Oh baby you ANC nothin yet !
tired,
I quite agree with your sentiments,
Whilst fully understanding that this sort of thing raises emotions, we should try not to find ourselves guilty of "reverse reverse rascisim"
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IE assuming that
1-all non white pilots are affirmative action positions and
2- are therefore not as good as the rest of us lilly white breathren when it comes to aviation.
3-that all affirmative actioned pilots cant fly as well as us.
In any organisation there are going to be bad apples in the pile, irrespective of race/ colour, for example, some of the most severely inept and dysfunctional individuals that I've ever flown with were neither affirmative actioned nor black but rather similar to me, being of jolly typical white south african / national party voting / comb in sock / broederbond type, stock. Yet this did not taint my view of Afrikaans speaking people's abilities to fly aeroplanes.
Possibly the selection processes for all positions ( affirmative and non) should be tightend up in order to elliminate poor calibre individuals ( black ,white, whatever) from getting into our companies in the first place.