Originally Posted by
CPRich
His color is mentioned once in the two stories combined, 6 paragraphs in below two photos.
And you make it the key point? Not the fact that he was led off in handcuffs and there was "a scuffle" on the plane during boarding?
The cleared passenger being a male of non-European ethnicity is a key point. How likely is it that all the paranoid passengers who refused to fly with the cleared passenger would refuse to fly if the cleared passenger was a seventeen year-old female "chav" of only Northern European ethnic background(s) instead of "brown" or "black"?
Denying the existence of racism where it is? That won't make it go away, as much as the advocates of racist profiling want to deny (or distract from) racism as a factor.
^^ for the pilot of this flight.