The Brazilian carnival queen deemed ‘too black’ – video | News | The Guardian

The Brazilian carnival queen deemed ‘too black’ – video | News | The Guardian – Nayara Justino thought her dreams had come true when she was selected as the Globeleza carnival queen in 2013 after a public vote on one of Brazil’s biggest TV shows. But some regarded her complexion to be too dark to be an acceptable queen. Nayara and her family wonder what this says about racial roles in modern Brazil

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  1. I was talking to a guy from Brazil about this very thing and he got mad and told me I didn’t know what I was talking about. The country with the second largest population of Black people in the world and they still gotta put up with this shit.