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<blockquote data-quote="MANCID RILKO" data-source="post: 399449" data-attributes="member: 218">The race card, the violence, the poverty, the lack of family structure and pretty much everything that plagues the blacks are the consequences, not the causes.The US treated blacks entirely different than here in Brazil.I remember well, history was a very important subject and parents used to pay a lot of attention to what was being told. I remember quite all, all schools taught the history of slavery the same way.Blacks were enslaved by their brothers in Africa and sold to the whites. There was no sides. It was the Portuguese buying slaves from Africans. In a certain away, we were taught that those were NOT the same people that lived in Brazil. So there was no finger pointing between races.Poverty was seen as something &quot;colorless&quot; and to this day, you'll see whites, mestizos and blacks living together in favelas.And it worked fine, we were united as a people and we knew who the enemy was. The enemies were the oligarchs, the politicians and criminals. All that started changing in the early 2000s'. History books here today paint Europeans as devils. No mention of who was capturing and selling the African people. No mention that the tribal warlords always demanded for tobacco and sugarcane liquor in exchange for the slaves. I saw it on my stepson's history books and on my daughters. It starts were &quot;Starting in the 1540s, black slaves started being brought in large numbers from Africa&quot; and from that on, they focus solely on the punishment and mistreatment. SO the result here is starting to be the same as in the US, white people who hate themselves and blacks always seeing themselves as victims.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MANCID RILKO, post: 399449, member: 218"] The race card, the violence, the poverty, the lack of family structure and pretty much everything that plagues the blacks are the consequences, not the causes. The US treated blacks entirely different than here in Brazil. I remember well, history was a very important subject and parents used to pay a lot of attention to what was being told. I remember quite all, all schools taught the history of slavery the same way. Blacks were enslaved by their brothers in Africa and sold to the whites. There was no sides. It was the Portuguese buying slaves from Africans. In a certain away, we were taught that those were NOT the same people that lived in Brazil. So there was no finger pointing between races. Poverty was seen as something "colorless" and to this day, you'll see whites, mestizos and blacks living together in favelas. And it worked fine, we were united as a people and we knew who the enemy was. The enemies were the oligarchs, the politicians and criminals. All that started changing in the early 2000s'. History books here today paint Europeans as devils. No mention of who was capturing and selling the African people. No mention that the tribal warlords always demanded for tobacco and sugarcane liquor in exchange for the slaves. I saw it on my stepson's history books and on my daughters. It starts were "Starting in the 1540s, black slaves started being brought in large numbers from Africa" and from that on, they focus solely on the punishment and mistreatment. SO the result here is starting to be the same as in the US, white people who hate themselves and blacks always seeing themselves as victims. [/QUOTE]

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