Oompilot, those who live here, do know you are right. Those, who don't live here, will always call you a racist.
A national carrier has in the past employed several ethnic African foreigners, Zimbabweans, Ugandans, South Africans etc. and an Indian (by passport) guy too.
The Indian pilot did not at all meet the minimum qualifications, the company however employed him and paid for his training (ME CPL & IF), while paying him a salary too.
However, there are national pilots (citizens) available, who have a lot more experience and would only need the minimum trainig, e.g. type rating.
However, those pilots happen to be caucasian, despite their families being in the country for generations.
The fleetcaptain (ethnic African), who actually tried to stop the employment of the Indian national and rather wanted to employ one of the more experienced caucasian citizens got disciplined.
Since the strategy of employing non-caucasian pilots lead to a shortage due to excessive training times (type ratings failed several times by several non-caucasian pilots, probably due to the big step from C172 to a jet) the crew shortage had to be resolved by employing European (caucasian) contract pilots...