Salvador, Africa's Root in Brazil

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Salvador, Africa's Root in Brazil


Salvador is a city steeped in diasporic history and culture. It lays claim to being the blackest city in the world (outside of Africa). It all started with the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Despite it all, Afro culture thrives in Bahia.

Tania Neres – CEO of TN Operational Strategies in Tourism, Innovation and Diversity; Collaborator of Coletivo…

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  1. I live in São Paulo and unfortunately my worst neighbours happened to be Baianos. Very noise, loud music day and night, mostly theyy speak very loud, very invasive and dont respect your privacy. Bahia is one of the states if not the state in Brazil that has the most beautful coast, the beaches are unparalell to any beach in the world. When i think about the hell i went through with their way of living in São Paulo it kind of stops me going to Bahia. I need to overcome my trauma and visit Trancoso/ Itacare which are dream destinations id love to go but Salvador is not a no go for me, does not float my boat at all.

  2. Always thought black areas in Brazil were bloodspattered hellholes. Keep up with good work. Much love and respect. I can't wait to watch on my son's big big flat screen TV. Halaaaaala!❤❤❤

  3. Nice video.
    But believe me there is a very high rate of racism in Salvador.
    Of course not officially bc U can be put in jail 4 this.
    Just go look in all the shopping centers for example.
    EVERY "padrão" is either white or VERY light skinned.
    The more U go down the food chain the darker the prople are.
    Favelas are SLUMS full of drugs, violence and sexism. Period.
    So summing up your content I will say, maybe your intentions were good BUT reality has very little to do with what you depicted.
    So sad.

  4. O branco, o preto e pardo em qualquer lugar do mundo, quando rico, vive nos melhores lugares do pais. Isso é padrão. Não dá nem para se espantar. Do jeito que a menina fala parece que se um negro tem dinheiro, ele continua vivendo nos piores lugares, e isso não tem nada a ver.

  5. Thanks for this video! Especially the racism part was insightful, I saw ppl recently on twitter saying afro-brazilians are not "black" because Brazil never had a formal system of apartheid but what Gabriella said seems to make clear that the racial hierarchy still exists in Brazil.

  6. This is a great video! I met a man on a cruise from Brazil & he recommended for me to travel to Salvador. So glad I typed it into Youtube & found this video! From start to finish amazing! ❤

  7. There are so many inaccuracies in this video. Most of the identification of the locations (cities) are wrong, the dates are wrong. The number of Africans brought to the country is wrong. What is the most shocking is the number of so-called black experts from the United States, lecturing with the wrong information. Most of this basic information, couldn't been accessed on the internet. I am an Ivy League trained historian with family ties to Brazil. 10 minutes into the video made me close it. What a loss of opportunity. Just be careful with videos like this, that masquerades as presenters of true historical facts. Don't believe everything you see on the internet.

  8. If anyone wants to hide something from black peoples specially,hide it in the books because we sorry asses don't fucking read so shut up.
    America is the old world,we been here….

  9. Free my people's everywhere. I'm going there in May. Idk if that's a good time to go there but I can't wait. I already know a little Portuguese. A little more studying won't hurt.

  10. Congratulations on your trip.
    I watched your first video in Sao Paulo, and I saw that it was as expected. You were treated like a normal human being, regardless of the colour of your skin, as MTK preached.

    In Salvador, some local people made a point of pushing for the separation of ethnicities. This is very sad because my mother was a history teacher, and they are changing the truth.

    What is true: Portuguese oppression, slave trafficking, torture and all the sin that really existed.
    Brazil delayed abolition, even though Emperor Pedro II and his Princess Elizabeth were in favour of liberation.

    What they omitted: Slavery began in the Portuguese colonies in Africa, mainly in Angola. There were several intertribal wars, and the defeated tribe was imprisoned. The winning tribe sold these prisoners as merchandise to become slaves in Brazil. This is an important detail because sin began in Africa with the local tribes who won civil wars.

    What they distorted:
    The whitening theory is not true.
    After abolition, the Brazilian economy grew a lot through agriculture, especially coffee, at the same time as the world was going through crises, wars and civil revolutions.
    In Europe, WWI, Japan the new Meiji era.
    Brazil was a land of opportunity, and many foreigners either fled or sought a better life.
    The WWI flooded Brazil with Europeans and Japanese. All friends are descendants of all of them: Africans, Europeans, Asians and American Natives.

    I am a product of this miscegenation.
    My grandmother was a descendant of Indians and Dutch from the region of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte.
    My father has a mixture that I can't even identify.
    My mother, from Portugueses who came in the 20th century.

    I'm not proud of Brazil's slave-owning past.
    But I am proud of my indigenous and European roots. That's what makes me Brazilian, a mixture of everything.

    Returning to the history of Brazil that they didn't tell you, Brazil suffered a military coup in 1889 to implement the Republic. The Emperor and his daughter were abolitionists, but the military and the economic class were not. It was abolition that brought down the Empire.

    The same families of politicians who took power in 1889 are the same ones in power today, especially in the North and Northeast of Brazil, where Salvador is located.
    These politicians are the sponsors of this policy of ethnic separation, whitewashing and other nonsense to prevent both the northeastern people and the black community from achieving better social and financial conditions. The current president has said that anyone earning more than 5 minimum wages won't vote for him. So, his strategy is clear. He has to leave the population poor. The poorest regions in Brazil are the North and Northeast.
    Politicians from the North and Northeast have been in charge of the federal government for decades, and yet these regions are still poor.
    Basically, all those families that were against abolitionism are right now in Brazilian power. They still promote slavery, the economic one, against their own people, and they don't care about it.

    In the South and Southeastern, they have less influence, and the people have more opportunities for growth. You have witnessed because you have been there.