jholotan best the black people didn’t receive any land, I think you misread the comment.

[@juliano.f6186]

@@jholotanbest2688 portuguese took the indigenous lands, them give them to european to encourage migration

[@jholotanbest2688]

@@juliano.f6186 If one group steals land from an other group and gives the stolen land to their friends why should a completely unrelated group get the lands?

[@joaofabio5927]

mentira. os colonos tiveram que dormir no relento! o governo cobrou as terras! não fale sobre o sofrimento que vc desconhece! os colonos europeu também sofreram nesta terra infame

[@wilsonli5642]

Seems like racial relations in Brazil is worth a deep dive - looks like there's some fascinating history here that can't be covered in a barely 10-minute video.

[@gostavoadolfos2023]

The emperor Pedro II really helped to prevent a painful abolition and establishing a racial harmonyby including blacks in his court.. however he paid the price with his throne.

[@leandrofreitas9287]

You are absolutely right Mr. Li. The history of Africans and their descendants in Brazil is as beautiful as it is tragic.

[@quatosoi5707]

@@gostavoadolfos2023 true

[@rubensneto9049]

I recommend "racionais mc" my personal favourite is Jesus chorou,they are a rap group.

[@yasmingomes4860]

It's really complex. And we're just starting to really talk about it bc part of the mixture we are is not talking about at all in most homes.

[@5thdawg917]

When I was a young boy, I was always fascinated by Brazil because of all the colured people they have there. Even when I looked at the football team, It was the most diversed and amazing thing to see.

[@melancholic_eyes]

thx bro

[@emanuelcarvalho8510]

so cool to read that, where are you from?

[@5thdawg917]

@@emanuelcarvalho8510 England, London

[@Colombia_finest]

Apreciat read this man.. salute from Brazil 💚💛.. where you from?

[@infg0753]

No one is colored... Perhaps you mean "people of color"?

[@ronniecadiz9633]

"All i want to say is that they don't really care about us" -Michael Jackson

[@Kickboxer7267]

SUR CENTRO BRASIL EUROPA DE BRASIL 100 VIDEOS Referendum says 43% is white

[@alwaysv]

song still relevant in 2020

[@briannk3720]

JOHN 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

[@alejandrolopez-dr6pf]

jjJJJ brazil is majority white like alisson becker , bruno fuchs , lucas leiva , marcelo hermes , eduardo sasha , rodrigo ely , nathan de souza , felipe luis dont play yourself peopel in brazil know the difference between whats white and whats not dontr pretend something thats not brazil has a white presidente bolsonaro he is white not pardo nice try brazil is not the country with the most afro stop dreaming pretending most of the pardos of brazil are white and nativs mix but white in brazil are majority like alisson becker and pardo like coutinho afro brazilians like neymar and pele represent only 7% looks you know nothring about brazil just go to youtube and look for this channel " RAMI TRAVEL " HE RECORDS THE STREETS OF BRAZIL AND MAJORITY IS WHITE GO TO RAMI TRAVEL AND YOU WILL SEE AND THERY ARE NOT TOURIST NOBODY GOES TO BRAZIL BECAUSE OF COVID RIGHT NOW

[@thiagoprofili4806]

that's why it was filmed in Brazil, because it is the country where this music most represents. not the US

[@bowandarrow3794]

“ Racism by denial” was a beautiful line ,it exists in India too..

[@arpit5493]

But majority of Indians are racially Caucasians there are of different ethnic groups but race is still Caucasian/asian unlike Brazil where it's different race mix

[@benudharmadhi4154]

@@arpit5493 racism exist in India you can't deny it

[@rubensneto9049]

Agaisnt the dravidians?correct me if I am wrong.

[@benudharmadhi4154]

@@rubensneto9049 No, Dravidians are native Indian, Aryans are the migrants, that came Indian subcontinent around 4000 yrs ago, Dravidians and Aryans are two different races like others in India, Dravidians are darker skin while Aryans are Caucasian, there is no racism towards Dravidians, in India, you can say there is colourism, that fair skin are more beautiful and superior and symbol of rich, prosperity, than dark colour

[@rishavsingh5554]

@@arpit5493 Race isn't a scientific construct but a social construct. People were linguistically different not genetically, just for political gains, insecure 19th Century Europeans translated it into scientific concept. So get over it. No matter if you are white or black, according to morphology you are genetically 99.9% similar to any other person.

[@michaelmallal9101]

Indigenous are vastly over-represented in Australian jails. This is possibly code for judicial racism.

[@rph8704]

Men are also vastly over-represented in jails. This is possibly code for judicial sexism.

[@daisygold8658]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾definitely

[@vanessaaventura]

Across all nations the darkest people face the harshest conditions.

[@snekktikhays1780]

I agree I’m aboriginal and pardo Brazilian

[@Mahalakshmi-Khan]

@Maria Teresa have you faced racism?

[@caitmuse1310]

This is why there is a Brazil version of the "They Don't Care About Us" music video

[@user-hk1vi9pz9s]

"Brazil was one of the last countries in the world to abolish slavery, in 1888" Mauritania: 👀

[@geraldmaxwell3277]

Saudi Arabia in the 1960s ,Yemen in 1970 and Oman in the 80s must be saying "Phew!" Skipped us!! Also, claiming that Brazil was one of the last countries to abolish slavery. Slavery continued across the colonised world in some form long after formal abolition. As in ask the people of Angola and Mozambique under Portugal until 1975

[@ChristianDoretti]

Libya: What?!

[@solomon1995able]

Brazil was the last Western country to abolish slavery.

[@feyrol42]

It says ‘ONE OF’, not the last. Saying one of doesn’t mean other places didn’t abolish slavery late as well

[@watcher190]

R kelly: 👀👀👀👀👀👀

[@Mili189]

MASSIVE THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING BRAZIL HISTORY. There are more people dying under police than in any other country.

[@gozolino]

And more police officers dying too... It is a war.

[@happypt2929]

Yeah and look at the homicide rate and the crime rate, the problem isn't the police the police is a mirror of the people. You're focused on the branches and ignoring the roots.

[@happypt2929]

@Afro Football and the enormous inequality.

[@theosvult4857]

You aren't going bro talk about Brazil's crime rates? Criminals get killed. Don't mix up the innocent with criminals.

[@matheuspiece11]

@@bananahitler306 * bip bip bip * gado detectado

[@getithowyoulive2.]

Shout-out to my black/african people in Brazil. I wish y'all tons of blessings and greatness ✊🏿🇧🇷

[@pedrochagas9903]

Thanks my friend! I wish you the same

[@getithowyoulive2.]

@@pedrochagas9903 take over brazil. Brazil is your country no matter what.

[@zwakelepatsa4483]

@@getithowyoulive2. 👀👀

[@fillipesampaio9425]

@@getithowyoulive2. I'm white, but my grandfather and grandmother are blacks, so I'm descendant of Africans?

[@getithowyoulive2.]

@@fillipesampaio9425 all race are descendants from africa

[@af5377]

That moment when you realize you dont feel black neither white, even both sides reject me because "im too white or too black" sometimes things cant be put in the extremes like americans do.

[@Mivi-hv7ey]

Brazil really is a "middle" country

[@agentsquid9079]

I look racially ambiguous. People quietly wonder what my race is. Sadly, even my own race group cannot identify me until they find out my last name. They’ll often say things like, “Are you Mixed? Uhh Mexican? No, uhh maybe Chinese? No wait Italian or Greek? Hawaiian?” And I’d often be annoyed, I don’t feel like a race. I’m just human. That’s who I am, that’s how I feel I should be.

[@shmeepness1700]

@@agentsquid9079 very true, race is nothing, something we made up that means nothing, the only thing it means is that your ancestors lived in different places and that's it

[@zweks]

@@shmeepness1700 nothing to do with social politics, but "scienwise" race is linked to genetic profile possible illnesses. From aging to cancer, many genetic factors are highly influenced by race.

[@natashasuijkerbuijk6144]

@@agentsquid9079 Same here, but I'm Eurasian born and living in the Netherlands in the EU. I'm a university student in my country, and all my Dutch classmates and teachers mistake me for one of the foreign students, and always speak English to me. When I'm in China or Indonesia however, the people in these countries don't see me as one of their own either, even though my anscestors are from there. I'm too white to be Asian, but too foreign to be white.

[@k-panga]

This brings a whole new meaning to the word “quilombo” in Spanish, at least in Argentina. I didn’t know it came from Portuguese. For anyone wondering “quilombo” here is a synonym of “it is a mess” as in “this room is a mess”/ “este cuarto es un quilombo”

[@caiodollis6159]

Good to know that

[@fede1324ee]

quilombo en argentina significa prostíbulo

[@bluecandies]

Wow I didn't know that!!

