''Jag grips för att jag är bög''

Mykki Blanco är en rappare som ständigt står upp för HBTQ-frågan. I förrgår greps han på flygplatsen i Lissabon, skriver Noisey. 

På Mykki Blancos Facebooksida kan man läsa: "jag blir gripen i Portugal för att jag är bög". Rapparen laddade upp en bild på en av poliserna och skrev texten: "jag slår vad om att han var söt när han var yngre".

Gripandet togs vid efter ett bråk mellan Mykki Blanco, hans fotograf och en polis på flygplatsens taxistation. Rapparen behövde hjälp med att få en taxikupong, och när polisen inte var speciellt hjälpsam sa Mykki Blanco åt honom att "go fuck yourself", tätt efterföljt av fotografens "fuck off". Därefter togs Mykki Blanco till fängelset.

Noisey fick ett uttalande från Mykki.

– ...The altercation escalated because I waited in a long line outside the airport for a taxi and when I was told I could not use my credit card but only cash (which also is not true I later found), the taxi attendant and cop refused to help in any way. They were impatient and short with me all the while eagerly helping white tourists. A Portuguese woman in line with me even leaned over and whispered, 'I don't know why they are being so strange with you, there is a place inside to buy taxi vouchers you don't need cash'. I should have listened to the woman and went inside to find the voucher office but there is a part of my personality that really wants to see if people WILL actually be prejudiced, to see if maybe my PC west coast optimism about the world is being challenged by blatant discrimination and I was right. I asked the police officer where the voucher office was and I was told to "go away" like I was a nuisance and when I asked why he could not help but the other white tourists I was yelled at and told to "go away bicha"  which is a gay slur [according to Urban Dictionary: it is an offensive slur meant to challenge a man on his sexuality], even though I had waited in the same line as everyone else.

Mykki Blanco fick till slut böta 600 euro för att ha förolämpat en polis. Han fortsätter i sitt uttalande:

– More than racism or even homophobia (which was also a factor) I realized that class matters and that an upwardly mobile black man isn't something people always want to see.

Mykki Blanco är klar för Clandestino Festival, som sker i Göteborg mellan 5 - 7 juni.