Maria Júlia Coutinho
A brazilian rights group have put racists in their place after publishing huge billboards near the racists homes with words written by the them boldy displayed. The target of the racist slurs was a a black weather woman.
Criola, which advocates for Afro-Brazilian women, started its “Virtual Racism, Real Consequences” campaign after bigots flooded Facebook with hate toward TV meteorologist, Maria Júlia Coutinho, Criola founder, Jurema Werneck told BBC on Monday.
Many of the insults on the page of Coutinho’s show, “Nacional Journal,” came on July 3, Brazil’s National Day to Combat Racial Discrimination.
The rights group used geotag tools to track the areas where commenters called Coutinho names such as “dirty n-----” and hurled taunts like “If she bathed properly, she wouldn't get that grimy.”
Criola activists then posted at least four of the comments on billboards in the bigots’ neighborhoods to spur Brazilians to speak up and report racial abuse, according to the group’s English-language site.
They obscured the names and faces of the people who wrote the online comments but let it be known that the racists’ homes are nearby.
“Those people think they can sit in the comfort of their homes and do whatever they want on the Internet,”Werneck told BBC. “We don't let that happen. They can't hide from us, we will find them.”
Coutinho welcomed what she referred to as a “shower of love,” “gusts of solidarity” and “rays of affection” after the racist comments directed at her, she said in a statement on her own Facebook page July 4.
“Thank you for all the messages,” she said, according to a translation from Portuguese. “My militancy is to do my job well done, unabated, nor lose the serenity.”
Source: NYDailyNews
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