[@misterlinux9290]

Latent argentinian racism , not a surprise .

[@Victor-fp1nv]

The word "quilombo" is not from portuguese, it's from the kimbundu language from Angola. Also, look what Wikipedia says about the word in spanish: "En Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay, el término quilombo fue utilizado en el lunfardo desde el siglo XIX para referirse a los prostíbulos -que incluían prostitutas de remoto origen africano- para clientes de menor poder adquisitivo. Por esa razón, el significado trasmutó a gresca, y actualmente tanto a un desorden, o a cualquier problema de difícil solución."

[@bkb8436]

"How could you want to be someone who is going to be erased?" wow

[@nunomcb140799]

I paused for a second just to let this phrase sink in

[@fahadaslam2000]

Similar to us being a Muslim in India Where race is less important than Caste and Religion

[@outherewildinb2874]

It worked incredibly well in Argentina. The concept of "whitening" (aka bettering) the race, made the Black population there drastically fall that there's a popular conspiracy theory that genocide took place. Instead, the population simply identified as 'Brown' or mixed, but that seems to be changing. Just goes to show how important solidarity is.

[@The123somerandomguy]

Getting big Kalergi plan vibes from you lot, yeesh.

[@brooklynbandit6788]

@SUR CENTRO BRASIL EUROPA DE BRASIL 100 VIDEOS stop begging for views on someone else platform

[@Victormarcondes]

Something to add to the video, one of the reasons for the black consciousness spread in Brazil, is a rap group called "Racionais MC's", they talked about the racial issues in Brazil and made a generations realize they're black by listening to their songs.

[@lagartoverdebr6176]

except they aren't

[@RMalsawmtluanga]

America - is definitely racist. Brazil - Cool, count me in. *confused racist noises*

[@shmeepness1700]

How come the most diverse countries are racists? I would have thought that countries like brazil and america with so many races would be less racist, or are homogeneous countries more racist

[@turtletail313]

@@shmeepness1700 They're "more racist" because there's more racial conflict. Homogenous societies don't care about race because they are small and unified, and the dominant race has no reason to oppress minorities because minorities are such a small and frankly irrelevant part of their society. But countries like America and Brazil don't have a unifying culture or race to bring them together. The only thing that unifies them is their nationality, but that's often not enough to prevent tribalism as the races are inevitably pitted against each other. The myth of diversity is that it's inherently a good thing. It's not. It's an obstacle that diverse countries have to work to overcome, and unify despite its presence.

[@shmeepness1700]

@@turtletail313 ohhhh that makes so much sense, that's why theres black or asian culture in america even tho they're the same nationality, so because of their history it's why they're so different? So like if we stopped racism right now would in the future race not matter at all? Like if black/ asian/ latino people lived the same as white people would that mean in the future racism wouldn't exist? So if like race culture didnt exist and only nationality culture existed would there be less racism?

[@2pedroandrade]

@@turtletail313 Tribalism is a concept only applied in racial conflicts in countries like Angola, Congo, Moçambique.

[@papaicebreakerii8180]

@@shmeepness1700 Not really it has less to do with tribalism, but more so to do with racist leaders and political figures in charge of governments. They made racist laws and policies that affected nonwhite people. And when they couldn’t do that they had to be more discreet. Through these conditions POC’s have made their own culture’s. Sadly through gentrification this is being reversed. The only way to stop systematic racism and oppression is to 1)educate those in positions of power 2)observe laws and see if they disproportionately affect certain communities and 3)abolish laws that disproportionately affect certain communities so that more people would be equal

[@alphabettical1]

Vox, please add proper Portuguese captions. It is a waste to make such a well-produced video, and still have that barrier in accessibility (especially one where you address erasure - your video can be a tool to combat this if more Brazilians could understand it!). I would think this would be something worked out BEFORE publishing the video, but better late than never.

[@Jonathan-zj6to]

they always leave captions open, maybe some multilingual people will add them (hopefully)

[@enricodelascio4330]

@@Jonathan-zj6to how can i add it? Im brazilian and i'm fluent in english, could make a caption in this.

[@Jonathan-zj6to]

@@enricodelascio4330 on the video go settings>subtitles/cc>add subtitles/cc

[@abandonedfragmentofhope5415]

@@enricodelascio4330 Please do make the Portuguese subtitles, it would be much appreciated.

[@Ana-xv9rx]

@@enricodelascio4330 youtube is going to disable this feature on September 28th (but all the subtitles already translated will still be there). If you want to do it, go fast

[@ArthurPMotta]

I don't think it's a good idea to adopt the American one-drop rule and classify every pardo under the sun as black, even those who are a mix of white and indigenous, which the video omitted although they have been classified as pardos since the 1940s. Saying that black people represent 54% of Brazilians when that group comprises every shade of brown from Pelé to Adriana Lima does a disservice to those of darker skin who suffer the most discrimination here by, for example, allowing white-passing ones to fulfill racial quotas. It also erases the history of a lot of mixed indigenous people who don't actually have African ancestry. Of all the good ideas about racial justice and equality we could import from the US, the one-drop rule is definitely not one of them. We need more nuance in our discourse and policies, not less.

[@FRANCISCARUSOworld]

Agree! They judge our reality from an US American perspective. In a country where people have been mixing for generations and generations is hard to make them choose and pick just one side after about 500 years of mixing...

[@infullbloomtime7479]

Thank you this is so correct look what’s happening in a america due to the one drop rule

[@ynntari2775]

it's a lack of information about ethnicities in Brazil. What the regular brazilian thinks is that there are only two races, white and black, and everyone is somewhere between the two. So arabs, jews, chinese, japanese, polynesians, indigenous, etc are all mixtures between white and black. Brazilians don't think that becasue they don't care, but because information about how the world of ethnicities really work can't find its way into brazilian media. But racism against different ethnicities have different origins and need different approaches to combat. For exemple, the prejudice against black people is the idea that they are dangerous and should be avoided, while the prejudice against indigenous is the idea that they are lazy and should be "taught to work"

[@FRANCISCARUSOworld]

@Blessica M I've never heard of that...

[@matheuspiece11]

A Adriana Lima é branca, ela só é bronzeada. E no vídeo eles falam até que apesar de existir essa divisão entre pardos e negros, ambos os grupos tem o mesmo perfil socioeconômico e passam pelas mesmas dificuldades (até porque muitas pessoas se entendem como pardas e não negras, apesar de terem traços africanos mais fortes do que os traços brancos, e devido seus traços e cor de pele, sofrem discriminação e maiores obstáculos na vida pelos seus traços do que se comparado com uma pessoa branca), devido a essas similaridades é importante classificá-los como um grupo coeso para que se possa pensar em políticas públicas voltadas à essa população

[@MaxwelDiego]

i'm brazilian and the white population in Brazil is bigger: Whites (47.51%) Brown (43.42%) Blacks (7.52%) Yellow (1.1%) Indigenous (0.42%)

[@Anonimous279]

Africazil

[@MaxwelDiego]

@@derrickjensen1240 Certainly, Ecuador and Colombia have many more black people than Brazil

[@tx6723]

this came at yhe same time as black lives matter

[@tx6723]

​@@MaxwelDiegocolombia has ,6 million

[@Olando89]

I’m black Brasileiro and oh so proud. Do Brasil!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@soyboy1803]

No i don't wanna go to brazil no NO NOOOOOO

[@GAZAMAN93X]

🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿 Jamaican here. Big up yuhself and take pride in your Black African Roots!

[@wokedream9837]

🇯🇲🇧🇷

[@rebecavillanova7622]

@@GAZAMAN93X Jamaican are rude by nature and get along better with white tourists than blacks from other islands.

[@ordemeprogresso727]

You are not brazilian, blacks aren't Brazilians, they are africans and always will be. You are either from Angola or Nigeria and therefor you are not consider a true brazilian

[@juselara02]

I am from Colombia and I can totally identify all this problematic in my own country. This wicked passive racism is incredibly dangerous and harmful to our society. We agree "we are not racist" and, on a particular level the average Colombian is not racist per se (like for example, the all out racism you can see on the news about USA), but if you go to the bottom of the the facts, the correlation between poverty and race is spot on. The poorer regions of the country are of black communities and it is not that easy to find black people in positions of power. But no, "we are not racist", "we love black people", "I have a lot of black firends"

[@igorantonelli8558]

Colombia y Brasil se parecen mucho en lo que se respecta al racismo y la sociedad. Yo creo que sea un problema en toda latinoamerica, especialmemte en paises como el nuestro que tuvieran esclavitud y que fueran comandados por blancos a lo largo de su historia.

