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A Charlotte woman wants an explanation from American Airlines regarding a racially insensitive bank charge.
Kyetra Bryant who is Black says, while traveling with her boyfriend over the Thanksgiving Holiday, she notice a strange bank statement charge.
“I said hmmm, ‘African American, African service charge.’ It was just on my cellphone because I was looking at my banking app. I’m like ‘what is this?’” she explained.
Bryant contacted the airlines immediately, but said no one was helpful.
From November to January, she would get the runaround from the airlines and her bank. Both blaming the other for the peculiar charge.
“The bank told American directly, we don’t have anything to do with that. When you put something into your system, we charge it as the merchant charges it, and that’s it,” she said. “To this day it hasn’t changed on each of our statements.”
Source: Fox 46 Charlotte
