A Black woman claims she was booted off a Southwest Airlines flight due to a racist flight attendant. A witness claimed she was not wearing a mask when she used the lavatory, but other passengers were not removed for the same offense.
Southwest Airlines Racism? Passenger Claims Southwest Threw Her Off Because She Was Black, Not Due To Mask Compliance
The incident took place on on a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Chicago last Thursday. In graphic video, the passenger is seen confronting customer service agents then addressing other passengers before leaving. As she screams at the flight attendant, her friend tries to pull her off the aircraft. But she turns to the other passengers, tells them they have just witnessed racism, then implores them to post pictures and video online.
“Who’s processing my refund? Because now I’ve got to buy another flight for no f***ing reason, so process the refund.”
She later added:
“F*** you. F*** all of you because that’s racist as f***. I don’t like racism!
“Everybody in here is gonna know whoever the f***ing flight attendant is, he was racist and he was mad for two seconds I didn’t have a mask on because I went to a restroom.
“I put a mask on. I’m sitting here in compliance, and he tells me to get off the flight. So, y’all have a good flight, but this is what happens when you’re black in America.
As her companion tried to lead her off, she said:
“No! I’m tired. I paid my money. F*** all of y’all… You’re gonna come to me with a mask covering my nose and my mouth and tell me to get off the flight because the flight attendant feels uncomfortable, because he’s white. F*** you.
“Y’all enjoy your flight. This is what happens when you’re black in America. You guys all witnessed it. For the first time, when you’re black in America they’ll tell you to get off the flight.”
Signaling that she paid more for priority boarding, she added:
“A2 and A3, I paid an extra $80 for these … I’ve gotta go to work tomorrow. Now I gotta find another flight when I had a mask on my face.”
Before leaving, she said:
“Y’all have a safe flight and I love everybody on here and God bless every person on this flight.”
It isn’t clear what occurred before filming began. The woman is clearly upset, is not wearing her mask properly (lowering it below her nose and mouth), and eventually hurls it at Southwest ground staff. She can be heard claiming she was wearing it and removed it just for a moment to use the lavatory.
However Sergio Workman, another passenger onboard who took the video above, told the UK Daily Mail:
“I felt the airline was discriminating only because they did not give her a fair chance to comply, simply resorted to removing her and her guest from the plane.
“There were no other passengers actively not wearing their masks but I did witness and hear multiple occasions where passengers were given a chance to correct their face covering versus being removed from the plane.”
Southwest has not commented on the after.
CONCLUSION
That last point is key. Not that there is any justification for screaming and cursing at anyone, but anger is certainly understandable if others are given a chance to correct their mask issues but she was not. I’d like to think flight attendants would not be so capricious as to not give passengers at least one chance to correct their face masks, but we know that does not always happen.
If you were on this flight, please comment below. What did you observe onboard?
If she took off her mask, went down the aisle and used the restroom and back up the aisle to her seat she potentially exposed far more people than someone merely sitting in a seat needing to “correct” their mask.
Grabbing my popcorn…….
I’ve gone to the bathroom on 6 flights in the past two weeks. I haven’t removed my mask to do so once. She needs to get over herself; the rules are the rules.
Agreed. But if she did not know she was doing something wrong and then began to comply after, I don’t see why she had to be removed.
I was on a flight this week and the flight attendant went down the aisle and removed each and every black person. Racism!
no, this did not happen.
@Matthew: Maybe she should call the CDC. Their guidance is very clear so she would know what to do and what not to do. CDC is fantastic.
Um, this business of screaming “racism” at every turn has to stop. For one thing, by using “racism” as a catch-all for anything that goes wrong in your life, you are in fact cheapening the very definition of the word. Secondly, it’s cynical and sleazy to claim “racism” when you get busted for doing something wrong in some attempt to get over on the authority figure who called you out.
Throw her ass off the plane for being disruptive and be done with this nonsense.
Would just like to observe that every person removed from a flight for not wearing a mask who screams “I was following the rules, what is going on?!” is always pictured with their mask pulled down below their mouth.
Very odd. Why would someone remove their mask for the lavatory. That’s a place I would want a mask, to mask off the pee smell. Not only that, but my N95 mask is tight and takes a while to put on because I have to fix my hair that gets messed up so I would always leave the mask on when possible.
This is why vaccination is important. People take of masks. People yell with their masks off, like this woman.
I heard when you are arrested by the police in a foreign country, to try to resolve the problem as early as possible because once the matter gets to Ankara, Washington, Moscow, or where the capital city is, it’s difficult to fix. As such, pleading with the crew is a tactic I would try, even shedding tears if I knew how to do it on cue. I do know a woman who knows how to do that.
Using the defense “well others are doing it” seldom works.
Not sure what else is going on but keeping a mask on isn’t that difficult and being photographed with it off doesn’t help your case.
Only a matter of time until the ‘cry wolf’ narrative destroys the already fading care anyone has for BLM…15 minutes almost up and then the rest of us can go about our lives without the entire country being hijacked by the 10%.
She sounds privileged. She wants preferential treatment or, possibly a lawyer. Lol
At this point in the pandemic given how much press and media attention masks have received, I am disinclined to believe that anyone is ignorant of when they’re supposed to be masked up. Whether they choose to do so is another discussion, but “I didn’t know” is no longer a valid excuse. For anyone.
If rules are applied differently to different ethnicities it sure looks like racism.
That is indeed the question. Did others do the same thing and were treated differently? Was she given any warning or just thrown off?
@Matthew, Now that its a federal law. Ignorance of law is not without consequences.
Every airline (except NK and F9) Needs to raise all fares by $100 each way. Also all rooms on the Vegas Strip need to charge minimum $125/nt. That’s how this stuff stops.
