Plane aint got nothing to do with it. Plane isnt racist, except for mabye being designed with the subpar leg length in mind. Machine just sits there and gets used.
@@FischerNilsA "I agree that something stank on that plane, but..." "Plane aint got nothing to do with it. " True, but... confusingly irrelevant. The comment was "...on the plane...", not about the plane itself.
"body odor" is an INCREDIBLY common code for "race". As a cherokee I've had a number of white employers use it as a reason for firing me, despite the fact i shower nightly and apply deodorant and cologne before leaving my home. When i explain this, I'm told "well u must not be using enough" or "well then use a different scent". But it never matters, i always get fired anyway. (Racial prejudice against cherokees is common due to the false belief that we get a UBI, and the fact our tribe has socialized healthcare that non-tribal citizens don't get access to) Employers use "body odor" as way of terminating people with different ethnicities, religious beliefs, or political beliefs than them, because it cant be proven or disproven in a court of law.
I am a Canadian Chinese person but could pass for a Native American under the right circumstances, and those circumstances did occur once when a Native friend of mine gave me a hat with a well known symbol in relation to his people... When I wore that hat it was actually amazing how fast the racism against me ramped up. I've never experienced anything like it tbh and don't doubt your story for one second after I've sort of walked in your shoes.
@@dennisyoung4631 that would make sense. Many eugenicists or eugenics adherents are biased against disabled people just as much as they are against minorities.
And just the other day we saw that video of that young ladies father assaulting a black superintendent, just because he was gonna shake her hand at her graduation. No Charlie Kirk, racism is not a thing of the past.
A racist, and employees who are desperate to keep their jobs because they could get fired and blacklisted if they refuse it. This country is in the shitter and things like this are going to keep happening so long as inflation is high and people are living paycheck to paycheck.
Sorry I disagree. I've worked in such environments, I'm sympathetic to coworkers that comply out of necessity. I didn't need to comply & knew just enough to be a pain in managements/corps as* & hold on to my benefits until I was to ready to resign. Idk might of been the multiple grievances/complaints I filled & the use of choice wording "hostile environment" "unjustified scrutiny" & the fact that I was awarded multiple "outstanding service/metrics" awards, "Leadership" award which I found to be f* hilarious bcs I thought management were moron's (w/exception of my Supe, serious luv/respect for her. Stuck around longer than I should've bcs of her
I agree! But... the airline employees agreeing with the victims might be the ones fired. At least in my similar-ish case, I was laid off. I don't think counting on American Airlines doing the right thing is a good strategy. (Again, I don't disagree.)
What? They had a flight attendant who had a problem with race, the other staff knew it at the time, and instead of dealing with him they catered to his racism and kicked the black men off of his plane?! I ... have no words.
@@blackhercules1753no imagine how many black people go through this but it’s covered up or there is no clear evidence of it. Racism never died but if a blacks person brings it up every gets mad.
I keep trying to convince white people that I'm not paranoid when I have to be careful going into stores, dealing with the cops or just being outside doing anything. Thank you Sam, Emma and crew for UNDERSTANDING this is real. LOVE YOU GUYS for understanding and reporting.
No, you’re most definitely *NOT* paranoid. I’d say you’re just being *justifiably cautious.* Being born disfigured and disabled, especially with *certain* disabilities, can lead to something that resembles “social phobia” - as well as wondering just *who* is going to try (assault, harass, abuse, bully, etc.) for you next. This also includes police. The sole benefit accruing from not being a person of color then is that one can “hide in plain sight” providing one *works* hard at it - keep moving, don’t attract any kind of attention, never argue, presume everyone has it in for you, and try to merge with the scenery as much as you can.
you go around rich white people. us poor whites have the same experience. they see a long haired white boy and they lose their minds because I'm not validating their worldview.
You don't have to convince this old white woman. This was more than obvious and absolutely heartbreaking. Why is this country going backwards in so many ways? Aggression is at an all time high.
Depends on the flight. When I flew Atlanta to LA there were definitely more than eight. However, if definitely sounds like it was probably all on this particular flight.
@@sandpiperr "Thats like 100% of the black man on a single flight." "Depends on the flight." Well, from a general passenger-averages standpoint, sure, totally correct. in this specific case, though, @Kingnome's comment could've been phrased a bit better... say "...of the black men on *that* flight", instead of "a flight". However, the Public Citizen attorney did explicitly state (at about the 2:30 mark) that the attendant picked out every black man on the flight.
The story on CBS Texas YT channel is stunning in how many people are commenting and the likes they are getting tearing down the black passengers, denying the story, claiming they smelled like weed, that they had too much cologne, basically going out of there way to deny any possibility that racism was involved while also often being racist themselves. Wow.
Actually they are. They (literal chidern) put out a video that encouraged solidarity with students and minorities in 'Merica. They're far better people than you @@DeLaCruz878.
@@DeLaCruz878 You're comparing two inequivalent things. Most people know that there is an ongoing genocide in Gaza but that doesn't mean there are not other issues going on around the world that need to be pointed out and condemned.
They’ll be fired. I’m sure they’ll fudge some fake performance evaluations to make it seem like their firings are legit. But the reality is that they will identify and fire those people, and know that only x number of them will actually sue them for discrimination, and even fewer will actually win.
