This is "Black privilege." The privilege to blame all one's faults and failings on racism, and ,thereby, assume a self-righteous position.
Over Christmas weekend a story broke of a woman who claimed to have had her first class airline seat taken from her only to see it given to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. By the day after Christmas, the pressure must have been too heavy for Lee to bear because she went on a tweet storm pointing fingers in all directions.
The story broke on Sunday, Dec. 24, with 63-year-old Jean-Marie Simon, a D.C. schoolteacher and attorney, alleging that United Airlines summarily removed her from her pre-paid, first class seat on a flight between Houston, Texas, and Washington DC. But, when she boarded the Dec. 18 flight, Simon said she discovered that the seat had been given away to Rep. Lee, a Texas Democrat.
Claims raged back and forth between Lee, the airline, and Simon with the airline insisting Simon initially tried to cancel her flight — thereby leaving the seat open — and then claiming it apologized to her. For her part, Simon denied both of the airline’s claims.
United 2 NBC:" We were concerned...found that upon receiving notification that 788 delayed due 2 weather, customer canceled from Houston= DC with... mobile app. As part of re-board. gate agents clearing standby+upgrade, inc.1st customer on list. JMS to United: show me proof!"
Simon said that she did receive a $500 voucher for the seat and that a low-level United employee apologized personally to her on the phone, but that she never got any official apology from United. [Being the cheap hustlers they are United initially tried to offer a $300 voucher first as compensation for being bumped from her flight to make room for Jackson Lee at the last minute. The woman protested and got $500]
Meanwhile, as the media focused on what was occurring between Simon and the airline, Rep. Lee went on a tear on Twitter.
In her first tweet on the morning of Dec. 26, Lee almost seemed to blame the victim by alluding to a “Grinch” who was “trying to steal the spirit of the holiday”:
Here’s my statement surrounding incident on United Airlines flight 2 Mondays ago:
“I am disappointed in having to respond to this accusation, but I believe transparency is very important. Unfortunately, it looks like Grinch is trying to steal the spirit of the holiday.
“to stop a tax bill that was going to cause millions of Americans to lose their health insurance.
After receiving my boarding pass, I boarded the plane in the normal process. I did nothing wrong. I asked for nothing exceptional or out of the ordinary and received nothing
”exceptional or out of the ordinary. I proceeded to take my seat and work on legislative issues on my way to Washington.
Although I was not involved, I observed a disruption by an individual walking back and forth in the cabin. exceptional or out of the ordinary.
I saw the gate agent go to the seat of the individual who was walking back and forth before we took off.
I later came to understand that the individual had canceled her own flight. However I had nothing to do with that
seemingly an easy target along with the African American flight attendant who was very, very nice. This saddens me, especially at this time of year given all of the things we have to work on to help people. But in the spirit of this season and out of the sincerity of my heart,
if it is perceived that I had anything to do with this, I am kind enough to simply say sorry. I understand the airline is working to address the passenger’s concerns. I am glad of that. But as an African American, I know there are too many examples like this all over the nation
. I hope one day, we will accept our collective diversity. Happy Holidays.” ine, the way the individual continued to act appeared to be, upon reflection, because I was an African American woman, seemingly an easy target along with the African
American flight attendant who was very, very nice. This saddens me, especially at this time of year given all of the things we have to work on to help people. But in the spirit of this season and out of the sincerity of my heart, if it is perceived that I had anything to do
with this, I am kind enough to simply say sorry. I understand the airline is working to address the passenger’s concerns. I am glad of that.
But as an African American, I know there are too many examples like this all over the nation
I hope one day, we will accept our collective diversity. Happy Holidays.”
As part of the normal pre-boarding process, gate agents began clearing standby and upgrade customers, including the first customer on the waitlist for an upgrade."
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... -customer/
Perhaps Jackson Lee could schedule a flight like the rest of us and perhaps use the money she saves from travelling First class to give to her constiutents are going to die because of Republican cuts to social welfare programs? No, that's absurd to even think that a possibility.