Why are you proud of them? This is not 1950, women and men both have the opportinuty to learn to fly, regardless of color. I have never seen a sign outside of an FBO that reads "White Males Learn to Fly Here." Anyone who has the money to learn, can.

So these 2 pilots, who happened to be black and female, decided they would like to make a career out of their passion for flying, just like all of us did. And then by random scheduling, they were flying together one day.

Should we applaud male nurses, white rappers, male nannys, white heavyweight boxers as well...they are all rare in their fields?

The fact that people are "proud" of them does not say much on how they feel about these pilots abilities, as if they do not have the "goods" to make it in this field and somehow these two did.

They are pilots, rare, but still just pilots.