Originally Posted by Shrike200
Slow down. 20 years ago I was about ten years old. How much complaining did you expect me to do? Think about it for a second....should I have been toting an AK then, or blowing up bars or something?
Seat of power, my ass. I don't hold anything. I come very much second to any black person trying to get into SAA. And of course there's the ultimate currency, the black female. Sort of like four aces in poker - beats anything. Don't give me 'seat of power' rubbish quotes....who do you think I am? If you think my skin colour gives me anything but disadvantage nowadays, you're clueless.
So, once again: My generation had nothing to do with apartheid, but we get shafted by the current policies. Those who did benefit, are about to retire with 1 mil + p.a. retirements. If you had thought about it for more than a millisecond, you would see why we (or I, at the very least) complain.
Edit: I see you give your location as New Orleans. I assume then, that you haven't experienced the full reality of the situation here, unlike many here whose livelyhoods are directly affected.
So lemme get this straight "20 years ago I was about ten years old" means you didn't directly benefit from aparthied?! So your gonna tell me that your parents (therefore you) didn't have more and more opporunities than your 10 year old black counterpart and his family?! Now you want to compete on a "level playing field"?
If you're mad and want to blame someone blame those who came before you who were complicit in creating the previous system. It was they who made it so. You are having to deal with the aftermath.
The funny thing is I know several south african pilots working abroad. I have never run across one who was black anywhere. I suppose that's just a coincidence!?
As an aside I've spent time in SA and with South Africans and I do not live in New Orleans.