Uh... Why? Bless them because they knew what they were doing was wrong and still did it? Make that make sense. All they did was agree that what they were doing was discrimination... why are we praising them? If I go attack someone and tell them I did it because of their skin....I should be praised? For being honest or what? What?
@LoyalToTheMicrobes They were speaking their conscience in the face of blatant discrimination and likely knew they were risking their jobs, which is admirable. It will also likely make the lawsuit/settlement much easier for these men so they can be recompensed justly and move on with their lives. I hope that at least makes more sense if it doesn't convince you (which is ok too).
@@t.tenney3470It's never too late. If you're older, lot of countries have retirement visas that you don't have to be rich to get. I moved to Canada a couple years ago... it's not perfect, there's still issues, but I'm not worried about getting shot at work.
Personally I don't believe what they're claiming. Based on similar claims of racism this is just another race grift like Smollet. The only people I've seen be this blatant about racism in my 70 plus years are minorities. Why? Because whites are usually to worried about offending minorities to be this blatant.
The MR crew should check out the graduation footage of the racist father who interrupted his daughter’s graduation ceremony because he didn’t want her shaking hands with the African American superintendent. It’s maddening.
Your forgot to mention it was at a school know for their history of racism and antisemitism. They were in the news again because the senior year male grads took a picture with them all giving the hail hitler gesture in like 2018.
@@bhambholeGoogle Baraboo graduation, also Baraboo prom picture. This graduation incident was not the first incident of bigotry in the city to make national news.
Every black individual will at some point experience racism so blatant that you are just confused that it's actually happening and sometimes, the perpetrator will openly admit to the extreme racism without much argument.
@@steadly3668 I see from your comment history that you’re a racist bigot. Even so, you’re still denying that black people experience racism as you perpetuate that racism lol. Make it make sense, my dude.
@@freedumb_3.0: what I'm curious about is how did the flight attendant have the authority to have other unrelated employees come from their jobs to the plane to evict the 8 black men? So many questions.
@@dianedenham5259 that's a question for the investigators. And as the video shows, the other employees didn't know what happened, but they agreed it was discrimination.
Airlines and all other public services need to be nationalized. Private corporations have proven that they are incapable of being responsible for such an important service.
I have no problem with nationalizing, but it's no protection against racism. Our government has been plenty racist down through history until the present day. What we need is accountability. That flight attendant who complained, whoever gave the order, and whoever *_followed_* the order to do that, should be penalized.
@@LilyJones-mu2cy Exactly. Makes no sense. I live in Europe around nothing but white people and you want to talk about the rankest people in the world. There is a reason why every white woman that washes her hair tells she smells like a wet dog. As an African American that grew up in America around other African Americans if we are going on a trip if we don't smell like Burberry we're not going.
@@dave2408what makes it crazier is the day they choose to pick unwashed people, they skipped over the group that have admitted publicly that they only wash a few times a week and when they do they don't even bother with washing their legs. That's wild 🤣
This is an outrage and whoever created this situation and ordered these choices needs to be fired and sued with big punitive damages in the hundreds of millions.
@@dave2408 The initial point said nothing about planes - it was about the overt racism of the expulsions, which resembles racist treatment of passengers on the mass transportation of the past. It was *_you_* who falsely inferred that the statement had to be about aircraft and proclaimed it silly. Short version: You don't seem to want to acknowledge the racism, so you went for a crude and ineffective deflection.
As a flight attendant operating for a diverse airline, I've had pax complaining about body odour from other pax of a different ethnic background quite often. How many of these complaints were genuine and how many were race-based is impossible to tell. We do try to accomodate everyone by moving passengers but it's not always possible on full flights. One thing we do NOT do is kick calm, complying passengers off a flight. And how on earth could a b.o. problem be affecting 8 distinct individuals at once is beyond me!? That these men were targeted is beyond doubt. Why so is simply puzzling to me who doesn't operate on a US-based carrier. There has to be a more security sensitive reason behind this rather than a grotesque display of Rosa Park level of discrimination on the part of AA. Or maybe I'm just sheltered and naive...
The fact that you can't believe it was discrimination and are looking for alternate explanations is partly the problem. This is the reason "awareness" campaigns, parades, and marches happen. Anyone not in the "norm" of society, ethnic, gay, trans, disabled, aneurotypical, etc. have to deal with it all the time. Normies don't even see it.
My god, were there no grown ups among the flight or ground crews that day... who's on duty and does absolutely nothing to stop this abject horribleness ?
Exactly, you can’t ask people to pretend it’s not about race when it clearly is. The kicker is we go into situations, in hospitals, real estate, certain kinds of jobs knowing that it’s very likely we’re going to get poor or unfair treatment, and there’s nothing we can do to make that not happen. You can’t smile wide enough, be polite enough, look respectable enough etc to avoid it.
There's even people in this comments section that are saying "well maybe they did smell though." Eventhough everyone knows that claiming a certain group smells bad is a common racist trope.
They call you crazy for seeing the discrimination. The burden of proof is so high it’s not even worth speaking up about, much less taking legal action.
I work on public buses. When a homeless man comes on, and he hasn’t showered or cleaned himself for 3 months we are not allowed to kick him off. I saw a whole bus load of people getting off it was so bad. And that’s a real obnoxious sour rancid stink. These 8 blacks were not bad at all. Just the steward. He should be fired.