I do feel bad for her that she is a victim of extreme mask policies that should not be enforced. However, it is hard to have sympathy when blacks make false racial claims. Every group has been a victim of draconian mask enforcement (even 2 year old disabled children). It is worth pointing out that blacks are 13% of the population and commit 52% of violent crimes. When one groups breeds love rap culture and causes a disproportionate amount of commotion in every situation, circumstances, and neighborhood they are in, how can rational white people not be put off. How can rational white people not be furious that our lives are made worse by one group.
@Blackhill
Masks are NOT a federal law. Congress never passed anything. The president CANNOT make a law. It is a regulation. Big difference
It’s understandable she’d remove it while in the bathroom and be reapply it after having left out. Consider the fact you have to wipe your ass ladies and gentlemen. So I’m not touching my mask or face with pissy hands. So after washing her hands and turning in that tight space to exit, you begin to reapply the mask. I don’t know about anyone else but I look for any relief from being behind that stuffy mask. So if it’s 2 minutes in the bathroom, I’ll take it. So very much possible.
@Jackson Waterson – you are a cuck with undescended testicles and little baby-sized hands…that’s about as on-topic as your always-racist posts. Stay Proud, Boy.
Yes! if something negative happens to you and you are black it is immediately due to racism, I mean how could it possibly be just because you are an ignorant fool or an actual criminal. The crime stats are facts as you point out (and I’m not talking about drug crimes) – one stat nobody seem to care about in all this racist police BS is that 90% of blacks killed by police are killed by black officers and it’s almost exactly the same for whites who are killed by police. Where is the disparity that points to it being a race issue as opposed to who is committing more of the violent crimes. Also, if you are black and the victim of a violent crime there is only a 10% chance the offender was of a different race whereas if you are white and the victim of a violent crime it 20% that the offender was another race…these are facts on the DOJ website. Where is the discussion on this topic? Yeah, let’s get rid of the police and all get bent out of shape someone who isn’t white is told to put on a mask. They will destroy their own movement and forget they a fraction of a population that is going to get sick of this as soon as the pandemic is over and everyone can worry about their own lives mattering.
Southwest kicked off one of our group for same reason. He had to get a hotel for the night, miss 2 appointments the next day. He is white. Apparently southwest very strict about compliance.
Honestly the rise of racism news is alarming.
UA-TDS, as usual, cannot refute the facts about race and crime in the US but has plenty of insults to hurl. Remember, UA-TDS is what a(n anti-racist) feminist looks like.
Jen – yes it is and the end result will be a return to real racism in this country because 90% of the population will be so sick of it. Something else that doesn’t get talked about is the 20% hispanic portion of the US which is far more racist than US whites (I don’t mean that to be negative on that portion of the population, if everyone is allowed to say all whites are racist, why can’t other groups be). You only need to look at the comments mexican politicans make which are far worse than anything Trump actually said. BLM will have then end result of everyone turning against them except hollywood or any group that can make money off them. In fact, even thier own leaders of socialists and marxists use the movement to make money and have absolutely no idea of what their political affiliations mean. Their leadership is so much worse than even Trump at his worst. Hand = overplayed.
One only needs to look at videos of racist attacks on Asians in New York to verify that black racism exists. Deal with the truth.
The airlines have rules, they announce them on their websites, at the airport podium, it’s on their ads, airline staff announce them on their safety demonstrations live or on video in aircraft, and it’s in English and that country specific language. What’s the problem?
When all else fails, pull out the racism card
@cargocult – says a lot about you that you immediately leap to the racist white nationalist’s defense. Keep living that incel life!
@UA-TDS
While Jackson Waterson may espouse views some (including myself) might consider “racist,” can you refute that Black folx commit homicides at a massively disproportionate rate? Do you dispute that black folx comprise about 13% of the US population? Do you dispute the Bureau of Justice statistics that say black folx committed 52.5% of the recorded homicides from 1980-2008? Is it racist to bring up such facts? We can debate why black folx kill at such a higher rate than white folx, but are the numbers themselves in dispute?
Jackson Waterson seems to be someone who cares about protecting individual rights against the state. Black folx would be among the prime beneficiaries of a reduction in government coercion as it is the misguided Democratic policies like the Great Society that have helped create and perpetuate a black underclass. Trillions of dollars have been spend to combat poverty, but to what end? Take a lesson from Communist China, my collectivist comrade, and see what can happen when the state gets out of the way of the citizen. Millions decried the knee of Officer Chauvin on George Floyd’s back, but what of the knee of the state suffocating all black folx? State coercion is literal violence of white supremacy.
Illogical. If she removed her mask in the bathroom, how would the flight attendant even know that. I suspect there is more to the story than the passenger is sharing.
I believe she removed it at her seat (first row) then walked to the lavatory with it off.
@cargocult – your continued infantile, dismissive, and downright pejorative use of “black folx” shows your own racial bias. You think you are being clever but are really just a slightly more educated version of the racist Jackson Waterson. “Black” or “African-Americans” works just fine.
Yet again, UA-TDS cannot refute the content of a post so he makes things personal. I decry racism and white supremacist state oppression but he continues to enact literal violence against me. Why does he object to “folx?” Is he not an ally?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folx
Black != African-American
“Negro” and “colored” worked just fine until around the time of civil unrest in the 1960s. Thank God LBJ and the Democrats solved that with the Great Society and the War on Poverty.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/05/opinion/the-game-of-the-name.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204369404577207252177326914
https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/08/colored-person-versus-person-of-color-how-does-society-decide-which-racial-terms-are-acceptable.html
Read some books. Do the work.
How about those crime statistics, Comrade Box Jumper? Jump off that box and get on the euphemism treadmill.