CNN
August 23, 2001
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) -- Dining at posh restaurants and strolling through upscale malls may not seem radical, but for black Brazilians this is in-your-face activism -- aimed squarely at the myth of "racial democracy" in Brazil. "The biggest cruelty we face is invisibility, the feeling that we don't exist," said Benedita da Silva, the vice-governor of Rio de Janeiro state and before that the first black woman elected to Brazil's Senate.