Yeah a dumb comment for sure but lets not pretend the Right is pushing a narrative black and POC pilots and other professionals are likely DEI hires and are unfit for their jobs.@@QuilishWammy
@@QuilishWammyBiden is a cnt but Trump is even worse. If you think that America is better off under Christian Nationalist Republicans then get help with your mental illness.
This is so weird. I don’t understand how a racist person decides they don’t want black men to fly. You’re on a plane that flies in and out of JFK and you don’t want black people on your plane? Even if they’re super racist, how do they think they can get away with taking all black people off the plane?
That is wild! I came into this expecting to hear that the authorities thought that a suspect was on the plane and they all "fit the profile". I was prepared to be mad not only at how dramatically different these men looked - as turned out to be the case - but also the total lack of finesse. Not to give airlines advice on how to be awful, but drag off a few white guys too so it's not so obvious. How did the reality turn out to be so much WORSE??
The fact that the explanation was odor, is really bizarre. I've flown on flights where people clearly didn't bathe before getting on the plane, and I've never seen them removed. However, I wouldn't be surprised if someone smelled like marijuana, and they thought it had to be one of the black guys. I feel like - if it really was a concern - they could have just pulled the rows, instead of walking down the aisles and handpicking just the black dudes. They really just handled the whole thing poorly.
The statistics on marijuana use show that like... white and black folks are effectively tied percentage-wise for marijuana use. It's just racism no matter how you shake it.
Marijuana doesn’t even stink bad enough to be having a hissy fit about. They don’t kick people off for smelling like cigarettes or alcohol. It’s so annoying when people have a vendetta against weed when they don’t even want it in their presence
Actually i think they're used to white women being, for lack of a better word, "traitors" in their eyes. In fact, their greatest insecurity is men of other races being more attractive to "their" women than they are
That incident was truly insane. So let me get this straight, a flight attendant smelled a bad odor and decided that to deal with it, they had to kick every black person off the plane? WTF? That makes no sense.
@@QuilishWammy No, that's not what I meant. I meant, why had I not heard of this previously anywhere. To shit on the outlet that exposed me to it would be dumb.
What does it say about me that I was neither shocked nor surprised that this happened? Even in the year 2024. My initial thoughts were: "that sounds like just another day in America for people like me"
You're on a plane, if you don't like body odor then walk. Also, so one guy complained about body odor and they took black people from across the aisles? Is the odor so bad it's spreading all over inside, and yet only one guy had a problem? None of this makes any sense. It's all so random. Why would a flight attendant do that? Even if they're racist, what was the motivation to do it on that day? Because black people are on every plant flight in the US.
I’ve have had to fly a lot for work. I have sat next to folks with perfume or body odor it sucks but would never imagine them getting kicked off plane. This wasn’t a body odor issue it was a racial issue.
Hold on. So you are telling me, even if we take their argument that an attendant complained about an odor, that alone is grounds for getting booted off the plane?
I don't understand the purpose of putting them on another flight. Will they smell differently on a differnet flight. What's happening with the flight attendant who started all this. and how many times has he done this before?
That flight crew needs to be fired, lose their pension (if they have one), blacklisted from American Airlines and other carriers, and charged by local and federal prosecutors. Then, sue the sh*t out of American Airlines.
It's because of situations like this that I haven't been on a plane since 1991, and unless I'm forced to do so for health reasons, I won't get on another plane until the day I die.
In reality black men/people tend to shower more often than other cultures based on what I see online comparing hygiene routines. Bad hygiene isn’t even a stereotype of black people, the closest I’ve seen is assuming a black person is the source of a smell from “marijuana” (which I have had a boyfriend accused of before and he wasn’t smoking marijuana at all). Besides this being racist, they picked a nonsensical stereotype at that.
I mean it was in Phoenix Arizona. Pretty sure the white male flight attendant was from there and refused to start hus day serving colored men. Hipe he gets sued, jail time, and picture of his face blasted online
Why didn't the other flight attendants speak up and tell the guy they weren't gonna be a part of it. Probably the same reason cops just stand around and watch peoples rights being violated. AA should be boycotted, sued, fined and have mass exposer on this situation. I'd bet it all that the guy who initiated this is a republican.
American Airlines denied my son boarding a flight to Egypt saying her needed a visa in advance. He showed them the Egyptian government website stating that American Passport holders receive a visa at the Cairo airport. My son's passport list him as being born in Gaza so we think that is why. The AA airline employee was rude, arrogant, and would not offer any help. He had to book another flight to Germany and there an AA employee went out of her way to help him get to Cairo.
I hope these men win a nice, big, fat lawsuit.
Absolutely!
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Oh they will!
Time for a class action
CC should sue the WNBA for the racial bullying she receives as well!
I agree that something stank on that plane, but I don't think it was a Black man.
Plane aint got nothing to do with it.
Plane isnt racist, except for mabye being designed with the subpar leg length in mind.
Machine just sits there and gets used.
@@FischerNilsA Come back when the amphetamines wear off.
@@FischerNilsA Most planes are white though...
Black people smell a lot.
@@FischerNilsA
"I agree that something stank on that plane, but..."
"Plane aint got nothing to do with it. "
True, but... confusingly irrelevant. The comment was "...on the plane...", not about the plane itself.
The fact that they have airline employees agreeing with the victims on tape has to be pretty damning for their defense.
Uh...yeah. I'm glad American wasn't able to control the message from its employees, but that doesn't happen often.
@@mr.flibble3190 Make a separate post about this obersvation so that it's at least it's own topic instead of off topic replying.
