Sha’Carri Richardson in the news again - Kicked off American Airlines flight

I work with people from all over the world (urban community hospital where international doctors outnumber American born physicians and a good 5% of the people in the building at any given moment are named Dr. Patel). I think all of us would be "triggered" by having our flight delayed by some entitled diva throwing a hissy fit.

So you’re saying it’s “normal black culture” to act like she does? The soft bigotry of low expectations strikes again

It’s funny isn’t it. Hmmmmmm loves pointing fingers but Hmmmmmm is starting to look like the most racist person on this thread.

To excuse behavior based on race is to believe a race is incapable of behaving.

To Hmmmmmmm, if a middle aged white woman were to act like that on a flight how would you react to that video? Is the behavior still excusable? Does the phrase crazy Karen come to mind?

That was the point of my post. The problem is that my racist uncles call "acting ghetto" acting black. They look at Sha'Carri and say, "see, that's what we've been saying all along" while happily ignoring literally millions of normal people...

This post is 100% spot-on. Thanks for saying it better than I did (I was getting downvoted like crazy).

Don't you think minorities also get triggered when they encounter crazy, rude, loud, arrogant, entitled people who think the rules don't apply to them? Why do you think we also hate on Karens and Trump? They think they are entitled as well. It is not about race, it is about acting like your problem should be everyone else's problem.

Gotta get that hip-hop career off the ground somehow. Sprinting is pretty much played out.

I'm biracial. If I acted like this, my parents (note the plural) would punish me. Any self-respecting person should be embarrassed if they acted like that.

She was wrong to make a scene, Though I agree with her Flight Attendants should be respectful to passengers, I have always found Flight Attendants to be very respectful, apparently she came across an exception a bad apple, or maybe just someone who had a bad day, that Flight Attendant should at least get a warning to see if he has lots of complaints by other passengers of being disrespectful, rude etc, If it is a pattern and he has lots of similar complaints against him perhaps he should be fired it is bad for business to have Flight Attendants who are treating passengers like dirt, It is unfortunate She came across either a bad employee or an employee who was having a bad day and took it out on her. Still she should also be more Civil, Make a complaint, she is a Celebrity in the Track World and should have a better image, acting out has to hurt her endorsements, but she should speak up when someone is treating her like dirt.

The Flight Attendant was out of line and in the wrong, still Richardson should not make a public scene.

I know your right however I've seen black women just treated poorly simply because they were black maybe poor and they just lost it due to the pressure and I understood.

what does cardi b have to do with sha'carri richardson? the only similarity i see is that they're both black women

You use of the term 'behaving' is very telling.

I'm going to assume you are intelligent enough to realize the difference in context between a white person bossing around a white person and a white person bossing around a black person.

I'm not excusing her behavior here. I don't know enough about the situation one way or the other. She could very well be 100% in the wrong here. But to act like there's not cultural subtext when a white person is giving orders to a black person is just being willingly ignorant.

One thing I do know for sure though...is that there is certain segment of the LRC crowd that luuuuuuuuvs to create and flock to threads like these. Britany Griner jay walks and you've got a 50 page thread. All the same people who were self professed experts on the Bell Curve now suddenly deeply invested in the sanctity of pedestrian traffic laws.

So predictable, it's hilarious.

Klassy!

this is what we get for making her cut out the weed

That's what Tom MacDonald said.

The flight attendant was not in the wrong. Richardson was filming herself and talking during the safety demonstration. It was the flight attendant’s job to tell her to be quiet and put her phone on flight mode. Richardson is in the wrong on this and it’s a bad look for her. She was more concerned about the flight attendant ruining her video than for the safety and comfort of the other passengers. This had nothing to do with race. She was being a selfish jerk during the safety demonstration, and the flight attendant was just doing his job.

The fuse is burning fast on her sprinting career. She turns 23 in March. She has yet to make a US team, has never broken 11 seconds outside the US and has never broken 22 seconds in the 200 ever.

She has placed looks and Insta likes above her training by getting a boob job, which I’m sure her coach, agent and sponsor correctly think that the surgery and implants will likely negatively affect her training and racing.

This thread is being moved to "registered users" only to make it eaiser to moderate late at night.

Anyone notice the lady flight attendant that comes up from the back, shaking her head no? Is she doing that to the male attendant? If so, is she doing it because she knows he's a prick? Or is she doing telling him, it's not worth it. Just let it go?