NC NAACP president removed from flight to RDU

[KamaAina]

http://abc11.com/1294714/

North Carolina NAACP President William Barber tells ABC11 he was removed from a flight in Washington D.C. Friday night and that there are concerns as to why he was asked to de-board the plane....

In a statement released Saturday evening, Barber said he was tired as he boarded the plane and had sat down in the two seats he purchased due to a bone fusion arthritic disability.

He said he requested a flight attendant to ask a man sitting behind him to not speak so loudly.

"But as she left, I heard him saying distasteful and disparaging things about me," he said in the statement. "He had problems with "those people" and he spoke harshly about my need for "two seats," among other subjects."

First of all, the airline needs to accommodate his disability, not make him pay for two seats. Second of all, Jebus H. Christ on a trailer hitch!

[greymouse]

1. there was another article this morning

An Iraqi-American college student speaking in Arabic on a cell phone to his uncle was tossed off a Southwest plane and interrogated. Some idiot woman had complained he was using terrorist words. Like she speaks Arabic, I'm sure.

[KamaAina]

4. All he said was "Inshallah". "God willing".

Apparently you have to go to Yale to learn even that much Arabic.

http://www.dailycal.org/2016/04/14/uc-berkeley-student-questioned-refused-service-speaking-arabic-flight/

Got fascism?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. why does your post remind me of an Xi corn-field?

Spoiled brats grow up to be sociopaths, if they become world leaders: How about a three-headed gopher code?

[gwheezie]

2. Barber is such a lovely man

You'd have to be some kind of special moron to complain about a disabled person, or anyone for that matter on public transport. Why wasn't the big mouth bully put off the plane?

[2naSalit]

3. 3 guesses...nt

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. That airline and other passenger sould not have done that crap!

[poo, poo pee, pee code for Xi and China, all day long as I crap on their real code in DU]

[mmonk]

7. The man involved was on tv this morning.

He said he was upset Barber asked the flight attendant to tell him and another passenger not to be so loud instead of telling him himself. He said he would like to apologize to him. He said what he meant by those people were people that get flight attendants to say something to other passengers.

[dembotoz]

8. only because his victim is famous and this guy looks like an ass

[mmonk]

9. I am a Moral Monday member. Just mentioning things

as they develop. The NC GOP comments to the whole incident were repugnant. It's hard for me to believe they are human.

[KamaAina]

10. "He said what he meant by those people were people that get flight attendants to say something..."

What was Rick "Blah people" Santorum doing on a flight to NC?

[mmonk]

11. I'm in Rev. Barber's corner.

Just reporting what was on tv.