One would expect a beautiful yellow or orange, bright colors, vivid, intense. It 's true, this is Rio, on the surface.
After four months with his head up, down, inside, outside and around the city, I discovered that the true colors of the river are white and black.
The white and the black calçadaos (sidewalks) in Copacabana and Ipanema.
The black and white of two cities: the north is black smoke, gray dust and little care, the South is bright white and harmonious, a white that reflects and enhances the sunlight.
The white and black of the two races in two cities: white south black to the north. More or less means that if you dare to say this burning truth will turn against saying it's a cliché.
The black and white on which it is written that are illegal, I can not have a job visible, but hidden, not sure, then, as many here, for other reasons. (Almost officially here are three terms: legal, illegal, not legal, it is the most used to do anything in brazil)
Black overlooking the white top and bottom of the favelas processes that clean.
The white top that looks black when deciding give alms, and the bottom of morro (hill) to decide whether to go to the police to clean up.
Rio is all that and a little more: it is anti-racism, equal opportunities and to promote black pride and severely punishes those who give a black or insults the identity of black people ...
But the privileges are die-hard and not just a coat of white racism for their removal.
