Still pissed about the whitewashing. Pass.

should’ve used this

Gossip Christmas, twice in a year y’all

this was uncalled for, Gabrielle.

rude

i feel like y’all are baiting us, taunting us to see if we’re going to bring up BrexPitt, and you know you’re only setting us up to fail

*sigh* You’re missing the point. This has happened over and over again. People have already gotten mad over this the last time he was detained, because he has a huge fanbase and they obviously made a whole deal about it. The American embassy or whatever already apologised the last time. They KNOW he is popular, but…

All I mean to say is that they didn’t care enough ABOUT his stardom to update a database or maybe send an news update - “hey guys! so we detained this brown fellow and apparently he’s a huge star, and people are hella mad, bc this is like the 3rd time. so anyways next time this fellow pops in, maybe not stop him?…

Sure, he’s being stopped again because he was stopped before...and because of racial profiling.

No one is arguing that they SHOULD know him. I simply said that Americans are largely unaware of cultures outside their own, which is true. They have no need to be, nor are they inclined towards it. Whatever. The problem is that despite his stardom, he has REPEATEDLY been detained. The last time he was detained in the…

He is...Indian. Not North American. The whole point is that the racial profiling is so common and incompetent that he (being the biggest Bollywood star and frankly with more viewership than most Hollywood stars) got detained REPEATEDLY. Over and over again because of his skin colour.

Western solipsism and denial is truly amusing to witness. The most amusing.

i legit loled when i read that line, like sweetums we all know why

I know! he is a really amazing actor and is known in the industry for being a cool guy. he has come from a lot of poverty and has come a long way, and is still married to his high school sweetheart :) Everybody likes him because of his humbleness and composure.

It’s kind of sad/ironic because Bollywood stars are EVERYWHERE in terms of viewership - from Russia to North Africa to Middle East. I was in Brazil with my cousins and they have a whole soap opera with Bollywood themes. US people are quite...well unaware of cultures outside their own (most Europeans and Canadians too…

Lets put it on a global scale, he is probably the most watched movie star in the past 35 years. Bigger than Brad Pitt, Tom Cruz, or even Tom Hanks. He IS Bollywood! The fact that we don’t have systems that can flag people of major renowned or importance just shows that TSA and customs is security theater that isn’t…

I got detained day before at LAX - me and Shahrukh Khan are BFFS via racial profiling I WILL BROOK NO NAYSAYERS

She IS first generation. She learnt english proper after coming to London. I don’t really get the relation between the Sri Lankan civil war (which is based on linguistic and xenophobic tensions) and the Somalian Civil War - even if there is, which class of Somalian immigrants are you talking about particularly?

But M.I.A is first gen. too?? She lived in Sri Lanka and Chennai until she was seven or eight, if I recall correctly. Your point might still be valid, but this is a different scenario from the 2nd gen West African/Carribean diaspora in first world countries and the kind of culture they occupy, and sometimes create a…