Ok...so you quoted stats that only .1% of pilots are black women. And only 1.5% of pilots are black men. Is this FAA licensed pilots? Because all that tells me is that not that many minorities got their pilots license...unless racism kept them from trotting on down to the FBO and dropping some money on their career like all of us had to do.

It would be awfully hard to make 12% of pilots at regionals/majors/fractionals/135/whatever miniorities if only 1.6% of your available pilot pool are holding a pilots license....

And you're right...I don't know you and you don't me. And while I have never walked a mile in your shoes (cuz then I'd be a mile away...with your shoes)...you do not know my background. But this isn't a dispute about backgrounds, it's a dispute of whether it is fair or not to give hiring preferance to someone based solely on the subject of race. It wasn't right when they did it for white males, why is it suddenly ok to do it for minorities?