Is that a serious question? Why would your average white guy be a better flyer than your average black guy? What does your ethnic background have to do with your ability to land a plane?
I'd guess that money would be a factor. Some key facts from here:
Black Americans Earn 30% Less Than White Americans, While Black Households Have Just One-Eighth Wealth Of White Households
Black workers in the U.S. earn on average, 30%, or $10,000, less than white workers, McKinsey found.
Nearly half of Black workers are employed in the healthcare, retail, accommodation and food service industries with the “vast majority” in lower-paying service roles instead of professional or managerial roles.
The annual median wage of all U.S. workers is about $42,000, 43% of Black workers earn less than $30,000 per year, highlighting how they are overrepresented in low-paying jobs.
While Black Americans are underrepresented in high-paying professions; only 5% of physicians are Black, and just 4.5% of software developers are Black.
Black entrepreneurs, on average, launch their businesses with $35,000 in startup capital and loans, versus an average of $107,000 for White entrepreneurs.
The median Black household has a net worth of about $24,000, or about one-eighth the figure of $188,000 for white households.
Doesn't every pilot training academy accept people who want to become pilots? Doesn't every technical school accept everyone who wants to become electricians or mechanics?
If they can afford it, for sure. Black pilots are significantly under represented. We can bounce a few posts back and forth debating why that is so, but the fact is undeniable.
And why it is so is also irrelevant to the case in point. Which is Kirk's comments, insinuating that standards were lowered for minorities. Which we know is abject nonsense.
