FRENCHIE ALLEGES RACISM ON ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT: It all started when boy said he didn't want to be near “big black person.”
*Frenchie Davis says she was a victim of racism by a passenger and flight attendants on Alaska Air, and plans to discuss her ordeal in a press conference scheduled for this week in Los Angeles.
Her rep, however, has already told EUR what went down. Her account is as follows:
The “American Idol” vet was seated by the window at 1:30 p.m. for a scheduled 1:55 p.m. take off on Friday. A man and his son had the seats next to Frenchie, but the boy complained that he didn’t want to sit next to the “big black person,” Davis’ rep says.
The man asked Frenchie to put her armrest down between her and the boy, but Frenchie had already fallen asleep as the plane began to taxi down the runway.
According to her rep, the man “stands up and shakes Frenchie violently saying wake up and put the armrest down right now. She tells him to take his hands off her.”
The man allegedly asked flight attendants to call security because this “big black woman is harassing him,” the rep recounts. She says two flight attendants respond, but don't bother to ask Frenchie to tell her side of the story. They just demand that she move.
Frenchie tells the attendants that she was attacked, the rep says. But the pilot somehow gets involved, turns the plane around and heads back to the gate, where Frenchie “winds up off the plane and misses her flight to her next professional singing performance,” the rep says. “A few witnesses give her their information and tell her if she needs a witness to call them.”
Los Angeles community activist Najee Ali is involved and will give remarks at the press conference, scheduled for Thursday morning at the Lucy Florence Coffeehouse in L.A.
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Posted By: Candice Johnson
Tuesday, June 26th 2007 at 2:42PM
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