African Diaspora In Brazil | The Spirit is Alive

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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.

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0:00 Bale Forclorico intro
1:37 Complex Qs
2:36 About Salvador
3:50 Indigenous beginnings
4:15 Portugal’s initial impact
5:10 Salvador’s salvation
7:15 Portugal & Catholic Church
9:42 Branqueamento
10:45 Institutional racism
11:30 Favela life
13:46 Moqueca Baiana
15:45 Racism from a Brazilian perspective
18:42 It permeates
20:33 African influence in Bahia
21:15 Acaraje
22:05 Capoeira
24:15 Spiritual City
25:45 Next steps for Salvador
27:00 Gabriella – future plans
27:56 Diaspora.Black
28:31 Akany Lua – future plans
29:41 Afrotourism

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@isaiasnascimento7026

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.

@AntoniaAyalagarcia

Lowest iq city

@naurefamilytv7795

This channel is great for homeschool children! Thank you for sharing so much knowledge! #homeschoolmom

@gladysserala2975

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!❤❤❤

@thomaskraincuk9815

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.

@luanadeamorim9489

o primeiro traficante do mundo, foi um homem branco

@game.c0m360

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.

@ValenteConsello

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.

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@thatdude3977

Blacks inheriting Native land is sad. 😢

#11

@meetkrissyj1327

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! ❤

#12

@edwardbmurphy6378

you guys should work with the kkk, you both sound so much the same: 'unapologetically racist'

#13

@NewYorker-vo4lc

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.

#14

@emmanuelosaiyuwu3786

Why should the white percentage of Salvador takes a greater chance available than the black with over 80%? This is another apartheid surely in operation and this should be addressed.

#15

@josiahdeville962

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….

#16

@dirtbikehussle61

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.

#17

@eddiss2199

Africa ?

#18

@spockrisiaspockrisy2068

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.

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@javierjose6328

By having mixed couples both white and black DNA id diluted. So it cant be more white as it can't be more black. Thus morenos.

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@eddy3080

This is a great documentary. It makes me disgusted what the Portuguese did. May all my people find freedom one day. ✊🏾

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@henryjohnson280

Isn't interesting that it was the Catholic church, that initiated the trans Atlantic slave trade, and the British parliament that first outlawed it?

#22

@marvineast8175

Brazil is the perfect example of how black people are so populous in the South America's because it is obvious that South America's were part of the African continent and that the black people are the true indigenous people of the whole world.

#23

It was stated that the Portuguese brought 5 million Africans. This is not true interns of numbers. Most of the so called Africans were indigenous to Brazil and the rest of the western hemisphere and world. Black indigenous people are present in most of the people groups of the world. Why is this fact true,? It is true because dark colored people were the first in creation of the human species. This is why truth is not welcomed today because it uncovers lies told about history and it's original population of the world. The color white can not be made without a dark base color, along with the other human completions of the various ethnic groups. I'm not being racist, but simply stating the truth. It is a fact that the homo sapien originated from the African region of the the world and all the great continents were one land mass.

#24

@oddmodd1

The demonic barbarity of white Europeans and their global descendants towards all other humans was apocalyptically savage. Damn the forced labor itself, the brutality and grisly acts of violence slaves were subjected to is the real story of the slave experiences of Africans and colonial horrors of others around the world.

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@emersonallesandre9041

Minha cidade ❤

#26

The transatlantic slave trades happing here in Americas,we've been swapped places….

#27

We are not Africans.

#28

Amaru Kah( America) is the old world.

#29

We black peoples been in the America so we need to stop listen to the Caucasian devils.

#30

@dre-xd6nk

Africazil

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@alma9281

Another helpful video. Curious, just saw a snippet from the 16:00 mark on another youtubers channel about racism against afro brazilians, wondering if you are aware.

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@purificacao5420

A cultura indigena apesar de ter sofrido pra sobreviver na capital também se mesclou com os bantus e outros povos que chegaram forçadamente da Africa. A mistura é muito forte em Salvador, tá nos nomes dos lugares, na religião, na comida, na fala, no conhecimento das plantas nativas, medicina e etc.
Muita gente de vários povos mundo e os daqui tbm…
Ex: Pituaçu, Pituba, Itapuã, Abaeté, Sussuarana, Itacaranha, Paripe, Periperi e Massaranduba etc…

#33

@carlajordon4540

LISTEN NO MATTA WHERE YOU GO IN THE WORLD, BLK PEOPLE IS LIVING IN THE WORSE CONDITIONS,

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@chamaanasa6866

Quando vão Voltar?
🇧🇷
A qualidade do vídeo de vocês e a forma de documentário são excepcionais e vejo que no Brasil vocês encontraram um novo mundo e se redescobriram.

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@jorgeoliveira2383

Thank you.

#36

@user-hy9ww4iu6r

This is one of my Favorite cities on the Planet! In the U.S. we refer to Salvador de Bahia as the Atlanta, Ga of Brazil. However, there is something spiritual about all of Brazil, but Especially Salvador! When they say this city is the soul of Brazil, as a person of African Heritage you can definitely FEEL it once you're in Bahia. You're a stranger to that land, but you feel bound and drawn to it as if the Ancestors are welcoming you home.

What this video didn't capture it what a beautiful Modern city this is. It is mostly first world & world class through and through. The videos captured the older parts of the city the city, but it is a thriving Metropolis. It's sits on a Peninsula and there are beautiful beaches everywhere with young Black kids on surf boards, surfing, swimming, and enjoying life! While its true racism is present throughout Brazil – after all they elected the Trump of the Tropics as president a year after the U.S. elected the Trash of the North, but they also replaced him with a liberal and band him from running for president again, after eerily similar Jan 6th styled incident at their capital when Borsonado lost.

Still if you are fortunate enough to travel to Bahia, take some time to learn some of the history before you go. However, don't get caught up in the history, the racists past, or present. When you go to Bahia, treat it like you're going to Atlanta … a Black city with Successful Black People Living and Enjoying the Best That Life has to Offer… inspite of the city's Civil Right's past (The Enslaved Africans over threw the Government so many times, the Government moved the Capital of Brazil out of Salvador and built a new city – Brasilia – for the new Capital!). Look at all those beautiful, black, brown, yellow, and even white kids playing together, enjoying the beach; young people of all shades hanging out, partying, enjoying amazing meals at restaurants! Be amazed by how welcoming and inviting the people are there! Just Go There and LIVE YOUR LIFE UNAPOLOGETICALLY BLACK! If you're not a person of (recent/apparent) African decent … good on you! You get to experience an African society in a safe, beautiful coastal city, and you get to step out side of your normal comfort zones … hopefully making your a more aware and emphatic citizen of the world! ENJOY!

I'm going to Bahia in 2 days to begin to the process of looking for a second home there (Like Anderson Cooper and Dione Warwick)! I promise if you visit, you won't want to leave… like me! lol

#37

@miamorharris2778

I definitely want to visit Brazil 🇧🇷 I am going to try to make it next year because I’m interested in Salvador and just Brazil’s culture and society.

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@delel4161

Now i see where some names in Nigeria originated from.especially, the Yoruba people of Nigeria. i have often wondered where names like Dakosta,Da- silva,Da- rocha, Gomes ,Mourinho ,Salvador and lots more come from but this documentary is an eye opener