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Elizabeth Mosquera has been doing manicure work for three years and pedicure. In her day-to-day lives, she mainly addresses and visits her clients, most of the time in southern Medellín.
He does a job without major setbacks, but everything changed last weekend when she was offended by racist messages that are outraging many on social media. Even ex-archer René Higuita has defended her publicly.
It all started on Saturday, when a client contacted her to request a service. The appointment was agreed for Sunday at 2 in the afternoon. Elizabeth had to go to the Santa Mónica neighborhood, located in commune 12, La América.
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On the way, while she was on the subway, the client asked her to speed up her arrival and to take a taxi, and finally she was going to pay for it.
“When I get to her house, I knock on her door and she won’t open it. I connected to a free Wi-Fi network in the sector and wrote: ‘I’m outside your house, I’m touching you. ‘ She replies that she thought I was white because he worked so beautifully, he was wrong. I did not expect a person of color to do this kind of work well. I didn’t answer him anything and I was shocked, “says Mosquera.
The 23-year-old is a single mother, living with her two children and her mother in the Belén Altavista neighborhood, in the southwest of Medellín. They all depend on their trade and that experience made her not be left alone with indignation, so she decided to publish this conversation on WhatsApp and on her personal Facebook. This unleashed the anger of several people, including many who do not even know her.
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“She realized it because I published it. She answered the message and told me that it affirmed her way of seeing about us, Afro-Colombians, in vulgar words “, adds.
Elizabeth returned to capture the conversation and published it on her social networks, even with the client’s phone number in the face of the constant request in the comments of her publications.
From there followed a string of insults from the woman, identified as Yenny.
But the situation became more worrying when on that Sunday afternoon, The young manicurist opened the door of her house and saw a message on a piece of paper with more insults.
“That afternoon I only worked at home. I organized myself, I opened the door and there was a note with insults. But he did not tell me that he was going to kill me, I clarify. This woman knew where I lived and I was too scared.”
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Hello good evening, I want to thank all those people who gave me their support for the fact of racism this weekend. 🥺
– elizabethnnails (@elizabethnnails) September 15, 2020
Yesterday, Monday and today, Tuesday they have been anxiety for Elizabeth, who says they are afraid to go out to do addresses and attend to their clients, many of them new, who have noticed this case and have contacted her to request her services.
“I am too afraid that this woman is crazy and does something bad to me, because I did not make any mistakes because she was the one who offended me. But she is still offended with me because of the publications, although I deleted them,” says Elizabeth, who he is still considering whether to file a complaint, even though his mother asks him not to.
The young woman continues to serve her clients from home and appreciates the messages of support, but simply says that what she wants is to work and show her nail art, although, she reiterates, she is afraid to go out, for now.
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