guvnor
Think about this for one minute. Your information and conclusion on this event comes from; a) a journalist trying to have a story printed, which is certainly MORE likely to receive the editor's thumbs up if there's a juicy "race Angle" (YOU at least understand that); b) assumptions by you that AA is a racist
airline; c) that AA only supported the Captain because they don't wish to upset APA in case AA needs to ask for salary givebacks.
You only have a few hours left this year to realise you may be barking up the wrong tree here.
At least the other AA folks on pprune have had a good laugh at your supposed inside knowledge.
Airlines are under somewhat of a siege mantality at the moment, including AA (if we hadn't had any bad luck this year, we wouldn't have had any luck at all!). You might suspect that we're all sitting around praying for these people to go mess with someone else. The reality is that we don't want ANYONE else to be targeted. We just want these incidents to end, period.
As this incident blows over (Don Carty is a personal friend of George Bush and if there was even the slightest doubt that this Captain had caused ANY embarrasment to that relationship the individual would be hung, drawn and quartered) REAL airline pilots will have a chance to put themselves in this Captains shoes and decide what they would have done, based on the information available to the Captain, AT THE TIME. Note, real airline pilots know that Captains and other crewmembers actually have many duties to perform and don't just sit around for 75 minutes looking to pick holes in E-2 paperwork.
I wasn't there and neither were you. If you were I hope you'd have erred on the side of caution. A cavalier attitude right now WILL end in more tears!
Repent guv, and all will be forgiven (at least for 2001!).