About 40 black models, most of them women,
staged a topless protest in Rio de Janeiro
against
the low presence of Afro-Brazilians on fashion
catwalks.
“What strikes you, your racism or me?” one of
the female demonstrators wrote on her chest
during the protest late Wednesday timed to
coincide with Rio Fashion Week.
The demonstration also coincided with the
signing of a deal between the Fashion Week
organizers and the Rio ombudsman’s office
setting a 10 percent quota for black models in
fashion shows, the G1 news website reported.
“This agreement crowns a joint initiative that
can
open a space that does not yet exist,” said
Moises Alcuna, a spokesman for Educafro, a
civil
rights group championing the labor and
educational rights of blacks and indigenous
people.
More than half of Brazil’s 200 million people
are
of African descent, the world’s second largest
black population after that of Nigeria.
But Afro-Brazilians complain of widespread
racial
inequality.
“If we are buying clothes, why can’t we
parade in
the (fashion) shows,” asked a 15-year-old
model
taking part in the protest. “Does that mean
that
only white women can sell and the rest of us
can
only buy?”
“Claiming to showcase Brazilian fashion
without
the real Brazilians amounts to showing
Brazilian
fashion (only) with white models,” said Jose
Flores, a 25-year-old former model who now
works in advertising.
After 13 years of debate, President Dilma
Rousseff last year signed a controversial law
that
reserves half of seats in federal universities to
public school students, with priority given to
Afro-Brazilians and indigenous people.
In June 2009, the Sao Paulo Fashion Week
(SPFW)– Latin America’s premier fashion event
—
for the first time imposed quotas requiring at
least 10 percent of the models to be black or
indigenous.
Previously, only a handful of black models
featured among the 350 or so that sashayed
down the catwalk — usually less than three
percent.
But in 2010, the 10 percent quota was
removed,
after a conservative prosecutor deemed it
unconstitutional.
http://dailytrumpeters..com/2013/11/black-models-go-naked-to-protest-racism.html?m=1

Nawa oo

Nice one!

Chow!!! , if not for internet,I neva wud have known wat a vag*na looks like

Crazy I tell you!!! crazy

Hmm! Na wa oh!

tnk God fr we Nigerians gals we no get tym fr dis rubbish

kia,see unclad girls.....chai!!!!!!!biko,what is dis world turning into...God we need ur mercy every minutes of d day....

Wow....this is too much now...where are the moderators please take this stuffs away

End time girls in end time protest in an end time industry for end time reasons viewed by end time peeps on an end time site. Where am I sef?

Crazy

crazygod: End time girls in end time protest in an end time industry for end time reasons viewed by end time peeps on an end time site. Where am I sef?

Na just Ashawo spirit de worry these ones .. I wonder what what getting Nakid has to do with being unemployed in the fashion Industry .. If na so all these unemployed graduates for don Nakid in their millions

This is what I call a "PEACEFUL PROTEST"

Nice!

Its really pathetic that despite its large black population, Brazil exhibits such blatant racism.
If this is the only way their voice could be heard, then I say good one girls. No idi.ot should judge you based on your colour.

NICE TI.TZ

Is going nakkid the new trend to stage a protest? Lord have mercy!!!

Austeenx were u dey dat vaseline wey u send me go buy I no see am ooo

All this girls should come and work for me I have a good job for them.*not prostitution*

who made these ugly girls models in the first place?
Their nake.dness is offensive to behold sef.. smh

Nawa o

Seriously? They need to go unclad to prove a point? Bloody crazy.

icebebe: tnk God fr we Nigerians gals we no get tym fr dis rubbish

no be you alhaji carry come house last week??

born_to_be_gr8t: Chow!!! , if not for internet,I neva wud have known wat a vag*na looks like

lol I wouldn't av known wat a diickkk luk lyk 2

Blah blah blah...

Baddchristy: lol I wouldn't av known wat a diickkk luk lyk 2

Beautiful liar

Abeg mak una kip me posted when dem wan protest again.

Bilabong: Abeg mak una kip me posted when dem wan protest again.

E for better if to sey u fit afford air ticket to Enugu talkless of Brazil..

Post pics here nah

Wetin dey worry you nah, explicit fotos wetin nah ahanhan