Cheating on Air Traffic Tests

Timothy Birdnow

It used to be called "race norming" which was the pracitce of giving minorities at least ten points on their civil service exams to make them competitive when it came to government jobs. It's why the Post Office and other such agencies have a huge disproportionate number of minorities working in them; the applicants were clearly being given a leg up.

The USPS website, for instance, has this to say:

How is that if there is not active discrimination for minorities and open discrimination against white people? We know for a fact black people in America get inferior educations by and large (being mostly schooled by public educrats) and that they tend to do poorly on standardized tests. African Americans make up just 14.4% of the population. According to the last U.S. centus 71% of Americans are classified as white. So clearly they are discriminating against white applicants.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against reverse discrimination repeatedly yet here we have solid proof it is still ongoing. And that is in government hiring. We know full well that the private sector is pressured by government and can hire in ways that are even more discriminatory as long as they do not violate current federal law, which is all aimed at promoting minorities and not protecting the majority.

At any rate, an investigation is ramping up into attempts to steal jobs as air traffic controllers for minorities. It seems there has been cheating going on to aid DEI hires in passing the Air Traffic Control exam.

Is it any surprise? I've had little doubt that white candidates have had to jump higher hurdles than minorities for decades and now we have good reason to suspect minorities have been cheating all along. Certainly black candidates haven't been passing the Civil Serivce exam and getting jobs in government at higher rates than whites if the tests were equal and fair. Government should "look like America" at worst, meaning the racial numbers should be about as they are in the country. (Actually fewer black folks would probably be hired as they would score lower than whites by and large.) But instead we see higher numbers in these positions. I have no doubt they did that with air traffic controllers either.

And controllers not capable of doing their jobs properly lead to crashed like the ones we've seen lately.

No doubt the media will paint this as untruthful (if they cover it at all) and if it turns out to be true they will try to make it appear to be an isolated incident. But I am quite sure it's systemic.

Many years ago I took the air traffic controller's exam and scored a very high score. Guess what? I never got hired or even contacted again. I always suspected it was because of the color of my skin.
Granted they might have done me a favor as the stress could have put me in the ground. But it's just the point that people who didn't do as well as did I got high paying careers and I wound up laboring in mediocre jobs.

I also took the civil service exam and a few other government job exams and never once was offered a job, despite doing well on each and every one of them. The Federal Archives was the only place that ever got back with me and they told me I was qualified but there were "more qualified people" ahead of me, despite my score in the high nineties on the test.

The tail has wagged the dog in America for a long, long time. It's time we started exposing exactly what has been happening in this country. The Trump Administration appears to be eager to do so.

I hope and pray America doesn't just tune it all out. Injustice is injustice no matter for whom it is intended.

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