15a3aziz ansari 655 300x179 Aziz Ansari, riding high on ‘Parks & Recreation,’ hits the Tabernacle June 20

Aziz Ansari , a star on NBC’s ‘Parks & Recreation,” is a Southern boy at heart, raised in Columbia, S.C. During his most recent “Deliciously Dangerous” stand-up special, Ansari said when friends outside the South find out where he’s from, they take pity on him, thinking he suffered racism as an Indian American in a city without many Indian Americans. “What these people forget is the food there is delicious,” Ansari said. “So growing up in South Carolina is kind of like, ‘Oh that guy said the n word. Oh, fried chicken and biscuits. Never mind!’ …… >>

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