AceShowbiz - Eric Andre opened up about an unpleasant experience he had in Australia. Claiming to have been "racially profiled" at the Melbourne Airport, the comedian said he feels "humiliated" by the ordeal.

In an Instagram video shared on Monday, August 19, the 41-year-old revealed that he had just finished a 25-hour journey from New York City to Brisbane, with stops in Los Angeles and Melbourne. "I got detained," he told his online devotees. "I got pulled out of a lineup and put in a special line in Melbourne where I was sniffed thoroughly by a dog."

"It's one of the many times I've been racially profiled at the airport," he added. "So, this is a message for all Black, brown, and Indigenous people traveling through Melbourne today, especially if you're traveling through Qantas International by Terminal 2: Please be careful. They are searching Black, Brown, and Indigenous people."

Andre then asked his followers about tp provide the name of the program and the officers in charge of the dogs. He also enlisted the help of any Australian viewers able to connect him with a discrimination lawyer in the country, and asked that anyone hoping to hire him for future work in Australia provide a security escort or otherwise fly him in through a different airport.

"I don't feel safe in the Melbourne airport. I do not want to be humiliated or racially discriminated against anymore at these airports," the comic lamented. "I don't want to cut my hair and wear a three-piece suit so that I’m treated like a first-class citizen. I shouldn't be made to feel that I am unaccepted by entering a country."

"Shame on the people at the Melbourne Airport that have this cockamamie procedure," he further fumed. "I doubt it yields any safer world for anyone in Melbourne or Australia."