Cheadle alleges racial profiling incident on airplane
'Iron Man 2' star Don Cheadle was left fuming after a recent flight from hell - because he insists he was the victim of racial profiling...
From Toronto Sun:
Iron Man 2 star Don Cheadle was left fuming after a recent flight from hell – because he insists he was the victim of racial profiling.
The Hotel Rwanda and Ocean’s Eleven star was travelling back to Los Angeles from a concert when he encountered rude airline staff who thought he was trying to sneak into first class to sit next to his partner Bridgid Coulter.
But he insists he was just asking if the couple could be seated together.
He recalls, “We get up to the ticket counter and we’re trying to get our seats together. As we walk up to the counter there’s a crowd and we hear, ‘Everybody just back off! Just back off!’ So I walk up to her (airline worker) and say, ‘Don’t you mean back up?’ And she goes, ‘Yeah, you’re right. Back up and back off!”
Cheadle decided to try a different approach and ask a stewardess when the couple boarded the aircraft – but he was shocked to find she was even ruder.
He explains, “I go up to a flight attendant on the plane and say, ‘Ma’am, we’re seated in different seats…’ and she says, ‘Well I can’t change seats on the plane.’ I said, ‘No, I’m aware of that,’ and she goes, ‘What you (sic) want me to do about it?’ (I said) ‘Nothing, that’s fine.’
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