Racism
is something that should never be tolerated and black music executive Emmit
Walker stood up for himself when a white woman insinuated he couldn’t afford a
first-class plane ticket.
Emmit from Washington DC was travelling to the Dominican Republic from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when he encountered a white woman who tried to cut in front of him in the line while he was boarding in first class – because she didn’t believe he was a first-class passenger, reported the Daily Mail.
Emmit took to Facebook to share a photo of the woman and a script of their conversation that went like this:
Her: Excuse me, I believe you may be in the wrong place you need to let us thru. This line is for priority boarding.
Me: Priority meaning first class, correct?
Her: Yes . . . now excuse me they will call y’all after we board.
Me: *shoves first-class priority boarding pass in her face* You can relax, ma’am, I’m in the right spot, been here longer, so you can board after me.
Her: *still won’t let it go* He must be military or something, but we paid for our seats so he still should have to wait.
Me: Nope, too big to ever be in anybody’s military. I’m just a n***a with money.
In the post he claimed the people who were standing in their same line then started to clap at his response.
The Facebook post has since gone viral as it’s been shared over 252 000 times with over 704 000 reactions.
Speaking to Metro UK, Emmit said he never intended for the post to become that big. “When I posted that on Facebook I didn’t expect all that to come from it,” he said. “It brings me no joy waking up in paradise to for my 37th birthday and knowing that woman might be going through hell. The story was definitely real, just like this issue is definitely real, but I now know that I myself should of handled it another way, or left it how it was, and not shared it publicly,” an apologetic Emmit continued.
He then went on to post a video where he apologises to the woman. Each to their own, but Emmit Walker is teaching us to be the bigger person.
Check the post below.
Sources: Facebook, Metro, Daily mail
