I thought my meaning was pretty clear, guess I was wrong.
people (I stress, non-Brazilians) are ready to dismiss Neymar as an arrogant troublemaker because he's a dark-skinned Brazilian. when light-skinned Brazilians act the cunt, their actions by and large are not focused on as indicative of deep character flaws. when dark-skinned lads do it, however, they are labelled as massive divas who do nothing but cause trouble. this is because of a latent racism on the part of the (non-Brazilian) media/public/whatever that assumes someone with dark or black skin is prone to possess negative attributes.
and so you get these ridiculous witch-hunts against people like Ronaldinho, Robinho and Neymar.
Ronaldinho is the worst case, for me, because it actually turned him into what they all said he was. remember 06/07? Ronaldinho was our best player and dragged an oft-injured and poorly managed squad to what should have been a league Title. but because he had put on a bit of weight and we didn't win it all, he suddenly became a lazy cancer who was at fault for everything wrong in our team (the same happened at the World Cup). in 07/08 he then became a lazy cancer, and I didn't really blame him because he couldn't win with the way the media were riding him, so why try?
call it what you want, I've yet to see a white player branded with all the labels Neymar, Robinho, etc. have to live with no matter what they get up to. and there's more (Ronaldinho, Anelka, Evra, Van Hooijdonk, etc. etc. etc.)
