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.
@the_iceman64 Ultimately the price they paid has been squandered by a succession of politicians following the agenda of people who did not elect them or lose there family members to free the world.
@Nigel_Farage You literally admitted on national television that you tried to put Rupert Lowe in prison because of political differences.
He wanted to deport Pakistani child rapists and their accomplice wives.
So you then rang the police.
Nobody is forgetting that.
Morrissey in rare interview: “Diversity means conformity.”
He says the word has become toxic - it doesn’t create variety, it boxes everyone in and erases real cultural differences.
Music industry now bloodless: drop artists instantly if they don’t go platinum immediately. No time to develop.
“Diversity… is a dreadful word. Pin it to anything and that situation is finished.”
He speaks about homogeneity and how it’s important.