Melinda Maria’s Post

EIGHT Black Men removed from the plane because a white male flight attendant said they had "body odor"???  Eight random Black men, all traveling separately, all had "body odor" such that they needed to be removed from separate sections of the aircraft? WHO authorized this? The pilot? The purser? The Customer Service Supervisor? WHO? WHY do any of them still have a job? See link below.  American Airlines should be ashamed but seemingly they are not. If so, they would have quietly settled, FIRED any and ALL employees who committed and/or supported this egregious and blatant act of race discrimination in any way, and TRULY sent a message in line with what I am sure are very public declarations of zero tolerance of discrimination and racism as a company mantra. What is the response if these passengers were Jewish, LGBTQ, anything other than Black, Black men specifically? My money says, the outcome would be VERY different from the plane, to HR, to the General Counsel's office... I cannot believe that AA allowed this to hit the press. This and similar other situations prove there is an overall lack of concern about BLACK-lash. Companies are willing to roll the dice. Civil rights gains be damned!

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