{"id":19300,"date":"2011-12-27T22:49:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19300"},"modified":"2011-12-27T23:58:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T23:58:15","slug":"obama%e2%80%99s-story-resonates-in-racially-diverse-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19300","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/obama-has-brazil-swooning-over-arrival-of-a-black-president\/2011\/03\/16\/AB56seq_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2011-03-18<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/juan-forero\/2011\/03\/02\/ABHxvmP_page.html\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Forero<\/a><\/strong>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO \u2014 Brazil is a big gumbo of ethnicities, its people proud of their diversity and confident their country is among the most tolerant of nations. But this country\u2014a leading center of black culture\u2014has never had a black president.<\/p>\n<p>So like many Brazilians, Carlos Jose Melo said he would eagerly turn out for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> when he tours the country\u2019s signature city on Sunday, a day after meeting with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dilma_Rousseff\" target=\"_blank\">President Dilma Rousseff<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bras%C3%ADlia\" target=\"_blank\">Bras\u00edlia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Melo has spent most of his life in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Favela\" target=\"_blank\">favelas<\/a>, Rio\u2019s rough-and-tumble shantytowns, which were first settled by former slaves and dirt-poor soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Brazil, we have all kinds of culture, people, and our inner identity comes from black people,\u201d said Melo, 47, a drug abuse counselor in City of God, a favela Obama is expected to visit on Sunday. \u201cThat\u2019s why I think Obama is important for the world, because a poor guy suddenly becomes the most important man in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s story\u2014the humble beginnings and the rise to prominence and power\u2014is familiar here. And so is his race, which has struck a chord in a country with the world\u2019s second-largest black population, after Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;T-shirt dealer Dilci Aguiar de Paula, who is black and has worked at the base of Sugar Loaf for 25 years, said she can hardly contain her excitement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a president the whole world likes, a black president,\u201d she said. \u201cI would give him a hug. I would tell him he is a good president.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/obama-has-brazil-swooning-over-arrival-of-a-black-president\/2011\/03\/16\/AB56seq_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil Washington Post 2011-03-18 Juan Forero, Staff Writer RIO DE JANEIRO \u2014 Brazil is a big gumbo of ethnicities, its people proud of their diversity and confident their country is among the most tolerant of nations. But this country\u2014a leading center of black culture\u2014has never had a black president. 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