They should just go all in on Plan B and abort the franchise.
This is the dumbest fucking article I have ever read race. The entire point of the study and what you fail to grasp is that labeling people in Brazil based on their racial makeup is fruitless and yet you insist on labeling Neymar either black or white. Who gives a shit? (truthfully i didn't even read your whole…
As a Brazilian-American, I would like to point out one rather glaring misrepresentation in this article: The term "preto" is NOT the equivalent of the N-word. The American equivalent of "preto" would simply be "black". "Negro" would be the equivalent of someone in the US being referred to as "African-American".
This is so fucking stupid.
That doesn't really have the same emotional effect I was going for, but thanks anyways!
People whitening their skin has nothing to do with Neymar's hair. Artificially coloring hair and artificially coloring skin are not comparable. Skin doesn't grow back at a regular rate.
I didn't realize Neymar was whitening his skin, because he's not.
This. Tan Mom is still considered white, but Neymar has somehow betrayed his race by dying his hair.
I'm a little confused. He looks less white to me in the top/most recent photo than he does in the self-shot from a year ago. Am I the only one who thinks this?
The blackening of David Beckham.
Ronaldo surgically got unfucking-ugly but no one talks about his disdain for not wanting to be fugly.
I think the word is Schweinsteiger.
I am experiencing a feeling of great pleasure from Brazil's humiliation....if only there was a word in German that precisely defined this emotion.
This ranks right up with the manufactured crisis over Gabby Douglas' hair.
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