It seems that there was an incident on a plane with her. So far there is only her side of the story, but it does sound odd. I’ll summarize but all the reported news can be found at EURweb.com. Essentially, Ms. Davis was on an Alaska Airlines flight and had fallen asleep prior to take off. A man and his son are seated next to her. The son apparently doesn’t like her due to her size and race. The father tries to wake up Ms. Davis by “violently shaking” her. Ms. Davis wakes up and tells him to get his hands off her. The father then gets the attendants, who ask Ms. Davis to move without any question of what happened. She refused and then somehow the plane gets turned around, and Ms. Davis is kicked off the plane.
Now I’m not sure how Ms. Davis knows what was said while she was asleep. I do know that if I were asleep and someone had hands on me, I’d probably clock them upon waking. I’ve done it in the military, and I have no doubt I’d do it on a plane. That’s just normal.
Were the attendants right to not find out what happened? Not sure. Was it racism? Maybe, Maybe not. Did the plane need to be turned around, and her kicked off? NO.
If you ask me it seems there were a lot of hyper sensitive people on that plane. Over-reactions seemed to happen like dominoes falling. Who was right? To some degree none of them. I don’t understand why the father and son didn’t just change their seats, exchanging them if there were not enough of them.
Why the pilots reacted as they did seems odd. Something seems to be missing in this. I’m sure Alaska Airlines will reply to the reported Thursday press conference. Of course they will say it’s not racism, and the blame will be on Ms. Davis. But how will the media play this out?
What are the chances that Thursday there will be news on Alaska Airlines response, and not on Ms. Frenchie Davis? What chance that the media will frame this from the first moment as a spoiled Black entertainer having a tantrum for no reason?
Here is a chance for the media to prove there is no bias in reporting. Let’s see how many mention this without input, or side with Ms. Davis from the start. I’d love to see an outpouring of support for Ms. Davis like that for Paris Hilton, who was guilty of a crime.
I’ve mentioned it many times, most recently in the Jessie Davis case, and the Nifong/Duke rape case, something is wrong in the news media. The days of Mr. Edward R. Murrow are long gone and what has replaced it bodes ill for many Americans.
This is what I think, what do you think?
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