Racist Man on Flight Unleashes Tirade Against Elderly Woman: She is Forced to Move, Not Him
On a Ryanair flight, a passenger recently went crazy on a 77 year old woman seated nearby, unleashing a torrential downpour of racist words and all that at the woman. She was moved, when he should have been.
In the footage, a black woman and a white man can be seen with an entire seat separating them, while other passengers outraged at the racist anger tried to calm the situation.
The incident occurred on a flight titled FR015 going to London, United Kingdom from Barcelona, Spain on Friday afternoon.
Over a million times on Facebook, the footage was viewed. In it, the angry old man is shouting at the woman to move seats, and her daughter responds to him in frustration and disbelief that her mother is disabled.
He callously replied: “I don’t care whether she’s f****** disabled or not – if I tell her to get out she gets out.”
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The man who probably is used to being immune to consequences, again jabbed at the middle seat on the flight and continued shouting at the poor old woman.
He continued: “I hope somebody sits there because I don’t want to sit next to you and your ugly face, your ugly f****** face.”
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A flight attendant tries in futility to calm the situation, but the man of course continues “If you don’t move to another seat I’ll push you there.”
Still nothing with any force was done to the man running his mouth, but a man sitting in the row behind them tried to intervene, asking the old man shouting racist rants that there’s “no need” for his behavior. Of course it didn’t stop him from talking sh**.
He just continued on insulting the poor old disabled woman, responding “Don’t talk to me in a f*****g foreign language you stupid ugly cow.”
“I will carry on as far as I can with this ugly, black b******.”
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According to the Daily Mail:
“Other passengers can be heard gasping and the man from the row behind leans forward to put his arms between the man and woman. Another man can be heard saying ‘throw him off the flight. Get rid of him’ as the flight attendant comes back to ask the angry man to ‘calm down.’
The woman is then taken to another seat on the plane, away from the man. The woman’s daughter, 53, told the Huffington Post the row had started because her 77-year-old mother’s arthritis meant it took her some time to move out of the way so the man could reach the window seat.”
Her daughter said she was taking her mother, who originally from Jamaica, a Windrush Generation migrant who came to the United Kingdom in the 1960’s, on a holiday to mark the somber occasion of one year since the passing of her father.
“My parents were married over 50 years. She’s been feeling really down and depressed, so I thought the trip would raise her spirits,” she said.
“I know that if I was behaving like he was or any other black person for that matter, police would have been called and we would have been kicked off the flight.”
True, and in America someone would have slapped this racist old man silly.
“Mum’s really feeling upset and very stressed about this situation, on top of the grief she’s already experiencing. As for me, I’m upset about the whole thing too – the fact that the passenger wasn’t taken off the plane and how the situation was dealt with,” she continued.
The cabin crew denied hearing anything, and social media is really the only thing fueling this.