At 43, the instructors and managers do not see you as black or white, they see you as green - the colour of money - irrespective of whether your name is mandela or verwoerd.
The more money, the better - its business.
Now - when someone is washed it has f-all to do with which side of the colour spectrum they come from. It comes from their flying abilities and the possibility that they might just not be cut out for the task at hand No one gets whashed without good reason, and more likely than not the reasons have been stipulated by the company that sent you there in the first place.
Perhaps the fact that SAA and the like immediately scoop up every qualified black pilot, helps explain why no black guys stick around to become instructors at 43. Would you rather be bashing the circuit all day long in a cheroke earning average pay, or take up your righteous place in the right hand seat of a large airliner?? Secondly - as most of the black students are sponsored to attend 43, what would be the motivation behind tossing the sponsorship aside and rather staying on as instructor? You see, Musa, already some major accusations that you have made alledging racism is explained purely by having look at what is really going on. You know very well what sort of a rise your initial post will have, because it is currently very fashionable to try and and explain any shortcomings with a black person, as being part of a bigger racist plot.
Unfortunately, and heres the fun bit....even for you, blaming your personal shortcomings on racism gets you nowhere. Other than promulgating the stereotype of the angry black man, you will one day find that when africa no longer has any white faces (yes yes, we already know about that), you will have no one left to blame for your own shortcomings. That - rafiki, is when you are going to be sitting up a creek with no paddle. How then will you explain to your sponsor that you failed, not because you are black, but because you are not good enough.
The time is coming when the ideal of having no white faces in positions of management and power, and I have no hassles with that, for africa is after all for the africans n'est pas? Around this time it will become blatantly clear that individuals who have been hiding their lack of skills/motivation/ability behind the race card, perhaps dont belong there in the first place.
I will cherish that day, the amount of surprised faces when there is no longer some other race to blame....oh hang on, then you will blame the west, a la bob across our northern border.
Blame blame blame, easy aint it. You can work hard, or you can rather just blame someone when you dont get your way.
Crying racism is the perfect tool to create trouble in SA these days. It is the perfect shield behind which your own inadequacies can hide. Being considered sub-par has nothing to do with your reflectivity index, but purely the way in which you conduct yourself in a cockpit.
Now lets quit our fussing and rather just go flying.