Mo’Nique calls it racism
Ξ July 25th, 2006 | → 1 Comments | ∇ It's Just News...Right? |
TV star Mo’Nique calls it racism; United Airlines calls it a disgruntled passenger. Either way, Mo’Nique was escorted off her flight from Chicago to New York after a verbal confrontation with flight attendants over…a hair dryer.
Mo’Nique and her stylist were traveling to New York when the stylist placed t
he hair dryer in an overhead in first class, where Mo’Nique was sitting according to a report in the New York Daily News. The stylist returned to her seat in coach.
The flight attendants refused to believe that the hair dryer belonged to Mo’Nique.
Mo’Nique alleged in the NYDN article that one flight attendant said, “Tell your people that the next time they have an attitude, they are being thrown off. … Since 9/11, we don’t play around.”
“Are you equating my hair dryer with 9/11?” Mo’Nique said she retorted.
Mo’Nique was escorted off the plane and back to O’Hare Airport where a United supervisor called local police to complain of a “disgruntled and belligerent passenger.”
Mo’Nique was not arrested or detained and another United agent booked her and her crew on the next flight to New York where the actress taped two episodes of “The View” as a guest host.
Mo’Nique is trying to rally support for a boycott of United.