March 6, 2011 | By: Cayote Blizter
A young man, by the name of James Moore, was removed from a Southwest Airlines plane at JFK International Airport today. Mr. Moore was escorted off the plane, due to his attire.
Reporters on the scene found the young man disheveled.
"What I can't believe this..." - said Moore, when approached by one of our reporters.
"Can't believe what? Tell us what happened?" - asked NNC reporter Jason Carroll
"Uhh, they took me off the plane." - responded Moore.
"Why'd they take you off?" - asked Carroll.
"I don't know ask them!" - Moore said angrily.
Our NNC reporters asked airport security if they had any comments.
"We apologize to the young man, but our other passengers did not feel
safe with him on board." - stated security.
"And why is that?" - asked Carroll.
"Well he was wearing a black suit and he has a beard! He was just so suspicious looking!." - said security.
"So instead of making sure he was up to something, you just assumed." - said Carroll.
"Sir, we didn't assume anything. We just saw a possible problem and we took care of the problem, before it got any worse." - security responded.
"Wait, what was the problem again, I don't understand." - said Carroll.
"Our passengers didn't feel comfortable. That was the problem, we were getting complaints about him. I think its better to take one passenger off than all of them." - security.
"I see." - said Carroll, ask he left to once again talk to Mr. Moore.
"Security told me you were wearing a black suit, how come your not now?" - asked Carroll, approaching Moore.
"Well you see I was only wearing a suit, because I had a business meeting to go to. They made me take off so they could inspect it." - he responded.
"So you missed your business meeting? Unbelievable...but why are they inspecting your suit?" - Carroll questioned.
"They're probably looking to see if I hid any bombs in it." - Moore said.
"Oh so now they think your a suicide bomber? Oh these people." - Carroll said, in shock.
"I think it might be because of my beard, should I shave?" - Moore asked jokingly.
"Nah, don't do that. You shouldn't have to adjust what makes you, just to please people." - Carroll said.
Our reporter Carroll, witnessing the discrimination first hand, discussed how unfair it was to take Mr. Moore off the flight with the airline. Feeling sorry for their poor judgment, the airline has apologized several times and given Moore a voucher for a free flight. Moore has accepted their apologies, but says that he will never again fly with the airline. He wants his ordeal to be spotlighted, so that he can show Americans how he faced discrimination just by having a beard and wearing a suit. This should make known, how wrong it is to doubt some one because of appearance or how wrong it is to associate some one with a negative thing because of appearance.
