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

There’s now a thread about her on the Flyertalk message boards, and the response was ‘no, we do not know who your are, other than the person who held up a flight for no reason.’ And in general roasting her pretty hard.

No sympathy there.

There was plenty of criticism directed at the Tinman white boys. Social media focused rather than athletic. I see Richardson doing the same thing. Just run, no one in Jamaica really cares about your social media persona.

Seems as though you're the one falsely claiming to be an expert on "the Bell Curve" (obviously referring to the book by Herrnstein and Murray, not the common term for some Gaussian distribution used in the fields of probability and statistics). I had no familiarity with either Richardson or Griner until they were separately busted for violating governing drug regulations or laws, and my own anger about their cases had to do with efforts (in Griner's case, successful efforts) to give them a pass on the consequent punishment based on a combination of (1) the special treatment to which even marginally well-known athletes are accorded in the U.S., (2) widespread views in the U.S. about existing laws and regulations governing marijuana and cannabis products, (3) apparently spurious claims of racial discrimination, and (4) in the case of Griner, apparently spurious or unsupported claims (specifically made by President Biden and many others) that the criminal proceedings (including, in particular, the initial airport search and subsequent detention and criminal charges) were politically motivated.

Regarding Richardson, I seem to recall that voices from letsrun.com supported her inclusion and participation on the U.S. Olympic team at the expense of others (and in violation of governing rules), largely based on (1) her somewhat overrated sprinting ability and value to U.S. interests and (2) the perception that WADA and USADA regulations regarding in-competition limitations on cannabis metabolites are inappropriate, despite overwhelming support for such limitations throughout the world and the illegality of marijuana and cannabis possession and use in almost every country (including the U.S.). Richardson seems to have benefited from more general public outcries about racial discrimination, and apparently she and others are once again willing to excuse her behavior or criticize her treatment on similar grounds now.

Regarding the observations of others that Richardson gets more attention than individuals like Mu and McLaughlin, that's to be expected -- criminals and miscreants tend to get more attention than law-abiding and well-behaved persons, regardless of race. I do agree, however, that the time and energy devoted to defenses of or excuses for the conduct of someone like Richardson are peculiarly harmful within the ongoing discourse in this country about matters of race, and that exemplars like Mu and McLaughlin provide some counterweight to what one poster referred to as "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

Sha’Carri and Odell are just really dumb. Too bad their behavior is accepted by their legions of simp followers.

Please don’t post on this message board. K thanks!

so you thought it was a worthy cause to to spend your time to argue in favor keeping an American in prison in an undemocratic, corrupt, hostile and belligerent nation for 9 years for the equivalent of a misdemeanor?

Because of ...you know....the principle of it all.

lol

Why would a hockey message board care about this?

the same reason a running message board is obsessed with britany griner

This isn’t really a running message board.

And it’s Brittney. At least spell her name right bigot.

Preach

I didn't spend any time arguing in favor of "keeping" an American in a Russian prison for a long time based on what you describe as "the equivalent of a misdemeanor." I did express my anger about the asserted bases for the successful efforts to give an American citizen (and primarily Russian athlete) a pass on punishment for violating governing law, including outright lies by the U.S. government about the factual circumstances of her case. I chose not to discuss a number of other matters relating to Griner's case, including the means by which the U.S. secured her release from prison, which required the release and return to Russia of the arms dealer known as "the Merchant of Death," at a time when Russia is specifically seeking to negotiate for and purchase foreign weapons with which to kill thousands of Ukrainians and take over their country.

This doesn’t sound like the Sha’Carri Richardson *I* know…

Flyertalk and not Flyerstalk. Flyertalk is a message board for frequent flyers, frequent travelers and travel hackers that’s been around since 1998.

Flashback from 2007.

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Britney Spears Throws Temper Tantrum: Delays Flight at LAX

Here's the bitch freaking out on the plane On An episode of Chaotic. Britney Spears is no fan of pleather. The pop princess was reportedly on a commercial flight at LAX and according to a report threw what sounds like a bit o...

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She also thinks she’s being disrespected cause she’s black

Thing is, he didn't know that. The amount of BS and inaccurate information they're given each day by passengers is going to be off the chart, plus people lying to get their own way as well. Passengers will say all kinds of things, make things up. If he had moved you and then you weren't the last person on that's going to cause problems. Or maybe there was something else going on, some information we're not privy to. So simply better to wait a few minutes until the door is locked and then move someone. And the reason why he didn't say what you mentioned is that had people come in, for all he knows you could've kicked off saying "but Mr flight attendant TOLD me I could go and sit in an empty row, he said... etc". It complicates the situation needlessly. These people go through these scenarios day in, day out. He was most likely doing what works and causes the least drama. Wait a few minutes until all is settled, then move you. Making promises to people in that situation isn't a good idea.

RE SC's situation:

It's flying. It's a plane. At the end of the day you sit down and shut up while they're doing that presentation. They don't want to be doing it. You don't film videos during safety presentations. It's rude aside from anything else, speaking of people being rude. You switch your phone off when you get on the plane. Or when they tell you to. Everyone does. Otherwise we would have people using cell phones during take off and throughout the entire flight. They have this rule and they can't keep altering it just because someone wants to do something else. You don't try to make exceptions to these rules, it doesn't matter how special you are. It doesn't matter who you are, if you can buy a plane. If the Queen of England had sat down in that seat she would have to switch her phone off. She's mentioning stuff that is completely irrelevant. Also, I doubt whoever was doing the safety presentation wanted that to be disrupted. She shouldn't film during a safety presentation, end of story. I would actually expect someone to be rude to me if I was doing that and disrupting things, then if I was asked to stop and then I carried on. There is too much pandering to people these days. I really feel for people working in the service industry face to face with customers. They get treated like shiit. You only have to spend five minutes in McDonalds to see it. People are vile to them..

This situation never should have happened. She gets on, doesn't film. Problem solved. Or "can you stop filming?" ... "OK". End of problem.

I've never gotten kicked off a flight before. But I also don't immediately ask to move to a different seat when I get on the plane, I don't talk on the phone when I know we're about to take off and phones need to be put on airplane mode. I don't talk back to flight attendants when they tell me something. I don't argue with other passengers. I don't record a flight attendant and talk crap about them on the video when I'm not happy with them. I don't escalate bad situations to make them worse.

Good for you! 👍🏻