Plus-size African-American comedian (and apparent front-runner for “The View”’s Star-Jones-size vacancy) Mo’Nique claims she was recently ejected from a United Airlines flight for racist reasons:
The incident started when her hair stylist stashed a hair dryer in a first-class bin. While Mo’Nique was flying in the front of the cabin, her aide was in coach.
The “Showtime at the Apollo” host said she tried to keep her cool when a flight attendant first questioned the stylist’s actions. But things escalated when another flight attendant allegedly refused to believe the beauty tool belonged to Mo’Nique.
“Tell your people that the next time they have an attitude, they are being thrown off. … Since 9/11, we don’t play around,” one flight attendant allegedly told Mo’Nique.
“Are you equating my hair dryer with 9/11?” Mo’Nique said she retorted.
Representatives for United denied the allegations of racism, and indicated that they would be happy to eject hefty white-woman-with-attitude Rosie O’Donnell from a future flight in order to demonstrate their race-neutral approach to inconveniencing customers.
