Posted on 10/26/2017 6:05:13 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The NAACP has issued a travel advisory warning against booking travel on American Airlines. The civil-rights organization cautions black travelers on the risks of experiencing discrimination while flying with American. American Airlines would like to meet with the NAACP regarding their concerns. The NAACP has cautioned black travelers to be careful when flying with American Airlines.
In a statement on Tuesday, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) instituted a national travel advisory warning black passengers of potential discriminatory and unsafe practices at American Airlines.
"The NAACP for several months now has been monitoring a pattern of disturbing incidents reported by African-American passengers, specific to American Airlines," the civil rights organization said in the statement. "In light of these confrontations, we have today taken the action of issuing national advisory alerting travelers—especially African Americans—to exercise caution, in that booking and boarding flights on American Airlines could subject them disrespectful, discriminatory or unsafe conditions."
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Doubly bad if your flying into our out of St. Louis Lambert airfield. They probably make them sit on the wing.
You combine American Airlines crappy customer service with a racebaiter looking for an excuse to make a fuss and you get stuff like this
Idiots. They should be suing the hell out of the NAACP for slander.
I suspect this has something to do with AA being based in a red state (Dallas, Texas).
For some reason, I think any Martin Luther King Boulevard after dark is way more dangerous to blacks.
AA should sue the NAACP not issue an apology (assuming this is a shakedown and there is no validity to the accusation). Otherwise the extortion continues and they become emboldened.
That may make me rethink my decision never to fly AA again.
The so-called discrimination couldn't be based upon BEHAVIOR, could it?
NAACP = BLACKMAIL (grifters incorporated) ..........
They should limit their air travel to Soul Plane Airlines. Fleet Captain Snoop Dogg at the controls suckin’ on dat blunt. Take off and get down!
They use cheap Velcro to strap them to the wing ?
Doubly bad if your flying into our out of St. Louis Lambert airfield. They probably make them sit on the wing.
Speaking of math, did the NAACP include any sort of stastical analysis to accompany their announcement? Something along the lines of “ during the period dd mmm yyyy to dd mmm yyyy, x,xxx,xxx African-Americans flew on American Airlines. Of these, xxx or xx.xxx percent had incidents that may have involved bias or prejudice on the part of airline staff or other passengers.”
No? Perhaps because the resulting percentage of incidents would be so small as to be truly trivial. I write this not to minimize the serious incidents when they do occur but to point out that with so many persons flowing through the system every day, incidents involving every race, age and sex have to be expected as a part of people in all sorts of moods interacting with a lot of other people who are also in all sorts of moods. Given the attitudes of passengers, ground staff and crew in many of these incidents and the resulting restrictions on what can and cannot be done, I am surprised there are not more on-the-ground flight cancellations.
The air transport system generally works well enough that people continue to fly on it DESPITE the increasing impositions being placed on them in the name of security and by the airlines (who seem to be in a constant search to find the tipping point between maximizing profit but still providing just enough service that people continue to fly).
Personally, if my destination is within a reasonable day’s drive (450-650 miles) and I have the flexibility in my work schedule to do so, I will always drive.
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