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April 18, 2021

United Airline's gets woke years after discriminationg against a white military veteran

Jack Kemp

I was reading an article at American Thinker today which summarized United Airlines recent attempts to prioritize politically correct being "Woke" over providing passengers with the most skilled pilots they could find.

Michael Curtis wrote:

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From chocolate to the skies â€” United Airlines has announced a new recruitment policy for its pilots. The flight deck will reflect the diversity of its passengers. It plans for 50% of its future 5,000 pilots training in the next decade to be women or people "of color," compared to the present situation, where just over 7% of the more than 12,000 pilots are women, and 13% are non-white.

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This made me recall a severe abuse by United Airlines staff of a white U.S. military veteran in 2012 who, with his service dog, got stuck at a United Airlines gate in Chicago for days. I wrote about the now "virtue signaling" United at the Aviary at that time and include that piece below.

http://tbirdnow.mee.nu/united_air_abuses_disabled_vet_his_dog

July 23, 2012

United Air abuses disabled vet & his dog

Jack Kemp

Disabled veteran says United Airlines staff kicked his service dog and asked if he was retarded as delays forced him to spend THREE days at the airport

By Laura Cox

PUBLISHED:09:39 EST, 21 July 2012 | UPDATED:23:29 EST, 21 July 2012
A disabled veteran and his service dog were abused by United Airlines staff, he has claimed.

Jim Stanek, a three-tour Iraq veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, said employees of the airline kicked his dog, Sarge, and asked him if he was retarded.

In a YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xr93KI6vaKE#! the Paws and Stripes founder describes his ordeal which began on July 16 at Dulles International Airport in Washington.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176900/Disabled-veteran-says-United-airlines-staff-kicked-service-dog-asked-retarded-delays-forced-spend-THREE-days-airport.html#ixzz21SNI3wTv

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A further historical note has come to mind as well. In the accurate cable tv docudrama "The Tuskegee Airmen," they showed how the WWII all black fighter pilots overcame racial discrimination. One dramatic and true scene had the First Lady, Eleanore Roosevelt, go to Tuskegee and take a ride in a plane with one of the black pilots, giving them great press coverage and validation of their skills in the air. In reading more about this true story, I found out that the Tuskegee Airmen chose their most experienced pilot to take Mrs. Roosevelt into the skies, a man who had flown as a commercial pilot for a regional airline.

It now appears that United Air does not want to follow the example set by the Tuskegee Airmen on the day Mrs. Roosevelt visited them. And United Air has treated a white veteran with PTSD in 2012 with disrespect and cruelty. My advice to United is the title of a popular WWII era song Andrew Sisters song, namely "Straighten Up and Fly Right."

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 05:43 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 This is beyond disgusting! What's this country coming to, anyway? I can remember back to the days when an airline understood that its job was to fly people from Point A to Point B -- and perhaps to Point C after that. And that was it.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 18, 2021 02:32 PM (BZtI0)