Blood Orange's Dev Hynes the victim of racial discrimination at Berlin airport

26 May 2014, 11:49 | Written by Luke Morgan Britton

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(Blood Orange) (Dev Hynes)

Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange, has claimed he was the subject of racial profiling at an airport in Berlin over the weekend.

Taking to Twitter to vent his frustrations over the alleged incident, Hynes says that he was stopped due to the colour of his skin. Despite holding both a E.U passport and U.S visa, Hynes was held and interrogated at length, subsequently asked to provide receipts for electronic equipment he bought a year prior.

You can read the series of tweets below, via Pitchfork:

Was just held in Berlin Airport even though I’m a valid EU citizen with a U.S visa.
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014

Everywhere I’ve ever been I am reminded that there are people out there holding a prejudice because of my skin colour, yes it was racial.
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014

They went through all of my electronics and wouldn’t let me go because I didn’t have receipts for things I bought a year ago.
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014

Irony of listening to Wagner at the time of apprehension was not lost on me…
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014

People will always say to me “traveling is fun!” Or “I want to visit here.. And there etc”. Well, imagine if even before all of that…
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014

... You have to be aware and/or ready for how you will be treated based on nothing to do with your personality. Anyway, you know all this.
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014