Brazilian actress says black successful men don’t marry black women: ‘black is a slave’
Black Brazilian actress Polly Marinho says black men marry white or lighter-skinned women in order to move up the social ladder.
Black Brazilian actress Polly Marinho says black men marry white or lighter-skinned women in order to move up the social ladder.
In a recent interview Marinho said that society places a higher value on whiteness, thus wealthy black men don’t marry black women.
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“We are educated to think, like, that black is not beautiful. Black is a slave. Black is not good,” said Marinho. “Let’s take, for example, a very famous black soccer player. When they want money, they want good things. A beautiful house. A Ferrari and a white, white, blue-eyed chick.”
Marinho went on to say that she lived in New York for two years and was surprised to see so many black men dating black women, because that was such a rare occurrence in her home country.
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“[Black American men] can [have sex] with the rich white girls,” Marinho said. “But the girlfriend is black.”
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The pattern of black men passing over black women has been going on for some time, with a 2010 Brazilian census noting that women over the age of 50 who were not married were far more likely to be “pretas,” which is a term used to refer to dark-skinned black women.
