Just read in a Lonely planet book on Brazil today, that 62% of Afro-Brazilians still live in poverty, due to the colour & class stratification which has existed since colonial times, with black Brazilians being chronically under-represented or absent in most areas of society such as political leadership, higher education, economic development etc. How could this issue be addressed so that the lot of black Brazilians developed better, perhaprs by say 1888 ?