**NO RACISM**
A 50- something year old white woman arrived at her seat on a crowded flight and immediately didn't want the seat. The seat was next to a black man. Disgusted, the woman immediately summoned the flight attendant and demanded a new seat. The woman said "I cannot sit here next to this black man." The fight attendant said "Let me see if I can find another seat." After checking, the flight attendant returned and stated "Ma'am, there are no more seats in economy, but I will check with the captain and see if there is something in first class." About 10 minutes went by and the flight attendant returned and stated "The captain has confirmed that there are no more seats in economy, but there is one in first class. It is our company policy to never move a person from economy to first class, but being that it would be some sort of scandal to force a person to sit next to an UNPLEASANT person, the captain agreed to make the switch to first class." Before the woman could say anything, the attendant gestured to the black man and said, "Therefore sir, if you would so kindly retrieve your personal items, we would like to move you to the comfort of first class as the captain doesn't want you to sit next to an unpleasant person." Passengers in the seats nearby began to applause while some gave a standing ovation.....
Another urban myth retold in many variants. My favorite version is the wealthy Gulf woman who refuses to sit next to the filipino laborer.
This is a very very old story. But I think at the time the intention was that we should not be arrogant.
No.....of course it's always white people that are the racists......interesting that I'm darker than most Arabs yet I'm classed as White.....
Angelina, that's because that NEVER happens..:P
On A Serious Note
Why will the black person complain ?
No the ridiculous story highlights the insinuation that white people are racist......Lets turn it round the other way.....What if it were a black person that complained and the white person got upgraded...My God it wouldn't last 5 mins on ANY forum or FB would it???
This story is a myth :(
yawn.
The Same Thing Over And Over Again !!!
I think i heard it happened on a BEA flight and the plane was a Dehaviland tiger moth :O)
Story has been doing the rounds in Facebook for quite some time. Was expecting it to be here too..
Can we agree that the story just highlights racism and is not intended to besmirch any particular race, colour or religion :O)
What would have happened on Kerala Air?
No, that's the point, I don't know what "white people " you are referring to, since racism was abolished since a while in most European countries.
Blosted I feel that you're commenting on my posts but aren't reading them properly.......Did I mention Americans?????
@Angelina you mean Americans? Ah well , because believe it or not , haven't seen many "white racists" around.
Mmmm I was actually commenting on the article........it is my opinion that it 'implies'.....and it does imply that white people are racist.
:-)
@Angelina I am pretty sure the OP did not mean what you just stated! So just add "In my opinion" in stead of pointing out what the "OP meant to say".
Old old news yawn yawn.......Someone has made this up to incite racial tension..It also wrongly implies that racism is only perpetrated by white people to black people. I think we all know that that is not necessarily true.......We live in an extremely racist country so go figure people!!!
Right where it hurts!!.....her wrinkly old face!
Ancient story but good.