By Ryan Velez
A Black transgender journalist is
making headlines, not for her work, but being kicked off of a United
Airlines flight for wearing an upside-down American flag T-shirt and a
Black Panther superhero hat, according to The Daily Mail.
According to Amanda Stevens, she was
preparing to board her flight from Albany to Chicago to cover the world
championships of online battle game League of Legends. At this point, a
representative of United initially raised some concerns about her shirt.
She was told that the shirt, from the discontinued PacSun clothing line
of rapper A$AP Rocky, made the pilot of the flight “uncomfortable.”
Dear @united this shirt shouldn’t make your pilot uncomfortable enough
to warrant having me spoken to and told to take it off,’ she wrote on
Twitter.
While Stevens was allowed to board
the plane, issues continued when she had a “tense exchange” with a
flight attendant who asked her to put her bag under her seat. Finally,
she was asked to remove her hat, designed with the logo of the Marvel
superhero Black Panther.
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Source: Your Black World News
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