NEWS: Actress Calls for Airline Boycott

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Actress Mo’Nique called for a boycott of United Airlines after getting into an ugly spat with a flight attendant. The trouble began when Mo’Nique’s stylist stored a hair dryer in a first class bin above where the actress was sitting. The stylist sat in coach, so a flight attendant questions why she used the first class bin. Another flight attendant didn’t believe the hair dryer belonged to Mo’nique. And that’s when the shit hit the fan.

Security escorted the still-livid Mo’Nique back to the Chicago O’Hare terminal, where the she booked another flight to New York.

Being Caucasian, I’m not sure what airline I should be flying. I hope Mo’Nique can fax me some information concerning this problem. I’m praying I'm not supposed to by flying Southwest Airlines.



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Black people always get hasseled when their personal stylists try to stow things in first class?

I'd put this in the "shut the fuck up" file.

Okay, I don't watch TV, don't own a TV, I use the computer at work, but certainly not for pop-culture......who in the fuck is "Mo’Nique" and why does anyone care?

I would be pissed too if some one said my stylist couldn't stow her shit in first class It is called a suitcase. Put that shit in there.

It's my industrial strength hair dryer, AND I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT IT!

the thing that kills me is that things like that happen to white people too... it's just that you don't see us taking it personally and claiming it's a race thing everytime it happens. STFU no one cares!

Lord knows what kind of shit-fit you'd have w/o it!! Someone give back the industrial strength hair dryer... STAT!!!!!

Wasn't she in "Soul Plane"?

Nonsesne, I'm white and I take everything personally.

In fact, I'm taking this comment personally right now.

And I'm considering launching a boycott against you.

This is a list of her "body of work."

Mo's House (2006) (TV) (announced) (attached)
Farce of the Penguins (2006) (filming) (voice)
Steppin: The Movie (2006) (post-production) .... Aunt Carla
Beerfest (2006) (completed) (as Mo'Nique)


Phat Girlz (2006) .... Jazmin Biltmore
Domino (2005) .... Lateesha Rodriguez
Shadowboxer (2005) .... Precious
Mo'Nique's Fat Chance (2005) (TV) .... Host
Hair Show (2004) (as Mo'Nique) .... Peaches
Soul Plane (2004) (as Mo'Nique) .... Jamiqua
"The Bernie Mac Show"
- Who's That Lady? (2004) TV Episode .... Lynette
Good Fences (2003) (TV) (as Mo'Nique) .... Ruth Crisp
Half Past Dead (2002) (as Mo'Nique) .... Twitch's Girl
... aka Halbtot - Half Past Dead (Germany)
"The Parkers" (as Mo'Nique) .... Nicole 'Nikki' Parker
- Make a Joyful Noise (2002) TV Episode (as Mo'Nique) .... Nicole 'Nikki' Parker
- Fighting Kim (2001) TV Episode (as Mo'Nique) .... Nicole 'Nikki' Parker
- Bad to the Bone (2000) TV Episode (as Mo'Nique) .... Nicole 'Nikki' Parker
Two Can Play That Game (2001) (as Mo'Nique) .... Diedre
Baby Boy (2001) .... Patrice
"The Hughleys"
- Forty Acres and a Fool (2001) TV Episode (as Mo'Nique) .... Nikki Parker
"Moesha"
- The Candidate (2000) TV Episode .... Nikki Parker
- I Studied Twelve Years for This? (1999) TV Episode .... Nikki Parker
- It Takes Two (1999) TV Episode .... Nikki Parker
3 Strikes (2000) (as Mo'Nique) .... Dahlia

I hope she does fly Southwest from now on.... because they will make her buy 2 tickets, because she will obviously take up two seats... three if you count her hair dryer.

Off topic, but I figured it didn't really matter here.
...unless the topic is racism.

Has anyone seen the Chappelle's Show Lost Episodes?
The second or third episode in particular.
Hilarious and a perfect display of why racism is nonsense.

I'm not one to be dismissive about racism, so I'm not going to comment about the actual incident because the details look a bit fuzzy. But motherfuck do I hate that woman. Goddamn, she's irritating and unfunny.

Also, if Mo'Nique actually employs a stylist, she's certainly not earning her keep.

That's what I'm thinking. Guaranteed to not have her on it!

United has really cheap flights to Germany and areas around Germany. Sorry, Mo'Nique

Looks like pure hubris to me.

"In a related story, Chicago P.D. pulled over the plane in mid-flight because Mo'Nique, an African-American woman, was sitting in first class. When stopped, police asked Mo'Nique for her license and registration (because obviously the seat must have been stolen, because as everyone knows, there isn't a single black person in America who can afford a first-class seat on a plane). Minutes later, all hell broke loose. Mo'Nique is now calling for a boycott of the entire Chicago police department, urging Chicago's black residents to refrain from calling them for help, because that will assuredly solve all problems of racial discrimination in this country."



On a serious note, yes racism still exists and it sucks and it should be stamped out at all cost. But this really sounds to me more like a "Do you know who I am?" type celebrity who had a taste of the real world for a second and couldn't handle it. Come on Mo'Nique, you could be using your "voice" to deal with some of the real issues of racism that go on everday rather than this petty bullshit. And by calling for a boycott of an airline, what about all the black people who work for the airline whose livelihoods depend on United's business? That's where the true disparity exists in this country -- in the economics. The fact that you'd be hurting employed black people in this country, because you couldn't keep your hair dryer with you,, Mo'Nique makes you teh suck. But no, I get it -- having access to one's hair dryer is an important right in this country that will lift all of us up. And someone should definitely pay.

I had a similar experience when flying on BET Airlines. They told me I couldn't store my accordian in the overhead bin. Racist bastards.

In regards to the fat chick in the picture above? I'm suprised the airline didn't charge her for two seats.

I think people are missing the important part of this story where it says she has a personal stylist. Someone gets paid to make her look like that.

This is just like when Oprah wasn't allowed in a closed store in France and called Racsim.

What the stylist had to fly in the back of the plane and not up front in first class.

I think the stylist should complain.