TAM Airlines is one of the largest airline for both Brazil and Latin America. Their headquarters are in São Paulo (Saint Paul) the largest city of Brazil. They provide scheduled services to destinations within Brazil, as well as international flights to Europe and other parts of North and South America.
The story shared below is one of the phenomenal ‘heart-touching’ stories that shows anti-racism action taken by the TAM Airlines in one of their scheduled flights.
This story went viral on Facebook and was liked by many people. So I thought of sharing the piece here - I don’t know if this is true. But it’s a nice story with an awesome ending:
This happened on TAM airlines.
A 50-something year old white woman arrived at her seat and saw that the passenger next to her was a black man.
Visibly furious, she called the air hostess.
“What’s the problem, mam?” the hostess asked her
“Can’t you see?” the lady said – “I was given a seat next to a black man. I can’t sit here next to him. You have to change my seat”
- “Please, calm down, mam” – said the hostess
“Unfortunately, all the seats are occupied, but I’m still going to check if we have any.”
The hostess left and returned some minutes later.
“Madam, as I told you, there isn’t any empty seat in this class- economy class.
But I spoke to the captain and he confirmed that there isn’t any empty seats in the economy class. We only have seats in the first class.”
And before the woman said anything, the hostess continued
“Look, it is unusual for our company to allow a passenger from the economy class change to the first class.
However, given the circumstances, the Pilot thinks that it would be a scandal to make a passenger travel sitting next to an unpleasant person.”
And turning to the black man, the hostess said:
“Which means, Sir, if you would be so nice to pack your handbag, we have reserved you a seat in the first class…”
And all the passengers nearby, who were shocked to see the scene started applauding, some standing on their feet.
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Update: This is a made up story (Confirmed after research).
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I love it! In America only white people are racists!!
This my story, this happened to me on a flight to Vegas in the 90′s…they moved me to first because an old white lady complained.
I am not sure what the lady said, but the flight attendant said she was being stupid. The funny thing, I had a sack lunch, which they use to give, she took it and said you don’t need that up here.
While
the story has recently resurfaced on Facebook, versions of the tale
have circulated since at least 1998 and have been set on several
different airlines in several countries. There is no evidence that the
incident described actually took place on any airline. The tale is
almost certainly apocryphal.
“Can’t you see” or its derivative has been said in the most public of places.. A tennis court during a major tournament, the US Open. Lleyton Hewitt was playing against Blake (black player) when he was foot faulted by a black linesman. Hewitt reacted violently by yelling at the chair umpire:
“Look at him (the linesman) and you tell me what the similarity is (beckoning towards Blake)”, and “I want him off the court,…” .. I had a french neighbor who left South Africa for France after the Apartheid and she didn’t know what it meant to be politically correct since racism was the norm for her. It’s all a matter of your upbringing and how close minded you remain for the rest of your life…
Hell yeah shoulda thrown the racist cunt out the window
Didn’t happen. Collected from e-mail circa 1998 http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/obnoxious.asp
“Who cares………..still nice story”
No, the nice part of the story is that it never happened. It is nice that there was no racist lady and no black person was insulted etc.
People should spend 1 minute on google before they share things. I found the hoax link in less than i minute!
Very nice story.. If its made up or not, still its giving out a positive message.
Haha, that’s everything I wanted to say. Which I found funny, since my name is Ben as well. Thanks, fellow Ben, for making us look good. :P
Who cares………..still nice story
nice message.. totally has to be made up but nice message none the less.
No true. Urban legend has been floating around for years in various airline’s colors.
http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/obnoxious.asp
It’s an urban legend, and it never happened. Jeez, people will believe anything they read on the internet… http://www.hoax-slayer.com/racist-airline-passenger.shtml