Wow.

So I see it's the same over there too as it is in America and England - blacks are "alright" as long as we entertain, dance and keep our mouths shut. The minute we get out of pocket and voice displeasure about our condition and demand something to be done, then we're "reverse racists" (whatever that even means) and all the usual name calling. Something like this is obviously a threat to them. The condition of many black folk in Brazil is so staggeringly appalling, the whites over there can't make the same excuses as those in the western '1st world' countries.
I don't know portuguese, but I can pretty much guess what "quanta merda" means. That's why when I go to Brazil I'm heading to places like Salvador and mainly fukking with my people.
Yeah, I thought as much. I read that in real life Lil Ze was actually a LIKEABLE guy despite his criminality.
I've read the book and it makes the movie look like an episode of care bears. Some of the stuff in the novel is
Wow, is the novel all that tough?
I always found the movie too exaggerated, in a way to shock the audience and make it more appealing, and get famous (worldwide speaking).
Do you think basketball can overtake soccer in Brazil?
That's impossible cause a very high percentage of the population here dies for soccer. I'm really a minority with my opnion.
Funny is, when I say that I don't like soccer and prefer basketball, dudes say that It's f@ggotism

and soccer is the ultimate manly thing.
If they knew that Americans and a lot of countries consider soccer as the official soft ass sport.
yeah i'm well aware of latin speaking negras reputation for lacking black consciousness but I thought Afro Brazilians and maybe black Cubans were a little further along than their peers due to holding onto so much of their traditional African culture.

There are c00ns here, but at the same time, a lot of "afro militants".
I even have heard more than one time black brazilians saying that african americans are usually c00ns, because they never adress things from Africa in their music etc, when here in Brazil, afro-brazilians have always adressed Africa within their culture and music.
While researching Afro Brazilian religion last year I stumbled upon a blog which suggested some segments of Brazil's socalled Afro religious cults not only summon(become processed by) the spirits of their African ancestors for guidance but influential native(Indian) Brazilians and even Portuguese former slave holders(at times)..it could be cac propaganda though
i'm sure there are but it still speaks volumes that so many Brazilian drug lords/gang leaders whom Afro Brazilian thugs/gangmembers/drug crews take orders from are cacs.
Go watch Elite Squad and you'll understand why so many cac's are the druglords here. They are usually politician or government people (corrupt, of course). So they can drible the system and stay intact.
To a guy who was raised in the favelas, for a example, became a drug lord it's obviously more difficulty to not raise attention...
Actually, the thing are usually like this, here in Brazil:
The chief of those small thugs, are a guy who lives in favela, therefore, he is usually black. And he is the example and admiration for those criminals.
The "contact" of this said chief, the guy who makes the drug enters in the hood avoiding the police and etc, are usually a cac from a higher political position, he is usually white. Putting in numbers, he is the drug-lord.
So them thugs in the favelas don't care that much about these cacs, they only know that they are the ones who made the system working, and actually, they usually don't even like them, they just stay indiferent so the system can still work.
For a didatic example, play Max Payne 3, the game got it flaws, but it shows very well the brazilian criminal scheme down here.
Sad to hear but not surprising.
Latin America never had a Malcolm or MLK or civil rights movement.
Exactly, well it got some good examples... Like the goat Zumbi dos palmares.
But Brazil got almost noone to compare to blacks from USA and what they did in the 20 century.