MQ, this actually sounds to me as perceptions, cultural differences and personality clash rather than being racist. This instructor might have let the strict professional training profile slip and he made comments that he thought to be "funny / cool" but was perceived as "racist". Could you possibly take colour out of the equation and just think that he might call all his pupils “monkeys” (a term of endearment??) and the “one of their own” could actually be referring to “pupils”. There is no one as blind as the person that does not want to see”. Always look for the bigger picture rather than the conservative, one sided point of view.
The SAA cadet pilot scheme incumbents were also sent to 43 for training and believe you me, SAA would not have tolerated any racist behaviour.
MQ, you seem to be intelligent thus focus of the flying thing, become the best you can be and forget banging the “racist” drum. You can quickly pick the people (pilots) that got to their current positions by banging the “racist” drum, taking the easy road. You will only get so far that way and then you will end up a smoking hole in the ground taking a lot of innocent “pax” with you. Read some of the posts again and you will see that you are being incited by “pilots????” with their own narrow minded perceptions and views to think everything is about race in SA. Keep an open mind and never ever believe you can actually know what another person might be thinking. Doing that you are imprinting your own personal thoughts on that person, playing judge, jury and executioner in one go.
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IRP, you know some folks walk past a book about SA or they see a movie about a small portion of SA history consisting mostly of one sided propaganda and suddenly they are experts about SA politics and history.