Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Odds are if you look really hard in certain old-school airlines you could find a bit of racism. But that's probably true of anything in certain parts of the country.
But airline pilots in general are going to be more tolerant than society in general, due to the fact that they're educated and have typically traveled for both work and pleasure.
Don't go looking for trouble where there doesn't need to be any.
I've flown with more than an insignificant amount of people who use Ferguson as an "example of why blacks shouldn't be allowed in the rest of society." Others have said they wouldn't get caught dead in Dearborn with all those sand-n's trying to blow them up. And even some who refuse to go to Mexico because the locals are drug-running murders who are going to try and kidnap them.
All of these examples have happened at both the regional, legacy and things I've heard as a jumpseater. To say that these things aren't offensive to minorities or not prevalent is simply not true.