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🗓️ 21 June 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | We require women and people of color to be involved in the interview. |
0:06.0 | I have never seen a black woman fly a plane. |
0:09.0 | With fewer than 1% of pilots, women of color. |
0:12.0 | In their various public statements and press releases, United Airlines has made it very clear that |
0:17.0 | they are mainly interested in hiring pilots on the basis of skin color and gender rather than |
0:22.6 | competence. In fact, they participated in a vice documentary back in 2022 United did about their |
0:29.5 | DEI initiatives. Watch. So we are in a plane right now. I'm about to take off with a student |
0:35.7 | from United's new ADA Academy. I'm a bit nervous, but let's do this. |
0:42.3 | Purefoy is training to become a pilot with United Airlines, which became the first major |
0:47.3 | airline to launch its own flight school at the beginning of this year. |
0:50.3 | But United is making another push. |
0:53.3 | It said half of its recruits are going to be women or |
0:56.4 | people of color. A pretty ambitious goal for airline pilots who are 93% white and 95% male. Black |
1:04.7 | women make up less than 1% of the pilot industry. I have a confession, guys. |
1:14.4 | I have never seen a black woman fly a plane. |
1:16.5 | What made you want to become a pilot? |
1:23.0 | So I was a flight attendant for three years on a major U.S. airline, and I absolutely loved it. |
1:31.9 | So a couple of years ago, United decided that 50% of its new pilot recruits are going to be women or people of color, and they're promoting flight attendants to make that happen. |
1:38.8 | Later on, in that vice documentary, it suggested that the point of this initiative is to alleviate the pilot shortage. |
1:45.1 | Well, how is that going? A few days ago, the conservative commentator, Ashley St. Clair, posed a few questions to United based on some information that she had received. And here's what she wrote. Quote, |
1:49.7 | on July 29th, the United plane was nearly totaled after a hard landing. Who was flying that aircraft? |
1:55.8 | Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant who was fired and then rehired through United's |
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