Airline racial fury as ma is hassled for ID
A CALIFORNIA college basketball coach says a Southwest Airlines staffer crossed the line in questioning her relationship to her 1-year-old biracial son.
Lindsay Gottlieb, the head coach of UC Berkeley's women’s basketball team, says she was boarding a Denver flight Sunday when an agent asked for proof that she was the parent. “I’m appalled that after approx 50 times flying with my 1 year old son, ticket counter personnel told me I had to ‘prove’ that he was my son, despite having his passport. She said because we have different last name. My guess is because he has a different skin color,” Gottlieb, 40, (left) said in a Twitter post Monday.
Gottlieb, 40, is white while her fiancé Patrick Martin, (right) the father of her son, is black. There is no federal law requiring parents to travel with their baby’s birth certificate. On its website, Southwest says a birth certificate is required to validate the age of all children under 2. But it says nothing about proving parentage.[