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10 min conversation between black flight attendant and white airline CEO just a sums it up
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:33 pm
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:33 pm
This conversation pretty much sums up the current crisis. Having more conversations would be positive rather than needless riots and pilfering.
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A black Southwest Airlines flight attendant was moved to tears during a discussion on race with one passenger who only later identified himself as American Airlines CEO Doug Parker.
The 14-year Southwest employee, JacqueRae Hill, drove to work Friday morning with a "heavy heart" after watching protests erupt nationwide following the death of George Floyd.
While at work, it wasn't Parker, but the book he was reading -- titled "White Fragility" -- that caught her eye.
Hill recalled him telling her he was halfway through it, but that it "really point[ed] out how important these conversations on race are."
"As I began to respond the tears just start[ed] falling," Hill said.
Parker later told American Airlines executives in an email that he "felt wholly inadequate" but "knew it was a special moment."
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"The best I could do was tell her that the book talks about how white people are horrible at talking about racism, and that what we need are real conversations," Parker wrote. "She agreed. I told her I was trying to learn and through tears and a mask, she said, 'So am I.'"
The two talked for a little over 10 minutes and it wasn't until the end of the conversation that Parker revealed his identity to Hill.
Hill's mother works as a customer service manager for American Airlines at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C.
"I reached over and gave him a big hug. I had to!" Hill said, adding that they were both masked.
When Parker disembarked from the plane, he handed Hill a handwritten note telling her that she could email him if she wanted to continue their conversation.
"I am saddened that we as a society have progressed so slowly on an issue that has such a clear right versus wrong," Parker wrote to Hill. "Much of the problem is we don't talk about it enough."
Parker also emailed Hill's mother, Patti, telling her that her daughter's visit was a "gift."
"We are not so different in what we want out of life," Hill told ABC News. "All we both wanted in that moment was peace and to be understood."
This post was edited on 6/2/20 at 6:36 pm
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:35 pm to Bamboozles
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While at work, it wasn't Parker, but the book he was reading -- titled "White Fragility" -- that caught her eye.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:35 pm to Bamboozles
Thank you for posting this piece of white guilt propaganda. I hadn’t seen enough of this on my Facebook
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:35 pm to Bamboozles
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A black Southwest Airlines flight attendant was moved to tears during a discussion on race with one passenger who only later identified himself as American Airlines CEO Doug Parker.
Damn... even he won't fly on his own airline.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:36 pm to Bamboozles
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Much of the problem is we don't talk about it enough."
Most of the problem is that we cant have an HONEST discussion about race and the black community. Any criticism of their culture is not tolerated, and there can be no solutions until black people are willing to accept that they are partially to blame for their circumstances.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:36 pm to Bamboozles
I don't respect anyone who reads a book about "White Fragility".
I'm done with this shite.
Affirmative Action, preferential hiring in government, preferential government contracts, corporations bending over backwards for non Asian minorities.
I'm tired of it.
The only systemic racism is against White and Asian people.
Particularly males.
I'm done with this shite.
Affirmative Action, preferential hiring in government, preferential government contracts, corporations bending over backwards for non Asian minorities.
I'm tired of it.
The only systemic racism is against White and Asian people.
Particularly males.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:37 pm to el Gaucho
Also I’ve been writing down the names of people who post those long statuses talking about being sad for being white so I know which houses to hit first when the real riots start
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:37 pm to Bamboozles
White people are fragile as hell.
Facts.
Facts.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:37 pm to MoarKilometers
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Damn... even he won't fly on his own airline.
Seriously, what horrid optics.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:38 pm to MoarKilometers
In his defense, American Airlines sucks arse.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:39 pm to Bamboozles
quote:STEWARDESS
flight attendant
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:39 pm to el Gaucho
Communication via conversation is always a good starting point. I am very much against any of these riots, destruction of property, pilfering going on. Maybe some of these folks doing this don't care to have this conversation, it's their loss. But not every black protestor is a rioter. Bad apples are in every friggin barrel truth be told.
Good, cause am neither white or black
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Also I’ve been writing down the names of people who post those long statuses talking about being sad for being white so I know which houses to hit first when the real riots start
Good, cause am neither white or black
This post was edited on 6/2/20 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:41 pm to Bamboozles
So, the American Airlines CEO flies on Southwest Airlines?
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:41 pm to gthog61
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Jesus fricking Christ people are weak
Seems like the type of CEO you would want to me. He's running a Fortune 100 company with 125K employees. Talking about this isn't weak.
This post was edited on 6/2/20 at 6:44 pm
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:43 pm to Bamboozles
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The best I could do was tell her that the book talks about how white people are horrible at talking about racism, and that what we need are real conversations," Parker wrote. "She agreed. I told her I was trying to learn and through tears and a mask, she said, 'So am I.'"
:eyeroll:
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:44 pm to Sao
quote:it's worse than weak. It's completely retarded.
Talking about this isn't weak.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 6:44 pm to Bamboozles
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what we need are real conversations
Is that where someone tells me about their "lived" experiences and when I tell them the stats don't back that up I'm told to shut up?
Or where they tell me about the "residue of slavery" and when I point out that life in black America improved for 100 straight years after the Civil War and didn't start to decline until the 1960's which leads to me being called a racist?
Or when I tell them about the 4 year old black girl that was kidnapped by a black couple last year, raped while the woman watched, strangled and thrown into a dumpster and not one tweet from LeBron or one 'protest' in her honor?
I'm ready for a conversation, not ready to listen though.
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