Online resource gives a voice to victims of racism

Victims of racism can tell their stories online at iReport, which records the number of incidents per region and raises awareness, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

“I was in a taxi being driven home. The man started to talk about ‘blacks’. He said a hotel in Cork, which has been closed since 2009 due to flooding, was only fit for the ‘blacks’. He said “they should put them all in there”... “The ‘blacks’ are getting everything ...”

THE quote above is from a case that was sent to a racist-incident reporting system, iReport, which was launched last July by the Irish division of the European Network Against Racism, ENAR Ireland. It enables victims and witnesses to go online and give accounts of racism.