Duas norte-americanas, negras e muito perceptivas, escrevem sobre suas experiências no Brasil:
A negra clara disse que, pela primeira vez na vida, passou dias e dias sem pensar que era negra, sem nem lembrar que era negra, sem interpretar a realidade de acordo com sua cor.
Seria o Brasil um paraíso racial?
I have never had so much time go by in my entire life during which I am not faced with unwarranted expectations, assumptions, and characterizations associated to my race. Why? Mainly because what I consider “my race” does not exist within the same box as it does in the United States.
Já a negra escura disse que nunca foi tão cerceada e mal-tratada, nunca sofreu tanto preconceito, nunca foi lembrada, tantas e tantas vezes, que era diferente e pretensamente inferior.
Seria o Brasil um inferno racial?
As a darker-skinned woman, I somehow felt that I was living in the Jim Crow south. I lived in Bahia with a small, diverse group from my University. I consistently felt discriminated against where waiters would serve my counterparts but ignore me, or I would be followed around in stores. For the most part these are experiences that I have not blatantly experienced home in the US, yet in Brazil I was living in what seemed like hell. I think it was easier for me to notice the differences based on comparison with the others in my group (lighter- skinned blacks and whites).
Afinal, o Brasil é o paraíso racial ou o inferno racial?
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Um último comentário, pela primeira pessoa acima:
All of these things make it almost too easy for me to “forget” that I am black, to not spend my days preoccupied with my race as I do in the United States. Yet, there is something unsettlingly unhealthy about that, mainly because it means one of two things: the United States has a long way to go, or I am temporarily blinded by a non-existent ideal steeped in privilege. I am going to go with option two. Of course, the States has a long way to go in terms of improving its domestic state of race relations, yet one has to be careful not to read those in Brazil as being utopian, as they, too, have a complex and somewhat dark past, one of them being the goal of ethnic cleansing by way of miscegenation.
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