One of the nation’s biggest airlines has been called into the spotlight after a Black father was accused of trafficking his own children on a flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles earlier in September.

David Ryan Harris, a musician who has collaborated with the likes of John Mayer, Carlos Santana and the Dave Matthews Band, recently took to social media to tell his story, and ask for people to “do better” after the incident rattled his family.

Harris says that he was aboard an American Airlines flight two weeks ago, heading to LAX with his two biracial sons, Truman and Hendrix. As they were de-boarding the plane, they found four police officers waiting for them at the gate.

“Apparently, a flight attendant had called ahead with some sort of concern that perhaps my mixed children weren’t my children,” Harris said in a video posted on his social media accounts. “We are met, embarrassingly so, by this AA employee and police officers. They questioned my kids.”

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    1 year ago

    This is what you get when right-wingers hype child trafficking bullshit as culture war. Child trafficking is real and terrible. But it looks nothing like what the internet tells them it is. They see it everywhere because they have distorted ideas about what it is. See The Sound of Freedom

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      It’s all intentional too. They want to muddy the waters, and make words like “grooming” meaningless. And they’ve largely succeeded.

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      It’s fucking sad. When liberals get shit wrong, it’s embarrassing. You worry about it delegitimizing real situations. You question what led to where you are now. It’s a big deal.

      Conservatives just double or triple down. Fuck the real victims. Fuck the falsely accused. Fuck getting better. Fuck shame.