Apartheid in Salvador's Carnaval

I just came across this video and I had to post immediately. The text is all in Portuguese, but you won't need to understand in order to get the message... The video was made by a self-proclaimed "white person from the upper middle class" of Salvador. The author of the video is apparently disgusted with the continuing bigotries of the Carnaval celebrated in Salvador. I agree with him 100%.

Carnaval in Salvador is celebrated in the streets with each bloco having its own cordão, or roped off section, where paying attendees get to "play" inside the ropes where they are seperated from the povão, or "masses" (i.e. poor and black). Many have claimed recently that Salvador, one of Brazil's most African cities in terms of its black population, continues to promote a segregated Carnaval. The people on the outside, again mostly poor and black, get to watch from the sidelines and get the shit beat out of them by military police who are also, mostly poor and black. You will never see a policeman "cross" the line to thump a white kid.

Also note that the ropes that segregate the two sides are held up entirely by Afro-Brazilians. I would also like to add that the only blocos that DO NOT use the cordões in their parades are Ilê Aiyê and Filhos de Gandhi, both Afro-Brazilian blocos.

***the blue handkerchief on the guy's arm in the beginning is soaked with lança-perfume, an inhalant drug.