Ugbaad Kilincci, a PvdA candidate councillor in Emmen, was faced with racism while campaigning in the Drenthe town on Saturday.
She was called, among other things, a “ragged-head moron”, a “black monkey”, and told to “go back to Africa”, RTL Nieuws reports.
“I am mostly sad and I find it horrible that this is still happening in our society”, the 30-year-old aspiring politician said to the broadcaster. “I specifically decided to make myself available for election because I want to be there for all people. Muslim, Jew, homosexuals, heterosexual, none of that matters for me. So being dismissed like that hurts.”
Kilincci eventually decided to go home on Saturday instead of finishing the campaign. But she is not putting her political ambitions aside.
Source: nltimes
