Posted on 12/24/2017 9:25:53 AM PST by Hojczyk
A passenger on a flight from Houston to Washington D.C. has accused United Airlines of giving her first-class seat to U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. D-Houston, and then threatening to remove her from the plane for complaining and snapping a photo of the Houston congresswoman.
"It was just so completely humiliating," said Jean-Marie Simon, a 63-year-old attorney and private school teacher who used 140,000 miles on Dec. 3 to purchase the first-class tickets to take her from Washington D.C. to Guatemala and back home.
When it came time to board the last leg of her flight home from George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Dec. 18, after a roughly hour-long weather delay, Simon said the gate attendant scanned her paper ticket and told her it was not in the system.
Did you cancel your flight?, the attendant asked.
"No," she said she replied. "I just want to go home."
Her seat, 1A, was taken, she was told. Simon was given a $500 voucher and reseated in row 11, Economy Plus.
Jackson Lee issued a statement on Saturday afternoon saying: "I asked for nothing exceptional or out of the ordinary and received nothing exceptional or out of the ordinary."
Simon said she saw Jackson Lee board the plane with a flight attendant before all of the other passengers, but did not know who she was until another passenger told her after they were seated.
Simon said Jackson Lee's statement accused her of racism, adding: "I had no idea who was in my seat when I complained at the gate that my seat had been given to someone else," she said. "There is no way you can see who is in a seat from inside the terminal."
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The difference between white privilege and black privilege is that the latter is real.
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Calling Rosa Parks..........Calling Rosa Parks........
It’s that pre-Trump elitist arrogant attitude seeping in from those who were once known as public servants.
Spit*
“....The difference between white privilege and black privilege is that the latter is real....”
Truth to that...BIG time.
And we’ve all seen and witnessed it over the years.
The worst thing is the airline lying about this
Do you want to trust your life to a company run by liars?
The article immediately following this one at FR shows 55% of white people feel discriminated against.
$500 for bumping out of first class? Not enough. Those upgrades,, especially on the day of flight, is a lot more than that.
For some silly reason, after giggling, the image of the Sheriff in Blazing Saddles came to mind;
Candy Gram for Mr. Mongo!
It is the modern day equivalent of Rosa Parks.
Let's take to the streets, O my white brothers and sisters.
*white fist in air*
p.s. This lady should sue the airline for racial discrimination.
And also that she’s a congress-critter who has more rights than the people who pay her salary.
I lost a gig because the black chick who got it was given so many extra civil service points because she was black and female. She got the full time job with full benefits, I got the part time job with no stable schedule and no benefits. She was so jncompetent that she could only work first shift when there were plenty of others to check her work. She brought in a houseplant and named it, insisting that no others touch her “baby”.
Oh yes, sir. Black privilege is REAL.
And of course Sheila cried racism.
“Jackson Lee issued a statement on Saturday afternoon saying: “I asked for nothing exceptional or out of the ordinary and received nothing exceptional or out of the ordinary.””
Yeah right! But like Black Comedian Chris Rock says: “ There are two sides, Black folks and Niggas, and Niggas have got to go!” And we all know which of these “sides” Sheila is on!
I’d love to know what conversations happened behind the scenes to result in this forced seat change. How did she even broach the subject? The absolute self-centered nerve something like that would take baffles me.
Went through similar in state gov-co.
There were plenty like the one you ran into.
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