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.
@rolandgarros@atptour Truly honored to be able to witness that match. 🫡 to two amazing players and warriors. Tiafoe is a class act, and welcome to the big stage Arnaldi!
@RapSheet@sportsrapport Pause? It’s like pausing a 3 1/2 hour movie, in the final five minutes, that was interesting in the first hour but you wished it would’ve ended an hour ago.
@Michael29504096@Oaklraiders1976 While I agree, even though he chose the Chiefs to stick to Al…. he in fact stuck to the fanbase as well. Still would have Bo in there before him.
@rolandgarros@naomiosaka Just way too unserious to carry the legacy of woman’s tennis. Sad how tennis tries to prop her up. Has to play dressup to be taken somewhat seriously. Even then meh.