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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I wonder if the plane flies tilted to one side with him onboard.
It’s happened to me too. And I might call them “those people,” not because they were black but because they belonged to some identifiable group. The rich - okay let’s get real - were always trying to assist and strengthen the concubinage and line up a WV for this decadent old man. and had briy huge = quanities of everything,
Probably. I have seen him and am amazed that he could walk down the aisle, let alone squeeze into a seat or two.
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