The comments posted at the end of this article are very sad and I hope this isn't the way the majority of our country feels. The problem is, it's difficult to determine if someone got hired or not hired based on whether they were a minority or not without having all the information. I'm sure we have all sat with someone in the cockpit who said they were not hired even with what seems to be extraordinary qualifications and for the captains, someone that was hired with zero jet PIC time even with thousands of applicants with PIC time out there. The problem is we just don't have all the info, we don't know the applicant's past, if there were any skeletons, how the interview went, etc. I'm sure a few qualified applicants have been passed over in the name of diversity, but I'm also certain more than a few qualified minorities have been passed over for the reasons mentioned in the article (if not in recent history, for sure prior to the 60's and 70's). I have heard managers in the past (not at airlines) say some pretty egregious things when they felt they were in good company. My point is we don't have all the info we need to make a determination of discrimination in either direction. I'd like to think it happens both directions and comes in a wash at the end.