@@seanothepop4638what do you mean? they’re talking about the airline company.
@@seanothepop4638 _O Stultissime, lege quod scriptum est._
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"body odor" is an INCREDIBLY common code for "race". As a cherokee I've had a number of white employers use it as a reason for firing me, despite the fact i shower nightly and apply deodorant and cologne before leaving my home. When i explain this, I'm told "well u must not be using enough" or "well then use a different scent". But it never matters, i always get fired anyway.
(Racial prejudice against cherokees is common due to the false belief that we get a UBI, and the fact our tribe has socialized healthcare that non-tribal citizens don't get access to)
Employers use "body odor" as way of terminating people with different ethnicities, religious beliefs, or political beliefs than them, because it cant be proven or disproven in a court of law.
1000000% correct
I am a Canadian Chinese person but could pass for a Native American under the right circumstances, and those circumstances did occur once when a Native friend of mine gave me a hat with a well known symbol in relation to his people... When I wore that hat it was actually amazing how fast the racism against me ramped up. I've never experienced anything like it tbh and don't doubt your story for one second after I've sort of walked in your shoes.
Something similar might well happen with some disabilities as well.
You can't prove your odor in court unfortunately...
@@dennisyoung4631 that would make sense. Many eugenicists or eugenics adherents are biased against disabled people just as much as they are against minorities.
I wanna say they weren’t even smart about it, but it’s a lot to ask racists to have any sense of self awareness
@@acornsucks2111 Why would you identify yourself as that? Go off then
@@acornsucks2111yes you are
Did you know? Being racist comes with a free lobotomy!
Let alone a sense of smell.
so they went back on? What happened to the body odor issue? GET THAT MONEY BROTHERS. This is beyond stupid. What time are we in, 1901?
Exactly. Was there a time rift?
Guess you made a discovery that would forever chance our future.
@ArchdukeHesperus Reported as hate speech.
It’s called America. The most corrupt cruel European colony on the earth. Racist apartheid regime.
there is no racism in america, say racists.
Simply stop talking about it 4head can't exist if you close your eyes
And just the other day we saw that video of that young ladies father assaulting a black superintendent, just because he was gonna shake her hand at her graduation.
No Charlie Kirk, racism is not a thing of the past.
between this and the father at his daughter's graduation, maga has rewinded the clock back to jim crow days
Who are they kidding? America is racist af. They have lost all plausible deniability.
@@mountainlion1989 Word. I was just saying the same thing.
Who ordered that the black passengers be removed and why would any American Airlines employee comply with such an order?
A racist, and employees who are desperate to keep their jobs because they could get fired and blacklisted if they refuse it. This country is in the shitter and things like this are going to keep happening so long as inflation is high and people are living paycheck to paycheck.
The focus should be on who gave the order, people are desperate to keep their jobs, especially in the unstable economy we have today.
@@IndigoRavencat Make sure to thank Biden for the 'unstable economy we have today' 😉
@@QuilishWammy bot botting away....
The dictatorial little glorified waitresses - including ":males" known as "flight attendants"....
The flight attendant needs to be fired.
*@tschorsch* Couldn't agree more. Highly likely, this wasn't the first time that attendant did this to black passengers.
That attendant is going to cost AA millions.
Can't happen unless others on the crew agree and they have backing from corporate
Sorry I disagree. I've worked in such environments, I'm sympathetic to coworkers that comply out of necessity. I didn't need to comply & knew just enough to be a pain in managements/corps as* & hold on to my benefits until I was to ready to resign. Idk might of been the multiple grievances/complaints I filled & the use of choice wording "hostile environment" "unjustified scrutiny" & the fact that I was awarded multiple "outstanding service/metrics" awards, "Leadership" award which I found to be f* hilarious bcs I thought management were moron's (w/exception of my Supe, serious luv/respect for her. Stuck around longer than I should've bcs of her
I agree! But... the airline employees agreeing with the victims might be the ones fired. At least in my similar-ish case, I was laid off. I don't think counting on American Airlines doing the right thing is a good strategy. (Again, I don't disagree.)
What? They had a flight attendant who had a problem with race, the other staff knew it at the time, and instead of dealing with him they catered to his racism and kicked the black men off of his plane?! I ... have no words.
I was expecting racism, but I not expecting that to be the "reason" for removing them from their flight.
Right … underlying reason not THE REASON.
Just imagine how many times they have gotten away with this.
@@blackhercules1753no imagine how many black people go through this but it’s covered up or there is no clear evidence of it. Racism never died but if a blacks person brings it up every gets mad.
I was waiting to find out what the "reason" was gonna be.
Didn't expect "stinky blacks". come on y'all...
@@anthonyrowland9072 My guy was like "one of these ink drinkers smells like marijuana!" 🤣
I keep trying to convince white people that I'm not paranoid when I have to be careful going into stores, dealing with the cops or just being outside doing anything. Thank you Sam, Emma and crew for UNDERSTANDING this is real. LOVE YOU GUYS for understanding and reporting.
No, you’re most definitely *NOT* paranoid. I’d say you’re just being *justifiably cautious.*
Being born disfigured and disabled, especially with *certain* disabilities, can lead to something that resembles “social phobia” - as well as wondering just *who* is going to try (assault, harass, abuse, bully, etc.) for you next. This also includes police.
