A toilet paper manufacturer in Brazil has dropped the slogan "Black Is Beautiful" from its black-coloured brand. It is not so much the colour of the toilet roll, but the advert for it, which has attracted the most criticism. Personal VIP Black toilet paper was launched on Monday by Sao Paulo manufacturers Santher. It showed white actress Marina Ruy Barbosa draped in the black paper alongside the words 'Black Is Beautiful.' The words have been removed following criticism by racial equality campaigners for the misappropriation of a slogan synonymous with a historic cultural movement intended to empower black communities. Paulino Cardoso, a professor at Universidade de Estado de Santa Catarina and an organiser of black Latin American academics, railed against what he called a "band of damned racists." He posted: "It is good to boycott and denounce all this propaganda".
The term "Black Is Beautiful" emerged in the 1960s from African-American communities fighting for civil rights. It later become more prominent in the writings of the Black Conciousness Movement of Steve Biko during the anti-apartheid era. The term was intended to promote black features such as skin colour and hair textures as equal to white beauty standards. Rio de Janeiro-based writer Anderson Franca articulated why the term was offensive in a Facebook post. "If you search 'Black Is Beautiful' anywhere in the world you'll find references to Angela Davis, Malcolm X, The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Fela Kuti, James Baldwin, and Nina Simone, but not in Brazil," he posted. "People died for this expression to be revered to this day. People are still dying and this expression is more important and vital than ever before. "But in Brazil, if you type #blackisbeautiful you will find toilet paper." Franca's post has been shared almost 3,000 times since being published on Monday evening with the discussion spreading across social media.
"In Brazil #blackisbeautiful is not a cause, it is toilet paper. Where do black lives matter?" agreed one Twitter user. Others were less critical, suggesting the campaign was more ill-judged than racist.
While another Twitter user said he was not offended by the advert at all: "Mate, I'm black and I wasn't offended by this. Black is the colour of the paper, it doesn't refer to race. Crazy people need to stop trying to make a problem out of everything". Manufacturer Santher withdrew the slogan and issued a statement on its website and the Facebook page of its Familia Personal brand. "We would like to clarify that we have never had any intention of provoking a racial discussion through the launch of our Personal VIP Black Toilet Paper," read the statement. The company also apologised for "the possible mistaken association of the phrase adopted by the black movement, which we respect and admire so much," and added "it's always time to learn." Barbosa, who featured in the advert, has also apologised on her Twitter page for any offence caused.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAA Well what did you expect?
Chase Sanchez
Toilet paper, much like life, is about whites cleaning up the brown messes that ruin everything.
Colton Rodriguez
huehuehuehuehue
Josiah Richardson
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Julian Nelson
And here I was thinking that the issue is that people would associate black people with shit, since you can't tell if your ass is clean when using black paper
oh well
Elijah Parker
How the fuck do you know you're done wiping with black toilet paper?
Daniel Smith
What, you stare at the paper you wiped your ass with or something? What's wrong with you? You can't tell when you're done?
David Campbell
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Lincoln Parker
yes, i visually inspect to see if the paper is clean. i also visually inspect the bowl to see if i'm shitting as expected.
William Murphy
Same, lots of the time I don't really feel the shit those last few wipes take off. Also yeah your bowel movements can tell you a fuck ton about your health you should try looking at them every once and again.
Jacob Kelly
This. It's disgusting, but a quick visual inspection can tell you a lot about your current digestive health that you wouldn't necessarily know otherwise.
Logan Bailey
Somewhere, a rabbit is clamoring to get you to take pictures. Don't give him the satisfaction.
Cameron Campbell
How do you know you're clean if you don't look? My observations tell me you can't feel when you're clean.
Also have fun with your colorectal cancer which you won't notice until it's too late.
Colton Brooks
What are you doing, just wiping on faith that nothing is left? Sometimes I can wipe forever, sometimes one is all you need.
Without visual confirmation, there's no way to know.
