Posted on 10/25/2017 2:42:04 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
The NAACP has warned African-American travelers to be careful when flying with American Airlines.
The group issued an advisory late Tuesday, saying it has noticed "a pattern of disturbing incidents reported by African-American passengers, specific to American Airlines."
It said the incidents "suggest a corporate culture of racial insensitivity and possible racial bias" and advised travelers to exercise caution. "Booking and boarding flights on American Airlines could subject them [to] disrespectful, discriminatory or unsafe conditions," the advisory said.
American Airlines spokeswoman Shannon Gilson said the company was "disappointed" to hear about the advisory and is "committed to providing a positive, safe travel experience for everyone."
"Our team members -- a diverse community of gate agents, pilots, and flight attendants -- are proud to serve customers of all backgrounds," she said.
In response to NAACP President Derrick Johnson's call for an audience with the airline's leadership, Gilson said representatives from the organization would be invited to the company's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas.
"We are committed to having a meaningful dialogue about our airline and are ready to both listen and engage," she said.
The organization described four examples in particular -- including one in which it said an African-American woman and her infant child were removed from a flight from Atlanta to New York after she asked if their stroller could be retrieved from checked baggage before she left the plane.
The NAACP didn't provide the name of the woman or say when the events it described are alleged to have taken place. American Airlines didn't comment on the specific allegations.
Johnson said the NAACP's "growing list of incidents ... involves behavior that cannot be dismissed as normal or random."
In August, the organization issued a travel advisory for Missouri, citing several discriminatory incidents in the state as reasons for individual visitors to travel with "extreme caution."
It said at the time that the Missouri advisory was the first ever issued by the organization, at the state or national level.
Let me guess. They were somehow some way “disrespected” in the paranoid pea brain minds of a few black people.
Same as the military wife was somehow disrespected by DJT when he phoned her up tp express condolences. I see a pattern of loony behavior.
Shakedown.
This would be Myeisha and La David Johnson
Make ‘em all ride on the outside of the plane until they realize that their comfort zones are less important than the safety of everyone on (and in) every flight by every airline.
This community organizing thing is starting to snowball.
Yea. . .American Airlines “disturbing behavior” is they are late on their “contributions” to these shakedown artists.
sounds like they didn’t give enough to the Justice Brothers..
Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Wait...that sounded racist.
I meant to say, it is merely a reaction to the white hegemony and years of oppression.
Yea. That's it.
Forget that first part.
The airlines these days treat everyone like cattle—looks like NAACP was just slow to notice.
I'm guessing someone didn't get the genuflection / black privledge / respect due for a finger wagging "oh no you dint!"tirade.
Whites would be beaten and jailed for what I see in airports, so don't even start with the "I got disrespected" bs. (not you, the complainer)
There you have it.
Any similar warning for Black Entertainment Television? Ebony and Jet Magazine? The Congressional Black Caucus?
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It said the incidents “suggest a corporate culture of racial insensitivity and possible racial bias” and advised travelers to exercise caution.
This may be so, but the reason is the opposite from what the NAACP assumes.
The fact is, during the Obama era (and now, thankfully, post-Obama) blacks feel entitled to more than the average citizen. This sense of entitlement causes them to be offended when being treated exactly like everyone else.
an African-American woman and her infant child were removed from a flight from Atlanta to New York after she asked if their stroller could be retrieved from checked baggage before she left the plane.
Oh well, gosh princess
Let’s just unload all checked baggage on the tarmac
You get it!!!!
99% of crazy bad black behavior is based on them thinking (due to inbred ingrained paranoia) they have been disrespected. When in reality they are being treated same as everyone else, be they Asian, white, black, green, trans, male female etc and so on.
They were probably just ‘looking for racism’......like in the Eddie Murphy routine......
Little white dude walk up and say: “This your bag?”
I said: “Yes, my _____’ bag ! Why, m___________ ? A black man can’t have a suitcase?”
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