[@MrAlen6e]

Exactly as dark skin Colombian this is 100% true, the fact that the war on drugs has affected black and indigenous communities the most really should be a wake up call yet it seems by keeping this fantasy of "we are all a mix society so we can't possibly be racist" doesn't make the problem go away.

[@Guizambaldi]

Im really not sure if this situation was designed (and continues to be designed) by racism and not by economical considerations. The correlation of poverty and blackness does not imply racism necessarily. Brazil abolished slavery very late, and the new free people were not equiped with the tools to ascend in society. Were they denied education because of racism or because the elite were insentitive to poverty in general? We have to separate what is an economic barrier to what is a racial barrier. They are different stuff. Racism do exist in Brazil and Colombia, but i still think it is smaller than those movements are thinking.

[@malfre45]

Para entender la relación entre pobreza y raza hay que entender el contexto. No es verdad que hoy por hoy se margine a las personas de la riqueza por su color. Hoy por hoy esa no es una situación típica. Lo que ocurre es que en el pasado si se dio esa separación y lastimosamente duro muchísimos años. Teniendo en cuenta esto podemos visualizar que el tiempo que llevan estas comunidades con las libertades y derechos modernos no es el mismo que llevan la raza blanca ( por así decirlo). Es por esto que hoy vemos grandes porcentajes de estas comunidades afectadas por la pobreza en comparación con otras comunidades. Al haber sido sujetos a condiciones inferiores a los demás, estás comunidades prácticamente arrancaron mucho después a producir sus riquezas. Prácticamente llevan mucho menos tiempo ejerciendo sus libertades por ende el patrimonio creado es menor colectivamente. Esa es la verdadera razón. Un contexto histórico los hizo arrancar después en la carrera de la vida. Pero eso no quiere decir que hoy son sujetos directos de la misma marginalización de antes. Es solo cuestión de tiempo para que se nivelen las cargas. Lastimosamente fue muy reciente está transformación social por lo que hoy se puede evidenciar esa diferencia si se mira colectivamente. Pero eso es muy distinto a decir que los negros o indígenas por sus condición hoy están siendo oprimidos por un racismo actual como tal. Lo que pasa es que obviamente los afectados por la pobreza que fue causada por un contexto histórico pasado, quieren esa transformación de riqueza inmediatamente para poder vivir como consideran que deberían estar viviendo actualmente. Pero la verdad es que la creación de riqueza lleva tiempo. Eso no pasa de la noche a la mañana. Estamos en esa transición pero a nadie le gusta los procesos todos queremos resultados y esto toma tiempo. Estoy seguro que el porcentaje de racistas entre las personas que nacieron entre 1980 y hoy es muy, muy pero muy pequeño. Lo que si tenemos es una marginación de clases socio económicas. Y la verdad el ser humano siempre busca distinguirse de los demás y es normal porque todos somos diferentes. Un ejemplo cómico es ver como el estrato 6 mira para abajo al estrato 4 y el 4 mira para abajo el 2 y el 2 mira para abajo al 1 y el 1 mira para abajo a los de pobreza extrema. Cada uno se siente mejor que el otro por su condición social. Así que la marginalización o separación de los grupos es innato a la condición humana para su propia validación. Lo puedes ver en la historia como entre los mismos pueblos indígenas se esclavizavan después de que una tribu le ganaba a la otra en una guerra. La jerarquía se creaba en función de poder y no de raza, así se considerará al otro grupo inferior por el hecho de nacer o pertenecer a ese grupo. La historia está repleta de estas jerarquías. Lo peligroso de todo esto es que se están creando políticas de identidad actuales basadas en situaciones históricas no reales el día de hoy. Pero como explicaba anteriormente todos queremos resultados hoy y no en el futuro, así vayamos por el camino correcto. Entonces aparecen ciertos personajes a utilizar estas situaciones para desinformar y agitar la opinión pública para los resultados inmediatos que ellos como individuos están buscando ( elección). A ellos no les interesa si en 80 años las cosas están mucho mejor o no, a ellos les interesa tener la razón y el apoyo inmediato para su propio beneficio. Entonces cuando tú como persona vulnerable sujeta a la historia que en algún momento pasó, pues vas a buscar culpables de tu situación actual y créeme que los vas a encontrar. Pero nadie está viendo el contexto solo están viendo las emociones. Equiparar el racismo sistemático que vivió USA con el racismo Latinoamericano es una barbaridad. Nosotros somos pueblos mixtos con una cultura y una idiosincrasia totalmente distinto y nos estamos dejando dividir por unas teorías extranjeras que distan mucho de nuestro contexto social, pero como todos queremos resultados lo más fácil es buscar culpables. Lo que pasó, ya pasó y no podemos hacer nada. En nuestras manos está el presente y futuro, no el pasado. Pero si seguimos dividiendonos como pueblos por descontextualizar nuestra realidad jamás podremos avanzar colectivamente. Sí fue un horror humano haber oprimido a pueblos enteros en función de raza pero pasó y no podemos cambiarlo. Sí de verdad queremos cambios debemos encontrar lo que nos une y no lo que nos divide. Pero al parecer nos estamos volviendo expertos en encontrar las diferencias entre nosotros y eso nos va a pesar tarde o temprano. Para finalizar quisiera decir que el análisis que hacen en el vídeo de porqué ha habido un crecimiento en el nacimiento de negros en Brasil está lejos de esa idea romántica de identidad propia(self identity) que mencionan. Es más, contradice la misma tesis del vídeo donde relacionan la pobreza a el color de piel. Porque si analizamos desde la perspectiva propia de la pobreza pueden encontrar que ese crecimiento de nacimiento de negros está directamente relacionada a la situación socioeconómica de esos pueblos. Es decir, si la gran mayoría de esa comunidad es negra y viven en la pobreza quiere decir que sus oportunidades son mucho menores que las de las personas con mayor capacidad económica. Por ende, menos educación, menos proyectos, menos metas, menos planificación menos salud, menos oportunidades, menos control sobre su vida. Mientras los de mejor situación socioeconómica tienen más oportunidades, mayor educación etc. Tienen un mayor control sobre su vida. Entonces planifican, se cuidan, cuantifican los costos de los hijos, se proyectan y estructuran su vida en función a sus responsabilidades pues toman decisiones diferentes a aquellos que carecen de esas oportunidades. Por ende va haber mucho menos nacimientos por los costos de vida en las comunidades privilegiadas que en las menos favorecidas. Es por eso que con la sexualización de la sociedad moderna y la falta de oportunidades podemos ver cómo hoy los menos favorecidos están triplicando en hijos a los de mayor oportunidades. Por eso sí la comunidad menos favorecida es de negros o indígenas o mulatos o blancos vas a ver un incremento en el nacimiento de estos bebés. Entonces no tiene nada que ver con un orgullo de raza y más bien tiene que ver con una situación social. Lo mismo ocurre con los crimenes o delitos. A mayor educación y mayor oportunidades, menor el risego de delito o embarazo. Esto no es de razas. Todos somos humanos y totalmente diferentes y eso es nuestro potencial! La única manera de acabar con el racismo ves dejar de hablar de racismo. Pd:No quiero ni hablar del negocio y corrupción que existe en todos esas ong's o grupos sociales que se benefician y enriquecen comercializando la miseria humana.

[@juselara02]

@@malfre45 excelente analisis

[@tubester4567]

The last countries to abolish slavery was the Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia 1960's, Oman in the 1980's. There is still over 1 million black African slaves in Mauritania.

[@TheVetein]

I think they forgot to say that was one of the last western countries to abolish. Either way, even if they are saying "one of the last to abolish in the world" it's technically right. As you said, it's just some middle east and north african countries that abolished later. (And mauritania didn't even abolish yet).

[@bogumil-ws9qt]

They don't care because even just acknowledging those facts would make them inadvertently say that those people in those particular countries are backwards.

[@mihaicraciun8678]

@@TheVetein india also has 18 million slaves today and who knows how many in other east asian and south asian countries. it's a VERY widespread problem, not "just some countries" like you said.

[@tanmaynegi3169]

@@mihaicraciun8678 where

[@mihaicraciun8678]

@@tanmaynegi3169 wdym where?? i told u, india

[@GeedyP]

We love ❤️ I black ancestors from Brazil 🇧🇷 much love from me in New Orleans,La✊🏾 🇺🇸

[@lusca7148]

Funny how they portray every brown person in Brazil as Black. *PARDO* com orgulho.

[@lunayen]

They really should distinguish the brown people from the black ones. So as to give the black people the support and recognition they deserve.

[@lusca7148]

@@lunayen Agreed. I as a pardo person, NEVER had to face racism. Never got stopped by police. A lot of people think its racism of pardos because they don't want to be called black, but actually its a way to focus and expose who really suffers badly, the blacks.

