Mom Blasts Southwest Airlines For Asking To ‘Prove’ Biracial Son Was Hers
I wonder if the woman was black if she’d been arrested?
A Southwest Airlines employee asked a college basketball coach over the weekend to “prove” that her biracial son was hers, the woman said Monday.
Lindsay Gottlieb, the head women’s basketball coach at the University of California at Berkeley, said she was flying from Denver to Oakland with her 1-year-old son, Jordan, when the airline employee requested his birth certificate.
Gottlieb said she didn’t have the official document, though offered his passport, which lists him as having a different last name.
“She said, well, how do I know that you’re the mother?” Gottlieb recalled to KPIX News. Gottlieb is white, and Jordan’s father is black.