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Cécile Djunga has been presenting the elements on Belgian public TV for a 12 months, and after being subjected to a move of racist comments she says she has had enough.
In a 5-minute appeal on Facebook, Ms Djunga says one viewer rang into work to whinge she was “too black and all and sundry could see were my clothes”.
The video went viral, viewed by way of 600,000 people.
Her business enterprise, RTBF, has given full backing to its presenter.
Its head, Jean-Paul Philippot, told Belgian radio on Thursday that Ms Djunga had handed on a string of messages she had received in up to date months and had now not reacted to them.
And her anger within the video is apparent.
“It does not stop. i’ve been doing this job for a year and i am fed up of having tonnes of racist and insulting messages… It hurts because I’m a individual.”
close to tears she is going on to say that a few of the messages use racist phrases, telling her “return on your us of a”, including that she selected to speak out because too many Belgians believed that racism did not exist there.
Image copyright RTBF Symbol caption Cécile Djunga said she was once beaten by way of the beef up she had received.
Speaking on Belgian TELEVISION past due on Wednesday evening she said it used to be necessary to expand the controversy approximately racism and not focus simply on her.
Many other people had advised her of their personal revel in as sufferers of racism.
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Ms Djunga’s decision to move public gained fashionable support.
Belgian footballer Christian Kabasele, who performs for Watford in the English Most Useful League, praised her on Twitter.
“just a little message to all our racist pals. don’t get jealous if some folks have controlled to give their lives meaning when you haven’t! i’m hoping you get the message. Bravo, keep strong @ceciledjunga”
Her tale additionally brought on a political reaction in Belgium, with senior participants of the Walloon government in French-talking Belgium urging the media to advertise equality and diversity.
Ms Djunga said there has been already an anti-sexual harassment campaign to “rat to your pig” (stability ton porc) and she or he proposed another campaign to rat on racists too.
“i am Belgian and now they are going to forestall telling me to go back to my united states of america. As A Result Of that is my usa,” she said.
