Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
@goneers@MargoinWNC First you pay the sales tax, then you pay tax on every dollar you earn to buy the house, then you pay a yearly tax on the value of the house, and last but not least your estate pays tax on the gift of owned house to your family. Utter bull shit.
@Dub42k@Jaguars Why should they get special attention? They just want to be accepted as equal. Equal means equal. If anyone deserves an entire month of celebration, it's our veterans. Dumb azz.