If you’re brown and flying Delta Airlines, watch out. You may be “politely” asked to give up your seat and move to the back — or off the plane: In the latest case of it “taking all allegations of discrimination seriously,” Delta Airlines staff escorted Arab-American celebrity prankster Adam Saleh off a flight after his having had a phone conversation in Arabic with his mom made over 20 passengers uncomfortable. In a video of the incident that has subsequently gone viral (watch; runtime: 3:21), his claims appear to be corroborated by passengers mockingly waving goodbye and jeering at him. Saleh tells CBS News that the angry passengers suggested his presence and speaking in another language echoed this week’s Christmas market attack in Berlin. Delta issued a statement saying it was investigating the incident, only to update it and claim Saleh “sought to disrupt the cabin with provocative behavior,” and pointing to him being a known online prankster. “This type of conduct is not welcome on any Delta flight.”

The story has been widely picked up, with reports in the Guardian, the BBC, the Daily Mail,

This is the latest in a string of mostly US airlines kicking passengers out because their skin tone, language or facial hair made pigment-challenged passengers “uncomfortable.” We hope these passengers enjoyed their brief flight back to Selma, Alabama, c. 1953. We won’t be flying Delta soon (despite one of us having a remarkably good flight from JFK to Rome on Delta quite recently), and anyone speaking any language other than ‘Murican don’t have to, either.