Showing posts with label @ireland Twitter account. Show all posts
Showing posts with label @ireland Twitter account. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Black woman inundated with racist abuse while tweeting for @Ireland; Guardian, 8/22/16

Bonnie Malkin, Guardian; Black woman inundated with racist abuse while tweeting for @Ireland:
"A black British woman who was chosen to tweet from the @ireland account for a week has been subjected to a barrage of racist abuse, forcing her to take a break from Twitter.
Michelle Marie took over the account – which is curated by a different Twitter user in Ireland each week – on Monday. She introduced herself as a mother, blogger and plus-size model.
Originally from Oxford in England, she wrote she had settled in Ireland and “it has my heart”.
However, just hours after taking over the profile – which is followed by nearly 40,000 people – the abuse began."