Performance artist and rapper Mykki Blanco has claimed that a fellow passenger called the police during a flight because he didn’t feel comfortable sitting next to “someone like [him]”.
The openly queer, gender-bending artist—real name Michael Quattlebaum Jr—says that he was approached by police officers on a Detroit-bound Delta Airlines after another passenger complained he did not feel comfortable sitting next to him.
Blanco took to Twitter to recount the ordeal: “He said that he was not comfortable and did not know how Delta allowed ‘someone like me’ to board the plane with him and sit next to him” he wrote.
“This is REAL @Delta,” Blanco continued. “Then I was told by a police officer that an FBI report would be made from our ‘interaction’, except I did not interact. I was told I would ‘go to jail’ if I continued to ask questions about why this police officer was giving preferential treatment to this man.”
“I was then told I could file a report myself and give ‘my side of the story’.. but the entire incident itself is fabricated.”
He ended his statement by claiming the experience was “the most bizarre form of homophobia I have ever encountered”.
A Delta Airlines spokesman immediately responded to Blanco’s posts on Twitter, writing: “Hi Mykki, I honestly can’t believe what my eyes are reading. I am so very sorry to hear that you had to experience… something like this on a Delta flight.
“Discrimination of any kind isn’t tolerated. We love ALL of our passengers.”
The rep then asked Blanco to follow their account back so he give them further details about the alleged incident.
Mykki Blanco is known for his irrational spats of anger. In 2015, he reportedly threw bits of his sandwich in the face of MoMa PS1’s director Klaus Biesenbach at Art Basel Miami, yelling “He doesn’t like black people, he likes black culture.”
And in December, he broke out in a rage during a party in Brooklyn and verbally attacked fellow queer performer Jacolby Satterwhite telling him “I am everything, you are nothing,” and “You will never be as famous as I am” before he proceeded to throw coatrack and a speaker, according to eyewitnesses.