Posted on 12/26/2017 10:40:56 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who was accused by a United Airlines passenger of bumping her from a first-class seat, said in a Twitter screed on Tuesday that she believes the incident is all about race.
“Since this was not any fault of mine, the way the individual continued to act appeared to be, upon reflection, because I was an African American woman, seemingly an easy target along with the African American flight attendant who was very, very nice,” the Texas Democrat wrote in a post. “This saddens me, especially at this time of year given all of the things we have to work on to help people.”
“But in the spirit of this season and out of the sincerity of my heart, if it is perceived that I had anything to do with this, I am kind enough to simply say sorry,” Jackson Lee continued. “But as an African American, I know there are too many examples like this all over the nation.”
Jean-Marie Simon, 63, said she was tossed out of her first-class seat on a Houston-to-Washington, DC, flight Dec. 18 to make way for Jackson Lee.
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A white person would reimburse the lady for her ticket. Guess they don’t treat people like that in the hood.
Harambe was framed!
See post #38.
See post #38.
This is what I was trying to tell people. Thank you for posting the link.
Well now, ain't you the gracious hoe.... YOU are nothing more then a festering pustule on the backside of humanity...
I think maybe it could be really difficult to see the world as it truly is when your forced to look at it through you butt hole...
SJL...Member of Congress using word RACE???
HUSSEIN O. trained his liberal followers well in using the word, RACE, RACISM..that is their talking point each day..Nothing new..
This is all we will hear the entire year of 2018...sick of it already.
Using NBC as a serious and honest source?
YEAH, RIGHT!
"An airline spokeswoman said Monday that its internal systems show the passenger, Jean-Marie Simon, canceled her Dec. 18 seat from Houston to Washington, D.C. after a weather delay."
United apologizes to passenger who says US Rep got her seat
"An airline spokeswoman said Monday that its internal systems show the passenger, Jean-Marie Simon, canceled her Dec. 18 seat from Houston to Washington, D.C. after a weather delay."
"An airline spokeswoman said Monday that its internal systems show the passenger, Jean-Marie Simon, canceled her Dec. 18 seat from Houston to Washington, D.C. after a weather delay."
DC Woman Says United Gave Her First-Class Seat to a Congresswoman
" ean-Marie Simon said flight attendants said her first-class seat was not available when she showed up at boarding at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) on Dec. 18, according to the Houston Chronicle. They told her that her ticket had been “unreserved” and her seat had already been given away to another passenger, even though Simon was already in possession of a boarding pass for seat 1A on the flight.
[T]he second agent told me that perhaps I had cancelled my own reservation. I said that was impossible: I had a boarding ticket in hand and I just wanted to get home
United Airlines said Simon was bumped to economy because she canceled her flight using the airline’s mobile app, and showed a Chronicle reporter a screenshot of an internal United system that appeared to back up the airline’s claims,"
Passenger Denies United Airlines Apologized for Giving Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Her Seat
"The airline claimed that its internal systems show that Simon canceled her Houston to D.C. flight December 18 due to a weather delay."
See post #50.
Not as odd as cancelling the Houston-DC leg of your Guatemala-DC flight in Houston so you will be stranded in Texas.
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