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Beyonce’s Sister Blames Racism for Giant Banana Brawl

Beyonce's Sister Blames Racism for Giant Banana BrawlWhile Beyonce was announcing her pregnancy last night, little sister and hipster foil Solange Knowles was in a surrealist, possibly racist brawl with the Miami Beach police force. It all started when Solange tried to carry a five-foot inflatable banana into a nightclub.

Denied entry from the club, Solange blamed racism. The club said it wasn't black people, but giant bananas they could not admit. (Set-up for a racist Asian-American joke?) According to the MBPD, "off-duty officers" then "escorted" Solange across the street. According to Solange, one of the officers then "pulled a weapon" on her and threatened to deflate her banana! (Set-up for a racist and sexist joke?) After some heated Twitter warfare, Solange filed a formal complaint; MBPD confirms they are investigating the incident.

Beyonce's Sister Blames Racism for Giant Banana BrawlTMZ reports that the weapon in question was a knife. (MBPD knife fight? That's a horrifying picture.) Solange tweets that she is has "literally had my last leg with discriminating police!" As "a mother raising a young black child in America," Solange Knowles is "going to die trying" to "raise awareness" about racial and/or fructiferous discrimination. [TMZ, NBCMiami, @SolangeKnowles, Solange performing at an LGBT parade in 2009 via Pacific Coast News, banana for illustrative purposes only]

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