The sole benefit accruing from not being a person of color then is that one can “hide in plain sight” providing one *works* hard at it - keep moving, don’t attract any kind of attention, never argue, presume everyone has it in for you, and try to merge with the scenery as much as you can.
you go around rich white people. us poor whites have the same experience. they see a long haired white boy and they lose their minds because I'm not validating their worldview.
As a white female, I have 'some' of the same issues.
You are NOT paranoid!
You don't have to convince this old white woman. This was more than obvious and absolutely heartbreaking. Why is this country going backwards in so many ways? Aggression is at an all time high.
Who had the authority on the plane to just say "round up the black men" and have the attendants follow their instructions...?
Ikr? Who had the authority to pull other employees from their depts in order to help evict them?
Maybe he is not feeling safe.
@@davidwong5197 ...?
@@davidwong5197 not safe from “body odor”? Whose body odor? How does that make one unsafe?
@@davidwong5197I'm not feeling safe from you, please leave TH-cam. Thanks in advance :)
The Flight attendant should never work again for any airline.
The flight attendant may have just been following orders with thoughts that if i don’t follow what i m told i will be fired
@@ozzielinkin yep, "just following orders"
Whoever gave the oder to do it should be fired. And I wouldn't hire them, and I wouldn't want them serving me french fries either.
@@ozzielinkinAh yes. The excuse people give when the are doing evil. That's no excuse. Everyone has agency with their actions. People are not sheep.
@@ozzielinkin Befehl ist Befehl
A incredibly racist flight attendant isn't shocking. What is shocking is someone with the authority to do so instructed the removals.
I though the same thing. The flight attendant would have to let other crew members know about the situation and so someone else must have agreed.
8 black men taken off a single flight. Thats like 100% of the black man on a single flight.
Depends on the flight. When I flew Atlanta to LA there were definitely more than eight.
However, if definitely sounds like it was probably all on this particular flight.
@@sandpiperr they said in this story it was all the black men on the flight
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"Thats like 100% of the black man on a single flight."
"Depends on the flight."
Well, from a general passenger-averages standpoint, sure, totally correct.
in this specific case, though, @Kingnome's comment could've been phrased a bit better... say "...of the black men on *that* flight", instead of "a flight".
However, the Public Citizen attorney did explicitly state (at about the 2:30 mark) that the attendant picked out every black man on the flight.
The story on CBS Texas YT channel is stunning in how many people are commenting and the likes they are getting tearing down the black passengers, denying the story, claiming they smelled like weed, that they had too much cologne, basically going out of there way to deny any possibility that racism was involved while also often being racist themselves. Wow.
@GJT-bq3hr Very, very true.
Yeah...I try not to read the comments of local news channels, whether on YT or elsewhere. The worst of the FB Boomers tend to reside there.
@@amaravazquez8591 these same types wonder why their gonna die alone...
It's said that if you want to prove racism in America, go to the comment section. Folks are embodened keyboard warriors for sure.
SMH!!
those are trolls they flock to post like this just to troll
This doesn't pass the smell test.
That is what American Airlines said.
I have a good friend that is 70 years old and he told me “ if you didnt growup black like me , you have no idea what it has been like to be me “
I am sure the children in Gaza are mourning his hardships.
@@DeLaCruz878 are you mental?
Actually they are. They (literal chidern) put out a video that encouraged solidarity with students and minorities in 'Merica.
They're far better people than you @@DeLaCruz878.
@@DeLaCruz878 And the people dying of cancer today wish they were healthy and living in a war zone.
@@DeLaCruz878 You're comparing two inequivalent things. Most people know that there is an ongoing genocide in Gaza but that doesn't mean there are not other issues going on around the world that need to be pointed out and condemned.
Who's running these planes? Charlie Kirk???
Bless those workers who agreed it was discrimination on video.
Wouldn't be shocked if they got fired.
They’ll be fired. I’m sure they’ll fudge some fake performance evaluations to make it seem like their firings are legit. But the reality is that they will identify and fire those people, and know that only x number of them will actually sue them for discrimination, and even fewer will actually win.
@spencers4121 If they do, I hope they hold their head up high...and get a lawyer themselves.
Uh... Why? Bless them because they knew what they were doing was wrong and still did it? Make that make sense. All they did was agree that what they were doing was discrimination... why are we praising them? If I go attack someone and tell them I did it because of their skin....I should be praised? For being honest or what? What?
@LoyalToTheMicrobes They were speaking their conscience in the face of blatant discrimination and likely knew they were risking their jobs, which is admirable. It will also likely make the lawsuit/settlement much easier for these men so they can be recompensed justly and move on with their lives. I hope that at least makes more sense if it doesn't convince you (which is ok too).
I left America years ago, because of the racism and prejudices. I very rarily ever visit the U.S now, despite being an avid traveller!
I wish I left. Too late, now.
@@t.tenney3470It's never too late. If you're older, lot of countries have retirement visas that you don't have to be rich to get. I moved to Canada a couple years ago... it's not perfect, there's still issues, but I'm not worried about getting shot at work.
This is AmeriKKKa
You can really see how much prep work they are doing for Project 2025.
blacKKKs for Trump
Personally I don't believe what they're claiming. Based on similar claims of racism this is just another race grift like Smollet. The only people I've seen be this blatant about racism in my 70 plus years are minorities. Why? Because whites are usually to worried about offending minorities to be this blatant.
