Samba 🇧🇷 was banned and persecuted in early 20th-century Brazil because of its roots in marginalized Afro-Brazilian communities, viewed by elites as vulgar, criminal, and a threat to national image, leading police to arrest musicians and shut down gatherings, with repression continuing under the Vargas dictatorship and military rule due to its association with Black identity and potential political mobilization.
But look at Samba today...it is the cultural heartbeat of Brazil! ❤️🇧🇷
Just when they thought they’d be hurting “the Blacks” by removing DEI.
DEI includes veterans, people from rural areas, white women, first-generation students, all categories that include white men. 😆😆😆
Dying of Whiteness explains how white people’s racial resentment ruins social programs & safety nets to spite everyone else and how their racism ends up hurting them too. Here’s the book for anyone interested in reading.
https://t.co/1F9kcXUvWb
Her husband went away on a boys’ trip and she re-did his home office.
The outcome is so beautiful and functional. I love the shade of green she used for the walls.