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		</div><h3><span style="color: #808080;"><strong>&#8216;I’m appalled that after approx 50 times flying with my 1-year-old son, ticket counter personnel told me I had to “prove” that he was my son, despite having his passport&#8217; &#8211; Gottlieb</strong> </span></h3>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>University of California women&#8217;s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb was flying with her son Jordan Peter Martin on Sunday </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>She claims Southwest Airlines staff at Denver Airport asked her to prove she was Jordan&#8217;s mother </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Producing her son&#8217;s passport was not enough for the airline personnel, she writes on Twitter<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>They insisted she present birth certificate, provide &#8216;Facebook post&#8217; which proved their relationship </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>She was allowed to board the Oakland bound flight, 50 minutes later after another mother pointed out that she&#8217;d never been asked to provide such documentation when flying with her child who has a different name<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The woman who intervened was not part of a mixed race family<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Outraged mom claims it would not have happened if she and her son had the &#8216;same skin color&#8217; </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Gottlieb who is White has been engaged to Patrick Martin, her long-term boyfriend, since last March</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Martin who is Black was not with his fiancée and son at the tim</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">e</span></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-293876" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Lindsay-Gottlieb-with-her-son-Jordan-and-her-fiance-Patrick-Martin1.png" alt="Lindsay Gottlieb with her son Jordan and her fiance Patrick Martin1.png" width="685" height="653" /><strong>Lindsay Gottlieb [left], with son Jordan and </strong><strong>fiancé </strong><strong>Patrick Martin [right], claims she was asked by Southwest Airlines staff to &#8216;prove&#8217; she was her son Jordan&#8217;s mother during a flight on Sunday. Martin who is Jordan&#8217;s dad was not with them at the time </strong></h6>
<p>&#8216;University of California women&#8217;s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb claims she was asked by Southwest Airlines staff to &#8216;prove&#8217; she was her son Jordan&#8217;s mother during a flight on Sunday. Gottlieb is White but the father of her child, her fiance Patrick Martin who is Black, was not with them at the time.<img class=" wp-image-293878 alignright" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Lindsay-Gottlieb-2.png" alt="Lindsay Gottlieb 2" width="224" height="318" /><br />
I’m appalled that after approx 50 times flying with my 1-year-old son, ticket counter personnel told me I had to “prove” that he was my son, despite having his passport.<br />
The University of California&#8217;s women&#8217;s basketball coach [right], has spoken out against Southwest Airlines after claiming to have been asked to prove she was her biracial son&#8217;s mother.</p>
<p><em><strong>It&#8217;s &#8216;demeaning and insensitive&#8217; &#8211; Gottlieb</strong></em></p>
<p>Gottlieb, 40, took to Twitter to call out the airline on Sunday after her flight from Denver to Oakland with her one-year-old son Jordan, turned into a nightmare.<br />
She claimed that as they prepared to board the plane, she was asked to prove Jordan was her son despite having his passport with her.<br />
Gottlieb said the employee responsible claimed their inquiry was down to fact that they have different names, however she believes it was because they have different colors of skin.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Gottlieb fumed about the experience, which she called &#8216;demeaning&#8217; and &#8216;insensitive&#8217;, on Twitter<br />
&#8216;She said because we have different last name. My guess is because he has a different skin color,&#8217; Gottlieb tweeted.</p>
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<div class="container-3zJLP horizontal-1eH9F">&#8216;She said because we have different last name. My guess is because he has a different skin color,&#8217; Gottlieb tweeted.<br />
The &#8216;proof&#8217; the employee reportedly demanded from the exasperated mom was Jordan&#8217;s birth certificate and then, beyond that, a &#8216;Facebook post&#8217; Gottlieb said.<br />
After another mother allegedly pointed out that she had never been asked to provide such documentation when flying with her child who has a different name, Gottlieb was allowed on to the flight.<br />
That woman, she said, was not part of a mixed race family.<br />
&#8216;It was demeaning and insensitive, not to mention inefficient. Would have missed flight if it was not delayed.</div>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-293879" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Lindsay-Gottlieb-left-with-son-Jordan-and-fiancé-Patrick-Martin-2.png" alt="Lindsay Gottlieb [left], with son Jordan and fiancé Patrick Martin 2.png" width="662" height="449" />Lindsay Gottlieb [left], and </strong><strong>fiancé </strong><strong>Patrick Martin [right], with their son Jordan<br />
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<p class="imageCaption">Gottlieb said she was particularly outraged by the experience after flying with her son more than 50 times in the last year.</p>
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<p class="imageCaption">Gottlieb is the coach of the University of California&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Basketball Team</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;I would advise better training for employees to avoid this happening to others,&#8217; she fumed.<br />
Southwest Airlines did not respond to DailyMail.com&#8217;s inquiries on Tuesday morning but a spokesman told <a class="class" href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/05/29/southwest-airlines-confronts-cal-womens-coach-over-infant-son/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">KPIX5</a> that it was investigating Gottlieb&#8217;s claims.</p>
<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-293877" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Southwest-Airlines1.png" alt="Southwest Airlines1.png" width="690" height="390" />Southwest Airlines &#8211; &#8216;looking into the incident&#8217; </strong></h6>
<p class="meta">Southwest Airlines said it was looking into the incident and that it had spoken to the coach<br />
&#8216;We’re looking into this specific interaction, and we have engaged with the customer directly to address her concerns.<br />
&#8216;Our employees are well regarded for their hospitality and we always strive for the best experience for anyone who entrusts us with their travel,&#8217; they said.<br />
Gottlieb and her partner Patrick Martin welcomed their son last May.<br />
The pair have been engaged since last March but dated for years before Gottlieb fell pregnant.<br />
This development appears to run on the same tracks as the incident that has led to beverage franchise Starbucks closing over 8,000 stores for Anti-Bias training, following the race biased call of a Starbucks manager to call police on two Black men after they spent two minutes in the store without making a purchase. In a similar development a <a href="https://konniemoments.com/2018/05/12/nigerian-woman-sues-removed-from-united-airlines-she-was-kicked-off-flight-with-her-kids-when-white-male-passenger-told-crew-she-smelled-bad/" rel="bookmark">Nigerian woman is suing United Airlines</a>, after she was kicked off a flight in Houston with her kids, when a white male passenger told crew she smelled bad.<br />
While Gottlieb says she does not believe it reflected the attitude of the airline.<br />
“I suspect it was just one insensitive employee,” she said. Still, “It hurt my feelings. It made me feel a little bit less than and it’s not okay.”</p>
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‘Too White to have a Black Baby!’ UCal women’s basketball coach, Lindsay Gottlieb, blasts Southwest Airlines after being asked to ‘prove’ she was her biracial son’s mother, before boarding flight
