Originally Posted by
jDSTJD
What?? How did anything I said make me a black apologist? I don’t even know what that means. If you actually read what I said you will see that most of what I said was in agreement that the behavior of a lot of the people in these stories is redicilous and I do not support the claims of racism. Or that’s what I thought I wa saying. I don’t remember at this point. But in any event, all I’m trying to say is that regardless of the stories that are repeatedly on the news highlighting these racism claims when black people have these encounters people with sense should be able to decipher between that garbage and the reality of what happens everyday on flights across the country which is that the vast majority of the time blacks people aren’t acting any more belligerent than anyone else but it is these incidents that make the news because of the racism component which is intended to have the clear effect it is having on people like you. I just think you should not let yourself get as ****ed as you are about it. I also don’t think your post changing the title of the thread was necessary since the article clearly showed that it was some other person making the claim, Tamars Sister, not even her or the articles author! But whatever. The last thing I want or need is to have an argument online with an anonymous person whom I will never meet. I just hope that your animous toward blacks based on you being so “sick of us” doesn’t carry out into your treatment of us in public when you’re flying and interacting with the public.
Save your energy. I went about 7 pages on here awhile back just trying to explain that despite the fact we just had a Black President and "technically" we all have equal opportunities, that oftentimes Black folks are still struggling to make fair equal headway in this country due to systemic biases that have been in place for years. You will never convince someone who does not want to be convinced regardless of you insisting and knowing for an absolute personal fact that we have these types of issues in this country.
Based in this video, he was extremely condescending and I may talk to a child like that, but certainly not an adult. To be fair, he probably would have spoken like that to anyone, Black or White. It was condescending and if she was triggered to believe that race was involved the dynamic of White man in power vs. Black female and the historical context of that should be considered. Had someone spoken to my wife or daughter like that we would have a problem (granted we don't know what transpired and my family knows how to act in public).
And a little more context, I'm Black and a Captain for a major airline...save your time and energy...Fox news is STRONG in the cockpit of most airliners!