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"&lt;img alt=\"0831_united_michael_colyar_getty_EXD\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/09/01/0831-united-michael-colyar-getty-exd.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;United Airlines&lt;/strong&gt; is investigating a complaint made by an actor who appeared on the TV show \"&lt;strong&gt;Barbershop&lt;/strong&gt;\" after he claimed he was kicked off of a flight simply because he was black. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael Colyar&lt;/strong&gt; claims he was booted from his flight at Dulles International Airport in Virginia after he refused to allow a flight attendant to move his luggage from the overhead storage bin ... so a white passenger could stow her bag there instead. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colyar claims the flight attendant gave him dirty looks when he denied her request -- so he inquired about filing a complaint. That's when Colyar says he was approached by security, who removed the actor from the flight. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colyar blogged about the incident ... saying, \"The flight attendant and her friend got just what they wanted, the \nn**ger off the plane. I'm sure they feel a great triumph in putting an \nuppity n**ger in his place.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He adds, \"At the least I should be suing United \nAirlines for theft of services, public humiliation and defamation of \ncharacter.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;United Airlines tells TMZ ... \"As a global airline with a diverse workforce, United has zero tolerance for any type of discrimination and we take every such matter seriously. We spoke to Mr. Colyar&amp;#160; Wednesday so that we can address his concerns, and committed to get back to him as we learn more from our coworkers and other customers onboard.&amp;#8221; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sources connected to the incident tell us multiple passengers have been interviewed about the situation -- and several people said Colyar was loud with the flight attendant and had become an unruly passenger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- relatedlinks --&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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