Yep, that's correct AA is not a handout. It is meant to give an oppurtunity to someone who would not normally not have that oppurtunity. However, in this day and age it just doesn't work anymore. Go to the poorer areas of the country that are non-white. Take the kids that show promise, intiative, desire to learn and better themselves. Pay for their education, ratings, training, ect. And when the time comes that they ACTUALLY have the experience to compete for a profession, let them apply for it amd get hired on that fact alone, not their race. This would be a better use of AA than it is now.

At a place where I tought another outfit was working with OPAB to help them get jobs at a local regional. I would see them and query them about what was going on. One of the students showed up in a brand new 5 series BMW. Two other students had fathers that were wide body captains at a major airline.

I grew up in a typical middle class family. Father worked, mom stayed home and raised the kids. It wasn't until I was in college that my dad actually gossed more than 40k a year. Like alot of people, I paid for everything myself, flying, college, cars to get to both of them, ect. Now, can anybody tell me what oppurtunitys I had that some of the above listed people DIDN'T have coming up in this field?

I can garauntee you that if my dad was a widebody CA or my parents had the money to buy me a brand new 5 series BMW, I'd be a hell of alot further along in this career.

BTW, I would love to see the statistics of how many non white male candidates get turned down vs. how many interviewed for the job and white male turn downs vs the amount interviewed.