RDR's right.
I completely agree with RDR in his assessment of South East Asian Airline's perception of African-American or people of African ethnicity.
I knew a black guy, well, Aruban to be correct, he applied with an outfit in Indonesia in the good ol days. Back then, email or skype hadn't evolved to what it is now(there was no skype in those days, we had something called 'hotmail'). He was called in, the moment they saw him, the DFO and HR politely , refused on account of all slots being filled.
I completely agree with RDR, color is a per-requisite.
BTW the year i speak above was 1996.