Posted on 04/17/2016 3:10:19 PM PDT by RightGeek
Morrisville, N.C. — The president of the North Carolina NAACP was escorted off an American Airlines flight Friday night.
Rev. William Barber was returning to Raleigh from Washington, D.C., when, he says, he was removed from the flight.
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Barber said a passenger in a seat nearby was talking loudly as the plane filled up and asked the stewardess to request the passenger lower his voice. After requesting assistance from the flight attendant, Barber said he overheard the nearby passenger making "distasteful" and "disparaging" comments about him.
According to Barber's statement, the passenger said he had problems with "those people" and spoke harshly about Barber having to purchase two seats on the plane.
Barber said he stood up and turned around to address the man before the flight crew gave safety instructions but was asked to leave before the flight took off.
"As I heard these things, I became more and more uncomfortable, especially since he was behind me," Barber said. "The attitude with which he spoke, and my experiences with others who have directed similar harsh, sometimes threatening words, emails, and calls at me, came to my mind. Because he was behind me when he made the comments and because of my disability, the only way I could see him when I tried to speak to him as one human being to another was to stand and turn around." [snip]more details at the link
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should there be an "L" in the nickname?
Man, taking someone that big off the plane and they need a half mile less runway.
opppsss.... meant to have an “E”
It’s racist to expect him to act white on a plane.
At least he bought two seats. I hate being seated next to someone that wide - no matter what color they are - if they expect to overflow into my space.
Question - how could he turn around in the narrow space between the rows. I’m less than half his size, and it is a tight squeeze for me to turn around.
True confessions: I am extremely prejudiced against morbidly obese people who invade my personal space.
Those sit down inside boxes with the head exposed. Seems they had a tendency to explode unexpectedly, at least in the silent movies.
Can you imagine all the poor people who have taken food off their table to put onto his. Disgusting.
When you go through life and make a career out of being perpetually offended by anything you’re gonna find something offensive. This Michell Obama contender could have opened the passenger safety card and taken great offense for perceived racism of the paper’s color.
Disability?
That’s not a suit, it’s a tarp.
Flying is uncomfortable for even normal sized people. I can’t imagine the claustrophobic stuffiness being in that great mass.
And, I call baloney on another passenger making racist comments.
LOL.
Imagine one of him in a window seat, another in an isle seat and you were in the middle!!!!
2016 Ecumenical Advocacy Days...
“Like Moral Mondays, the service was to encourage all people of faith to petition directly those who have the power to reverse the immoral policies against the poor, the marginalized and the racially oppressed people in our society,”
More left-wing wacko Social Justice Warrior crap.
Fat man in a little coat
Frickin Pinniped...
He was probably removed because the plane was over it’s max gross takeoff weight and couldn’t get off the ground.
Luckily he doesn’t have a “service dog” to take on the plane with him because of his disability .... whoa, maybe he did but ate it!
I bet he really cleans upon Calabash fried-food buffets.
Michelle Fields is certain the other passenger almost slammed him to the ground.
If someone told him to haul ass, it would take two trips.
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