Derek VanBuskirk, a reporter from the Daily Caller, was racially profiled by a black apparent South African while on his way to the country to investigate claims of genocide in the country.

“After 30 hours of travel, I got here about an hour and a half ago. I actually have already been racially profiled,” VanBuskirk said in a video shared on X. “It actually happened in Paris as I was getting onto the plane.”

VanBuskirk said a black man with a what appeared to be a South African accent stopped him at the airport gate as he was boarding his flight from Paris to Johannesburg, asking to see his passport. The man was also traveling to South Africa, was wearing a suit and seemingly was acting in a position of authority, though the reporter still had to present his passport to another official later.

VanBuskirk described the encounter as “intense” and said the man questioned him on his heritage: “He asked where I was from, and when I said California, he asked where my parents were from. ‘California,’ I said.”

“Well, your last name is Dutch,” the man said, continuing to harass the reporter. VanBuskirk told him that his dad was adopted and that he is not Dutch.

“I just boarded and the racism has already started,” VanBuskirk said in his video. “It didn’t even occur to me that I might be confused with an Afrikaner.”

Afrikaners are a white ethnic minority in South Africa that descended from Dutch settlers and have been in the region for several hundred years. Thousands of Afrikaners are now seeking refuge in the United States due to increased racial tensions that have boiled over into murders and property thefts since the end of apartheid in South Africa.

Over the weekend, the Caller was the first to report that the Trump administration is seeking to resettle as many as “thousands” of Afrikaner refugees in the United States by late summer.

VanBuskirk will be in South Africa for the rest of the week, speaking with farmers who say they have been victimized and touring the countryside afflicted by violence.