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2020-09-04 -PC Follies
'You matter to us': Delta Air Lines upgrades Black traveler harassed by white flyer': Delta Air Lines upgrades Black traveler harassed by white flyer
[USA Today] Demetria Poe is applauding Delta Air Lines for "taking a stance" against racism and discrimination after she was harassed by her seatmate during a recent flight from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C.

Poe told USA TODAY Wednesday that a white woman appeared to purposefully swap her American flag face mask for a Blue Lives Matter mask once realizing her seat assignment was next to Poe, a Black woman. Blue Lives Matter supports police officers and is a counter movement to Black Lives Matter, which aims to eradicate white supremacy and has organized nationwide protests in response to police violence against Black people.

"That woman was trying to entice me into an argument because there was no need for her to flip that mask in my presence," Poe said. "She didn’t do it for anyone else. It was as if she was making a statement and wanted me to know."
Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-04 02:39|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 Poe told USA TODAY Wednesday that a white woman appeared to.....

Desperate Delta Airlines hits WOKE alarm, jumps at the opportunity to virtue signal. Immediately upgrades whining entitlement person Dementia Poe to unsold business class seat.

Of course other more theatric explanations may also exist. You must decide.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-04 02:51||   2020-09-04 02:51|| Front Page Top

#2 a counter movement to Black Lives Matter, which aims to eradicate white supremacy lives

FIFY
Posted by Dron66046 2020-09-04 03:06||   2020-09-04 03:06|| Front Page Top

#3 African Americans are sooo sensitive.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-04 03:59||   2020-09-04 03:59|| Front Page Top

#4 When it works.
Posted by gorb 2020-09-04 04:40||   2020-09-04 04:40|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll bet it was projection from the traveller who harassed the Blue Lives Matter mask wearer.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-09-04 07:20||   2020-09-04 07:20|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Agree
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-04 07:22||   2020-09-04 07:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Didn't Delta also ban a [former] Delta Force member recently.
Posted by Clem 2020-09-04 07:38||   2020-09-04 07:38|| Front Page Top

#8 After months of race baiting, rioting, and increasing racial tensions, actual racism may well increase. But this looks like general people being silly stuff. Even if it wasn't, it was hardly "harassment".
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-09-04 08:05||   2020-09-04 08:05|| Front Page Top

#9 I imagine the airlines will be hurting for the foreseable future. Some more than others. i won't be flying Delta for one.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-09-04 13:33||   2020-09-04 13:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Move one, move both...
Posted by Sherry 2020-09-04 15:49||   2020-09-04 15:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Wonder what all the Mexicans-Americans think about all this?
Posted by Vespasian Ebbereng3110 2020-09-04 18:09||   2020-09-04 18:09|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ glad they're not "Black"
Posted by Chinetch Wittlesbach1723 2020-09-04 18:17||   2020-09-04 18:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Usually fly Southwest. You know exactly what you're getting
Posted by Frank G 2020-09-04 19:19||   2020-09-04 19:19|| Front Page Top

#14 Maybe the Blue Lives Matter chick played it perfectly--afterall she got some extra arm room and it cost her nothing.
Posted by Crusader 2020-09-04 20:18||   2020-09-04 20:18|| Front Page Top

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