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If you watch Brazilian novelas (I sometimes do, you know that usually there is one Afro-Brazilian. Just one. If that character is a woman, she usually is the housekeeper. She usually is hot and earns the attention of a hot light skinned patron. If that character is a man, he is also usually a domestic worker and is also hot. He usually gains the attention of an older white patrona. If said dark skinned character doesn’t live in the big house then they live in the slums. So when TV da Gente, Brazil’s first black owned television station with programming directed at Brazil’s black population, made its debut last November why did people cry “racism”?

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