Kajol's sister Tanishaa Mukerji claims she faced racism in US, calls experience 'traumatic'

Tanishaa Mukerji who was in New York a while ago for CRY America charity gala claims that she faced racism at a hotel. Opening up about incident, actress recalled that incident took place when she was attending a party at hotel with her friends and one of African-American employees made insensitive remarks about her.

actress taking to Twitter, to write about her experience. She wrote, "Racist horrible people." 

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"I don't understand what triggered it as I was polite, but he turned rude. One of employees, an African-American, said that we looked as if we were fresh off boat and couldn't speak English. That was insulting and blatantly racist. My friends and I were shocked. It's traumatic to experience this kind of racism in US; I have never faced it earlier," PTI quoted actress as saying.
 

actress also said that hotel staff was unsupportive and y refused her request to call cops to address matter. She also posted a video of incident on her Twitter profile, watch it

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Calling incident unfortunate, she added, "I was trying to record incident on my camera. video I posted online ends abruptly because guy stopped me and told me to switch my recorder off. It's unfortunate when you experience something like this in a land that stands for rights and liberty. I am saddened that an African-American behaved like this, considering y have experienced discrimination mselves."