World Cup audience skews wealthy and white despite protest claims

Evidence

When it came time for the soccer to actually start, it felt like the entire nation turned to watch. There was going to be a World Cup, after all. Despite the months of political battles, and despite the feeling of low-level panic my friends in the media had helped to create, I arrived at the stadium with little trouble and took in the scene—nothing fell apart, and there were no angry demonstrators blocking the fans from entering. The crowd was composed of some visiting dignitaries and a lot of rich Brazilians. Tickets for this match were not cheap. Almost everyone was wearing the bright yellow jersey of the national team. As a crowd, they were about as white as me. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 531

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the sport-vs-social-goods tension latently in the trees-as-worldbuilding piece’s infrastructure theme; the rhetorical point that basic services versus spectacle spending drove both the 2013 and 2014 movements.
• XREF: connects to: Even sympathetic white audiences raise skeptical objections that defeat standard reparations messaging — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 486; Wealth shifts how people are perceived racially, literally whitening them — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1149

Broader Connections

• Even sympathetic white audiences raise skeptical objections that defeat standard reparations messaging #corroborates (0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 486
• Wealth shifts how people are perceived racially, literally whitening them #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1149