[@Andraoide]

@@lusca7148 Existe uma variável geográfica a se levar em conta também. De qual região você é? Eu morei numa cidade do interior de SP, de imigração italiana, onde o preconceito contra pardos era comum e descarado. Sei que no Sul a recorrência disso é alta também. Aqui em Minas o pardo facilmente se passa por 'branco' dependendo das condições econômicas.

[@carol18]

Aquelas músicas "nossa cor marrom, marrom bombom" "morena tropicana" e "preta preta pretinha" devem estar canceladas né, pq agora não pode mais, todos viraram unicamente negros.

[@lusca7148]

@@Andraoide ah, mas isso é um problema e uma questão social da região em que você viveu. A realidade em que me encontro e aonde fui, nunca me ocorreu nada do tipo. Todo povo é sujeito a sofrer preconceito em algum local/ambiente, então uma situação tão mínima dificilmente pode ser considerada relevante para o debate.

[@IchiNiSean]

Bruh I'm so tired of racist. Like incredibly exhausted.

[@alejandromonterroso7709]

I am tired that the world can't find peace and everybody fights to take control over others......

[@pepsicolainclover]

and who is not?

[@IchiNiSean]

@@pepsicolainclover the actual racists 🙄

[@EnderWarden]

@@IchiNiSean And how would you know that?

[@butter9549]

So is everyone tbh

[@deadsoon]

I'm Venezuelan but I've seen similar issues in my country, there's lots of internalized racism towards black and indigenous people even though the majority of the population has heritage of both.

[@heraldomedrano851]

All latin speaking countries want to be 100% European.

[@genzeuronymous7787]

Are you still in Venezuela?

[@mch7933]

That's what is most sickening. Majority of the population in Latin-American countries have Native and African heritage too yet the racism.

[@lagartoverdebr6176]

Black heritage ≠ being Black.

[@lagartoverdebr6176]

@@heraldomedrano851 you are a fool, and I have experienced the exact opposite.

[@annaluizaserrano8620]

Im a white passing Brazilian, but my whole family has a black ancestry, in America, my grandpa would be considered Black. It’s funny, I never realized that my grandpa was different than me until I moved to the US. I’m grateful that I didn’t get discriminated against like my sister, which is darker, but it also makes me feel disconnected from my culture and my people. It’s such a weird feeling

[@angelicaflorez6660]

I guess that's why is hard to talk about racial issues in latinoamerica in general, we convive together and never saw the other person as different cause his skin color, or atleast, we didn't consider it a problem, yet, racism exist in latinoamerica

[@davidelliott1594]

@Anna Luiza Serrano It's important to remember that "blackness" isn't only defined by the level of discrimination one faces. Pride in one's heritage is not only about struggle, it's about love and respect. If you have love and respect for your ancestry, there is no need to feel disconnected. You can't control other people's prejudices and actions, you can only control your own actions. For those in your family who are discrimated against, you can always show them love, moral support and stand with them. That's as great of a connection as people can have with each other is being there when it counts.

[@andradepasternak]

Using terms like "white passing" and "America" (instead of saying USA) shows that you are not real Brazilian, but a colonized mind

[@davidelliott1594]

@@andradepasternak In case you didn't read her original post, she stated clearly that she moved to the United States. If you live in a country long enough, you refer to things in a terminology commonly understood by where you are. Where a person comes from is different. "USA" is not generally what a person who lives in the United States refers to the country as. Actually, most countries in the world don't refer to the United States that way, in my travels, I have heard that reference primarily in specific Latin American countries. The original poster wrote in the English language and wrote phrases as they are understood in the English language. That reflects being educated in the language and culture one is speaking, and doesn't diminish the fact someone originated elsewhere. In reference to the "colonized mind" comment, considering all the Americas and the Caribbean were colonized, that comment wouldn't make much sense.

[@andradepasternak]

@@davidelliott1594 USA imperialism does exist, that's why I said she is a colonized mind. Colonized by the American way of thinking.

[@purplerox412]

this topic deserves a much longer documentary or multiple parts

[@niyatinsley4742]

It makes me so sad. Why does the world hate black people so much? What did we do? All we want is freedom and to stop being treated less than for something we can’t control.

[@YogabyNanda]

Your skin is beautiful, you look strong and healthy, your rhythm, your beautiful voices, your culture, your strength...envy always finds a way to do evil.

[@jamesleigh6166]

Asian people too. I feel you.

[@deprilula28]

@@YogabyNanda even if those things weren't true you can't just deny a race of people, these aren't the topics we should bring up

[@nia-yl7lq]

Simon Lee stop that, we are talking about black people who feel the brunt of colourism and racism everyday and carry it on our backs

[@gtas321]

@@jamesleigh6166 I don't think asian ppl in 2020 know anything about racism.

[@cyanmarie902]

Please put subtitles in Portuguese! I want to share this to my Brazilian friends:)

[@nacional-armamentista9560]

Olá tudo bem Cyan?

Manda eles aprenderem inglês, é util

[@zakazany1945]

Pra quê? A visão dos gringos sobre as nossas questões raciais é bem falha porque eles só entendem o modelo racial deles e tem muita dificuldade de enxergar nuances e algo que não seja extremo.

[@soniacarvalho7459]

mas tem subtitulo na configuracao.

[@user-lehsun-le-garib]

Ronaldo Ronaldo!

[@kellynhachristine]

Black is black White is white Native is native Asian is asian And mixed is mixed Period

[@youreboichips3872]

And all of us are Humans.

[@barbaraaraujo7700]

The video contains a wrong information. The term Pardo (Brown) is used not only for mixtures between whites and blacks (mulattos), but also for mixtures between natives and whites (caboclo - mestizo) and natives and blacks (cafuzos). And 56% of the Brazilian population is not black. The black population is only 8%. 48% of the population is "Pardo" (brown), a category that includes the CABOCLOS (MESTIZOS), a mixture of natives and whites, who make up the majority of the population in the Amazon region and in the interior of the Northeast.

[@henriconfucius5559]

Genetic tests reveal that on average, Brazil is 65% european, 20% african and some 15% amerindian. Whites are 80% european, 10% african and 10% amerindian Pardos are 60~70% european and 30~40% african+amerindian Blacks are surprisingly only 45% african, 40% european and some 15% amerindian (on average)

[@guararape]

Don't be fooled: Pardo translates to mixed race INCLUDING ALL KINDS OS ANCESTRIES, not only black African(!!!) That group pardo encompasses several different origins, such as descendants of Native Americans (who compose most of the population in the North of Brazil and in several states from the Northeast), sometimes people of Arabic descent, people of both black and indigenous descent, etc. Therefore, there is a very serious issue with saying that Pardos are black. Some may consider themselves, probably the majority in the old beacons of slavery I Brazil (Recife, Olinda, Salvador, Sao Luis, Rio de Janeiro, Ouro Preto, Vale do Paraíba, etc), but you can not say that all pardos are black because they aren't and don't accept being considered as such. Saying all pardos are black is erasing the suffering, the struggles and the history of the populations who descend from different origins, contributing to ignore the history of indigenous, mixed race and other peoples identities.

[@RamosGuilherme]

They don't really care about that...

[@Gracie-xn6xv]

However is a film about black people so of course using pardos and centralising the discussion around black people is acceptable. We are not talking about pardos who have no African ancestry, that is not what this discussion is about. Stop trying to take away from the focus. There will be another film about the own complex history and struggles of native pardos however for this occasion, we are talking about those of African descent.

[@RonaldoTalison]

I'm mixed white and native Brazilian mostly so there's no reason for saying that I'm black. People will look at me weirdly if i say something like that even though I'm pardo.

[@PHlophe]

Ronny but you are not pardo that's the point. Pardo is socially viewed has having african genes in the make up , predominantly or not.

[@elektrosonic]

Great statement , congratulations one of the first people who points that out , is the same on the states , and they judge racism in the same manner when racism behave differently depending on each country history and is not jus about white or black now days.

[@gabrielpaulino9701]

If you want a story of a true hero, search for the story of João Cândido, the "Black Admiral". This man's life deserves a movie.

[@ufosrus]

Memorias da Chibata (2006 film).

[@trad_m4839]

Melhor parte é que ele era integralista.

[@crystianvasconcelos1951]

@Victor Hugo assim como e difícil de ver comunismo como bom com economia e governo

[@iuv4enzo]

i'm so happy to see this video. i thought that this story would never be published to such a big platform.

