Racism can be extremely subtle or distinctively crude. Both forms of racism are can be very hateful attitude or behaviours directed at a minority group or individual.
Racism can be practiced by groups, individuals, and even societies in forms of speech and actions – such as the one that Tunisia Airlines did, recently, by barring black Africans from boarding their overbooked flights.
Taking to Twitter, netizen @YussufMwinji shared a video of how a riot erupted when black Africans protested against the racist decisions by the airline.
In his status, @YussufMwinyi writes: “Tunisia airline has few operable aircrafts but overbooked passengers who waited at the airport for 2 days,”
“…then it let only non black Africans to board. When black Africans protested, they were beaten and charged with threatening the police.”
Garnering more than 1 million views, netizens commented on the tweet shared that there is a sense of hatred shared among Northern African countries towards black Africans.
The kind of hate northern african countries portrays to black Africans is very detestful
— Nonny (@SunnyChinonso1) July 9, 2022
It is kind of disgusting really, to see preferable treatment given just because of their difference in skin tone.
Let’s hope that the situation improves in the future.
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