Airport Security asks Belgian Activist if Mixed Race Daughter is Really Her Child

Belgium-based Assita Kanko, political activist and writer (originally from Burkina Faso) was questioned by airport security if her daughter was really her child, and when he didn’t believe her, he asked her 8 year old daughter himself.

‘Is this really your mama?’Security man asked my 8y old daughter because he doesn’t believe me #DuesseldorfAirport pic.twitter.com/OOoSBHUWwb

— Assita KANKO (@Assita_Kanko) March 28, 2016

When Assita asked the airport security agent why he didn’t believe her, even after providing her birth certificate, passport and other documents, he didn’t have an answer.

@CatherinVerbeke that is what I asked him,he had no answer as he had checked her id,passport, ISI + card,even asked me the birth certificate

— Assita KANKO (@Assita_Kanko) March 28, 2016

One of her followers, a Nigerian-born author Chika Unigwe, concurred that the same thing happened to her at an Atlanta airport.

@Assita_Kanko lol. I’ve been asked that at the airport (in Atlanta, I think). It must be something in the airport police handbook 🙂 🙂

— chika unigwe (@chikaunigwe) March 28, 2016

Another follower called out the racism, and said it happened to her as well.

Happened when my brother and I went to Greece w our mom..like black children can’t have a white parent or vice versa https://t.co/WiJ4hZv6rl

— tsnmi. (@mavroula_) March 28, 2016