Passengers File Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against American Airlines

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

While racial tensions are high in the U.S. and other parts of the world, we shouldn’t stand quiet when we see wrongdoing. Recently, four passengers on board an American Airlines flight seem to have had the same beliefs when they saw a black man being discriminated against.

Elgin Banks, a black man from Arizona, was on a May 31 American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Phoenix when he was allegedly racially discriminated against while trying to change his seat. Banks, along with four other passengers that witnessed the incident, have filed a joint racial discrimination lawsuit against the airline.

The suit states that Banks “politely requested if the flight was full and if he could change seats if open seats were available.” In response, Banks was told he could move to a different seat after the boarding process was completed.

After boarding was complete, several white passengers were allowed to switch seats. When Banks flagged down a white flight attendant asking to sit closer to the front of the plane, the flight attendant allegedly went into defensive mode.

"The flight attendant replied, 'Sir, step back,' in an aggressive and rudely intimidating tone," the suit reads. "Elgin replied, 'okay ma'am, all I was asking is if I could get a seat closer to the front.'"

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/passengers-file-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-against-american-airlines/ar-BB15NqVI?li=BBnb7Kz

Read the whole article at the link. It gets worse.

[CatWoman]

1. this has been a long time coming

I've heard several complaints from blacks about AA

[Phoenix61]

2. AA has a crap reputation and this isn't going to

help. You’d think with fewer people flying they’d be making an effort to not run off the customers they do have. Nice that his fellow passengers stood up for him.

[BComplex]

3. Most white people are as decent as the rest of the country.

There are just some assholes that think their whiteness is somehow more special than other things about themselves.

The majority of white people are sick and tired of the assholes getting away with being assholes. It's wrong. It's ugly.

We don't want that kind of country. We care about our friends and family, neighbors and co-workers, who are all the colors of the rainbow. A rainbow that we are a part of. We don't want them treated like shit. You treat them like shit, you're treating all of us like shit. They are part of us, and we are part of them.

We're not going to take it anymore.

[MagickMuffin]

4. So the airlines is going to let them go thru with the lawsuit

because they have a bevy of attorneys at their disposal.

We have video. See you in court.