[@cmapp1969]

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH OF RACISM, LOOK UP THIS VIDEO ON KZbin. " THE CONSPIRACY AND HIDDEN IDENTITY OF BLACKS IN THE BIBLE, this is a true story biblical and historical, they both line up. copy and paste it to your youtube, they won't let me add the url, they don't want the truth revealed.

[@sweetoneiros]

Thank you for bringing light to this issue to other people outside Brazil, and even to people here, since a lot of aspects about racism here still suffer gashlighting and the media enjoys dismissing the issue here.

[@joe_lubinda]

A Brazilian I talked to on Instagram told me that when she was studying in Portugal, the history teacher was telling them how Portugal was a "better colonizer" than other Europeans cause the Portuguese were "tolerant" and "encouraged" their people to mix with the people they found in the lands they conquered which is honestly what I also believed but when she asked me to research "whitening" I was shocked. Brazil became so mixed cause they wanted to mix the black out of people and whiten the population. The sad thing is that some Brazilians think their country is so mixed because Brazil is "racism free".

[@AudaciousBourgeois]

That ideology comes directly from the 20th century scholar Gilberto Freyre, who calls it luso-tropicalism.

[@joe_lubinda]

@@AudaciousBourgeois yep. Still happening in Brazil today.

[@winstonsmith3370]

They wanted to whiten the country as much as possible.

[@joe_lubinda]

@@winstonsmith3370 exactly. They even paid Europeans to move there.

[@rebecacunha5343]

@@joe_lubinda orgulho de ser parda Sangue preto e europeu juntos Pq todos são humanos

[@khumothage4629]

Its like being black. But like in Brazil.

[@52.yusrilihsanadinatanegar79]

wait what

[@darkgame4000]

In Brazil, you are black if your color is dark brown. Light brown, it is called pardo.

[@rafafr9]

Who would have guessed? Its almost as if racism is built into most western power structures

[@luamint]

r/technicallythetruth

[@trashchild5945]

Asifur Rahman yes

[@mwbright]

I just got back from Brasil, and cannot begin to express how depressing it was to find that racism there is open and hideous.

[@pedrochagas9903]

Sad but true

[@Tom-zk2sg]

can you give an example about what kind of racism you saw there ??

[@tomasmucha2133]

It is the sad truth that South America is very racist and very out spoken about it.

[@popplay8084]

Where do you speak from? May you give us a chance by comparing our countries?

[@BoldJonathan]

Thought it was just me. And to all you who deny it, go outside of Rio and the bikinis please. This is a mature convo bruh!

[@TNmike0309]

Forca Afro Brasillian. I am part Afro Brasilian and I love my culture and history. My third great was a free Black man from Rio De Janeiro, (possibly had distant Gurani Native in him) in 1809-1810 and he lived into his 70's until he passed in Washington D.C. in 1884.✌🏿💛💛💚💚✊🏿

[@danielitalo5891]

Thanks my brother! Its good to know our history. Stay safe

[@bruhsoundeffect2882]

Ah yes, Bolsonaro - The Trump of Brazil.

[@Jeevzsk]

No no no Worse than trump - trump just tries to appease southern states

[@foodiusmaximus]

Lets not forget Duterte, the Trump & Bolsonaro of the Philippines or Boris Johnson, the Duterte, Trump and Bolsonaro of the UK.

[@melissa.b.l]

My uncle is Black, and he voted Bolsonaro 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@kinkaju]

@@melissa.b.l good decision! This video does not say how lula and dilma(and their party) were one of the most corrupt rulers in South America. Greetings from a Venezuelan in Argentina:)

[@melissa.b.l]

@@kinkaju yes dude , no one wants the true, the politics just Care about money and in latin america this is worst than anywere

[@bluepandaman]

I don’t understand why people can’t just treat others with respect. It seems like such a simple thing.

[@carlosrogerio8969]

Quem se privilegia da lógica racista não quer ver o racismo acabar tão cedo

[@xalpacazeu1332]

Yes, it really isn’t that difficult

[@ynntari2775]

it's lack of good representation. Most racist people live their whole lifes in places where you can't spot a single black person. Like expensive schools and universities and noble neighbourhoods. So they react with shock when they see one and don't have any good reference of a black person they like or admire, their image of a black person is only the image passed to them during their childhoods by the racism impregnated in the social mind.

[@babsjob8729]

Ask caucasians

[@babsjob8729]

@ICARUS 10inch yes the same people that exploit them and turn out racist toward them

[@Anderson_Anderas]

I'm brazilian and I can say that this mini documentary is kind of good, but it doesn´t bring nothing new, And there are 2 important statements which are pretty incorrect. White + Amerindian is also considered Pardo/mixed in Brazil, and most of them are from the north region, near the Amazon, when people with those two heritages look more like european they are sociologically speaking white in Brazil, as well as the black + white ones...

[@bleecker8056]

not only if it is in Bahia it is in Rio us the rest of the regions if it has black or indigenous ancestry it is brown.

[@nanox4]

Los quiero mucho, Brasil. Fuerza desde Argentina.

[@yarafarias6416]

Gracias Hermano!

[@angelicadossantos7614]

Gracias. Queremos muito a Argentina tambiem

[@putariaaquinao7481]

Tu me quer é 😓

[@cariocabassa]

Gracias "Che"

[@camaleonino2581]

@@putariaaquinao7481 te quiero é te amo muito, até aonde eu sei '--'

[@g.dalazenm.38]

To understand how deep this whitewashing of history goes, Brazil’s most important author ever, Machado de Assis, was a mixed race black man, and yet, during high school seeing pictures of him, I always thought he was white and had never seen any textbooks saying otherwise. Only recently through a black rights organization website did I find out about this.

[@fgsaramago]

I doubt the pictures were racist so it seems to be your prejudice that youre describing

[@chillin5703]

@@fgsaramago well, yes and no. I don't think you get how whitewashing works - they probably only showed images of him where he "looked white" (lots of them are black and white, so chose photos where his darker skin didn't show because of lighting, etc), and then intentionally let the class assume he was white. That's how it usually goes.

[@alexander5662]

@@chillin5703 I think u are pushing it a little with that

[@fgsaramago]

@@chillin5703 and why would the class assume he was white? Havent they ever seen people they know are black in old B&W pictures? Isnt it much more educational to let people find out about their own prejudices instead of putting people's race upfront if the subject matter being discussed is unrelated to race? It would be pretty weird if when talking about writers we would start describing them by saying "person x was a white poet..." or whatever race it is

[@YogabyNanda]

They do the same to Jesus. He wasn’t white.

[@greyscaleb1537]

"When the world was experiencing WW2 and Nazism." You forgot Ultra-Nationalism from Japan, both could've potentially rule the world.

[@03e-210a]

@@nickarjoma5350 everything is racism

[@theburningorange3622]

T what part of ultra nationalism isn’t racism. It’s like saying you country is the only good country on earth

[@CloroxBleach-fv6mq]

TheBurningOrange nationalism by itself is not racist. You assume nationalism is rooted in skin color which is not what defines a nation.

[@theburningorange3622]

Clorox Bleach skin colour is not the only part of racism. Racism means thinking your race is better than all races, as hitler did, and Mussolini, and I think imperial japan

[@zakazany1945]

@Sc0ut op Being against racial mixing is already racism

[@isabellyoliveirax2218]

One time,my dad put me as ‘black’ (negra) in my document, I remember feeling a bit...Offended by it.I don’t know why.Maybe after this video I understood why

[@ericpowell4350]

Brazilians are a beautiful people.

[@cindyclawford2816]

I remember when I was a kid, my teacher referred Brazil and Africa as " Where black people lived " and all the kids went ewww and stared at me .

[@maycsilvaalves]

i remember poop myself in class

[@sheltonwilliams9299]

@@maycsilvaalves me to...

[@anafolie471]

@MG Bamenbarce Latin isn't a race. You can be white and latino. People need to stop treating latino as a race because it isn't

[@NankitaBR]

@@anafolie471 tell that to everyone in the USA...

[@MatheusCampos-ex8et]

I mean, racism doesn't exist without theory, and there are lots of racial theories. Some say that Latinos are a race, others don't. The thing is: racism is a technology created to justify the abuse and discrimination of other ethnicities, base on false premises and rather confuses people than help our species grow.

[@GTAVictor9128]

"All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us." ~Michael Jackson, "They Don't Care About Us"

[@cmapp1969]

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH OF RACISM, LOOK UP THIS VIDEO ON KZbin. " THE CONSPIRACY AND HIDDEN IDENTITY OF BLACKS IN THE BIBLE, this is a true story biblical and historical, they both line up. copy and paste it to your youtube, they won't let me add the url, they don't want the truth revealed.

