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Old 11-28-2006 | 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by CE750

So let's get that straight before we continue..
I really wish you wouldn't. The issue is AA and its relevance to the hiring of pilots, not politics.

Originally Posted by CE750
Now, for you to have flown with 2 black and two Hispanic pilots in one year is pretty good if you ask me, I've not been so fortunate in my entire career (although there are a lot of hispanic sounding names that are white as anyone, but I'm not seeing the dark skin variety at all)
Since experience is a factor in how we see this question, what has been your career?

Originally Posted by CE750
The thing to do now is to focus on fairness in hiring, at the same time nurture the poor inner city youth and 1st generation Mexican American young man to see piloting as a profession that can attain with hard work.
I don't think so.

The goal is to hire the best qualified pilot...not to engage in social engineering.

Let's talk about today. Not the past. Do you have any evidence that discrimination exists today as it once did years ago?
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