The Bay Area’s ABC7 reported late last month that a black woman was made to move her seat on a Delta flight to accommodate white passengers in an article that heavily implied the seat-change was racially motivated.
The original local news report found its way into the New York Post, The Independent, and Business Insider, among other outlets.
And it’s easy to see why, considering the headline on the original report: “Black Alameda woman forced to move for white Delta passengers says: ‘made me feel powerless.’” But that framing doesn’t capture the reality of what occurred on the flight in question, a …
The Bay Area’s ABC7 reported late last month that a black woman was made to move her seat on a Delta flight to accommodate white passengers in an article that heavily implied the seat-change was racially motivated. The original local news report found its way into the New York Post, The Independent, and Business Insider, among other outlets. And it’s easy to see why, considering the headline on the original report: “Black Alameda woman forced to move for white Delta passengers says: ‘made me feel powerless.’” But that framing doesn’t capture the reality of what occurred on the flight in question, a …