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TSA issues apology to Native American woman who had braids pulled by agent
Tara Houska humiliated by TSA agent who snapped my braids like reins during screening at Minneapolis-St Paul airport
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/18/tsa-native-american-woman-braids-airport
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The federal Transportation Security Administration has apologized to a Native American woman who said an agent at Minneapolis-St Paul international airport pulled her braids and said giddy up! when she took a flight from there this week.
The agent said she needed to pat down my braids, tweeted Tara Houska, an indigenous rights advocate and attorney. She pulled them behind my shoulders, laughed and said giddyup! as she snapped my braids like reins. My hair is part of my spirit. I am a Native woman. I am angry, humiliated. Your fun hurt.
Houska, who is Ojibwe, added: When I informed the middle-aged blonde woman who had casually used her authority to dehumanize and disrespect me, she said, Well it was just in fun, Im sorry. Your hair is lovely.
That is NOT an apology and it is NOT OK.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)I hope there is a lawsuit.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,514 posts)Maybe the perp should have to spend some time being taught, by Ojibwe, why she was wrong. Expand her cultural horizons and scope of empathy.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,474 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,514 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,344 posts)at a local college. The woman's tribe shouldn't have to be forced to explain to this stupid fucking bigot how they are actually human beings too.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,514 posts)I'd ask 'em if they want first try at her, though.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)3catwoman3
(24,083 posts)I am daily horrified by the decline in civility sinceTrump was installed in the WH.
And that it was done by a woman really surprised me. Maybe it shouldnt, but it did.
getagrip_already
(14,915 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 18, 2020, 06:44 PM - Edit history (1)
They are trained to say "let's go expletive-deleted", or in rare cases, "move you ass expletive-deleted". We will evaluate our training and improve.
That is our commitment to the real american people
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)go stand in the corner and think about what you did
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,474 posts)getagrip_already
(14,915 posts)I do tend to shoot myself in the foot. I'll edit the post.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,474 posts)Hekate
(90,916 posts)Damnation they are an embarrassment to the nation.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Quite easy to find.....
Hekate
(90,916 posts)Perhaps someone has much more up-to-date info, but back at the beginning several things were seared into my consciousness: the system was farmed out to private firms, workers were excluded from government civil service classifications, and workers were forbidden to form unions. Oh, and salaries were low and training was minimal.
That told me that from the very beginning workers were going to be treated as disposable units with a badge and a uniform, NOT as individuals with important and respected functions requiring training and deserving worker protections.
The most obvious example is the X-ray machines. Those are our fellow Americans standing all day next to that equipment. If I as a passenger object not just to the intrusion but to the exposure, what about them? Safe, the government and their employers say? Sez who? Who checks? The union they are forbidden to form? The Civil Service they are not a part of?
Shoddy beginning -- shoddy results.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Initech
(100,115 posts)DFW
(54,462 posts)Although, much to my surprise, a woman in our Dallas HQ told me her brother was head of the TSA at the El Paso airport. She sent this video to him, and he showed it to the TSA team at the El Paso airport, and they laughed their asses off (so she says), so they can't all be insensitive louts.
lpbk2713
(42,770 posts)The power seems to be too much for them.