I believe the person who received us is the mother of the other host name Diego whom we were in contact with before checking in.
I have never in my years of using AirBnB had any issues with the people who rent our properties to or the hosts we’ve rented from. Between mine and my wife’s AirBnB profile we’ve stayed at over 30 properties.
It has been insinuated that we have preformed “black magic” in the apartment by the female host who checked us in.
When we checked in kept asking what were our origins and if we were followers of “African Traditional” religion such as which craft.
She proceeded to tell us that she dislikes renting to her fellow Brazilians because they are dirty people (my wife is Brazilian and took offence to this). She also made it clear she did not like renting to homosexual men because they tend to be very permiscuos and would bring various people in the apartment to have intercourse with. ( she claims this once happened and they dirtied her linen badly.)
I do not know outside of my Brazilian family and friends, what are certain customs but it is very disrespectful for someone who does not know is to pass judgement in this way.
We explained that we were in Rio for a dance competition and this location was perfect to get to the practices on time.
There was a bit glitter in the apartment from my wife’s dance costumes. We did sweep and left things neatly as we always do.
She basically yelled acusing us of performing Wichcraft in her property!
I don’t know where she got that from...
because we are black? Because we wear necklaces? Because we use homemade soap we brought with us from Canada?
She made a point to enumerate all the reasons she believed we were involved in Wichcraft inside her home and this was not limited to our ethnicity.
I do not know if professionalism is an area they are lacking in their team; but it is something that needs to be addressed.
People from other parts of the world do not speak to each other the way my wife and I were spoken to. We do not tolerate that kind of discrimination.
Even though expressing my disappointment I believe that I am being completely respectful. This was not the case with the female host Katia.
I thank Diego the other host for his hospitality... Outside of the interactions with Katia (his mother) the experience was a good one.
My recommendation here is if you are an activist or identify as being anything other than Caucasian Christian; it’s best to stay away from this property to not have any potential issues with Katia. Just to enumerate some groups that I recommend they stay away based on what she expressed were, Brazilians, LGBTQ, Black, Asian, Hispanic, aboriginal, people of different religions outside of Christianity!