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Kobojunkiee:
I just ate mashed potatoes made using the boxed stuff microwaved with water, garlic, salt and onions for taste, and it tasted just like mashed potatoes would. And I would know since I eat a lot of potatoes all year round. I even use potatoes - sweet or nonsweet - in my beans which I also eat a lot of..

According to the box, the stuff is made using dehydrated potatoes, sodium bisulfite(preservative) and citric acid(also a preservative). No fillers or anything else.

Originalsly:
Not really... they are all wayyy more developed than Guyana but when it comes to the rights of Blacks ... no comparison to Guyana... Suriname ... French Guiana ... Belize and Panama.

Originalsly:
Brazil is pretty much like the "Jim Crow" era of the US .... Blacks are half humans. Argentina ... land of 'Messi the Great' ... wayyyy worse.

We've knocked on so many doors, almost literally, we have the money, we have the jobs, no criminal background but still we can’t rent a new house or a flat,” he adds. He has no qualms in putting the blame squarely on widespread discrimination “Because we have foreign names.”

“People have told us on the phone, yes, we'll give you the apartment but, in one case, they ghosted us when they heard our names,” says Sully.

Some of those we reach out to are these big housing societies, partly owned by the government. But even they discriminate.”

Sully's wife is training for a job that is likely to take the family on a global jaunt. Sully is also very eager. This could be their golden ticket out of Germany and, perhaps, finally into a bigger house, somewhere else.

Sully Sanon arrived in Germany from Haiti as a 25-year-old to study theology at a seminary in the state of Saxon Anhalt.

“I remember there was a charitable event at the church, we were handing out food parcels and clothing for those in need, and this man came and he accepted our help, but bluntly told me that he didn’t like Black people. It’s not like he was poor or uneducated, he was well-travelled, well-educated but said he just doesn't like Black people. He said it’s just a feeling that he has, at times,” Sully says. Life in Germany has surely tested Sully’s pastoral patience.

The survey looks at 14 aspects of life, and in all of them, respondents affirmatively reported racism and discrimination.

Respondents surveyed further revealed that “over 90 percent had their hair being grabbed without being asked.

over 56 percent saying they are asked if they sell drugs and over 60 percent also reported being stopped and searched by the police for no reason”.

Two-thirds of the respondents to the survey also confirmed that they had received lower grades than other classmates for the same performance at school or university due to racism.

Diplab Basu of Reach Out, an NGO helping victims of racism and discrimination, says that of all racial minority groups, Black people are hit the hardest.
“At school, students and teachers both victimise Black students, they are often marginalised, often punished for trivial issues. Housing is another major issue, we get lots of complaints, almost all of my clients will tell you that they are discriminated against when it comes to housing,” says Basu.

We've given up now, it’s been three years,” recounts Sully, as he narrates the difficulties of finding an apartment in Berlin as a Black person.

Sully lives in Berlin with his Italian-German wife and three children. He is now a pastor in a church.

“The results of the Afrozensus indicate that anti-Black racism is widespread in Germany and anchored in institutions,” a press release of the report said on Tuesday. “There is no area of life in which discrimination and racism are not extensive problems.”

The housing market, security services and the police were identified as areas that are particularly prone to anti-Black discrimination, with over 60% saying it occurs “very frequently.”

The survey also showed that Germany’s Black community was particularly hard hit by the economic effects of the pandemic. Nearly one in seven respondents said they lost their jobs due to the crisis.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
I have never seen a muscular man win this marathon race!

Why? Is it impossible?

Poverty and Unemployment: Main Drivers of Human Trafficking in Brazil

A new UNODC report on human trafficking trends in Brazil highlights how socio-economic vulnerability and the lack of decent employment opportunities are leading people into the hands of criminal networks who exploit them for profit.

The publication, “National Report on Trafficking in Persons 2017-2020”, brings together knowledge and expertise from over 70 national and international experts who are active in the anti-human trafficking field and was produced in partnership with Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security.

“Over 90 percent of the professionals who provided us with information concluded that poverty and unemployment are the main reasons why people become victims of this crime, especially in cases of forced labour,” says Heloisa Greco, a human trafficking expert at UNODC, Brazil, who drafted the report.

Moise’s brutal murder exposed the precariousness faced by African refugees in Brazil. In addition to racism, they suffer from contempt for their origin. Many African immigrants have higher education and doctor’s degrees, are multilingual, but cannot find work and end up accepting any function, even carrying stones, in order to support their families.

The Brazilian usually denies the racism that covers our entire society. When he was a presidential candidate, someone asked the far-right and current president what he would do if one of his sons married a black woman. Bolsonaro, who says he is not a racist, gave an answer that clarifies what the majority of the people of the country he presides over thinks: “There is no risk, my children were well educated.”

There are cases, however, that expose racism more clearly than others: in August 2009, Januario Alves de Santana was detained in a Carrefour supermarket as he was preparing to leave in a new car. Five security employees brutally assaulted him, accusing him of stealing the car. Almost beaten to a pulp, the young man was rescued and taken to a hospital. And then it was learned that he had just bought the car in 72 monthly installments.

JahBwoy:
Well both roles pay just the same ... How about interacting with other EU countries. Don't you think Germany holds that advantage?

mystery22:
You can't....
Two months is too small to learn french to a basic level..

gypsey:
Why should he stop having kids? he is a millionaire, it's not as if he cannot afford to care for them financially, one of the mother of his 2 kids is also a millionaire. (Mariah Carey)

Eddy Murhpy has 11 kids, he is also a millionaire.

I wish to have more than 8 kids.. and yes! I can afford to care for all of them financially.