Posted on 12/26/2017 5:51:12 PM PST by Liz
Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee said she was targeted by a passenger accusing her of taking her first-class seat “because I was an African American woman”.....the airline said she was not given the seat because she is a congresswoman.
Passenger Jean-Marie Simon accused the airline of giving up her first-class seat on a flight earlier this month from Houston to Washington, D.C., to Jackson Lee, a Democrat, in a report in the Houston Chronicle. “I am disappointed in having to respond to this accusation, but I believe transparency is very important,” Jackson Lee said in a statement posted to her Twitter account on Tuesday.
The longtime Democrat lawmaker said she received her boarding pass for her flight on Dec. 18 and “boarded the plane in the normal process.”
“I did nothing wrong. I asked for nothing exceptional or out of the ordinary and received nothing exceptional or out of the ordinary,” she said. “I proceeded to take my seat and work on legislative issues on my way to Washington.”
She said she then observed a “disruption” from someone walking back and forth in the cabin of the plane. That woman was speaking with a black woman flight attendant, she said. A gate agent went to speak with the passenger before the flight took off, she added.
Jackson Lee said the person “came toward me and took a picture” and that she heard the woman might have said 'I know who she is.'"
“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,” she said.
“This saddens me, especially at this time of year given all of the things we have to work on to help people.” A United Airlines representative told NBC News that Jackson Lee was not given preferential treatment because she is a member of Congress.
The passenger, whose flight was already delayed, canceled her flight using the United app, the representative said. When she arrived at the ticket counter, she had a paper ticket from when she had checked in but that was no longer valid because she canceled her flight, the representative said.
Jackson Lee has global services status with the airline and was given an upgrade, which is common for when there is an open first class seat, the representative said.
She said Jackson Lee’s statement accused her of racism. "I had no idea who was in my seat when I complained at the gate that my seat had been given to someone else.” She said an airline resolution manager called her and personally apologized on Saturday morning, but she wants a formal, written apology from the company.
Prolly on the phone to the terminal .. you gotta be f'n kidding me !
Just guessing based on demographic: The displaced “racist” passenger likely is a Democrat. Bwahahahaha!
Our rulers don’t seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. They don’t understand that white people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them.
They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, the reflexive animosity.
The elites explain everything with “racism,” and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point.
https://www.amren.com/news/2014/09/ten-percent-is-not-enough/
a stupider version of Maxine Waters if that’s, possible
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=112125
Voters of Texas please send this arrogant, witch home.
We, the people, need to cut these govt ***holes down to size.
Not just the despicable Sheila J/L....but the whole frickin cartload of the SOB’s.
Cut their office budgets....cut their staff size....cut off their perks and privileges....etc etc etc.
In Congress, they lead lives of leisure, their every whim financed by our tax dollars Like their lords or kings in a monarchy.......helping themselves to the tax dollars they extort from the citizenry.
They treat as peons.
This has got to stop.
United Airlines Customer Service: 1 800-864-8331
“do not collect $200.00”
I think the airline gave the displaced passenger a $500 travel voucher.
Sheila Jackson Lee is a total idiot. But a ComDem special person.
But not playing with a full deck otherwise...
“Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee said she was targeted by a passenger accusing her of taking her first-class seat “because I was an African American woman”
Yeah, it was because of that...not because you are a wretched piece of filthy DNA.
Thanks
All travelers beware ,Sheila will steal your seat
Actually, I suppose it was :-(
You obviously can't understand this cruel fact of life due to your white privilege. I suggest you acknowledge your privilege and put yourself in her mocassins.
Let the POC enjoy the white man's airplane without being oppressed. She can sit anywhere she wants because slavery.
In that pic she looks like some Marriott bedmaker. I would’ve asked for ID when she presented her ticket to me for boarding.
She’s nauseating
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