| Rayban99 said: Why do people from countries with far more egregious human rights issues than the United States try to adopt a position of moral superiority when it comes to this topic? Is also a good question . |
I never said that Brazil is a great place with incredible equality for all citizens. Actually, I hate Brazil. That's why I got out of there in the first place.
Let me explain this situation to you: In Brazil, after the abolition of slavery by Princess Isabel, the government didn't give a shit about the slaves who were just freed. Because of that, the ex-slaves were extremely poor, and started creating the favelas, slums. Because they were brought from Africa, they also happened to be black. Because of the recency of this event, favelas still have a more predominant black population.
It just happened that a big part of the poorest portion of the Brazilian society is black. That's why black people have a lower life expectancy and a higher rate of deaths by homicide. The favelas are extremely dangerous, and it so happens that most people living in favelas are black. The police is terribly trained too. I actually think this number of 3000 deaths by police per year is extremely higher in real life.
But it has nothing to do with Brazilian people thinking of the favelas as "places where black people live". Actually, the worst problem in Brazil is just how poor people can be. Racism exists to a certain degree, but it is much less trivialized than in the US. No one refers to things as "black culture" or "white culture", most likely because the Brazilian population is so mixed.
