"Orange Is The New Black" star Danielle Brooks is airing out her annoyance with airline personnel who comment on her flying arrangements.
"I hate when gate agents look at me like I've never flown first class and say 'You're in first class, lucky you!' Really tho," said Brooks, who plays Taystee on the hit Netflix series, in a Twitter post Thursday.
Twitter users were outraged at the treatment of Brooks, a Tony nominee for "The Color Purple."
"Ew casual racism??? Go off girl," one wrote. Another user remarked, "The ignorance is real."
Others suggested that race may not have played any part. "Could be just a comment of 'lucky you don't have to sit in the back like sardines,' not 'you don't belong in 1st,'" a user said.
"Entertainment Tonight" reported that Brooks may have been referring to a specific incident that happened before she boarded a flight from New York to appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
The Huffington Post has reached out to Brooks for comment.
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