Solange Knowles gets afro pat down at Florida airport
Solange Knowles faced a humiliating pat down at a Florida airport on Wednesday (14Nov12) after security guards demanded to search her afro wig.
Beyonce's younger sister was on her way to board a flight out of Miami when she was asked to remove her hairpiece to prove she wasn't hiding any prohibited items under the afro.
A stunned Solange Knowles later took to her Twitter.com blog to
share her astonishment with fans, posting a link to a 2011 news
article about a woman who was subjected to similar treatment by
Transport Security Administration (TSA) officials at an airport in
Atlanta, Georgia.
Alongside the website address, she tweeted, "I kid you not. This
just happened to me."
She later added, "Discrim-FRO-nation (sic). My hair is not a
storage drawer. Although, guess I couuld (sic) hide a joint up in
here."
However, Solange Knowles refused to let the incident upset her and
instead had a little Twitter fun with her followers by playing a
game she called, "What did TSA find in Solange's Fro?".