Posted on 10/17/2017 1:59:04 PM PDT by markomalley
A key Women's March organizer claimed Sunday that she had been kicked off an American Airlines flight earlier in the day and blamed "white male aggression" for the incident.
Tamika Mallory said in a Facebook Live video that, before a flight from Miami to New York, she used a kiosk to change her seat assignment from a middle seat to an aisle seat, the Washington Post reported. But when Mallory went to board, she was told the aisle seat was now taken and she would have to take the middle seat.
The gate agent laughed off Mallory's concerns, according to Mallory, saying that she did not pay for an upgrade and someone else probably just booked the seat before her.
But the national co-chair of the Women's March movement said in her Facebook video that she demanded an apology from the agent, who was also a black woman.
"The issue is not even about the seat. The issue is about the way in which you are speaking to me," Mallory said she told the gate agent.
The pilot, a white man, overheard the conversation and came out to defend his coworker.
"The first words that came out of the pilot's mouth … and this is the part that it just really hurts me … was, ‘Respect goes both ways,'" Mallory said. "And he said, ‘She told you she had nothing to do with your ticket and you had issue with that. What's your problem?'"
Mallory said she threatened to file a complaint.
"You're going to get yourself a one-way ticket off of this plane," he warned, according to Mallory.
Sure enough, when Mallory finally boarded the plane, there was an announcement asking her to come to the front of the plane. The pilot pointed to her and said he wanted her off his plane.
"It definitely was white male aggression. I was singled out, I was disrespected, and he was trying to intimidate me. I was discriminated against," Mallory later told the New York Daily News.
She also tweeted about the incident, writing, "Doesn't matter how much we do and how hard we fight, white men are allowed to treat black women like shit."
American Airlines says it is looking into the allegation.
"We take these allegations seriously, and we have spoken to all involved, including Ms. Mallory," airline spokesman Ross Feinstein said. "Due to an error with a seat change request, Ms. Mallory was informed her requested seat was not available and she was given her original, pre-reserved seat. Our team members apologized for the error and attempted to de-escalate the situation. Ms. Mallory was rebooked on the next flight to New York's LaGuardia airport."
Another American Airlines spokesman, Joshua Freed, told the Daily News that "our team does not tolerate discrimination of any kind."
White men treat black women like sh!t but that is MUCH better than the war black men treat black women.
Women’s march coordinator - you mean the one that didn’t get deported.
White male aggression.
Does that mean she would have outranked anyone who wasn’t a white male?
I don't think that's true. Prove it with valid examples, because this 76 year old has never seen that. I've lived in many areas and never encountered that problem. Being "treated like $--t" is really bad. Maybe, decades ago, black persons were treated badly by some whites, but women alone?
Geez a white pilot stands up for a black female employee being hassled by a byotch on wheels and then saves the rest of his passengers and crew from the risk of traveling with a tantrum-throwing possible mental case
Ding ding ding
Man of the Year!
Maybe it was black female uppitiness.
The unlearned moral of the story...
Act like as ass, get treated accordingly.
This white man defended his black female co-worker from a tantrum throwing byotch on wheels
Then tossed her axx off his plane when she wouldnt drop the drama
Ima bet he’s former military
Sounds like an insufferable beesting, no matter what color her skin is.
The kiosk probably knew she was a black female and decided to discriminate against her. She should sue.
“Act like as ass, get treated accordingly.”
If I changed my seat, it was confirmed, but when I got to the plane they told me they gave my aisle seat to someone else, I would think that they just figured they could tell me to FOAD so they gave it to somebody they knew or somebody they were flirting with.
I would further think that they shouldn’t do that.
Could be that she became angry in response to their misconduct and bad attitude.
sounds to me more like colorism allows her to insult everyone and be disruptive because she’s so special, don’tcha know
Oh shut up, D’shinah, you know you’re full of cr@p.
The pilot has final say on who can and cannot remain on the airplane. Part of his job is to protect the rest of the passengers from combative beyotches like you.
Shut up.
Grow up.
I would blame this situation on a bad computer software routine. It allowed a double booking on the same seat. White Male Aggression should have been the War of the Machines.
“and this is the part that it just really hurts me … was, ‘Respect goes both ways”
I can’t even fathom how her twisted mind works.
white male aggression, doing the job minorities refuse to do.
“I would blame this situation on a bad computer software routine.”
A reasonable theory. I didn’t realize that could happen.
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