Fazenda Santa Eufrásia, in Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a coffee plantation, is being accused of promoting racism by allegedly promoting "tourist activities" in which visitors can be slave owner for one day during the tour. The visitors are served by black people dressed as slaves, who receive orders from the owner of the farm, dressed as a plantation mistress. The farm denies the allegations.

The farm is being highly criticized by several sectors, including Douglas Belchior, founder and professor at the Uneafro-Brasil Movement, Djamila Ribeiro, researcher in the area of ​​political philosophy and deputy secretary of the Human Rights Secretariat of the City of São Paulo and Marcelo Dias , President of the Racial Equality Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association in Rio de Janeiro. Douglas states (our translation from the extract from article below in Portuguese): "...Everyone is educated to deny the history and permanence of slavery. We do not read about what that period was. This kind of education affects both those who have been privileged and those who have been victimized by slavery. That is why this lady thinks that what she promotes is not racism and there will be blacks who will agree with her. In fact, we are all targets of this racist culture that incites us to ignore slavery and its permanence in daily life. "

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