Riz Ahmed shares brother’s experience with racism

Web Desk
May 09, 2019

Riz Ahmed took to Twitter to share a tweet by his brother who was travelling to Australia and ran into one xenophobe

Riz Ahmed shares brother’s experience with racism
British-Pakistani actor, rapper Riz Ahmed. Photo: AFP

British-Pakistani actor, Riz Ahmed, took to Twitter to share an incident of racism his brother encountered recently.

The Night Ofstar tweeted that his brother, Kamran Ahmed, was at an airport in Australia where the incident took place. He also captioned his brother’s tweet with the hashtag #everydayracism

In the post, Kamran wrote that a man behind him told him to hurry up. “Me (going fast as others): I can’t go faster, learn some manners.”

"Man: I'm an English gentleman, we invented manners. Me: I'm English too, that's got... Man (sarcastic): Really? #racism rears itsugly head again.”

Ahmed wrote that his brother was “a psychiatrist writing on mental health, music, racism… landed in Australia and this is what happens to him.”


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