The Dallas Morning News notes that the warning comes just a week after a black Women's March activist got into a dispute with American Airlines staff about a changed seat assignment, one of the four incidents cited by the NAACP as evidence of a "corporate culture of racial insensitivity." The feminist, Tamika Mallory, alleges that not only was race a factor but sexism played a role too. The NY Daily News provides more details on Mallory's allegations:
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“Only reason this pilot got involved was to assert his white male power over who he thought was just some uppity black girl. That’s it,” she wrote later that afternoon.
Mallory’s tweets drew criticism from some of her followers, with one person responding, “Is there a video of this yet? I’m dying to see what happened in reality vs. in Tamika’s head.” Another twitterer asked for more backstory, saying, “Pretty sure there is more to this story than ‘white male aggression.'”
“I get kicked off a flight for #FlyingWhileBlack, then am told I probably deserved it, or I must be lying. Because not one trusts black women,” Mallory responded to her detractors. “Doesn’t matter how much we do and how hard we fight, white men are allowed to treat black women like ####.”
Mallory, a co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, was traveling home to New York when the pilot followed her to scold her over an argument she had with a gate agent.
He then had her summoned from her seat and kicked off the flight, she told the Daily News.
“It definitely was white male aggression. I was singled out, I was disrespected, and he was trying to intimidate me. I was discriminated against,” she said. ...
He then had her summoned from her seat and kicked off the flight, she told the Daily News.
“It definitely was white male aggression. I was singled out, I was disrespected, and he was trying to intimidate me. I was discriminated against,” she said. ...
NAACP Warns Black Passengers About Flying With American Airlines
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http://heavy.com/news/2017/10/tamika-mallory-womens-march-american-airlines/
“Only reason this pilot got involved was to assert his white male power over who he thought was just some uppity black girl. That’s it,” she wrote later that afternoon.
Mallory’s tweets drew criticism from some of her followers, with one person responding, “Is there a video of this yet? I’m dying to see what happened in reality vs. in Tamika’s head.” Another twitterer asked for more backstory, saying, “Pretty sure there is more to this story than ‘white male aggression.'”
“I get kicked off a flight for #FlyingWhileBlack, then am told I probably deserved it, or I must be lying. Because not one trusts black women,” Mallory responded to her detractors. “Doesn’t matter how much we do and how hard we fight, white men are allowed to treat black women like ####.”