British-Pakistani actor, Riz Ahmed, took to Twitter to share an incident of racism his brother encountered recently.
The Night Of star 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
My brother is a psychiatrist writing on mental health, music, racism… landed in Australia and this is what happens to him. Just another example of #everydayracism https://t.co/6EmnfxAPA3
— Riz Ahmed (@rizmc) May 7, 2019
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 its ugly 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.”
