Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was in Australia recently to attend an event. The actress was travelling from Sydney to Melbourne with Qantas Airways and faced an unpleasant experience with the staff of the airline. She wrote on Instagram that the staff mistreated her and her team because they were all ‘brown’.
Shilpa posted a picture of herself at the airport, with a duffle bag on the floor, explaining what happened with her in Sydney.
She was carrying the duffle bag that the airline staff refused to let her take as hand baggage, and insisted that she check it in. Another staff member of the airline told her it wasn’t oversized, but the lady who had refused to allow it didn’t budge. Shilpa believed that the lady tried to push them over because of the colour of their skin.
This isn’t the first time that Shilpa has faced racism. Even during her time in Big Brother house in the UK, Shilpa was subjected to racists remarks made by some of the contestants on the show. The 43-year-old actress was vocal about her struggles with racism and she still continues to talk about it openly.
Shilpa is currently in Melbourne, proceeding with her work.
Not just Shilpa, but actress Richa Chadha has also tweeted about a racist encounter when she was exiting Georgia.
Hmmm.
All those asking why I felt the passport control officer was racist …”she could just be having a bad day”… should look up the number of ppl replying with their personal experiences of racism on this thread. https://t.co/At0UliZzQa— TheRichaChadha (@RichaChadha) September 20, 2018
We hope more and more people talk about racism and aware others that discrimination on the basis of colour needs to stop now.
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