New York activist Tamika Mallory says she was booted from an American Airlines flight in Miami after a pilot inserted himself into a dispute over her seat assignment.
Mallory, a co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, was traveling home to New York when the pilot followed her down the jet bridge to scold her over an argument she had with a gate agent. He then had her summoned from her seat and kicked off the flight, she told the Daily News.
“It definitely was white male aggression. I was singled out, I was disrespected, and he was trying to intimidate me. I was discriminated against,” she said. “It was so egregious, if you will, and there was no way that I could allow it to happen without me saying something.”
Mallory, who is active in movements for gun control and civil rights, was in Miami for the Revolt Music Conference and had planned to attend the wedding of Rev. Al Sharpton‘s daughter Sunday afternoon, which she missed.
I was just removed from an .@americanairlines flight because of white make aggression. I will fight this until I die!
— Tamika D. Mallory (@TamikaDMallory) October 15, 2017
Doesn’t matter how much we do and how hard we fight, white men are allowed to treat black women like shit .@AmericanAir
— Tamika D. Mallory (@TamikaDMallory) October 15, 2017
This is not the first time ppl I know and love have been treated this way by .@AmericanAir. And by today, they have learned NOTHING!
— Tamika D. Mallory (@TamikaDMallory) October 15, 2017
Every @AmericanAir rep I’ve talked to told me the pilot mishandled the situation. He had no business getting involved in a seat dispute
— Tamika D. Mallory (@TamikaDMallory) October 15, 2017
The @AmericanAir pilot, before kicking me off the plane, asked me “are you gonna behave?” As if I’m not a grown woman worthy of respect…
— Tamika D. Mallory (@TamikaDMallory) October 15, 2017
