tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043287896001157919.post4841144669144022369..comments2024-02-25T02:00:04.601-03:00Comments on Qualidade de Vida: Brazil: A Racial Paradise?Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14003236423048071844noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043287896001157919.post-74260893247623164422011-04-19T14:38:37.482-03:002011-04-19T14:38:37.482-03:00Great post.
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B...Great post.<br />I will be following you from now on.<br />Be sure to check out my spot as well.<br />http://www.mooraboutbahia.com<br />I am an Americano who lives in Salvador da Bahia with my wife and kids.<br /><br />Paz e Saude!<br />SharifSharif Ali ☪ ✡https://www.blogger.com/profile/01199057717382015986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043287896001157919.post-81624721351199912412011-04-17T20:21:24.202-03:002011-04-17T20:21:24.202-03:00Meredith,
Yes, this is the guy, he is actually...Meredith,<br /><br /> Yes, this is the guy, he is actually a professor at Harvard and a good friend of President Obama.<br /> His house was never broken into, his door was jammed, and as he was forcing the front door trying to open it a police car saw him, asked him for his documents and he told the cop, his documents were inside his home.<br /> The asshole cop arrested him because he got agitated with the fact that he was being arrested on his own home.<br /> His home is a couple blocks from Harvard, in a VERY prestigious neighborhood where homes cost several million dollars, beautiful old New England homes and you never see black people in those homes, with VERY rare exceptions.<br /> That cop was an a.hole, there was no excuse to do what he did, he was a racist bastard and had no idea the guy was a Harvard professor friends with the "new" black president...oops...<br /><br /><br />:)American Heart Brazilian Soulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11049937328816904295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043287896001157919.post-46140578248621428122011-04-17T16:07:46.544-03:002011-04-17T16:07:46.544-03:00Thank you Samia for your comments. The problem is ...Thank you Samia for your comments. The problem is certainly not a simple one.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14003236423048071844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043287896001157919.post-31232545350024000112011-04-17T15:14:44.666-03:002011-04-17T15:14:44.666-03:00I remember discussing racial issues in school A LO...I remember discussing racial issues in school A LOT. It has not gone anywhere, it hasn't changed and it'll take a lot for it to change *someday*. Brazil is no racial paradise, on the contrary, it's a bitch to its darker skinned citizens. It's true that we mixed, oh did we. I'm living proof of this great mixture. But while we're not as segregated as I've seen it in the US, now that might not be true of all 50 states, but I live in Chicago and the people here do not mingle, we still have a long way to go to fix what slavery left behind. If you ask me, Brazil still does have an underpaid "slave" driven culture. We like to claim that we're prejudice free, that we're the nation where everybody is equal and everybody is respected... oh, wishful thinking. The problem though, the problem is Brazilians of all color, race and shapes that don't leave their comfort zones and don't start the changes they want to see (me included).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043287896001157919.post-60092480437088293072011-04-17T12:37:10.620-03:002011-04-17T12:37:10.620-03:00I'll try to do it tomorrow if I can. I'll ...I'll try to do it tomorrow if I can. I'll let you know how it goes. I've shown them videos from Anthony Bourdain and they really liked them.Meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08406213044166973862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043287896001157919.post-7121709860366362822011-04-17T12:35:29.363-03:002011-04-17T12:35:29.363-03:00You can watch the first program on their website ...You can watch the first program on their website http://www.pbs.org/wnet/black-in-latin-america/featured/haiti-the-dominican-republic-an-island-divided-watch-full-episode/165/<br /><br />Great idea to show it to your students. I would like to be a fly on the wall for your discussion afterwards.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14003236423048071844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043287896001157919.post-67261071495894888512011-04-17T11:35:55.385-03:002011-04-17T11:35:55.385-03:00Thanks so much for posting this (I had never seen ...Thanks so much for posting this (I had never seen or heard of this before). If I remember correctly, that was the professor whose house was broken into and the police made him prove that he lived there; they couldn't imagine that it was a black man's house.<br /><br />I have a BA in Anthropology and have travelled Latin America pretty extensively, so I find this VERY interesting. <br /><br />I'd love to see more.<br /><br />AND, I think I'll show this to my high school students (who are all black Americans, black Haitians, or Latinos - and then I have 4 Vietnamese students :). I think they'll enjoy this. One of them asked me if there are black people in Brazil.Meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08406213044166973862noreply@blogger.com