Brazil President Lula on the financial crisis
“This crisis was caused by no black man or woman or by no indigenous person or by no poor person,” Lula said after talks with the prime minister in Brasilia to discuss next week’s G20 summit in London.
“This crisis was fostered and boosted by irrational behaviour of some people that are white, blue-eyed.”
Ahem.
Would one to spelunker about the bowels of conspiracy theory one would in short order find their [alleged] appearance to be swarthy and semitic though through the degenerations of milleau on the north of the continent not necessarily as dark of skin, heavily haired or large of nose.
I, with you, take exception though for my part on one simple preposition: while I am of the fortune, or misfortune as it may be, to be of light(er) skin, hair and eyes, my brothers, being of dark heavy hair, skin and eyes, are not; and one of them, one of The Devout, was until quite recently a Southern California Mortgage Broker.