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Delta Pushes Back on Report That Flight Attendants Bullied Black Passenger Into Moving Seats

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Passengers board a Delta Airlines plane at the Salt Lake City International Airport in 2012.

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The Bay Area’s ABC7 reported late last month that a black woman was made to move her seat on a Delta flight to accommodate white passengers in an article that heavily implied the seat-change was racially motivated.

The original local news report found its way into the New York Post, The Independent, and Business Insider, among other outlets.

Isaac Schorr

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Isaac Schorr

Isaac Schorr is an editor at Mediaite and a 2023–2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.

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