[@matthew_thefallen]

I find it very interesting, ever since studying anthropology, that the term race can be a double sided weapon: in one hand it can help to empower minorities or certain aspects of society, in the other hands it can harm a lot. Races do not exist scientifically, but in society it is useful in one hand to make people more aware of this constructed fact that exist and can't be ignored. It's incredible.

[@italucenaz]

Can't be ignored right now, but should be made unimportant to the point is not there, since race is artificial, we can destroy this concept slowly

[@berriesfruitas430]

This is the way that I think would help the situation as well. If we all could just take a step back and truly examine race, as you said, it’s a social concept that people came up with. It has no science behind it, therefore making race an invalid concept. Both sides need to come to this realization.

[@gio5633]

Many academics in the field of social studies, such as social workers, for example, point out that the notion of "race" used is not a biological but a social notion. I recently read some booklets from Brazil that address various types of prejudice, including racism and that is exactly what it points out, that the notion of racism is social, not biological (this is a booklet from the Federal Council of Social Service, a federal agency )

[@KarlaRodriguez-mx2od]

I find that really interesting too. I thought that they didn't identify themselves as a black, white, natives or whatever because the population was "homogeneous" and there was equal opportunities for everyone. How wrong I was!

[@gio5633]

@@KarlaRodriguez-mx2od there is no such thing as equal opportunities, no matter what country you are from, someone is being discriminated against especially when the country tries so hard to say that prejudice doesn’t exist there

[@OdysseyTag]

Absolutely enthralling video. Thanks for highlighting this issue Vox.

[@alcrian8627]

The sad part is that most officials (including black officials) sort of have this kind is discrimination built in. My sister used to be married with a Black guy and we're very white (we're a mix of Italian and Spanish ancestry). On a given day, some officers stopped us and started searching him exclusively. One officer took us far from him and asked us if we were being threatened by him, if we were being kidnapped or something. That got me thinking... I've never been searched by the police and the officer who asked those questions to us was a black man. That is the saddest part of it... What this country did and still does to black people is really sad to say the least. We see daily cases of George Floyd here in Brazil and what's even worse is that we have a president that softens the subject... It gets to the point where people got used to it unfortunately.

[@PHlophe]

your comment is precisely why he didn't want to rock the boat and pretend racism wasn't a cause. You can never understand unless you have enough african ancestry. The only thing this did in the moment was get you to think deeply but then did you take action ? absolutely no. you probably turned around and told him " it was racism? you didn't see it ? " . You contributed to the larger problem

[@thebridge5483]

So this really happens

[@Khookies-lp2lu]

Indonesia is similiar. The fact that the country is founded by multiple races gave birth to the myth that everyone here accepts democracy I once saw a catholic kid having rocks thrown at him by other kids with other religions because he is a minority here.

[@muhammadwaqas6102]

Yeah being a minority anywhere is a difficult struggle and I think it's in everyones best interest to help them.

[@aegeanmapping]

Stop lying

[@Khookies-lp2lu]

@@aegeanmapping bruh how am I lying?

[@NoVisionGuy]

@@aegeanmapping If you think it's a lie, being a minority in an Islamic country is most of the time inconvenient.

[@aegeanmapping]

@@NoVisionGuy like in America kids get bullied bcz they are muslim

[@andresvalentin6924]

I remember learning about Zumbi dos Palmares and the quilombos when I started training Capoeira. To give Princess Isabel the credit for setting slaves free instead of Zumbi dos Palmares would be like giving Abraham Lincoln more credit than Harriet Tubman. Oh....wait a minute!

[@moonray61]

Yep, that sums it up

[@Tinky11221]

It's not like Zumbi dos Palmares is not a problematic figure either, he also kept slaves and did other terrible things, he was more like a gang warlord. If we were going to pay respect to someone who really deserves and was truly a hero it would be Luis Gama.

[@shannilove2801]

The lies they made up🌚

[@fellowgoyimwhite7630]

Zumbi dos palmares tinha escravos também

[@eduardosilveira6974]

Very good video as always, i wish we had a news channel of your quality here in Brazil. This video, along with the one’s talking about the amazon rainforest were better than anything ive seen from Brazilian journalism in a while. It just saddens me that a video of this quality doesn’t have subtitles in Brazilian Portuguese so i can share it on social media.

[@khannasrul6404]

I'm from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 & one of my closest friends is a Brazilian guy from Rio.... once he said he faced discrimination several times in his life time just because of his skin tone...he is a dark guy....and a english professor... once he was passing through a particular place and some polices stopped him without any reason and started to search him as he got any drugs or something like that...but at the same place they didn't search the other guys passing through who had white skin tone....it really did hurt him..... and I was astonished by this incident and I cancelled my Brazil trip cuz in my country there are over 180 million people and in every family you will find super white to super dark family members but still such discrimination or racism is absent in our society....so I decided not to visit Brazil as it would be a huge cultural shock for me and I would not be able to stand with such harsh reality....

[@khannasrul6404]

@Asifur Rahman hey bhai 😁

[@khannasrul6404]

@Biggaone yaaa it's true....but we should look into human's heart not their outer layer..

[@s9ka972]

@@khannasrul6404 Hey we Indians and Bangladeshis are actually brown right . I felt our skin to be more attractive than European and black .

[@s9ka972]

@Asifur Rahman I just mentioned most attractive too...

[@khannasrul6404]

@Biggaone no we don't have caste system in our country Bangladesh is a muslim majority nation and in Islam the caste system is totally forbidden.... cuz according to islam every human being is equal.... so we can't judge someone by his socio economical status..... And yaa our neighbour India has this system and it has strong presence in their society...but it doesn't affect our culture...

[@misterx1342]

In South Africa during apartheid there was another race category, if you are mixed race you would be classified as “Coloured”

[@darrenhilton9402]

Trevor Noah.

[@aantoine5819]

Still exists, and colored ppl are still considered separate even among indigenous South Africans

[@Jacob-wz7pm]

Darren Hilton except Trevor doesn’t really identify with that ideology. He calls himself black.

[@Traveler-rf8ye]

@@Jacob-wz7pm Yeah well he is racially coloured, but not culturally. You could be racially coloured, but not culturally. Or you could be both.

[@ts121084]

Jacob Because in the United States, where he now lives and works, it has become fashionable for young mixed-race people of African and European descent to act repulsed by their whiteness.

[@michelesoares6016]

I'm Brazilian and extremely proud. I am white but I love all my Brazilian people. Black white or in between. Do I think racism exist to a certain extent but it's not as clear cut as in the United States. Its more of a class issue to me. I look at my family and its a rainbow of colors and we all love each other. Like I said I'm white and I'm called black as a sign of love. The culture is much appreciated of black people. I'm not trying to minimize the issues but in no way shape and form is it as half of racist as the U.S. I'm only comparing both nations not to put one against the other but because I'm Brazilian American.

[@EderGomes-vd4km]

Brown is not black. Brown in brazil is a mixed from indigenous/ native americans, whites and black people. Is a mixed people and this caracteristics is different of only black people

[@fatboyRAY24]

It's not considered such in the US due to the one drop rule. Here, the average black person has 25-30% European ancestry and 5-10% native ancestry and the rest African ancestry, yet it still doesn't matter.

[@eltecnico9541]

@@fatboyRAY24 Not exact to Brazil. According to genetic studies, the Black in the US is 20% white and 2% native, the non-Hispanic White in the US is 2% Black and 0.1% native. In Brazil the average brown or "Brown" is 58% European, 30% Black and 13% Native, add that the Latin culture in general has a different way of seeing the human races purity is not something important besides that never the law of gout was applied

[@fatboyRAY24]

@@eltecnico9541 We have slight differences in our data, but I think the US is slowly moving away from the ideal of racial purity. We would look a lot more like Brazil had this happened a century earlier, although maybe not given that black people and Natives are such a minority that overtime their genetics will be lost in the majority, which would be good for assimilation but bad for individualism.

[@seilahqlq1]

@@fatboyRAY24 Latins were not into purity - the one drop rule is an anglo idea. So the only racists that this video exposes is the US americans trying to play new-colonizers.

[@nandhubt90]

Pls lower your background music and make vocals much louder and clear.

[@user-ll6pr5cw1f]

Bro south ah ?

[@Jeevzsk]

Its not the biggest problem But it couldve been better

[@jemmaj2919]

Yeah pretty bad isn't it

[@user-ll6pr5cw1f]

@bobtheman 4 adipoli tamizh bro❤️

[@Phoebes8391]

@@user-ll6pr5cw1f indians are the most racist, north , south. stop this nonsense. i am a tamil myself

[@a.a.6789]

Can you please do a video like this about Natives from different countries in the americas?? Especially with the targeting of community leaders in Latin America and the government trying to take their right to fish in Nova Scotia.

