Black Miss Brazil suffers insults: "She looks like a maid. She shouldn't be there."
Black, with curly hair and from Piauí, the new Miss Brazil (2017) Monalysa Alcântara was hailed this weekend as a representation of Brazilianness; this is what the judges stated in the speech that earned her the crown; despite her victory, the 18-year-old is being targeted by some racist and hateful attacks on social media; one internet user said on Twitter that Monalysa looked like a "maid": "Goodness! Miss Piauí looks like a maid, an ordinary face, she doesn't have the profile of a Miss, she shouldn't be there."
Piauí 247 - Black, with curly hair and from Piauí, the new Miss Brazil (2017) Monalysa Alcântara was hailed this weekend as a representation of Brazilianness. That's how the judges stated it in the speech that earned her the crown.
Despite her victory, the 18-year-old is being targeted by racist and hateful attacks on social media. This is not the first time a Miss Brazil has suffered from prejudice. In Miss Brazil 2016, when Raissa Santana, a Black woman with curly hair, won, racist attacks were also recorded.
On social media, one user tweeted that Monalysa looked like a "maid": "Goodness! Miss Piauí looks like a maid, she has an ordinary face, she doesn't have the profile of a Miss, she shouldn't be there," stated Juliana Porto.
After the judges spoke about the Brazilian identity of the beauty queen, one internet user wrote: "What is this infamous Brazilian identity? Is it being black?"