Black Eyed Peas member will.i.am detailed an incident on a flight that led to police confronting him at an airport in Australia on Friday (November 15). The veteran artist claimed a flight attendant acted unprofessionally during his travels and accused her of being racist for calling the cops.
“I’m currently on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney,” he initially wrote via Twitter. “I’m sorry to say me and my group have experienced they worse service due to a overly aggressive flight attendant… I don’t want to believe she racist. But she has clearly aimed all her frustrations only at the people of colour.”
About 30 minutes later, will.i.am posted a photo of a police officer at the airport and called out the flight attendant by name for her alleged actions.
“This is how your greeted when you land from Brisbane to Sydney flying @qantas with a #RacistFlightattendant named Lorraine Marshall,” he explained. “She sent the police after me bacause I couldn’t hear the P.A while making beats on the plane wearing noise canceling headphones…
“@Qantas Your #RacistFlightattendant was beyond rude & took it to the next level by calling the police on me. thank god the other passengers testified that SHE was out of Control ?? the police finally let me go. imagine if the police were as aggressive as Lorraine Marshall.”
The BEP frontman also responded to Twitter users questioning his claims.
“I’m sorry? Is callin the police on a passenger for not hearing he P.A due to wearing noise canceling headphones appropriate?” he fired back at one person. “If didn’t put away my laptop ‘in a rapid 2min time’ I’d understand. I did comply quickly & politely, only to be greeted by police. I think I was targeted.”
He noted, “I wasn’t ignoring the safety briefing…& I was paying attention…I put on my headphones 20min into the flight..:thanks…”
The multi-platinum selling artist retweeted someone who claimed to have been on the flight and confirmed his experience with the attendant. He then further clarified his comments in response to others.
“No one said she was a white supremest,” he wrote. “I said she singled every person of colourbin the flight and gave them a hard time…and went to the extreme of calling the police on me when I did nothing wrong…other passengers on the flight agreed that she was out of hand.”
He added, “I was intimidated by 5 police officers when I landed…for what? I put away my laptop when she asked…why would she feel threatened by me to call the police? What did I do wrong? I wasn’t out of hand.. I was polite & did what she asked… now you’re asking me to take abuse?”
Although will.i.am didn’t regret taking his issue public, he urged others not to harass the flight attendant after learning fans tracked her down on social media.
“Please do not send Hate,” he told his followers. “This type of disrespect and name calling is uncalled for…I don’t support abuse & attacks like this…I hope that everyone can be more compassionate & understanding towards one another…because it was the lack of compassion that caused this #noH8.”
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“Please don’t harass the flight attendant!”
*posts her name*
Those garbage ass beats could’ve waited until off the flight, Will.
Its always something racist w black ppl. U can alrdy tell going into 2020 white ppl judt dont care no more. Everything they do or dont do is considered racist
And num 2 hes gonna get sued crazy by releasing her name and getting harrassed
You have to admit, white people have a terrible track record of treating other races fairly. Slavery, colonialism, genocide.
Yes, because Africa have never sold off their own people into slavery and those pyramids everyone is so proud of were totally built by free people. If you want to slam an entire race at least know what the fuck you’re talking about.
Exactly. Black people, read some stories, study yourself, see what Idi Amin did (WAS BLACK) his own brothers.
Doesnt excuse what the white man has done. Your arguement is as fallacious as someone arguing that genocide against Christians is ok bc of what the Germans did.
Deflecting is not a defense. I’m not talking about what other races did, we are talking about how white people treat others. They have repeatedly subjugated other races all over the world. No other race has a worse track record on this planet and there is no defense for that. It is a fact and we all know it.
Is it a fact? So we’re going to ignore all the genocide, apartheid, genital mutilation and religious killings that happen in middle Eastern and African countries? Get your head out of the clouds and try looking at the whole picture. Slavery is STILL a thing as well but I guess we don’t acknowledge that seeing as you can’t pin it exclusively on whitey. You keyboard warriors really make me laugh… Bash an entire race and it’s a “fact”, return fire with actual facts and it’s a “deflection”. Is it racist or a fact if I start pulling stats on crimes caused by minorities? It’s hard to know what the rules are with multiple standards.
“It is a fact and we all know it.”
This is completely false. You need to compare whites to other races. so name me another race that has treated black people better? east Asians? There is a reason why the black population is so low in metropolitan areas of those countries. They went out of there way to ensure blacks are low in number. Chinese are currently colonizing Africa. How about Indians? The Indians detest the dark skins of their own race never mind black people. Arabs? The ones who were doing the enslaving? Most African slavery was perpetuated by the Arabs, everything you can attribute to white people was done far worse by Arabs. they made slavery by whites look like a 1-star hotel. that is bad it was. They also collected more blacks, up to 100 million and that is being generous. These blacks never went back home. So why are they no African Iranians or African Saudis? BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL DEAD. 100 Million people, gone in history. Even today, Arabs still enslave blacks in places such as Lybia. So let’s compare that whites. which one of these was better? Because they all sound worse. In fact, let’s go further, who ended slavery being a viable industry? The British, who were white. I’m not saying they were benevolent in any measure but let’s be honest here even including black people, only they went to war against themselves and against Arabs to end the slavery of blacks.
That is a stain on us, we answered the call to world war but never campaigned the world to retrieve our people. That is what is truly indefensible. You just like CANEMEMBE need to do the reading and studying before you come out with that BS.
Tell me when white ppl ever cared. This is business as usual.
Lol every article like this justifies African Americans being the laughing stock of the world even more. And they keep coming.
lol true
What makes you so miserable that you’re on a hip hop site hating black people? Is it your lack of education, lack of employment or heroin addiction?
LOL okay now Australia is racist what is next
Do some history.
Australia was the last country to end apartheid (in the 90`s) , so yeah it`s pretty racist..
LOL Chem you are a moron. The country you are thinking of is approximately 6500 miles from Australia but all countries probably look the same to you
black people is crazy 😀 black people can do anything, but if you say they are doing something wrong, you are f**kin racist 😀
Idi Amin wasn’t white, learn some history black people, not all evil in the world are white people. Blacks sold their brothers in Africa for gold like Tekashi69. Stop listening to leftist gibberish such rappers as Immortal Technique, in a moment it will turn out that the ufo lives in his basement
who cares this fruitcake aint hip hop
Will.I. Was thinks that his crew can behave like jerks on a flight and if you call them out, it’s only because they’re people of color. Lol notice the fool uses the European spelling of to try to come off as if he’s cultured lol! I hope the flight attendant sues him. He’s such a mean girl for doxing her! Lol what a beta male.
Will: it’s gonna be a good good flight 😀 😀 😀
Flight attendant: turn that jungle music down boogie Woogie