The Racial Contract in Brazil

[MrRacerSPEEDV1]

@bac1881 Black man you right

[MrRacerSPEEDV1]

Proud to be White!

[bac1881]

@MrRacerSPEEDV1 Mongrels with inferiority complex doesn't equal white.

[Guilherme1498]

You seems Vin Diesel.

[gwyddyon22]

you have done such a marvelous job applying this idea across international cultural contexts! :o) i would only like to add that, in order for our brazilian kin to have a slightly understanding of the social organization of racial categories in brazil, perhaps we can sidestep this inevitably invidious debate over how "non-whites in the u.s. think/feel versus how brazilian non-whites think/feel" on this topic, and realize whiteness is the apex of both iberian and saxon models of racial order.

[JSKaoru]

Hmm, I'm just wondering why you posted this video.

[trriley777]

@JSKaoru For a Philosophy class on political theory and social contracts at Penn State, I had discuss how different philosophers would react to current events and post a video on youtube for the class. Charles Mills is a contemporary philosopher who discusses the issue of racism in political systems, and for this video I chose to look at how racism has operated historically in Brazil.

[trriley777]

@zbrasss12 that's an excellent comment. I agree, that historical racism is the primary cause for current inequalities between racial groups rather than contemporary racist attitudes. I'm sorry if you felt that I was saying that all white Brazilians are racist, that is not my intention or beliefs, and I'm sorry for not clearly communicating that.

[zbrasss12]

i just wanted to say that we (the brazilian whites) are not living segregated from blacks because we are racists. Thats because most of blacks cant afford a good school or a house in a good suburb so we ended up living in different enviroments.As i said before, opportunities are being equally given to people regarless to their skin colour, but it takes time to end differences produced by hundred of years of discrimination and slavery (most of us are up to change the situation it just takes time)

[zbrasss12]

I am a white brazilian. i think there still racism in my country, we still living segregated from each other. But thats not a racial issue anymore, thats due to our history.. i mean after brazil ended slavery blacks wouldn't turn educated from day to night (and racism was still there). I believe that our differences are better explained by history than by accusing brazilian of being racists.but things are getting better, opportunities are being given to poor people regardless to their race.

[Gustavodox]

afff  esse cara podia aprender portugues

[schizoidchimp]

It's pretty telling that in a country where half the population is black or "brown" (visibly mixed race) has never had a president that wasn't considered white (most brazilians have some african ancestry). Still, talk to any Brazilian about it and they'll swear up and down that race is a much larger issue in Europe or North america than it is in Brazil.

[Germandescentheil]

BRAZIL HAS MANY WHITES(germans,italians descent),BLACKS,BROWNS..

[trriley777]

@Germandescentheil I'm sorry for the confusion, my point is not that Brazil doesn't have other racial groups, but that there are many racial groups in Brazil whose historical political relationships may fit Charles Mills' theory of a racial contract.

[Germandescentheil]

@trriley777 ok..^^

[alstar70]

Barrack Obama has turned out to be one huge disappointment

[strictlaw]

These two countries had very different history about the racial issue,the prove is how mixed the brazilian population is .Brazil never had a "single drop"policy neither had an officcial census to categorize its people racially.

[skatebordstephen]

@strictlaw mas isso não tem nada a ver com o fato que racismo existe no brasil mano.você tem razão mas acho que o fato que o brasil não tivesse o apólice de''one drop'', só faz facil pra negar que o racismo existir lá.e mesmo aqui nos estados unidos entre os brasileiros aqui posso ver a discrimação entre eles,eles pouco andam com afro-brasileiros que imigraram cá.estou comprometido com uma mulher que é afro-brasileira e ela me falava sobre a discriminação no brasil,

[strictlaw]

@skatebordstephen em primeiro lugar nunca existiu no Brasil a palavra "afro-brasileiro",somos todos brasileiros!negros ,mulatos ou brancos ou verde...Isto eh so um divisor de aguas para beneficio de politicos em busca de segregacao para consolidar votos.segundo somos uma populacao miscegenada com influencias europeias ,indigenas e africanas em todos os sentidos,musica,vocabulario,ga­stronomia ,eh algo intrinseco do brasileiro,o povo e sua mistura diz que as pessoas nao so andam, mas casam tbm

[skatebordstephen]

@strictlaw se não existe racimo no brasil então como explica as opinões dos negros no brasil sobre isso assunto rapaz.eles aparentemente não acham têm as mesmas oportunidades como o resto do povo brasiliero.por que brasileiros sempre falam mal de bahia e o nordleste o tempo tudo.estou concordando com você mas simplismente pessoas de cors differentes se casam não significa que não tenha racismo.estava assitindo as noticias e vi que vocês tiveram uma problema com nazistas lá.

[strictlaw]

@skatebordstephen racismo existe no PLANETA ,nao so no Brasil, eh impossivel controlar cada pessoa e Oportunidades vem com educacao nos bairros pobres existem brancos que nao tem as mesmas oportunidades pq nao tiveram educacao.O que as pessoas devem deixar de fazer e, se "vitimizar".Depois o nordeste sofre de "prejuizo e ja tivemos varios presidentes nordestinos e isso nao mudou em nada.O mais importante para mim e ,nao usar os EUA e sua politicas de quotas ,pq dai sim criaram divisoes no BR

[skatebordstephen]

@strictlaw sim.com certeza não todas as pessoas em qualquer lugar pensaram assim.mais isso é uma problema no mudo.desigualidade é uma problema.em qualquer local que tivesse escravidão se pode ver negros vivendo em condições sub-humanas como você explica isso.por que é tão dificil pra admitir que o racimo é uma realidade e devemos fazer algo pra melhorar as coisas por qual quer pessoas não importa seja for.

[strictlaw]

@skatebordstephen Como disse antes a diferencas serao ganhas com o tempo e investimento em educacao ,no Brasil a questao eh que existem muitos pobres brancos e negros a pobreza e exclusao NAO eh uma "exclusividade" dos negros ,mas o problema sao vcs americanos que querem criar divisoes na sociedade e dai comecaremos a nos ver nao mais como brasileiros e sim em "categoria' de brasileiros ,como fizeram aqui,afro,italo,nipo,etc..bras­ileiro.Um conceito nazista de ver as pessoas

[skatebordstephen]

Responder a este vídeo... sim você tem razão sobre os politicos eles com certeza usam raça pra ganhar votos.

[strainey123]

You talk too fast, my English is not enough to understand everything.

[MrCesarkurt]

Agreement between blacks and whites in Brazil.( Article 1. ) If you are a black men in Brazil and u wanna be famous and accepted by the midia, u must married a white woman. See /watch?v=CMOnetIE0Vg.

[strictlaw]

@MrCesarkurt What about all the black famous brazilian men who are married to black women?Carlinhos Brown...you are just a troll

[MrCesarkurt]

@strictlaw Carlinhos Brown married white woman see my video watch?v=CMOnetIE0Vg

[strictlaw]

@MrCesarkurt yes troll,yes troll