I was returning from Hawaii. My luggage was misplaced at the cruise ship pier. My family had been traveling from 3:00 a.m. In Atlanta, we were sent to 3 different terminals for the flight which left late due to weather. We were buckled into seatbelts for two hours.
While the plane was on the ground and not moving. I got up to use the restroom. A fat 40-50 year old, blond or sandy haired stewardess yelled, “SIT DOWN!” Another passenger got up while the plane was ascending, the stewardess said nothing to her. I am a 67 year old African American and it was an emergency for me. Throughout the flight and when the plane was descending, other women got up to use the restroom at a time that they should have fastened into seatbelts, they were white, the stewardess ignored them. When my husband got up, she called the captain complaining about my Jamaican husband who was verbally abusing her. My husband who is part French and looks white, comes from the U.S. Virgin Islands said nothing to her as he waited his turn to use the restroom.
There were not many people of color on the plane to Connecticut but it is apparent that this stewardess has serious issues and should not be working with the public. She may have been intimidated by his height, a basketball player. This one woman has made me aware of the crappy personnel hired by Delta.
While we pay greatly for airline tickets, and put up with delays, we should not have to experience blatant prejudice. It should also be noted, that I am disabled and traveled in a wheelchair. I encourage other African American passengers to either stop flying Delta or speak out about personal injustices, or misfit stewardesses.
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I am sorry for your situation, but I wanted to ask you about something much more important than that.
If you were to die today, do you know where you would spend eternity?
Have a great day and Merry Christmas.
In Christ’s love,
-Josh
Josh Page on December 4th, 2008 at 10:11 am | Link
hardly appropriate josh. thanks for making christians look like morons again.
Xian on June 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pm | Link
Xian,
What conclusion have you come to in regards to eternity?
I can make you a guarantee. You will be dead a whole lot longer than you’ll be alive. And since that’s true, you should be searching out what’s on the other side instead of searching out temproary things down here. Ten out of ten people die and you and I are two of them. But the question is where we will spend eternity. We must have something to back up our belief or it is simply blind faith. If I believed my whole life that the earth is flat, it doesn’t matter how many books I write about it or how much I believe it; my unbelief doesn’t change the reality that the earth is round. I can believe that poison doesn’t kill,but the truth is that it does.
May I encourage you to not search for something to believe in, search for the Truth!
Eternity is an awfully long time to have wrong answer.
I love you brother, that is why I ask you this. If I believe Hell to be a literal place of eternal suffering and torment, the most selfish and hateful thing I can do is not tell you about the one way out.
Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven. Open a Bible for the Truth!
God bless you Xian and have a wonderful day!
Josh
joshpage@clearwater.edu
Josh Page on June 9th, 2009 at 7:14 pm | Link
It appears that the lady of a different race was treated very rude like. which is against the law and totally Discrimination.
Pounch-o on February 28th, 2010 at 2:59 pm | Link
Delta Sucks! I have yet to see my New Born granddaughter because of them,My flight was cancelled due to snow weather here in Alabama on Feb 14th.And flights were cancelled,When I called,to reschedule my flight, All i recieved was a recording, Due to bad weather we will not be able to assist you at this time,This went on for days,So two weeks went by, I finally got through, at which time I was told , That I should have rescheduled,and they would only give me a refund towards another ticket of 175.00, where as I payed through credit card of almost 600.00, HOW IS THIS FAIR…And like I could control that it snowed in Alabama and the flights were cancelled,and they didnt answer there phones for days!!!! I do not have any more monies to pay on another ticket,My granddaughter is yest to be united with grandma and could possibly be a year of saving money before this will happen,
SHAME ON YOU DELTA………
Lisa Allgeier on March 26th, 2010 at 1:06 pm | Link