‘Can’t You Carry Your Own Child?’: Black Parents Accuse American Airlines of Discrimination After Workers Allegedly Refuse to Check Stroller for Disabled Child But Allowed White Parents to Check Their

American Airlines is under fire for alleged discrimination after Black parents were not allowed to check a stroller at the gate, while white parents on the same flight were.

But this wasn’t just any stroller; it was a mobility aid for the couple’s 4-year-old daughter, who has a disability that prevented her from walking unassisted in public.

The mother claimed that three white American Airlines employees scoffed at her predicament and refused even to read the medical paperwork. Instead, the mother said they instructed her to check the stroller as baggage, asking, “Can’t you carry your own child?”

Atlanta Black Star reached out to American Airlines for comment, but had not heard back by press time.

“No empathy. No compromise. Just refusal. But what broke us wasn’t just the grueling walk