[@pennythefirst2772]

They can do it about Brazil too

[@erasmoalvarenga5339]

Phenomenal doc ! Thanks for this !

[@laabitres]

Racism against african descendants is a global issue, its a shame since descendants of africans have brought so much flavor to countries like Brazil

[@sylodui]

underrated comment

[@livefullynow6947]

As a black South African currently living in China, I really connected with this video. VERY POWERFUL.

[@ArnieAlonzo]

Matla le mahlatse go lena nageng eo. I hear you guys have it hard.

[@protruth5133]

Black and white are not races their colors. Indigenous Melanated phenotypes are different shades of brown. Your hair is black. Caucasians are pink skin. We don’t call Japanese and Koreans, all Asians etc yellow for their race. Because they have heritage. their is no homeland or landmass called black or language.

[@shmeepness1700]

Is china racist?

[@rocdaneweracap]

@@shmeepness1700 there have been attacks on black in china

[@vortukassingh999]

@@shmeepness1700 No

[@isabeladuleba810]

I'm Brazilian, and I've always been told calling someone "black" was rude...

[@Bl4z3MC]

yeah it's so weird, like teachers in schools would say things like "don't say black, say afro descendant instead"

[@seilahqlq1]

@@Bl4z3MC only now. After 2010 I saw these yankee terms became the norm: "afro", "bullying"....and other political correctness. 🤐

[@AskMiko]

This is an amazing video segment. It needs to be a series...

[@bubbles201990]

So proud of y'all ❤️❤️

[@pakhilnair]

The research, narration & video editing is simply astounding.

[@Leo-if5tn]

It is much narrowed to the left view. That want to make a war between the blacks and the whites

[@5pctLowBattery]

The painting "The Redemption of Ham" by Modesto Brocos features a black grandmother, mixed-race mother, white father and white baby. The grandmother stands to the left with her hands raised in prayer, praising God that her grandson is white. Skin Color Still Plays Big Role In Ethnically Diverse Brazil

[@Clear_Prodigy]

5%LowBattery bro tell me more! I think this white-worship thing is a major problem, equating whiteness with being better, I have seen this in Africa and India where being light skinned is desired!!! anyways if u got cool info like that throw it my way!

[@Clear_Prodigy]

5%LowBattery this should be the number one comment on this video

[@infg0753]

Parents to their kids "you have to uplift the race" (bring home someone lighter/whiter than you). Very pervasive in the 80s/90s in the US latin communities whose background was Latin America.

[@analuiza5792]

amazing video! i really liked the way the "internalized colorism" was brought up in the video

[@abdaf8706]

Are those subtitle? Why you don't have subtitles and I have?

[@alexandrepsan2]

Feels good to see such an important youtube channel release a video about our brazilian society

[@PHlophe]

sasha it scratches the surface but its a start

[@PHlophe]

@SUR CENTRO BRASIL EUROPA DE BRASIL 100 VIDEOS 50% of brazilians are black

[@blackvelvetsings5310]

Colorism is real

[@centurion5754]

It’s is but Brazilian is not an race it’s more racism if there were the same race it’s would be colorism

[@mariamaria9178]

As a black woman, I can not understand why so much hate is directed towards black people, every race discriminates against black and we are looked down upon by every other race! Can anyone tell me why this is? I really would like to know!

[@kooliosis47]

because you're the chosen people. read your bible, or on youtube type in isrealites.

[@origineeman6421]

@Maria Maria The Colonizers(Nephilim seed) hate us for being the Original People(Adam and Eves) of Earth. The skull of "Luzia Woman" proved we inhabited Brazil thousands of years before The Colonizers invaded. The Colonizers originate from the North, not from any lands around or below the Equator.

[@pottertheavenger1363]

physical appearance

[@robertcruz4287]

What is it like being Asian in Africa, or in Europe, or in Latin America.

[@VitoriaSilva-fb3kq]

Pardo refers to mixing of white and indigenous, and white, indigenous and black too. Pardo it's a mixed person. In Brazil colorism it's ruge, brown and dark skin people are only 8% of our population 'cause after slavery the governament tried to get our population whiter. Black women and chidren in my country are over sexualized, we have a lot of race issues but I hope that with the time the situation will get better.

[@NYCITY3]

Preach Vitoria Silva!!

[@davidelliott1594]

You neglected to mention to multitude of brown skinned people who identify as white on the census.

[@lagartoverdebr6176]

@@davidelliott1594 bruh

[@shatikal325]

@@davidelliott1594 on the census there a lot of white skinned people who identify as brown only to receive money from the government $$

[@fellowgoyimwhite7630]

You should stop with feminism,then women won't be sexualized

[@marcoarnaud3964]

For those who are not from Brazil, a better comparation would be: imagine like the Confederate movement in the US composed the whole country until 1900's (because Brazil is older, so I believe that is a good margin of time). It's... Difficult, to say the least. It's hard to define yourself as black, and not a variation like "brow" or, as we call it, pardo. It's very admirable to see such information like this here on KZbin, especially so well made (I had classes of sociology that didn't even touch in some of the topics here). To finish: a nossa vida não é só tristeza e sofrimento, mas muita luta para conquistar os direitos mais simples, se não o mais que é nossa própria identidade. Obrigado pela produção Vox, o trabalho de vocês faz juíz aquilo que transmitem. Obrigado Ps.: For those who don't know about Brazilian langue, the last part is in Portuguese

[@j.b.castro8412]

Mantorras Montquilla why?? we speak portuguese and many many dialects

[@j.b.castro8412]

De fato não existe termo para englobar tudo aquilo que somos, pardo é algo tão amplo que não consegue expressar nada no final das contas

[@felipefreitas3942]

@Mantorras Montquilla brazilian portuguese, bro. and about 270 indigenous dialects/languages

[@cloudfox1908]

@Mantorras Montquilla I think they were just saying that the language of Brazil is Portuguese.

[@origineeman6421]

America never really got rid of it's Confederate problem. The Confederates are still trying to dominate America, especially under Trump.

[@Zalmoksis44]

My only contact with Brasil was a three weeks trip around, so I can't say I know much. But I saw streets full of people of all colours. It didn't look to me as a segregated society. I also remember a basically black man telling me his grandmother was Polish. And I remember the outcry when "positive discrimination" was introduced in Brasil and was used by bsically white people arguing their grandparent or great-grandparent was black. I understand this video tries to say: identity politics is an answer and it seems to me it resulted in a disaster in US, because it results in some white people creating their own identity and then there is Trump, lone wolves and general polarization of the society. So I beg you, don't go this way in Brasil. Ultimately, an equal society is the one where differences (skin color, social background) don't matter much and not the one where everybody is going around asserting their own difference.

[@Rafael-jn6iv]

That's it

[@Mahalakshmi-Khan]

Agree

[@davidelliott1594]

You can walk through any major city in the United States and see people of all colors and cultures walking the streets together. That does not mean there are no racial issues or inequality. Going to a country as a tourist is different than living there. Look at the origins of favelas, which are almost everywhere in Brazil, then say there is no racism. Look at Brazilian history, then say there is no racism. Look at Brazilian media, then say there is no racism. But if you look at any of those things, you will see a lot of racism. I lived in Brazil as an American for years. All one has to do to recognize inequality in Brazil is go to ANY major Brazilian city and look at who LIVES in the wealthy neighborhoods and how 99% of the people there look, compared to who lives in the poor communities and how the majority of people there look. Turn on Brazilian television and see how the overwhelming majority of people there look. Brazil's own president has openly made disparaging and racist remarks about black and poor people in Brazil BEFORE he was even elected, but you bring up Trump like he has something to do with Brazil's history. That alone tells you something isn't equal about Brazil. Also, if you were to look at Brazilian census, you would know that Brazilian census classifies people by skin color, whereas the US census classifies people by culture and heritage, not necessarily skin color.

[@andarilho_31]

@@davidelliott1594 and the USA is just as racist and xenophobic. You talk about my country like if yours was perfect. It isn't. Also, there are other sources besides the IBGE regarding the race of Brazillians.

[@davidelliott1594]

@@andarilho_31 I never said the United States is perfect. There is no need for such an emotional response. To acknowledge the flaws of any society is not to claim to be from a perfect one. That being said, though there is racism in the US, I cannot say it is overall a racist or xenophobic country. If so, it wouldn't have the largest immigrant population in the world, with more than 46 million people living as legal residents who were not born in the United States, not to mention many millions of 1st generation Americans, nor would it have diverse races in its government or widely represented in its media, which it does. I like Brazil in many ways, if I didn't, I would have never visited or lived there. I find people to generally warm and welcoming and happy with positive energy. But that being said, but for being such a mixed and diverse country, it does fail in utilizing that diversity to be the best country it can be, there is very little media and government representation of that diversity and there is blatant discrimination in its own population in many ways. These things are not said to insult, they are simply facts. A good thing I can say about the US is that it is at least always openly combating racism and xenophobia , which is something any country with a racist history should do. AND I hope more countries decide to openly confront racism and inequality, because not acknowledging it doesn't help anything. It's as simple as that. But people should never be offended by a true statement. If a truth offends someone, that person should do something to make it better. When people criticize my country, I am not offended if it's true. Every country can do better in some ways.

