One of the nation’s biggest airlines has been called into the spotlight after a Black father was accused of trafficking his own children on a flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles earlier in September.
David Ryan Harris, a musician who has collaborated with the likes of John Mayer, Carlos Santana and the Dave Matthews Band, recently took to social media to tell his story, and ask for people to “do better” after the incident rattled his family.
Harris says that he was aboard an American Airlines flight two weeks ago, heading to LAX with his two biracial sons, Truman and Hendrix. As they were de-boarding the plane, they found four police officers waiting for them at the gate.
“Apparently, a flight attendant had called ahead with some sort of concern that perhaps my mixed children weren’t my children,” Harris said in a video posted on his social media accounts. “We are met, embarrassingly so, by this AA employee and police officers. They questioned my kids.”
Even if they weren’t his children, that still doesn’t mean they’re being trafficked. What kind of mental gymnastics does someone have to do to reach that conclusion? All because their skin color didn’t match? In 2023?? Man fuck American Airlines! I will never fly with them anymore. Not that they were good to begin with.
If you’re boycotting airlines for being shitty, you should probably just drive.
We need more trains. Trains are a solution.
I’m not the person you spoke to, but I do. If it’s less than two days of driving, I will do that rather than put up with flying.
Username does not check out.
You can’t drive over the ocean, silly.
Do flight attendants have, like, a duty to report? Do they get training on how to spot human trafficking? Is this just some twat waffle trying to be the hero in their own story?
I’m getting off on the next stop.
Good work Johnson! Now sprinkle some crack on him and let’s go.
Their new motto:
If you see something… be racist.
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Sad to see this happen to this black father. Racism likely played a role.
Good candidate for understatement of the year.
Gee, you think?
Of course it was American Airlines. Whenever you read a story about an airline doing something terrible to a passenger, odds are it will be them. I stopped flying on them a decade ago after a bad experience with power tripping flight crew, and every time I see a story like this I continue to not regret that decision.
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Sue them for making false reports. They’ll stop eventually.
Well wait… was the musician r Kelly?
