[American Greatness] American Airlines is under fire from the NAACP after 8 black men were removed from a flight in May following a complaint about body odor.Last month three of those passengers filed a lawsuit against American Airlines, after alleging that airline personnel removed them and the other black male passenger from a flight from California to New York. A flight attendant had complained about body odor, though none of the passengers removed were accused of being the source of that odor.
A tweet shared by Collin Rugg alleges that the men who filed that discrimination lawsuit don’t even know one another....
After American Airlines offered to book new flights for the men
[so they could get kicked off that plane, too?]
but when no other flights were available at that late hour, they were all allowed back on the plane.
In 2017, the NAACP issued a travel advisory for the airline after what it described as "disrespectful, discriminatory or unsafe conditions" when booking or boarding with the airline. American Airlines responded by creating a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) panel and the NAACP lifted the ban in 2018....
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