In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.
People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

