June 2, 2018 03:13 pm PDT
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Southwest wouldn't let mixed-race family fly until mom "proved" parenthood
Last Monday, UC Berkeley woman's basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb and her fiance Patrick Martin tried to board a Southwest flight with their one year old, biracial son; they presented the check-in clerk with their son's passport, but the clerk refused to let them fly until she showed the clerk Facebook posts or a birth certificate to prove that she was her son's mother. (more…)
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