[blam]

* Brazil (in land area) is about the same size as the USA.
* Brazil has the largest Black population than any country other than Nigeria.

[Black Agnes]

Security for the Olympics should be fun!

[ronnie raygun]

“involve large numbers of dark-skinned teenagers.....sounds racist

[kearnyirish2]

For decades Brazil has had issues with feral youth of all colors; I remember John Paul II speaking out against police executions of young criminals. Brazil is a huge country with massive resources and potential, but it is almost ungovernable. Brazilian soccer players have bodyguards for their families, who live in compounds, because of the kidnapping for ransom potential. Black Brazilians have long derided the public proclamations that they have achieved a “post-racial” society; too many blacks are still at the bottom of the economic ladder.

[Red in Blue PA]

according to The New York Times, "involve large numbers of dark-skinned teenagers"

Self-caricature in action.

Worldwide.

[autumnraine]

Is it genetic or something ?

[BenLurkin]

The publication’s focus is on “large numbers of dark-skinned teenagers” — apparently a LOT of Nazis made it to Brazil after WWII.

Not saying the author is one, though.

[Travis McGee]

There today, here tomorrow.

[Tax-chick]

predominantly poor, black youths who party in malls usually occupied by mostly wealthy, white consumers

Does "party" mean "get drunk and play loud music," or does it mean, "assault, steal, and vandalize"?

[Red Badger]

It’s a wonder the NYT didn’t refer to them as ‘African-American Brazilians’.........................

[pepsi_junkie]

Brazil (in land area) is about the same size as the USA.

But vast areas are impenetrable jungle and/or extremely sparsely populated.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Brazil also has a helluva lot of teeangers. The bulk of their population is under 35.

[ilovesarah2012]

I did not realize Brazil had a large black population. That explains a lot.