US rapper Le1f shares racial abuse sent by New Zealand Grindr user

Le1f was in New Zealand for the Auckland Pride Festival. Photo / Getty

A US rapper visiting for the Auckland Pride Festival has shared an experience of racial abuse he received from a New Zealander on the dating app Grindr.

Le1f, who has visited New Zealand a number of times, shared a screenshot of the Grindr message on his Instagram account, writing: "I think ya'll should never not see what it's like to be black."

The message began: "Clearly you are a thick-as-s*** looking n****r from your photo, so you probably barely speak English.

"If you ever do get an education and quit your addiction to getting stoned, then you might learn how to have a conversation. You ugly n****r."

Le1f, real name Khalif Diouf, also shared an image of a man in a hammock, presumably from the user's profile.

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happy MLK day y'all, . so, when i was in college, there were grants for students to take on projects abroad. my application was rejected, but they asked to use my resume as a good example for other students. hmm. i graduated & took that resume &applied to exactly 60 jobs in NYC. 1 replied -a DJ school that needed a receptionist. i guess being a DJ-producer already & an alumni of one of USA's top unis didn't warrant me the gig of answering phones, so i got a job at a restaurant in need of a new host but instead hired me as a busboy. i spent what was left of the summer learning to balance 100 glasses on my arm, wondering why i spent my youth as a scholar. soon, it was time to make a damn mixtape, &1 year later, the owner of the DJ school was handing me his business card in the club. these days, i get a lot of those. i get a lot of men putting a strong hand on my back to stop me from literally backing away from their business proposals... . black people, it is often & typical that someone uses the guise of offering opportunity simply to lead you into a deal that's creating profitability for themselves. it's innate. in a culture where capitalism is tradition &built on scarred backs, it's no surprise. black & brown people are expected to live as equal &fair players in a game that disenfranchises them on a day-to-day basis. we're asked to be wholesome as well as invisible, to discreetly fix cultural problems & give the credit to 'diversity' & 'progress'. we're asked to say sorry incessantly, to lose our accents, to hold the door for people who in turn do their best to not acknowledge our presence... these expectations are learned. clock them. understand why these 'microaggressions' stir you as much as blatant racism does &speak up. when you hold the door open for someone &they don't say thank you, be like "YOU'RE WELCOME!" - our presence is only a gift. because 'sharing is caring' & 'each one teach one' are black experiences. no tech innovation happened without someone black. memes are black. glue, ink, peanut butter, heart surgery, &blood transfusions - thank someone black. health &happiness as a human right are inherently culturally Black! . 📸: @upstairsaterics

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Diouf was performing in New Zealand as part of the Proud party at Auckland's Q Theatre.

He also visited Australia, and during his trip, shared an experience on Twitter of being racially profiled at Melbourne Airport.

"A customs security at Melbourne Airport @Melair who's been singling me out when I enter Australia just did it again," he wrote. "I said as a black man, I go through it a lot. He said 'keep using that black stuff on me, and I'll report you to my supervisor' and that he'll make my life harder.

"Y'all think I love Australia. No. I love to perform, to be with friends & to make money. These are all things I can do in Australia as well as in a number of other white-homogeneous or colonised lands, and I choose to do so here at the expense of blatant racism on a daily basis."