Brazil pushes quotas for blacks despite criticism

Raymond Colitt and Stuart Grudgings, Reuters

- Brazil will press ahead with plans to create quotas for blacks in universities and public sector jobs to redress longstanding inequalities despite opposition, a government minister said on Tuesday.

On the 120th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil, Minister for Racial Equality Edson Santos said the reforms were essential to tackle huge disadvantages blacks still face in the job market, education and society at large.

“The abolition of slavery in Brazil was incomplete and blacks continue at the very bottom of the social pyramid,” Santos told reporters.

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