'I think I was targeted,' the musician said of the onboard incident with the flight attendant
After dubbing her #RacistFlightattendant on Twitter, the musician claimed the flight attendant "clearly aimed all her frustrations only at the people of colour."After noticing the flight attendant was being subjected to online bullying, the musician emphasized that despite frustrations with the incident, he thinks it was due to a "lack of compassion." In other tweets, will.i.am said he wasn’t the only person on the flight to be “disrespected.
He did, however, get criticized by some who felt it was inappropriate for him to publicly name the flight attendant on his Twitter account, which has 12.8 million followers. “I don’t regret my actions,” he said, adding in another tweet that “today I FELT discrimination...and I spoke for all the other people who are voiceless.”
He also advised, "Please do not send Hate...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." "There was a misunderstanding on board, which seems to have been exacerbated by will.i.am wearing noise cancelling headphones and not being able to hear instructions from crew," the airline said in a statement. "We'll be following up with will.i.am and wish him well for the rest of the tour."
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