Now We Have Proof !
Posted on 07/08/2013 7:54:37 AM PDT by Baynative
One way to tell they might be qualified is you pronounce their names which means they possibly had good parents.
Foiled again!
Did they put wheel spinners on the landing gear?
That’s what I ask myself. After white males have blazed the path, doing things when it was still risky and unknown (like the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, Lindbergh flying across the Atlantic, the astronauts on the moon, in bathyscopes to the ocean abysses, etc), what is the great advance that someone with different melanin content does it later?
I’m happy for them, but I don’t care at all what shade their skin is or that they’re female.
There is something wrong with people who jump up and down for joy over the first minority anything. People are people. The important thing is that all are held to the same standard regardless of minority status.
Probably not. I’m pretty sure that as Delta Connection pilots they are trained to some minimal qualification standard. They wouldn’t be there unless they could pass that gate, regardless of historical significance.
Onn the whole, they look like nice people who look like they’re excited at what they’re doing, and I hope that translates to concentration to their tasks and progressing accordingly.
My only problem is the hoohah about “first black anything crap” It should not make a damned difference at all.
It’s significant that it’s black WOMEN who achieved this milestone. Meanwhile, their bros are wearing hoodies and baggy pants and shooting each other to the tune of 5,000-6,000 per year.
Now We Have Proof !
Been to some war materiel sites in Alabama with a friend from there avidly interested in its history.
Been to a Naval Ordinance Production site near Talladega where they produced Naval Ship Ordinance during WWII....
Big, big, bid damned shells. Tons each seems like. Women worked that plant.
Heavy, heavy concrete bunkers, copper lined (no sparks), segmented assembly, heavy work. They did okay.
OUT: United We Stand, Divided We Fall
IN: Celebrate Diversity
I, like our fellow poster, just hope they got there with know how, not race preference. I have no doubts blacks CAN fly as well as anyone, I just don't trust the preference crowd to know the difference.
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see also Judge Nelson in zimmerman trial. Quota queen in college? law school? appointment? but a quota at some point.
Not until we have the first all black, female, lesbian, transgender, illegal immigrant, ADD, blind, and deaf aircrew.
You can add, “first female...,” to that, too.
There sure is a lot of vitriol on this thread. I like this kinda of ‘first’. Not a big media hyped fake first. No just a random moment. This shows us how far we have come. How far we have REALLY come, not how far some fake hyped event can make it look like we have.
This stuff matters. Yeah affirmative action is crap and all that... we all know that. But my parents can remember when there were ‘white only’ water fountains for crying out loud. Sometimes it is nice to look up and realize how far we have come. I find it heartwarming. Unlike the crew of that 777 these ladies apparently knew how to land.
And that is probably why it wasn't in "the news".
We have an elderly lady friend who was a bomber pilot in WWII.
I think she said she flew B-17's.
Female pilots delivered the bombers from the US to England via hops to Newfoundland and Iceland.
No navigators - they flew in formation following the leader who was an experienced pilot with a navigator aboard.
I don’t know what it means.
What is important is what was on the menu for the in flight meal.
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