Minorities Sue American Airlines for Providing Them With Affirmative Action

Front Page Magazine ^ | 12/22/2025 | Daniel Greenfield

[DFG]

Forget, ‘no good deed goes unpunished’. More accurately, no corporate wokeness goes unpunished by those taking advantage of it. Affirmative action is one of the worst examples as companies set themselves up for lawsuits like this through their illegal and immoral pursuit of diversity.

A group of 18 former student pilots sued Fort Worth-based American Airlines this week, alleging the company misled them and racially discriminated against them while they were enrolled in a flight training program.

The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a federal court in San Diego by a group of plaintiffs who identify as Black, Asian or Latino accused the airlines of offering them fewer training opportunities than their white peers, grading them harsher, subjecting them to derogatory comments, and putting them on remedial tracks that led them to quit the program. That left several plaintiffs in debt, the suit claims.

The suit also accuses the airlines of “reverse redlining” when it targeted minority groups to enroll in a program they were unlikely to complete and three times more likely to be removed or forced to resign compared to white cadets.

“American targeted racial minorities with deceptive and misleading advertising to entice non-white cadets, including Plaintiffs, to take out massive loans to enroll in the AACA—a predatory program with little likelihood of a successful outcome,” the suit read.

A ‘predatory program’ indeed.

Reverse redlining is an interesting term that racial litigators invented to describe various forms of affirmative action in which lenders and other organizations bent over backwards to provide services to minorities, even though they were unqualified, only to be accused of ‘reverse redlining’ for providing loans to minority borrowers that they couldn’t repay.

Basically it’s Catch 22 and you’re damned if you and damned if you don’t. Don’t provide the loans and you’re a racist, provide the loans and you’re a racist. If your pilots aren’t diverse, your airline is systemically racist, but if you try to aggressively recruit minority pilots, then you’ll be accused of setting them up to fail by recruiting them for a program they would never be able to finish.

But the unreported elephant in the room here is that American Airlines was sued over its DEI programs and using DEI as a basis for promotions. AA backtracked away from recruiting and promoting personnel based on their race and now they’re being sued over it by the DEI crowd. You can guess the likely compromise, which will include a massive payout, and more unqualified pilots.

That can’t end well for the passengers.

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[Jeff Chandler]

targeted minority groups to enroll in a program they were unlikely to complete

Just like affirmative action at Ivy League colleges.

[lee martell]

That “reverse redlining” is going to be very hard to prove.
These DEI recipients say that they were graded more harshly than white applicants? If anything, I would expect them to have been graded more favorably, with fewer requirements.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Yep. It’s part of why Michelle Obama is so bitter.

She was in classes with classmates so far above her, intellectually, she became bitter and defensive.

She’d have done much better in some community college somewhere.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

So, the minorities are admitting that they are unprepared for the program while their white cohorts are succeeding?

What is it that these minorities are admitting to here?

[atomic_dog]

I thought this was a Babylon Bee article

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

You can guess the likely compromise, which will include a massive payout, and more unqualified pilots.

Oh, My

Sum Ting definitely Wong

What do you call a pilot who graduates last in his class?

[Organic Panic]

Black people should be the first to complain about DIE and affirmative action. I was VERY uncomfortable when I saw a black pilot flying a plane I was on. I am sure I wasn’t the only other person who had the same feelings. I feel the same way about any other life or death professions. A black doctor? A black civil engineer? Was he promoted because he was black? Blacks should be yelling from the roof tops to end these programs and prove their abilities.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. They would have to prove that the exercises and tests were graded more harshly than the white students.

[albie]

“She’d have done much better in some community college somewhere.”

…Hamburger University.

[GOPJ]

I’m guessing the old way under DEI was to grade minorities higher and that now they’re being graded the same. “Same” is a disaster when the goal is to get a job NOT earned.

[T.B. Yoits]

Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091165/fullcredits/

[Navy Patriot]

Minorities Sue American Airlines for Providing Them With Affirmative Action

[Navy Patriot]

Minorities Sue American Airlines for Providing Them With Affirmative Action

That's an ungrateful response for being given a Free Crash Course!

[HereInTheHeartland]

They need to be accomadated. Standards need to be lowered so they can succeed .
Airline safety is just another expression of the colonial oppressors.
Landing safely is an expression of white supremacy.
THROW OFF THE SHACKLES OF OPPRESSION.

[MrRelevant]

Black students (African American) at Ivy League universities have very low dropout rates, with six-year graduation rates typically ranging from 95% to 99%—often equal to or higher than the overall student body rates, which average around 96-98% across the Ivies.
The standard metric in U.S. higher education is the six-year graduation rate (completion within 150% of normal time for a bachelor’s degree). Dropout rate is essentially 100% minus this figure (excluding transfers out, though transfers are minimal at these schools).
Recent data (from U.S. Department of Education IPEDS, analyzed in reports up to 2023):
• Harvard — 99% for Black students (vs. 98% overall).
• Princeton — 99% for Black students (vs. 97% overall).
• Yale — 98% for Black students (equal to overall).
Older data (2010s-2020) from the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education shows similar trends:
• Harvard: 96-98%
• Princeton and Yale: 94-97%
• Other Ivies (e.g., Penn, Columbia): 85-93%, still far above the national average for Black students (~46% at public four-year institutions).

From Grok …. For what its worth.

[SuperLuminal]

"...they were unlikely to complete and three times more likely to be removed or forced to resign compared to white cadets..."

Duh!
Stupid is as stupid does! (As a famous philosopher once said...)

[TangoLimaSierra]

What do you call a pilot who graduates last in his class?

Sadly, a pilot.

[lee martell]

Off Topic (but possibly of interest):

That reminds me of a book I was given to read in my Sophomore High School English Class, 1973. It was titled:
“My Darling, My Hamburger” by Paul Zindel.
A novel that follows four teenagers, Liz, Sean, Maggie and Dennis, as they navigate first love, sexual pressure and the challenges of adolescence.”

I wanted to read another selection, but that book was out of stock. It was “Watership Down”. A classic 1972 adventure novel by Richard Adams about a group of wild rabbits fleeing their doomed warren to find a new home, lead by two brothers, facing predators, adversity and leadershi challenges of survival in the English countryside.

[ridesthemiles]

DAMNED IF YOU DO

DAMNED IF YOU DON’T