Originally Posted by
Onfinal
I think it has more to do with the lack of career guidance, inside assistance, and yes still some racism that makes it difficult to reach the goal. The typical black or hispanic person middle class or poor has no outlet ( no uncle, neighbor, friend of a friend of a friend) to assist them in even beginning to know how to become an airline pilot. And certainly no one to guide them through the pitfalls along the way. I believe that the internet has made it much easier in the last 10 years to have access to the guidance that is needed in the profession, hence websites like this one.
Thank God for websites like these. I for one have a dad that has told me not to become a pilot because I'm a minority and I will never reach the ranks of a pilot, he says that I should settle for jobs that fit my ethnicity, and that something’s are just impossible.
I come from poor inner city schools and the whole deal, I'm currently in college and hope to one day reach my goals.
In my high school there were about 500 people graduate out of an entering class of 1000, out of those about 150 were going to go to college, and about 30 of us were actually going to go to a four year college. Out of those 30 half were Caucasian’s that somehow had ended up at a high school in which the majority was a minority.
Out of those 15 no one except me wanted to become a pilot. As you can see, it’s hard to expect to see many minority pilots out there.
I know that this was a little off the subject but I feel it backs up some of your previous comments.