BLk, I've read your post, all of them, but this one got me ****ed. "I don't think you should worry"??? Do you feel there is some conspiracy out there to keep black people out of the cockpit? If so, you sir, are the racist!

It is very simple (as others have tried to explain)

You can not base the number of people in the pilot seat upon the number of people in society.

if 99% of the people that apply for a job at Bob's widget company are little green men, then it would make sense that the company would be 99% little green men.

Does Jet magazine have only 13% black people working there? Of course not. Does that make them racist? OF COURSE NOT! Their employee group is predicated on the percentage of people that apply for the job.

You want personal history? In 2000 the only airline I applied for was United. I had a connection, 2 type ratings, 7,000+ hours, former military, Embry Riddle. Every button pushed. When my 3rd female F.O. and one minority (indian by the way) got the job and I couldn't even get called for an interview, the writing is on the wall.

Very few people (their is always the village idiot) would look at you in a regional cockpit and think you got there because you are a minority. Getting in the regionals is so easy that they don't have time to be picky on any preference. But if you get hired at Delta next week with 1,000 hours and no PIC time, then don't be surprised if people feel that your success was based on the color of your skin.

You seem like a very smart man, and I applaud your efforts at ERAU. I would venture to guess that your grades are better than mine. I would view you as equal if we were sitting in the cockpit. Your denial of race in the industry is exactly that. Denial. I wish you the best.

Stick