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American Airlines: Public Accommodation Discrimination
\nFor the second time this year, the NAACP issued a national warning to the African-American community to avoid certain dangers while traveling. This week the NAACP urged black passengers to avoid American Airlines, alleging a pattern of racial discrimination<\/a>.
\nThe NAACP issued this typically rare national warning referencing a series of occurrences that allegedly proves that American Airlines routinely subjects African-Americans to “disrespectful, discriminatory, or unsafe conditions.”
\nSuch incidents include American Airlines gate agents booting black customers from flights after arguments with personnel and agents making unrequested seat reassignments, one such individual was Tamika Mallory who the airlines kicked off of a flight, on October 17, 2017, This caused her to miss the wedding of civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton\u2019s daughter in New York City.
\n\u201cIt definitely was white male aggression. I was singled out, I was disrespected, and [the pilot] was trying to intimidate me,\u201d said Mallory. \u201cI was discriminated against.\u201d
\nMallory\u2019s nightmare prompted other black passengers to post on social media their bad experiences with American Airlines.
\nAdditionally, in November 2016, the head of the North Carolina NAACP, Rev. William Barber, says he was kicked off an American Airlines flight because he is black too. This incident lead to Barber filing a lawsuit against the airlines. \u201cThis differential treatment was based on race, as other passengers noted and stated to American Airlines employees\u2026 Reverend Barber was calm, complied with all directives from the flight crew, and did nothing that remotely warranted being ejected from the airplane.\u201d
\nMoreover, according to the lawsuit, after Barber was removed from the plane, a black airline employee told Barber that “this tends to happen a lot” \u00a0and that she was “sick of American Airlines doing this.”
\nThe NAACP said in a statement, \u201cThe series of recent incidents involve troublesome conduct by American Airlines and they suggest a corporate culture of racial insensitivity and possible racial bias.\u201d
\nBoth federal and state laws prohibit discrimination against individuals on the basis of the individual being a member of a protected group in businesses and in places that are considered “public accommodations.\u201d What is a “public accommodation” differs depending upon whether federal or state law is involved, and also depends on the type of discrimination involved, such as disability discrimination, sex discrimination, or race discrimination. For instance, a place of public accommodation includes restaurants, hotels, theaters, and transportation services.
\nFederal law\u2019s like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 <\/a>and the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit places of public accommodations from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or disability in certain facilities. Moreover, there are also state laws and city law\u2014like in the city of Philadelphia and New York City\u2014that broadly prohibit discrimination in places of public accommodation and expand what groups of people are protected.
\nRacial discrimination does not only occur in airports or in the air. Racial discrimination is prevalent in other places of public accommodation and in many workplaces. The experienced New York City sexual harassment attorneys at the Derek Smith Law Group, PLLC have years of experience handling claims of racial discrimination. Together with our Philadelphia sexual harassment attorneys<\/a>, we have been awarded six figure settlements on behalf of our clients. If you feel like you have been discriminated against in the workplace, please give our attorneys a call at (800) 807-2209 for your free consultation.<\/p>\n

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