Originally Posted by freezingflyboy (Post 3072534)

True. Dat. I'll never forget sitting in a bar one night in ANC. During a lull in the usual contract BSing and hangar flying fish stories, I strike up a conversation with the woman next to me, who identifies herself as Inuit. The old white guy I'm flying with says to her (and I **** you not) "wait. You're an eskimo?! Like an igloo eskimo!? I got a question: can you get a DUI if you're on a dog sled?" When she tells him that the E-word and his whole line of 1950s stereotypes about igloos and dog sleds is offensive to her, he just doubles down until she gets up and storms off! I never wanted to crawl inside a beer bottle so badly.

Originally Posted by freezingflyboy (Post 3072544)

Attitude adjustment!? I don't like where this going! When I was a kid that's what my dad used to call it when I got a whoopin!
But you're right. ATL pilots are well known for their affable, easy going manner and ability to tolerate some gentle ribbing or even a slight correction from ATC. ATL's reputation is likely the result of some mass delusion among the other bases. Carry on

Originally Posted by freezingflyboy (Post 3072529)

How dare you speak ill of that bastion of progressive thought and inclusiveness. Careful or AirbusPTC will be along to adjust your attitude. Three guesses what PTC stands for ;)

Originally Posted by casual observer (Post 3072365)

Delta's corporate support of BLM amounts to workplace harassment. BLM is a political movement that advocates defunding the police. A culture has evolved in which, if you disagree with any aspect of BLM, you are racist. (similar sentiment is used in posts above).


Stats don't back the idea that police target black people. Twice as many white men are killed by police than black men. The media does not report on white victims of police homicide, because they want black people to believe they are being victimized. Other demographics are ignored, for example almost twice as many Native Americans are killed by police as black people per capita, but that is never reported. White men are killed at a rate 10 times that of black females.

If we are making the case that black people suffer relatively in our society, why do we only look at police homicide stats. There are over 500,000 incidents of interracial violent crime each year. 90% of those crimes are committed by black people on white victims. A police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than a police officer is to kill an unarmed black man. For every one black male killed by police, almost 300 are killed by other black males.


After 911, Delta did a good job of teaching us that we should judge people based on their actions and not their skin color, ethnicity, religion or gender. What are we doing now? We are judging all cops and all non-black people based on the actions of some. 15 years ago there were videos online of Extremist Muslims sawing off the heads of white Christians. Was it or would it have been right to hold all Muslims accountable for the actions of the extremists? To get them to kneel in support of western Christians? To apologize for their Muslim faith? Absolutely not, they had nothing to do with it. But that is what is happening today. The video of the murder of George Floyd is being used to generalize and stereotype the behavior of all cops and it is being used to intimidate non-black people into supporting BLM politics under the threat of baseless charges of racism.


Evil happens when good men do nothing. The current effort to intimidate non-black or non-liberal people into adopting BLM ideology is bigoted and contrary to a free republic and has no place at Delta Airlines.

Originally Posted by contrails12 (Post 3072552)

this is actually why I started this thread. I did the same google search and the only thing that comes up was some amateur pilots scratching their heads on a forum. That’s why I asked here for the history of the reclassification.

I suspect the wider world has no idea that this local oddity exists.

Originally Posted by jacinth (Post 3072587)

So, you found something to be offended by and you feel it’s on you to force change? Our PC culture has become completely ridiculous. But, I don’t understand why we would take down monuments and rename things either. It’s a part of history. All of our history. Isn’t that the whole point of a monument to reflect on the past and what times were like. To reflect on where were at today in comparison. By removing a very important part of American history you just risk the same mistakes happening again in future generations. I would think we would want these reminders. What happens 100 years from now? 200 years? When all this is so distant and erased.

Originally Posted by Lou Reed (Post 3072483)

Only in the Delta forum do these threads seem to pop up. Looks like our peers have been right all along. I personally blame it all on Peachtree City. Nothing good can come out of an insulated, golf cart driving, Stepford Wives type community.

Originally Posted by jacinth (Post 3072587)

But, I don’t understand why we would take down monuments and rename things either. It’s a part of history. All of our history. Isn’t that the whole point of a monument to reflect on the past and what times were like. To reflect on where were at today in comparison.