Posted on 07/08/2013 7:54:37 AM PDT by Baynative
Atlantic Southeast Airlines, an Atlanta-based Delta connection regional carrier, recently made aviation history when one of its flights from Atlanta to Nashville was conducted by a crew comprised entirely of African-American women. This landmark event — which happened by chance — comes on the tail end of Black History Month.
It's late but interesting to me in that I never saw a mention of these women anywhere, but there's plenty of free Obama phone ranters and race baiters in the news everyday.
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Would the same hoopla have been made if the crew had been all Asian, Native American etc.? Slavery ended 150 years ago and the Jim Crow laws have been gone for half a century. Blacks have every opportunity to access jobs as everybody else and with affirmative action get preference sometimes even over more qualified non Blacks. This shouldn’t be news except in our current racially divided nation.
I didn’t intend to condemn what you said...sorry if that’s how it came out in my response.
As I’ve grown older into that oh-so-common Old Fart category, I’ve taken to take a look back as history within my realm, or my parents. I recently got a book about the “Bell Bomber Plant” in Marietta during WWII....fascinating. The women (my aunt was one), made BOMBERS! Even made some B-29s...
It was, and is today, Air Force Plant Number Six, now run by Lockheed Martin. They’ve since made the C-130, the C-141, the C-5, and most recently assembled the F-22s there.
It is surprising what our women in this country did then.
Are they any good? Do they know what they're doing?
If "yes", great! I don't care what their skin colour or plumbing looks like.
If "no" ... then get the damned incompetent, racist, sexist morons off the flight deck!!!
Dude...been there, done that...hee hee....:)
LOLOLMAO! Best laugh all morning!! Thanks.
For that reason alone I hope they are providing some sort of inspiration to other young folks of any gender or color who may dare to dream beyond the box they were born into. These women represent the exact opposite of the character and class confinement promoted by Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the rest.
I agree completely.
So. What? Does anyone think these girls said to themselves, “I’m going to fly because I’m black”?
Anyway, where are their pilot caps?
Very, very likely they were told this by their own contemporaries.
A corporation I worked for hired a black IT guy. He was great at what he did and fun to be around. He once told me that he always felt insecure because people would look at him and think just that. I admitted that I did at first, myself.
I dearly love Shirley Q.
She did a great job!
Nothing scarier than affirmative action pilots. Except maybe brane surgeons.
Does this stuff really matter any more? I suppose it’ll be interesting when the first crew of left-handed Chinamen “makes aviation history” but really, does it warrant a news article?
But, why are we still congratulating them for the color of their skin, rather than simply that they've earned cool jobs?
Yes, we all have come a long way, but clearly, we still have a ways to go until we see the sameness with our hearts' eye view, instead of the differences our physical eyes and some egos get stuck on seeing.
I'd like to fly with them...once the TSA nazis have been banished.
The co-pilot's hot, too.
The way she's looking at me...I think she likes me...I definitely like her!
Agreed. They have meet the standards for crew. That is the important part. Their color is irrelevant. I would have no qualms riding as a passenger with them.
The female Americans must have successfully gotten the plane back down as we haven't read about their landing.
I’d feel better about them if they were looking forward.
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