Sad, but true😥
Unfortunately due to my white priv I can't sue for millions every time I am inconvenienced on a airplane :
The MR crew should check out the graduation footage of the racist father who interrupted his daughter’s graduation ceremony because he didn’t want her shaking hands with the African American superintendent. It’s maddening.
Do you recall which channel you saw that on?
Your forgot to mention it was at a school know for their history of racism and antisemitism. They were in the news again because the senior year male grads took a picture with them all giving the hail hitler gesture in like 2018.
@@bhambholeGoogle Baraboo graduation, also Baraboo prom picture. This graduation incident was not the first incident of bigotry in the city to make national news.
@@bhambhole: Jesse Dollemore did a video about.
Found it. Thank you kindly. That was nuts.
Every black individual will at some point experience racism so blatant that you are just confused that it's actually happening and sometimes, the perpetrator will openly admit to the extreme racism without much argument.
Om g.
Such victims aren't they
@@steadly3668whose crying about being replaced and women not wanting them? You guys make the news so much it’s getting boring.🥱
@@steadly3668 I see from your comment history that you’re a racist bigot. Even so, you’re still denying that black people experience racism as you perpetuate that racism lol. Make it make sense, my dude.
Removed for flying black
@cassandra9699shut up
@cassandra9699 Lt. Aldo Raine needs to set an appointment to give your forehead some love.
@cassandra9699 Please don't be racist. Thank you
@cassandra9699 What makes you think they didn't? How do you know the odor wasn't from a White person on the plane? What point are you trying to make?
They most likely *WERE.*
American airlines has not had a great month. First they blame a child for a pervert filming them in a bathroom now this.
No clue how I didn’t hear about this until now! The fact that they blamed her for it in their original statement is sickening
Remember way back when, when American Airline employees dragged a man off a plane and beat the shit out of him. They’ve always have been terrible
Happy yall covered this story, but man, that was hard to watch, absolutely heartbreaking.
Outrageous. How hurtful the airline was to these men, and how respectful the men were. I hope our legal system will give them full justice.
Wasn't the airline, it was the employees. It becomes the airline if and only if the airline tries to cover up the incident.
@@freedumb_3.0: what I'm curious about is how did the flight attendant have the authority to have other unrelated employees come from their jobs to the plane to evict the 8 black men? So many questions.
@@freedumb_3.0 the employees are representatives of the airline, so, yes, it is the airline too.
@@dianedenham5259 that's a question for the investigators. And as the video shows, the other employees didn't know what happened, but they agreed it was discrimination.
Someone concerned about an odor on an airplane ?
Let's remove black men from the flight...
How could they think this was a legit explanation ???!!!
Airlines and all other public services need to be nationalized. Private corporations have proven that they are incapable of being responsible for such an important service.
Prior to about 1977, the Airlines were considered to be *public utilities* - and regulated accordingly.
@@dennisyoung4631 , Gotta love that neoliberal human sh*t f*cking the whole world right to hell. (for the good of the rich...)
I have no problem with nationalizing, but it's no protection against racism. Our government has been plenty racist down through history until the present day. What we need is accountability. That flight attendant who complained, whoever gave the order, and whoever *_followed_* the order to do that, should be penalized.
American Airlines really said "the black men were removed for being stinky"
@dave2408 lol, so all EIGHT random men who didn't know each other "stunk"....
If there is a hell. I'll see you there. It won't be nice 😘
@@klaiken989 yeah but the music should be good.
@@dave2408interesting how you're taking the racist's claims at face value
@@LilyJones-mu2cy Exactly. Makes no sense. I live in Europe around nothing but white people and you want to talk about the rankest people in the world. There is a reason why every white woman that washes her hair tells she smells like a wet dog. As an African American that grew up in America around other African Americans if we are going on a trip if we don't smell like Burberry we're not going.
@@dave2408 Oh just a bit irrational?
Seriously, this is why people are wishing hell on you!
Those "not-racists" are out here wildin
Scott Ridder was recently escorted off of a plane. He's an anti-war activist. He's white. Was that racism?
Why does it feel like this is going to start being the norm? This is fucking nuts
I mean, ain't it already?
@@kylemclean-bailey8605 troof
@@dave2408what makes it crazier is the day they choose to pick unwashed people, they skipped over the group that have admitted publicly that they only wash a few times a week and when they do they don't even bother with washing their legs.
That's wild 🤣
@@dave2408, What do you think is “poor” about this show?
@@dave2408 , Seriously? Are you an adult?
This is an outrage and whoever created this situation and ordered these choices needs to be fired and sued with big punitive damages in the hundreds of millions.
In UK the whole plane of passengers protested the removal of black man and they had to change the flight crew 🇬🇧
This is so bizarre that we are in 2024 and it feels like the late 1800s.
@@dave2408 Ask tRump. Planes were around during the Civil War.
Substitute “steamship” or “train” for aircraft.
@@dave2408the point isn't silly tho ..
@@StanViviLee that *especially.*
@@dave2408 The initial point said nothing about planes - it was about the overt racism of the expulsions, which resembles racist treatment of passengers on the mass transportation of the past. It was *_you_* who falsely inferred that the statement had to be about aircraft and proclaimed it silly.
Short version: You don't seem to want to acknowledge the racism, so you went for a crude and ineffective deflection.
British Airways used to have a policy of not letting people with dreadlocks fly on their planes
you know, so no Jamaicans flying to London
Or Jason Momoa.