[@mrsmith1938]

I remember having an argument with a Brazilian over race. I told him Obama was black and he kept calling me ignorant and saying Obama is not black because he has a white mother. I do understand that brazilians see race differently than we do.

[@bleecker8056]

here he would be considered brown

[@shmeepness1700]

Doesnt that make Obama mixed? Arent you suppose to have parents of same races to be considered that race?

[@bleecker8056]

@@shmeepness1700 brown means mixed here (pardo )

[@mrsmith1938]

@@shmeepness1700 In the US, mixed people suffer the same discrimination as someone that is full black. This is why they identify as "black" here.

[@shmeepness1700]

@@mrsmith1938 bro what :( are white people the ones that arent discriminated against? Like it's just so unfair, how come everyone else except white people are discminiated, I don't get it, they dont even make most of the population so why are they superior?

[@ie2428]

Can you do a video on what being Latino/Hispanic really means, because I've seen them being described as European (white), indigenous, and mixed and its honestly confusing.

[@joatanpereira4272]

@fjf sjdnx If you're not born in a Spanish speaking country or a Latin American country, you're not latino or hispanic, even if your parents are.

[@joatanpereira4272]

@fjf sjdnx You don't understand, children and grandchildren of Latinos and Hispanics (who were born and grew up outside of a Latin American or Hispanic country) are not Latinos or Hispanic. It's not a cultural thing. If someone has Italian parents, but was born and grew up in Mexico, they are Hispanic and Latin American. It's the same for descendants of Latinos and Hispanics.

[@xokhaliah]

the terms Latino and Hispanic are based mostly on language and area, so those people can be any race. Most are Indigenous, White, and or Black or a mixture of those. They can even have asian ancestry too. Easiest way to summarize it is that Spanish and Portuguese Colonizers mixed with the natives and the slaves they brought

[@lucasoscar]

@fjf sjdnx i heard someone saying in migration papers sometimes you need to fill your race... And latino or hispanic are options but also white or black you have to select only 1 option. They are mixing language/culture with genes (?)

[@Random17Game]

Latinos are People from latin speaking countries, which means South Europe and South América

[@rtperrett]

I am confused here, I thought Brazil had more of a spectrum or continuum understanding of race, it seems as if in this Vox video is imposing US binary notions of race.

[@reneerobinson3559]

White supremacy is global. It always results in the lighter on top, darker on bottom.

[@irisgaldino7045]

yea the black movement here took a lot of inspiration from north america which kind of ended up contributing to another issue we have which is indigenous erasure... like she said in the end people have decided to group "pardo" and "preto" together

[@Mahalakshmi-Khan]

@@irisgaldino7045 is US influence big in Brazil?

[@lagartoverdebr6176]

@@reneerobinson3559 sure, tell me how this means I don't exist.

[@FernandaSantos-mv3jg]

@@Mahalakshmi-Khan I think they meant in the black lives matter movement, but if you're talking about politically, it was when Trump was still the president, 'cause our president idolizes him for some reason.

[@cahlajthepoetmc9746]

Great video. I appreciate the information

[@askeldouglas421]

As a black man in the city of London , people black ladies and gentlemen please stop saying the N word thank ,it is very painful already enough understand .🇧🇷🇯🇲

[@Luizanimado]

Here in Brazil sometimes we may have the impression that racism doesn't exist, so is good to have videos like this showing the real history of black peaple in Brazil

[@robertakeehl5250]

If you have that impression you don't watch the news very often

[@Luizanimado]

@@robertakeehl5250 In fact I don't watch new very often, maybe that's why I used to think like that, but people here does have this impression, often I hear people saying that racism is something from the past, with is not true, so is good to have videos like this explaining more

[@robertakeehl5250]

@@Luizanimado I see, thank you for explaining. Where do you live?

[@Luizanimado]

@@robertakeehl5250 I'm from Minas Gerais

[@abacaxi4713]

@@robertakeehl5250 you live in rio, right?

[@brandonb4742]

Yknow what’s funny I never knew about the black community in Brazil due to like the media and stuff you see on the news

[@lordsysop]

Yeh its almost like your local news focuses on local issues. History teaches us the world is racist and has to evolve

[@f.k6920]

I use to think the same and even with South Africa I thought most of them were white people because that's always what's shown in the media.

[@lazaroivanov21]

I'm sorry to say that you are blind, carnival, dancing is the favelas everything foreigners show, For me I don't think they show the real Brazil where I live. I am from the south of Brazil and our culture is here and completely overlaid by African culture is indigenous.

[@maximilian9295]

Me either.

[@jahdiorr6067]

Brazil has more black people than the United States. They actually have the highest population of black outside of Africa

[@repairdrive]

Thanks for posting this 👍

[@fernandaa.6415]

Que doidera essa reportagem, nada a ver, simplemente passa por cima de toda a identidade mestiça do brasil, é um total desrespeito

[@fernandoroque]

Im brazillian. It took me 24 years to understand and accept my skin color, thats this year. As a kid i've always tried to be as white as I could. I've avoided the sun, folded my lips inwards to reduce the size of them for photos, always cut my hair small so the curls wouldn't show... i still couldnt keep away from the racism tho. I'm very happy now to say I'm a proud and beautiful black man, i just wish society helped earlier

[@MrBarksdale149]

Congratulations brother

[@Mahalakshmi-Khan]

Im not Brazillian. What did you face in terms of racism?

[@ixtollite4289]

Bruh you aren’t black max you would be is mixed.

[@iwinlee]

you are definitely Mulatto.. but maybe you hangout mostly with whites, so you think you are black...

[@2pedroandrade]

@@ixtollite4289 You certainly didn't watch the video on the racial issue in Brazil before commenting on that ...

[@carrie.m]

I remember back in school we had very few black classmates, and by the time I went to prep school there were none. Among 200 people, we were all whites and asian-americans. The teacher asked us to talk about racism in Brazil, and people went "no, but the black people are racist against us! I went to a city that had more black people and they looked weird at me and called me Milk." Back then I didn't understand that they actually understood racism as being called names, not that among 200 people not a single black one had the opportunity to go to prep school.

[@YogabyNanda]

Well said 👏🏽 I studied in a couple prestigious private schools in southern Brazil and never had a black classmate.

[@alfrredd]

@@YogabyNanda and that´s something to be proud of?

[@YogabyNanda]

alfrredd of course not! you entirely missed my point.

[@ivyhung8961]

alfrredd they were trying to further provide evidence for the main comment

[@caiocaguiar9310]

@@alfrredd Yeah dude that claps were highlighting the "well said".

[@RankinMsP]

Thanks you for this. Subscribed.

[@smartdoctorphysicist3095]

Hi this is super good more people should see this, you need to get the word out. Keep up the good work. Thank you

[@shahzebkhan7484]

Neymar when asked if he faced racism while playing in Brazil in 2010 - " No it's not like i am black "

[@shahzebkhan7484]

@Biggaone I agree with you

[@Matpeixelegal]

Well, If you're refering to the 2010 WC, Neymar didn't even played that cup...

[@joatanpereira4272]

He is not black, if he goes to somewhere in Africa, no one will consider him black. He is only considered black in countries where the gigantic majority of the people are white, because in those places, everyone who's a little darker than white is black.

[@shahzebkhan7484]

@@Matpeixelegal Bro , I am not referring to the world cup , he used to play for Santos FC at that time

[@BlissfulWinnie]

think about that all the time. & now he just accused the player on Marseille of racism... how times have changed. But tbh, this video gives me more context for why Ney might have said that 10 years ago.

[@QuarioQuario54321]

This is probably why Roberto was made white in The New Mutants

[@CourTooKnee]

Link this movie please .... I need something to watch

[@QuarioQuario54321]

@@CourTooKnee Only in theaters

[@bumble.bee22]

@@QuarioQuario54321 up

[@polishherowitoldpilecki5521]

Never saw new mutants. Despite, it coming out this year.

[@rebecca4174]

Though the actor is Brazilian, yes, the role was whitewashed

[@nikitamiller7119]

SOOO IMPORTANT VIDEO THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@macewbee]

Thanks for posting this.