Camille Henderson described an experience that sounds like it was straight from the Jim Crow era, when Black people were routinely moved to the back of the bus. “I’ve never been so humiliated on a Delta flight before.”
A Black woman has accused Delta Airlines of booting her to the back of a plane mid-flight for the convenience of two white women., Camille Henderson described an experience that sounds like it was straight from the Jim Crow era, when Black people were routinely moved to the back of the bus. Henderson said she boarded a Feb. 3 flight by herself from Atlanta to San Francisco.
The women allegedly called another flight attendant over when the first was unable to help them. The women told him they saw two seats open in first-class and asked if they could move there instead. In audio Henderson recorded, the flight attendant can be heard saying that nothing could be done if the women did not have appropriate tickets.
“When I moved to the back,” Henderson continued, “the whole plane is looking at me. It’s not like we were boarding. It’s not like they moved me before the plane took off. …I have to carry all of my stuff with me to the back. As I’m moving to the back of the plane, everybody is kind of looking. It’s just kind of embarrassing. I just felt like I was put under the spotlight, and I really should not have. There was no need for me to move.
“I didn’t ask for compensation. I didn’t ask for that once,” Henderson told The Daily Beast. “I asked for just an acknowledgement as to what happened to me. I didn’t ask to have my money back, but you’re assuming that I’m calling to get my money back.” The Daily Beast reached out to Delta Airlines Corporate Communications, but an appropriate representative did not respond to a request for comment.
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