@ArchdukeHesperus White boy in his echo chamber, you're such a loser.
As a flight attendant operating for a diverse airline, I've had pax complaining about body odour from other pax of a different ethnic background quite often. How many of these complaints were genuine and how many were race-based is impossible to tell.
We do try to accomodate everyone by moving passengers but it's not always possible on full flights.
One thing we do NOT do is kick calm, complying passengers off a flight. And how on earth could a b.o. problem be affecting 8 distinct individuals at once is beyond me!?
That these men were targeted is beyond doubt. Why so is simply puzzling to me who doesn't operate on a US-based carrier. There has to be a more security sensitive reason behind this rather than a grotesque display of Rosa Park level of discrimination on the part of AA.
Or maybe I'm just sheltered and naive...
thanks for the comment. i was thinking that sometimes we just have to deal with stinkiness in life.
The fact that you can't believe it was discrimination and are looking for alternate explanations is partly the problem.
This is the reason "awareness" campaigns, parades, and marches happen. Anyone not in the "norm" of society, ethnic, gay, trans, disabled, aneurotypical, etc. have to deal with it all the time. Normies don't even see it.
Not a security reason. Hate to inform you that America is really this racist.
Is pax a shorthand for passengers? Lol
Yeah, i have flight attend friends and it's just annoying terminology they like using to let everyone know they are flight attendants lol
One person can get 8 people get kick off a plane and the person then goes and hide
Exactly! What a pansy
My god, were there no grown ups among the flight or ground crews that day... who's on duty and does absolutely nothing to stop this abject horribleness ?
Well, something happened because the 8 got back on the plane to resume their flight. So many questions.
Exactly, you can’t ask people to pretend it’s not about race when it clearly is. The kicker is we go into situations, in hospitals, real estate, certain kinds of jobs knowing that it’s very likely we’re going to get poor or unfair treatment, and there’s nothing we can do to make that not happen. You can’t smile wide enough, be polite enough, look respectable enough etc to avoid it.
There's even people in this comments section that are saying "well maybe they did smell though."
Eventhough everyone knows that claiming a certain group smells bad is a common racist trope.
They call you crazy for seeing the discrimination. The burden of proof is so high it’s not even worth speaking up about, much less taking legal action.
"Body odor" complaints are nothing new. That's been tried many time in fact I know of a case where someone was actually fired because of it.
I work on public buses. When a homeless man comes on, and he hasn’t showered or cleaned himself for 3 months we are not allowed to kick him off. I saw a whole bus load of people getting off it was so bad. And that’s a real obnoxious sour rancid stink. These 8 blacks were not bad at all. Just the steward. He should be fired.
the fact that this can happen and people will still swear up and down that racism does not exist
Amerikkka at work again
This is Biden's America 😉 Remember when he said "If you have a problem deciding whether you're voting for me or for Trump, then you *ain't black* " 😉
Yeah a dumb comment for sure but lets not pretend the Right is pushing a narrative black and POC pilots and other professionals are likely DEI hires and are unfit for their jobs.@@QuilishWammy
@@QuilishWammyBiden is a cnt but Trump is even worse. If you think that America is better off under Christian Nationalist Republicans then get help with your mental illness.
@@QuilishWammyah yes because there was absolutely no racism during the previous administrations. Absolutely none
Remember when Trump put out a full page ad trying to get five people who were exonerated of a crime killed
This is so weird. I don’t understand how a racist person decides they don’t want black men to fly. You’re on a plane that flies in and out of JFK and you don’t want black people on your plane? Even if they’re super racist, how do they think they can get away with taking all black people off the plane?
Those brothers will get a lot more than a travel voucher. Thanks AA!
This is WILD
These dudes are about to get so paid.
Doubt it. Black folks never get justice. They will be offered The bare minimum. Wouldn't be surprised if it's a voucher for a free one-way flight.
Thank you so much for playing the video without stopping it every 5 seconds. THANK YOU!
When u receive an insane order, u stop, call security and have your flight attendant removed from the plane. You do NOT follow the order.
Corps don't mind doing things like this because the penalty financially will be so inconsequential for them that it doesn't matter.
That is wild! I came into this expecting to hear that the authorities thought that a suspect was on the plane and they all "fit the profile". I was prepared to be mad not only at how dramatically different these men looked - as turned out to be the case - but also the total lack of finesse. Not to give airlines advice on how to be awful, but drag off a few white guys too so it's not so obvious. How did the reality turn out to be so much WORSE??
Ideology?
This is unbelievable. How in the world did they think that they could get away with this?
This is WILD.
It could have been, " Excuse me sir, you'll have to sit at the back of the plane".
The fact that the explanation was odor, is really bizarre. I've flown on flights where people clearly didn't bathe before getting on the plane, and I've never seen them removed.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if someone smelled like marijuana, and they thought it had to be one of the black guys.
I feel like - if it really was a concern - they could have just pulled the rows, instead of walking down the aisles and handpicking just the black dudes. They really just handled the whole thing poorly.
The statistics on marijuana use show that like... white and black folks are effectively tied percentage-wise for marijuana use. It's just racism no matter how you shake it.
Marijuana doesn’t even stink bad enough to be having a hissy fit about. They don’t kick people off for smelling like cigarettes or alcohol. It’s so annoying when people have a vendetta against weed when they don’t even want it in their presence
Any racist on the jury is gonna be real confused when that pretty blonde woman comes out as their defense lawyer 😂
They can just zarking well cope.
