Now, this is really going to turn on a political post
Question: Do you live in Rio? Or in Bahia?
In other places what you say is parcially truth, although not much.
The rich are milky skinners, the poors are mulatos and black. You got the point.
Ok, the prejudice IS against the poor (isn't anywhere?) But who is poor? Who did our society threw into poorness? Ex slaves who owned nothing but themselves? Indians and indian descendants who worked as very cheap work-force or worse, were simply eliminated when the white man needed the land they were occuping?
Another thing, I don't thing the U.S. is better than brazil and their last presidencial election should prove that. They have their problems, and somethings, it's pretty much like ours. I just suggested you to apply the exemple you suggested and use it there. Political, not racial stuff, actually.
But back to the point...
Who is the poor in brazil?
I AM brazilian. Proudly mixed. White, indian AND black. I am the perfect sample of that idea of yours am I not?
Well, I am confortable, not rich, not poor, middle class preciselly. I live in rio. Do you know Rio? Well... northeast regions tend to be closer to your mixed paradise in racial theory... they really are. I come from there. But thing again. Who is the maid in the house? Who cleans the streets? I don't see white people there. But I see white (mixed, but, mostly, white, and, hm, like I am, actually) people shopping in malls and walking away if they see a black boy comming in their direction. Of course, if the boy dresses expensive cloathing, they will not do that. But how many blacks/dark skinned use expensive cloathing?
We have some mix... but who is rich? We, closer-to-white skin or them, dark skinned?
C'mon, name the city you live in, I want to move to this racial paradise.
By the way, we don't have only 6% black people. We have only 6% with the balls to come out and say "I am Black". I would say so, but people would probably laugh at me. Do you know Census? You know what they do? They provide you that data you just quoted. At an interval of 4 or 5 years they entreview a number of randomic families. One of the questios is about your skin color. You know how you can answer that? You know how people answered that? No one goes to say I'm Black. People are embarassed with it. People answers absurds like "cor de café" and such. Spare me if you say our centuries as slavers did not left ANY mark. Not one?
You know Camila Pitanga? If I recall correctly it was she who, in an interwiew, told that once a woman came tor her and said "why is it that you keep saying you are black? You're such a beautifull woman. You can say you're morena, your skin is so clear". That says all doesn't it? But I can give you another exemple. A famous model, girlfriend to Guga (the tennis player) by that time, went to Pernambuco (that's northeastean region, for all those non brazilian *not?* reading this) and in an interwiew to the local Globo Tv said "Northeastean people are not much beautifull. Must be the black ascendence right?" With that words (actually that was both stupid and erroneous. Pernambuco has strong indian presence and small african, but..). On a tv show. Do you get my point?
We are not any more tolerant than americans. Our violence simply acts in ways much better than theirs. It is invisible. We create a perfect racist state. Because whenever some one goes out and say "brazil is racist" there is always the argument "how can we be racist, we are a mix?". We are racists. We avoid black boys in the street (and not nescessarily the ones that live in the streets, but now that you came with that... how many of those are black?). We do not need you to prove that you are 100% white. There is no problem if you are a bit mixed here and there... everyone has flaws. The important is that you didn't get the bad aspects of those races, like lazyness (for indians, that northeasteans got that by heritage) or intelectual failures (for black). Ok, may be I exagereted it a bit here. But you can't tell it isn't so. It is a fact. How many people in private school is of black/indian mixes? How about in the public schools?
The black ones are the better. They even got to be included inthe society. As work force and inferior race. But part of it. The indians are simply killed and expelled from land our government gives them the right to.
Which religion is respected and which is ridicularized? Christian ones or Umbanda?
Look, for this Racial Paradise we say we have achieved, we need equal chances for all the ethinies, so that they can actually mix other than by rape or abuse of power (which IS most of our mix history, and I can prove it in my own family, and guess what? not so many genarations ago. Right there, my great-grandmother(spl?). A pure exemple of that. Abused indian girl). Do you see equal chances? Are you black or indian? Because if you are, and you do not agree with me, I ask you to kindly desconsider that you are a middle-class, possible upper-class (internet access? computer?) young fellow and think like that: Slavism has just ended. You were born free but your mother wasn't. She has nowhere to live, so she goes to this place where all now-freed slaves are building their small homes (that would later become know as favela) with no sanitarization and no descent urban planning... No help from government (who merely realeased you, so be thankful and try to survive that) and a son to take care of. How would she pay your education? Gosh, how would she pay your food? So she goes back to her old master and go back to a very close life-style that she used to had, but now instead of getting food for ir, she get a penny. And an italian worker does it for no less than let's say, 2 dolars. What kind of school can she pay you with that? What kinda work will you find without a good school? Do you understand the circle here? We are, what... 5, 6 generations from slaves? I think that's pretty accurate for me. And I am young. Changes come too slow. Actually, in northeast there is still some (illegal) enslavement, do I recall it correctly? It was on tv, not long ago.
So ok, maybe we don't pay bad the black people. We pay bad those with poor education. Who are those, again?
Who cannot pay for a good education? Those who were slaves and were given no condition to gain any more respect? Only now they can't be beaten. That's wrong. They are same as you. But look, they can't be as smart and good-working as you. But that's ok, we care about them anyway and will treat them as friends ^^
Look, get a rich blackman and ask him. Simply ask him how many times high-society people did look odd at him until they got used with the idea?
Ask Camila Pitanga.
Well, I think I took long enough.
Hope you understand.
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And about all this discussion over the UK... I ask Androrc why should diferent people have diferent nations? I´m surprised to see a Brazilian saying that. I wonder how bloody it would be If we decided to divide Brazil between all the populations that live in here.... I dont think it would be a good idea for anyone.
I planned to redo it later, but between the updates I've quite forgotten. Any help would be appreciated. 
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