[freedumb2003]

Oh this was a surprise.

It was just a question of time before someone played the Race card.

No business that wants to survive anywhere discriminates based on race. That is just bad for business.

[onyx]

It had NOTHING to do with her race, but she knows that.

[nonliberal]

Warm Spirit Inc. beauty and wellness company...Thompson weighed between 300 and 330 pounds.

Dare I even comment on the irony here?

[Michael Goldsberry]

Will she fit into the witness chair?

[Coop]

Yes, it's the color of her skin that causes the plane to tilt to one side.

Next time they should make her fly as cargo. On a 747, just to be safe.

[D.P.Roberts]

So she's fat because she's black?

[FostersExport]

“Southwest just asked me to get off the plane either because I’m too fat or too black or just a woman,”

That would be the first option. Eat less cake.

[mattdono]

Hey, eh, lady...SHUT UP!

[AZRepublican]

oh hell, why not call it racial bias just to humor the hate of the NAACP. Why not let blacks call it racial dicrimination whenever a black is at a end of a line at McDonalds. Maybe if we humor them they will shut up.

[IamConservative]

If the junk fit, you must aquit!

[Publius6961]

An African-American woman claims Southwest Airlines unfairly subjected her to its policy requiring large passengers to buy two seats because of her race, a lawyer said yesterday at the start of her federal trial against the airline.

Unfairly?
Unless she has gone on a crash diet, she either a blimpo --- or she's not.

This should be a short trial.

[montag813]

I am so sick and tired of "race". Of whining Blacks. I wish they would just shut the hell up already, and live their lives like everyobody else. It's not easy for anybody. But whites can't run around claiming racism if we're fat as a house and don't want to be reminded of it. This woman is a disgrace as an American.

[Publius6961]

...saying the company doesn’t uniformly enforce its policy requiring obese passengers to buy two seats.

Unless she or her attorney were observing the check-in counter for months, how would she know that?

[son of caesar]

one last note, why did she get on the BACK of the airplane? doesnt she believe in her own civil rights?

[Preachin']

"Thompson, who got a refund, said she was humiliated and suffered emotional distress. “Southwest just asked me to get off the plane either because I’m too fat or too black or just a woman,” she said to people as she was being led to the ticket counter, according to court records."

Lawyers..... uggggh.

[AmericanDave]

Airlines need to standardize and Post their seat policies, just like the "no trespassing" signs. You have to post in order to shoot.

I sat two seats over from a large passenger once, it was a domino effect; the guy in the middle was squeezed over to my seat, so I leaned toward the window the whole flight! He REALY should have complained....

[Labyrinthos]

At the time, the 5-foot-8-inch Thompson weighed between 300 and 330 pounds... depending upon what she ate for breakfast.

[auboy]

Nadine really only weighs 125 pounds. It's that inner child that's the problem.

[Publius6961]

Not long after she took a seat in the back of the plane, put the arm rest down and buckled her seat belt, an employee she saw at ...

Put the arm rest down?
Have we got the wrong preposition going here?

[Diddle E. Squat]