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Brazilian beer removes label with slave after accusation of racism

Amanda Lemos


Can of Cafuza beer, from São Paulo, was inspired by a photograph of a black woman enslaved in the late 19th century

A week after the cleaning products manufacturer Bombril became a social media issue with the steel sponge Krespinha, it was the turn of a São Paulo artisan brewery to be accused of racism by Internet users.

Cafuza, label of the Dogma brewery, brings an illustration with a black woman with curly hair. The product was taken down 2 hours after it became a topic on Twitter. Beer costs up to R $ 35 in third-party stores and is unavailable in all of them.

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