Actually i think they're used to white women being, for lack of a better word, "traitors" in their eyes. In fact, their greatest insecurity is men of other races being more attractive to "their" women than they are
That incident was truly insane. So let me get this straight, a flight attendant smelled a bad odor and decided that to deal with it, they had to kick every black person off the plane? WTF? That makes no sense.
No. There was no odour in the first place.
WAIT... This happened in January?!?! Why has this not been a bigger story?
Because, The Majority Report covers such stories only when it's convenient 😉
@@QuilishWammy No, that's not what I meant. I meant, why had I not heard of this previously anywhere. To shit on the outlet that exposed me to it would be dumb.
@@TheRecordLibrary You should think about why The Majority Report didn't cover this story on January 😉
That is absolutely horrible!
I never thought I would see the day this would be happening in 2024. This ish is crazy.
What reality you from?
@@freedumb_3.0 Apparently the wrong one.
👴🏻: It stinks in here!
👩🏻✈️: say no more!
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Flying black
The white flight attendant will have a prime time slot on fox tonight for high fives.
OMFG of course it's Phx, AZ! Unfortunately I do feel embarrassed as a Phoenician. I swear we have good people, awesome people in AZ!
What does it say about me that I was neither shocked nor surprised that this happened? Even in the year 2024. My initial thoughts were: "that sounds like just another day in America for people like me"
As flight attendant, we have had other cultures on the plane with odors, never ever were they removed from the flight, 15 yrs of flying .
You're on a plane, if you don't like body odor then walk.
Also, so one guy complained about body odor and they took black people from across the aisles? Is the odor so bad it's spreading all over inside, and yet only one guy had a problem? None of this makes any sense.
It's all so random. Why would a flight attendant do that? Even if they're racist, what was the motivation to do it on that day? Because black people are on every plant flight in the US.
American airlines needs to be shut down. BOYCOTT!!!
When will they learn?
I’ve have had to fly a lot for work. I have sat next to folks with perfume or body odor it sucks but would never imagine them getting kicked off plane. This wasn’t a body odor issue it was a racial issue.
AA is gonna have to pay bigtime for this F up
They're losing their grip and acting out. They don't know what to do that their leader is facing the law and are acting out.
Really sick of all the damn Nazis in this country.
Hold on. So you are telling me, even if we take their argument that an attendant complained about an odor, that alone is grounds for getting booted off the plane?
This is Sam Seder vs Pakman. This kind of story and history of it. This is why I view Seder more.
Well that was brazen
They better get an explanation for this. Who’s decision even was this?
I don't understand the purpose of putting them on another flight. Will they smell differently on a differnet flight.
What's happening with the flight attendant who started all this. and how many times has he done this before?
This is like winning the lottery for these men. I hope they get a hundred million as a group
I know there are plenty of racists out there who're _itching_ to defend this horrifying incident. I'd love to hear their excuses.
You already did. Racists don't have very high standards for themselves.
They love to just take the piss and force the rest of us to clean up the mess.
They don't have excuses. They don't bother with excuses.
These men are all about to become millionaires. The situation is inexcusable and yeah, they're headed for a major victory in court.
That flight crew needs to be fired, lose their pension (if they have one), blacklisted from American Airlines and other carriers, and charged by local and federal prosecutors. Then, sue the sh*t out of American Airlines.
Well done, sue the h.... out of them. I hope they get plenty of money!!!
It's because of situations like this that I haven't been on a plane since 1991, and unless I'm forced to do so for health reasons, I won't get on another plane until the day I die.
Never been on one, ever - and that TSA deal sounds awful. I don’t blame you at all!
lol ironically probably pulled off some of the cleanest smelling people on that flight.
In reality black men/people tend to shower more often than other cultures based on what I see online comparing hygiene routines. Bad hygiene isn’t even a stereotype of black people, the closest I’ve seen is assuming a black person is the source of a smell from “marijuana” (which I have had a boyfriend accused of before and he wasn’t smoking marijuana at all). Besides this being racist, they picked a nonsensical stereotype at that.
I mean it was in Phoenix Arizona. Pretty sure the white male flight attendant was from there and refused to start hus day serving colored men.
Hipe he gets sued, jail time, and picture of his face blasted online
More amazing work. thank you so much for such a well produced video.
Prison Planet theory is real. We live in the bad place. Everything gets dumber and meaner every single year.
Why didn't the other flight attendants speak up and tell the guy they weren't gonna be a part of it. Probably the same reason cops just stand around and watch peoples rights being violated. AA should be boycotted, sued, fined and have mass exposer on this situation. I'd bet it all that the guy who initiated this is a republican.
Shocking? I'm slightly surprised, that they'd do something so blatant, but I'm certainly not shocked.
American Airlines denied my son boarding a flight to Egypt saying her needed a visa in advance. He showed them the Egyptian government website stating that American Passport holders receive a visa at the Cairo airport. My son's passport list him as being born in Gaza so we think that is why. The AA airline employee was rude, arrogant, and would not offer any help. He had to book another flight to Germany and there an AA employee went out of her way to help him get to Cairo.
Maybe jamming strangers into ever shrinking seats in a metal tube for shareholder profit and executive compensation is bad.
Boycott american airlines
Mexico elects the first women president, while America does this. This is just getting embarrassing
His name needs to be out there.
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