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The U.S.'s oldest civil rights organization, the NAACP, is warning black flyers to exercise caution when flying American Airlines after a string of "disturbing incidents." The NAACP described "a pattern of disturbing incidents reported by African-American passengers, specific to American Airlines." The airline's CEO said Wednesday that he was disappointed by the announcement and that company wants to discuss the matter with the civil rights group. NAACP President Derrick Johnson told the Associated Press the group is not calling for a boycott of American Airlines, but after looking at the number of incidents, they felt as though they needed to issue a warning to African-Americans. In its statement, the group noted four recent incidents that "suggest a corporate culture of racial insensitivity and possible racial bias on the part of American Airlines." In one, the statement said, "An African-American man was required to relinquish his purchased seats aboard a flight from Washington, D.C., to Raleigh-Durham, merely because he responded to disrespectful and discriminatory comments directed toward him by two unruly white passengers." The man in question is the head of the North Carolina NAACP, the Rev. William Barber. In another, a black woman with first-class tickets was switched to coach while her white companion remained in first class. Two other incidents involved black women removed from flights after making routine complaints or requests, including asking for "her stroller be retrieved from checked baggage before she would disembark." | 
