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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (33202)5/7/2003 6:30:46 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
Why Rio's slums bred drug crime

The freed black slaves (of the posting below) came to the favela and the government (which dind't give them anything) had not much moral ground to put them in line so they were left alone. They were up there no one disturbed. They didn't disturb the others. They played samba and worked as maids, gardeners something like Mexicans do for you guys in the US. The city, over the last 120 embrace their culture and get a lot of blackness and their culture become prominent because of the capital city being the show case of the country.

But the black were always left as marginal and lawless and police was not imposing the rule of the law on the favelas. So, if you want to do something and don't want to be bothered by the law, where are going to do it. Yes, in the favelas. Kind of inner city problem of you guys in the US. Then the drugs came. Kids saw his father climbing the hills after a long day work. His mother coming tired home.

Then the kid compared it with the guy who worked for the drug trade. New car. Plenty girls around him and respected because no one would mess with him. Nice clothes. He didn't live much longer but the young guy would prefer that rather than work hard like his father. His parents lost as role models and everyone wants to work for the drug trade. Competition became ferocious and they solve by shooting each other. Something similar as the gangsterism of the US during the Prohibition.
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