Turns out that being super famous and selling out a panel at the New Yorker Festival isn't enough to buffer you from casual racism. After chatting with Emily Nussbaum about anal sex, Mindy Kaling attended the VIP after-party at the Boom Boom Room. There she was accosted by "a tipsy man in his 80s" who "showered her with compliments." Only, he had a case of the all-look-the-same blues and mistook Kaling for another famous brown woman: youngest-ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yousafzai. "Congratulations on your Nobel Prize," he said to her. After he was out of earshot, Kaling wondered aloud: "Did he really think I'm Malala, and that if I were, I'd be at the Boom Boom Room?" As is her wont, she took the whole incident in stride, "That's the best thing that's happened all night." We can practically hear the joke writing itself on The...
- 10/25/2014
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
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