Afro-Brazilian Women Call For Support From Diaspora

[christinasade]

Call out WW. I do it all the time. Are you going to help your sistas?

we did and I believe you all accused us of being jealous.

 

[TMNT4000]

This is actually taboo to me. Because last I remember most Brazilians were trying to be labeled black for affirmative action.

at 21:30 there's blond people calling themselves black?

Obama was HUGE for many Afro-Brazilians and turned a lot of shame into pride about African ancestry. They even have a mixed woman running for president.

I have a ton of articles on Brazil in here http://www.thecoli.com/threads/black-hispania-afro-latino-carribean-current-events.249328/page-3

 

[Bawon Samedi]

at 21:30 there's blond people calling themselves black?

Told ya.

 

[Malta]

How's their colorism issue?

Because light skinned black Brazilians(with 2 black parents) don't consider themselves black.

I wonder is that changing now.

They will identify as mulatto/mulatta, but Brazil is no longer majority white (51% of the country is mulatto or black), they are starting to wakeup and people are proudly claiming they are black.

That was beautiful

You should see Salvador

So many beautiful brown faces, no city on this side of the globe has more black people in it than Salvador.

 

[Arishok]

fine with me

but when we do do that....

we (black women) get hit with the "your jealous" "your insecure" "you wish you were a white woman" etc.

correct?

True, in that natural movement thread I believe

 

[13473]

go ahead and feel special about your special unique oppression. It's not a contest.

you have male privilege, so i'll inform you that being oppressed does not inspire a feeling of specialness

it is not a contest but you came in this thread talking mess about black feminists who did a grand nothing to you

if you fairly support black women and men, then please continue, but stop throwing random punches at black feminists as if they found themselves there for no reason.

 

[Poitier]

we did and I believe you all accused us of being jealous.

All you have to do is retweet/send out a link and a photo w/ a sign. What does the past have to do with this?

 

[Bawon Samedi]

at 21:30 there's blond people calling themselves black?

But we because of this, we should note that Brazil's census could possibly not reflect reality. For example those claiming "white" could have really looked black/mix. Which is why we see this happening.

For the first time since records began black and mixed race people form the majority of Brazil's population, the country's latest census has confirmed.

Preliminary results from the 2010 census, released on Wednesday, show that 97 million Brazilians, or 50.7% of the population, now define themselves as black or mixed race, compared with 91 million or 47.7% who label themselves white.

The proportion of Brazilians declaring themselves white was down from 53.7% in 2000, when Brazil's last census was held.

But the proportion of people declaring themselves black or mixed race has risen from 44.7% to 50.7%, making African-Brazilians the official majority for the first time.

"Among the hypotheses to explain this trend, one could highlight the valorisation of identity among Afro-descendants," Brazil's census board, the IBGE, said in its report.

According to the census, 7.6% of Brazilians said they were black, compared with 6.2% in 2000, and 43.1% said they were mixed race, up from 38.5%.

In 1872, when Brazil's first census was conducted, the population was split into just two groups: free people and slaves, who then represented 15% of the population.

The IBGE said that while its researchers had detected the trend about three years ago, the 2010 census was the first full nationwide study to recognise the phenomenon.

In an interview last year Brazil's minister for racial equality, Elio Ferreira de Araujo, attributed the change to growing pride among his country's black and indigenous communities.

"People are no longer scared of identifying themselves or insecure about saying: 'I'm black, and black is beautiful,'" he told the Guardian.

Ivonete Carvalho, from the government's racial equality ministry, said African-Brazilians were increasingly willing to stand up and be counted: "I'm here. I'm me. I'm not ashamed of my history."

Race campaigners welcomed the growing number of self-declared African-Brazilians, but the census also underlined how the vast social divide between Brazil's white and non-white populations persists.

The 2010 census – a massive operation which involved about 190,000 census takers visiting 58m homes – found that in major cities white inhabitants were earning about 2.4 times more than their black counterparts.

In Salvador, a former slave port with one of Brazil's largest black populations, the findings were even worse: whites earned 3.2 times more than blacks.

"It is a vicious circle," Marcelo Paixão, an economist from Rio's UFRJ University told O Globo. "Poor salaries lead to worse education, which is a barrier to getting a good job. We need more public policies."

A parallel study, released this week by the Data Popular Institute, provided further evidence of the racial divide that continues to blight Brazilian society. The wealthiest group of Brazilians – known as "Class A" – was made up of 82.3% white people and just 17.7% African-Brazilians.

In contrast "Class E" – the poorest section of society – was 76.3% African-Brazilian and 23.7% white.

The same study found that 31.3% of Brazil's white population had private health plans, compared with just 15.2% of the black population.

In an interview this week Ivone Caetano, a prominent African-Brazilian judge in Rio de Janeiro, painted a bleak picture of life in the place some call South America's "rainbow nation".

"In Brazil every black person is going to be a victim of racism, prejudice [and] discrimination, whatever your position," she said. "Our prejudice is disguised and hypocritical."

A news report on the census findings aired by the Brazilian channel Record TV said the rise in Brazil's officially black and mixed race population was "a signal of growing pride among the descendants of Africans". The story was presented by a white reporter and introduced by two white news anchors.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/17/brazil-census-african-brazilians-majority

 

[Poitier]

@midwesthiphop sticky?

 

[newarkhiphop]

@midwesthiphop sticky?

why not merge with the AFRO-LATINO sticky?

 

[Bawon Samedi]

why not merge with the AFRO-LATINO sticky?

I think its fine like this then.

 

[Poitier]

why not merge with the AFRO-LATINO sticky?

This is very specific and would be lost in all the other articles. If no sticky, just let it be, please.

 

[newarkhiphop]

This is very specific and would be lost in all the other articles. If no sticky, just let it be, please.

made it a sticky for now

 

[Poitier]

made it a sticky for now

Thanks

 

[christinasade]

All you have to do is retweet/send out a link and a photo w/ a sign. What does the past have to do with this?

everything.

now that I know how you feel

next time we talk about the white hoes and their aint shyttynes

I don't want hear a word from yall

unless yall agreeing.

and I fully support black brazil.