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'You matter to us': Delta Air Lines upgrades Black traveler harassed by white flyer': Delta Air Lines upgrades Black traveler harassed by white flyer
2020-09-04
[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

#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  

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

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

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

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

#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  

#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  

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

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

#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  

#4  When it works.
Posted by: gorb   2020-09-04 04:40  

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

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

FIFY
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-09-04 03:06  

#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  

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