Posted on 03/15/2018 10:27:11 PM PDT by BBell
MAN CLAIMS UNITED AIRLINES OFFERED WOMAN $1,000 VOUCHER TO PUT HER FEET DOWN: 'THE AUDACITY OF WHITE PRIVILEGE'
A black man traveling on a United Airlines plane has claimed that a flight attendant agreed to give a white woman sitting next to him a $1,000 voucher for taking her feet off the tray table, while not offering him similar courtesy.
After his complaint went viral on Twitter, he called the company's response "tone deaf".
In a statement to Newsweek, United disputed the story, saying: "At no point was any customer offered compensation for this issue."
“The audacity of white privilege,” Frederick Joseph, who started the ‘Black Panther Challenge’ fundraising initiative, wrote in a series of tweets on Tuesday March 13.
While on a flight from Austin, Texas, to Newark, New Jersey, Joseph said, a woman sitting next to him took off her shoes and placed her feet on the tray table. He shared a picture appearing to show a person’s foot on an airline table.
Joseph said that airline staff did not say anything despite walking past numerous times.
“I’m irate,” Frederick wrote, “because no black person would ever get away with this s--t.”
When it seemed like the staff would not take any action, Joseph said he decided to speak to the woman beside him. According to Joseph, he said “Ma’am, I’m trying to eat, and your feet are next to my food.”
“What do you want me to do?" the woman replied, according to Joseph. "The seats are small.”
“I understand, which is why there is room for your feet and legs under the seat in front of you,” Joseph said he replied.
“This is why I fly first class, and I don’t come back here with everyone else,” the woman then allegedly said back. When Joseph then asked her if
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Newsweak cannot disappear quick enough.
Sounds like the Onion.
Heck yeah. I always fly free. Actually the airlines always pay me $1,000 every time i fly. You missing out?
The entire basis of his argument is that he BELIEVES if the woman had been black, she wouldn't have been treated as politely as she was. And somehow, because that's what he BELIEVES, he think that United Airlines has done HIM a disservice.
Then, he claims further mistreatment because he BELIEVES that United's Hispanic Customer Service agent can't possibly understand how he was wronged because the agent is not black.
And THEN he throws out the "white privilege" card.
Anybody that could put their feet on the food tray has a future as a contortionist. Total Bigot BS.
“woman sitting next to him took off her shoes and placed her feet on the tray table”
Yeah, right. What was she, a dwarf yogi with a booster seat?
As we were leaving I said, "You know, we pretty much could have shut J.C. Penney down nationwide in about 10 seconds flat."
"All you had to do was tell her 'Oh, they only send these to white people.'"
Both kinds of people do exist.
There is the kind of passenger who is self centered enough to prop their bare, soiled, flaky feet onto the food tray surface, only inches away from their seat mates face. Such a person may be inconsiderate enough to refuse a request to remove those feet.
There is the kind of air passenger who is disgusted by the sight of someone’s bare feet being planted only inches away from their face.
The only thing I don’t get is why the flight attendant didn’t resolve the issue with the girl, or offer one of them a change of seating.
That $1000. voucher, I don’t know what to say about that part. Maybe the crew was only bluffing to make her finally take her feet down.
Stop blacksplaining, Frederick.
Also, real black people aren't named "Frederick" and don't say "irate."
Fake News!!!
She’s a circus act
She’s a circus act
Get over it
“Does anyone really believe this happened?”
Not for a fricking second, but there are people who will.
You cannot put your feet up on the food tray if it is in the down position. If the tray is in the up position, the person in front of you will turn around and slap you.
Eddie Murphy
White Like Me - SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LeJfn_qW0
I eat at a cajun restaurant that is popular with blacks. The white employees tell me all the time the blacks will start a loud fight over anything and everything because they know management will agree to comp their meals if they’ll just leave the premises. Notably, the fights only start after those at the table have finished their meal.
Now, let a white, Hispanic or Asian person try that and see if they get that treatment? But because the business is so afraid of the R-word and losing half their clientele, they allow this to happen and just chalk it up as the cost of business.
Not that it makes much difference, but the photo shows a foot with a sock on it. It was very rude of the woman; some people certainly don’t know how to behave in public. It might’ve been more of a male-female bias than a racial one, as to how the male passenger was treated.
I don’t see how the way the female passenger was sitting was comfortable.
LOL funny he didnt mention that he had his feet up for the offer to be given !
Newsweak will post anything. Does anyone really believe this happened?
I don’t believe it for one second. All feet matter!
I’ve been White my whole life and no one has offered me $1,000 to move my feet.
Well, don’t tell them about how the banks simply give us our fat allowance every week.
I have series doubts.
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