Black United Pilots Claim Discrimination

We had Jimmy Carter on the plane once and he dropped by the cockpit to shake our hands and say thanks for flying him home because "When I get onboard a SouthernJets airplane, I feel I'm already halfway there".

The captain wouldn't even acknowledge his existence and that was awkward and embarrassing as hell.
 
Derg said:
We had Jimmy Carter on the plane once and he dropped by the cockpit to shake our hands and say thanks for flying him home because "When I get onboard a SouthernJets airplane, I feel I'm already halfway there".

The captain wouldn't even acknowledge his existence and that was awkward and embarrassing as hell.
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Don't you mean President Carter? ;)

Anyway, I think he was before his time. He was a good man at the wrong time.
 
The FAA recently changed their hiring practices where instead of drawing from a prior military pool and a college pool, they now have the vet pool and general public pool. You should hear all the college kids screaming this was to "increase diversity" and just hire more minorities.
 
Derg said:
We had Jimmy Carter on the plane once and he dropped by the cockpit to shake our hands and say thanks for flying him home because "When I get onboard a SouthernJets airplane, I feel I'm already halfway there".

The captain wouldn't even acknowledge his existence and that was awkward and embarrassing as hell.
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I flew Bill Clinton and he was hella cool. I wound up chatting with him quite a bit. He noticed the captain hated him and I was blabbing incessantly about how rad the 90s were and how he did a really great job with the economy.

I think he was trolling...

He just kind of chilled out and smiled every time the captain looked visibly upset.

Good times!


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Maximillian_Jenius said:
Eh... I can admit to a bit of emotionality and some generalizations on my part with that post.

These guys are fighting for equality and an end to discrimination in their workplace, which has far-reaching implications for myself and future generations. And the overall tone of his post seemed to demean their plight.

I shouldn't post angry.
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Remember the Incredible Hulk show from the early '80s? "Don't make me angry Mr McGhee......you won't like me when I'm angry..." :D
 
Carter, Bush41, Clinton, Bush43, Obama. Regardless of any politics with them; were I to encounter them.....especially in a professional setting, but also if in a personal setting....I treat them with respect and grace. Every one of them has their positives, as well as their negatives.
 
Cptnchia said:
Don't you mean President Carter? ;)

Anyway, I think he was before his time. He was a good man at the wrong time.
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Carter, who many love to dislike, facilitated the historic Camp David accords bringing together a once-thought-impossible Egypt-Israel peace treaty. And while often blamed for the failure of the Iran hostage rescue mission, Carter actually wrote a blank check to the military to undertake the rescue operation as they saw fit. The military came up with the very ambitious plan that had very tight contingencies. And those contingencies were actually being followed when the tragic accident took place at Desert One. But Carter had given the military free reign to do what was needed, and he had no control over the events as they played out. Had the accident.....and it was a mere accident, unrelated to the mission planning and such......not occurred at Desert One and the aircraft ground refueled successfully and retrograded out of there following the mission abort; we likely to this day may never have known of such a mission having been attempted.

Carter also gets blamed for the so-called "hollow force" military of the post-Vietnam 1970s. But that couldn't have been avoided, after the fiscal mess of the Vietnam War for the past decade, and defense spending being looked at with a fine tooth comb after so much was spent in both dollars as well as lives on a war that culminated with the fall of Saigon. A situation that probably contributed to other financial problems like the excessively high interest rates at the time. I think any president holding office at that time would've been faced with the same thing.
 
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MikeD said:
Carter, who many love to dislike, facilitated the historic Camp David accords bringing together a once-thought-impossible Egypt-Israel peace treaty. And while often blamed for the failure of the Iran hostage rescue mission, Carter actually wrote a blank check to the military to undertake the rescue operation as they saw fit. The military came up with the very ambitious plan that had very tight contingencies. And those contingencies were actually being followed when the tragic accident took place at Desert One. But Carter had given the military free reign to do what was needed, and he had no control over the events as they played out. Had the accident.....and it was a mere accident, unrelated to the mission planning and such......not occurred at Desert One and the aircraft ground refueled successfully and retrograded out of there following the mission abort; we likely to this day may never have known of such a mission having been attempted.

Carter also gets blamed for the so-called "hollow force" military of the post-Vietnam 1970s. But that couldn't have been avoided, after the fiscal mess of the Vietnam War for the past decade, and defense spending being looked at with a fine tooth comb after so much was spent in both dollars as well as lives on a war that culminated with the fall of Saigon. A situation that probably contributed to other financial problems like the excessively high interest rates at the time. I think any president holding office at that time would've been faced with the same thing.
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Carter was a Naval Academy graduate, XO of a submarine, and then worked under Rickover to bring nuclear power to the US naval fleet.

Say what you will about him, but until his father died, Carter was on track to be a career Navy man.
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
Eh... I can admit to a bit of emotionality and some generalizations on my part with that post.

These guys are fighting for equality and an end to discrimination in their workplace, which has far-reaching implications for myself and future generations. And the overall tone of his post seemed to demean their plight.

I shouldn't post angry.
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I wish you wouldn't have backed down. You were absolutely correct in what you said, even if it may piss some people off.
 
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