How we respond to racist hatred matters more than ever | Chitra Ramaswamy
▻https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/oct/22/i-have-been-racially-abused-no-one-intervened-ryanair-story-shows-why-t
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The outcome? The woman is moved. The man remains locked in his white privilege, his racist hatred, and his seatbelt. Ryanair, which once ordered five black musicians to leave a flight at gunpoint after a passenger complained they looked like terrorists, has referred the matter to Essex police. At the time of writing, the airline had not contacted the woman to apologise.
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Patrick Barkham meets the men ejected from a Ryanair flight for fear of terrorism | UK news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/feb/12/terrorismandtravel
We’re the terrorist steel band," says Michael Toussaint with a laugh. “People have been calling us the Talipan,” chortles Jason Constantine. It is, they now admit, a funny story, but they weren’t laughing at the time. The four friends who formed Caribbean Steel International had been rapturously received when they played a world music festival in Sardinia at the end of 2006. “It was mind-blowing,” says Toussaint, the band’s cheerful tenor pan - the lead drummer - who also happens to be blind.