Brayden Green
Exactly. Other user is walking around with a stank ass.
Jacob Martin
Wait, do you really HAVE to be convinced that you need to make sure your ass is clean? I hope you wash yourself with water and soap after you're done wiping because that's a really disgusting habit you're doing.
Liam Scott
Actual fucking shitposting, stop sliding shit
Nathan King
Brazilian user here.
If you read The Turner Diaries and could not dream of that happening in real life, go and research what happened to brazil.
>Punishment for any sort of crimes is retarded: you can leave jail in just 5 years if you murder someone, sometimes the judge doenst allow the police to keep inmates because racism, and classicism, the cops are forced to release them.
>Cultural Marxism is the norm here, the government was too lenient on communists during the dictatorship , they literally rule all of the university and education industry, no dissent allowed, FARC and Al-Qaeda are promoted as freedom fighters, any sort of nationalism is demonized, Lula is praised as god on earth.
>They are openly promoting pedophilia now, especially after public nearly lynched and burned down a art museum after they allowed a 3 year old girl touch a naked 50 year old male as art performance such neat performances are funded by our taxpayer.
The only decent fact is that we do not have funding to set up a anti wrong think division of our law enforcement, however they are trying hard. Honestly there is so much fucking bullshit here i could write a thread, maybe i will someday soon if you are all interested.
However all is not lost.
See, i live in Santa Catarina, one of the 3 southern states, and the only one with a nearly 90% white population, 50% have direct german descent,we had german only cities and towns up until ww2. We have a independence movement that is slowly growing, although libertarian in principle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_South_is_My_Country We also have around 100k national socialists here, the largest national socialist group in brazil.
Owen Jackson
Good luck with your rectal/vaginal cancer, Brazil.
Lucas Perry
Another thing i forget to add.
We have more land reserved for natives/enviromental reserves than the entire inhabited land we have, think about that. Also in a literal resource denial operation to avoid a third world country to escape the clutches of the first world and (((they))) via NGO's and Heads of states such as the king of norway and the UN itself curiously help and force the government to mark areas that have billions of $ of mineral wealth as native/environmental reserves.
There is also several reports of indians ilegally mining such reserves and selling it off via smuggling, Such reserves in total have around 23 trillion $ of potential wealth, possibly even more, add in the potential of biotech in there, and we could provide a swiss level of wealth and prosperity to every single individual here.
Isaiah Hill
DIRTY FAGGOTS WASH YOUR ASS
Evan Kelly
Toilet paper as useless as the people it looks like. I don’t see any problem with that.
Landon Richardson
HI MY NAME IS IMKAMPFY AND I LOVE TO LICK ASSES AND ELBOWS HELP ME I CAN'T STOP SUCKING COCK
Cooper Martinez
kinda yea…… I was thinking like "BRAZILIAN toilet paper, huehuehuehue"….
Jordan Gutierrez
this thread is shit.
couldn't resist
Grayson Lopez
Brazil should be one of the leading world powers. You've got the resources, land, and population. Only leftists are holding you back.
Fuck of eurocuck, a jet of water up my ass is not a pleasant feeling.
Alexander Rogers
It's 2017 for Christ's sake. Have some smug flushable baby wipes you disgusting faggots.
Jeremiah Robinson
That's a problem with shitskins as well. It's hard to tell a clean one from a dirty one because it looks the same.
James Robinson
Why? When I wipe my ass with it I want to see if I am done.
Wyatt Thompson
putsch when?
Anthony Gomez
A Facebook post shared 3,000 times is somehow worthy of a BBC International news story. OK.
Elijah Allen
just use bidet like yellow people -///-
Lincoln Foster
They use toilet paper in huehueland?
Robert Allen
Akshually, Brazilians in particular and Latinos in general are very self-conscious regarding hygiene. Showering up to two times a day and even using bidets is quite common. For all his strengths, the white man can be quite smelly sometimes.
