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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“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.”
Was he a dwarf too with his feet on the tray?
“You folks do not realize to what extremes blacks will go to beat the system. They will cheat,lie,steal you name it and there is nothing they wont do or try.”
Perpetual chip on shoulder.
If she was a Muslim trying to bathe her tootsies that would be ok
It wouldn’t be “white privilege,” but “shorty privilege.” At 6’4”, there’s no way I could ever get my feet atop one of those seat trays in one of those sardine-space compartments. It’s just not fair!!!!
So why didn’t he take off his shoes and put his feet on his tray?
No way that happened with any airline. Those flight attendants would sooner toss you out of the plane with no parachute than ‘ask
‘ you to follow their instructions, much less give you money to do so. It’s like a flying prison camp.
I once watched a woman change her baby’s poop-filled diaper on an airline tray. Maybe I should have demanded $1000.
No way it happened. Since 9/11, you do what the flight crew tells you, or leave in handcuffs.
Newsweak will post anything. Does anyone really believe this happened?
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Sort of like a tree falling in the forest. Does it make a sound?
Yep
FAKE STORY ... of a WHITE FEMALE CONTORTIONIST exercising her white privilege. I agree with the earlier poster who said it sounded like an Onion article.
You don’t get the racial payoff if you don’t at least attempt the racial shakedown. Just ask the “Rev.” Jesse Jackson.
Just the facts!
He is implying white women put their feet up on their food trays? That’s racist!!!
Thanks BBell. Give the lying a-hole a free flight, but have the plane land without him. Call it Reparations Express.
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