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Old 04-08-2021 | 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Explizer
Speaking of scholarships...I looked at the Aviate site and read everything I can find about it, and nowhere can I tell who gets the scholarships. Is one of the goals and purposes here to award scholarships to the said 50%? i.e. the JP Morgan money set aside for only the 50% "POC" group?
The scholarships are only through these groups. So, yeah... In essence, only available to people who identify as one of the target members of these groups.
Old 04-08-2021 | 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by AAL763
The scholarships are only through these groups. So, yeah... In essence, only available to people who identify as one of the target members of these groups.
Roger, thanks.
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Originally Posted by Stan446
This is total BS and a Hollywood myth and media hype. The Tuskegee airmen did lose bombers they escorted. The also didn't enter the war and start escort duties until July 1944.
Thank you for the clarification. They did shot down three German jets in one day. Those men were good pilots.

“The Tuskegee Airmen ‘Never Lost a Bomber’

On March 24, 1945, an African American newspaper, the Chicago Defender, ran an article claiming that in over 200 missions, the Tuskegee Airmen had never lost to enemy aircraft any bomber they had escorted. It wasn’t true, but the story became widespread and was believed until the 21st century when comparisons of flight logs, mission reports and bomber losses were made. It was discovered a total of 27 bombers they escorted had been shot down by enemy aircraft. However, the average number of bombers lost by other escort groups of the Fifteenth Air Force was 46, nearly double the loss rate of bombers protected by the Red Tails.”
Old 04-08-2021 | 04:12 PM
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On March 24, 1944, a fleet of P-51 Mustangs led by Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, commander of the Tuskegee airmen, set out on the longest escort mission their crews would fly during World War II. The 43 fighters were there to help B-17 bombers run a gauntlet of over 1,600 miles into the heart of Hitler’s Germany and back.

The bombers’ target, a massive Daimler-Benz tank factory in Berlin, was heavily defended by whatever forces the Luftwaffe could muster at that point in the war. The 25 aircraft protecting the plant included the battle-tested Fw 190 radial propeller fighters, the Me 163 “Komet” rocket-powered plane and the much more formidable Me 262, history’s first jet fighter and the forerunner of today’s modern fighters.

While the American P-51s typically lagged behind the Me 163s and 262s, they could outmaneuver them at low speeds. The German planes also tended to run out of fuel more quickly than the Tuskegee airmen’s Mustangs. Making the most of their limited advantages, pilots Charles Brantley, Earl Lane and Roscoe Brown all shot down German jets over Berlin that day, earning the all-Black 332nd Fighter Group a Distinguished Unit Citation.
Old 04-08-2021 | 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Explizer
Speaking of scholarships...I looked at the Aviate site and read everything I can find about it, and nowhere can I tell who gets the scholarships. Is one of the goals and purposes here to award scholarships to the said 50%? i.e. the JP Morgan money set aside for only the 50% "POC" group?
Good question. The way I "heard it" on the news interview was that only minority candidates may receive scholarships. Poor white people are not eligible since they lack a minority classification.
Old 04-08-2021 | 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Explizer
Hmmm...interesting take and pivot to taxes.
Not a pivot. Just a valid point. I would call it, an additional point demonstrating the stupidity of the liberal political brain.

The liberals are gonna "give you something." Then, they are gonna "take it away."

it's simply a demonstration of the liberal mindset. They got you beholding to them from cradle to grave. Can't get ahead without the man giving you his hand out while his other man got his hand in your pocket.
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[QUOTE=Mudge;3218987]
Originally Posted by Lenticularis

https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/...erm-victories/

About halfway down. People making less than $30K per year vote liberal by a margin of 2 to 1.

But I guess it's just my ignorance with those silly facts to back it up.
I wanted to see it with my own eyes and from valid research. I said without data it’s ignorant. Appreciate you for backing it up.
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Originally Posted by BeechedJet
I text my United friends and ask them if this is one of theirs.



So go back to my own airline's sub?

No no... you're right, where are my manners, continue United pilots, go on and continue telling black people how they are.
Oh look you dont like someone confronting your statement so you turn around and play the race card.... you are in fact a pandering opportunist looking to use an angle that doesn't exist for your own misguided opinions.
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Originally Posted by 1257
Surely you're joking about the generalization that United pilots tell black people how they are
since the people posting here could be 15 year olds in their Mom's basements. You are joking right?
There's a reason he flies for spirit...
Old 04-08-2021 | 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by XJ86
There's a reason he flies for spirit...
Let’s hear it.
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