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Man shuts down 'racist' woman at airport over first class dispute
A man's reaction to an apparently racist woman at a US airport apparently caused onlookers to burst into applause, and has attracted hundreds of thousands of shares online. Emmit Eclass Walker said he was approached by a woman at a Washington airport who assumed he was not a first class passenger. He believes it was due to the colour of his skin. "Excuse me, I believe you may be in the wrong place... this line is for priority boarding," she told him, according to his Facebook… (www.msn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Every seat arrives at the destination at exactly the same time. Not only was this woman rude she is just plain stupid.
holy cow!the woman had no right to speak to the man in that fashion..in any case, were he in the wrong line,the agent or flight attendant at the gate reader would have instructed him politely to wait as the boarding was "priority"..i am sure she was eating her words (or maybe her boarding pass)when the line continued and he seated himself in an assigned first class seat..!as a former gate agent for many years, I would like to add that this type of behavior occurs whether the person is black,white or green..it is a matter of someones selfish attitude of I am important and the other travelers are not..it is difficult to ignore being verbally accosted by someone, even if you are trying to choose the "high road"!!...
lucio..there is an old saying,"you cant fix stupid"...that is more than true in a lot of areas,airline passengers included!
I'm married to a woman of African descent. We met at Ramstein AB, Germany. We could always see who are American by the disapproving looks. That was 27 years ago. Even now, people are shocked I'm married to a beautiful woman of color, despite I don't often bring up race. It just seems to me since we got back Stateside, this place is very racial. As a former flight attendant, I've seen my share of gate agents judging people. I've also seen fellow FA'S and pilots judge people on appearances. When I first became a flight attendant, people automatically assumed I was gay. I was laid off from my job and saw an ad to fly for a regional airline. I'm thinking, I'm a strate white guy, they won't hire me. I was an Air Transportation Specialist in the USAF (I swore I'd never work pax services), but I got hired and enjoyed every minute of it.
Even when I worked ATOC out of RAF Mildenhall (then 313th APS)racism was there and a lot of times it wasn't intentional. I used to work with this Tech Sergeant who was black, I was just 19 year old A1C, and white aircrew would dismiss him and go to me for their load brief. Racism never went away. Despite regulations to allow people transport, we still have idiots who judge a book by the cover.
Even when I worked ATOC out of RAF Mildenhall (then 313th APS)racism was there and a lot of times it wasn't intentional. I used to work with this Tech Sergeant who was black, I was just 19 year old A1C, and white aircrew would dismiss him and go to me for their load brief. Racism never went away. Despite regulations to allow people transport, we still have idiots who judge a book by the cover.
larry..it is human nature to be judgemental about everything from clothes to hair to personality to job performance and everything in between..even the nicest and most polite of people judge,probably including you..some people are vocal about it, and some just think it and go on about their business..this is not a new concept..the f/a's,pilots and gate agents you speak about were probably the more "vocal"bunch..judging a book by its cover has been around since the dawn of time, and I doubt it will ever go away..now as you said on down the post, we should get back to discussions of all things "aviation related"!!
Good for him. He did an excellent job of shutting that cow up and showing true class in the way he did it. Thank you for putting a person like she in her place. She has probably also convinced herself that her $hit does not stink.
Whether racial or not, there’s always plenty of pompous a**holes flying in and out of Washington every day, especially DCA. I encountered plenty of them.