A black flight attendant had a frank talk about race with the American Airlines CEO

[Andy Meek]

• The George Floyd-inspired protests unfolding across the US are inspiring everyone, across the gamut of industries including tech, to reflect and look for opportunities for change.
• Along those lines, Southwest Airlines flight attendant JacqueRae Hill recently had an emotional conversation with a white male CEO on her flight about race.
• Turns out, it was American Airlines CEO Doug Parker.

It has been a trying and traumatic week so far in America, with good news and moments of inspiration and hope certainly hard to come by. But JacqueRae Hill, a flight attendant from Dallas for Southwest Airlines, has given everyone just that.

A few days ago, she drove to work with a heavy heart, as she explains it in a post on her Facebook page. Hill, emotionally wrecked due to everything from the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police to the unrest in major cities around America, decided to "really go to God with my thoughts" as she was driving to work, because she already knew it would be hard to smile with everything going on. As she begins her shift and starts to board the first flight of the day, she spots a white passenger -- who Hill doesn't recognize was American Airlines CEO Doug Parker -- reading a book she's had on her own reading list to eventually get to: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin DiAngelo.

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