Video: Black pilots respond to Trump's anti-DEI message

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Note: There is a discrepancy regarding the location of the flight academy between the short text introducing the story below and what is stated in the video. Information on Luke Weathers and the academy named in his honor follows the video.

CNN's Pete Muntean visits a Mississippi flight school founded by the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals to discuss how students and teachers feel about the escalating federal campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/business/video/pilot-dei-luke-weathers-flight-academy-digvid

 

[Harry Dresden]

not every minority is considered DEI.....

 

[Blaster]

Let them *****. Nobody cares.

 

[0311]

Let them *****. Nobody cares.

You do not speak for everyone. I know that being racist keep you seeing individual value a person is NOT White. You should the Tuskegee Airmen who shot Nazi Aircraft in WWII. IF these people can fly, then they should be allowed. The Tuskegee Airmen are being written of American History and is just plain wrong.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Let them *****. Nobody cares.

The racist right will ultimately fail in its campaign of revisionist hate.

 

[jknowgood]

The racist right will ultimately fail in its campaign of revisionist hate.

Hopefully a dei will operate on you one day.

 

[IM2]

Let them *****. Nobody cares.

Yesterday, a helicopter fell into the Hudson. It was a white owned helicopter company with an all-white crew. So perhaps it's good to have diversity in the industry.

 

[Winco]

Hopefully a dei will operate on you one day.

So wrong

I hope …….. never mind…. Not worth any more time

Have a shitty day Cletus.

 

[IM2]

Hopefully a dei will operate on you one day.

Since WEI's have had all kinds of malpractice suits they have paid for, perhaps diversity would do the medical field some good.

 

[munkle]

When did Trump ever say anything against black pilots? So much stoopid here.

 

[0311]

When did Trump ever say anything against black pilots? So much stoopid here.

Trump's DEI Order Strips Air Force Curriculum 1st Black Pilots, Female WWII Pilots.

Trump's DEI order strips Air Force curriculum of 1st Black pilots, female WWII pilots

Trump's executive order halting DEI means the Air Force no longer teaches recruits about WWII's Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

www.usatoday.com

The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II, an official with the military branch confirmed to Reuters Saturday.

Course instruction about the pilots, as well as video of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) − a paramilitary aviation organization of female pilots employed to fly during World War II − was also pulled from basic training curriculum, the outlet reported.

The Tuskegee Airmen, an active fighter unit from 1940 to 1952, were the first soldiers who flew during World War II.

 

[jknowgood]

So wrong

I hope …….. never mind…. Not worth any more time

Have a shitty day Cletus.

No, you loons want this. Time you prove it, you willing to let a guy operate on you. Just if their from a certain race? Based on it?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Yesterday, a helicopter fell into the Hudson. It was a white owned helicopter company with an all-white crew. So perhaps it's good to have diversity in the industry.

And then the following day, a plane crashed near Boca Raton. I wonder who they blamed for all of the air mishaps before Black people were allowed to fly?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Hopefully a dei will operate on you one day.

Why not?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Note: There is a discrepancy regarding the location of the flight academy between the short text introducing the story below and what is stated in the video. Information on Luke Weathers and the academy named in his honor follows the video.

CNN's Pete Muntean visits a Mississippi flight school founded by the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals to discuss how students and teachers feel about the escalating federal campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/business/video/pilot-dei-luke-weathers-flight-academy-digvid


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The craziness of the Democrat racism is that, in a time when the country was locked in a death struggle with the outcome not at all certain, racist Democrats were reluctant to allow blacks the privilege of dying in the air to help win that war.

Those blacks are very much to be honored, overcoming an inferior Southern Democrat education system to become educated enough to learn to fly planes. They really had to be twice as good as an average white man to achieve equal success.

Now Democrats are using a different form of racism to tell blacks they can never be good enough of individual merit and they must beg the white Democrat paternalism structure for fake success to be given to them.

 

[PeterPilot]

You do not speak for everyone. I know that being racist keep you seeing individual value a person is NOT White. You should the Tuskegee Airmen who shot Nazi Aircraft in WWII. IF these people can fly, then they should be allowed. The Tuskegee Airmen are being written of American History and is just plain wrong.

I'm not sure that the Tuskegee Airman are being written out of American History as you say. For about 6 years beginning in 1996 I worked for the Micco Aircraft Company producing a small single engine low wing retractable airplane. We had 2 of them painted up in the Tuskegee Airman Squadron paint scheme. It was a unique paint scheme, then and in WWII. Those 2 airplanes were privately owned of course, but dedicated to the Tuskegee Squadron and men.

 

[jknowgood]

Why not?

I want the most qualified, not because the person is a minority. If he is the most qualified then yes, but that's not what dei is about.

 

[Correll]

I don't care what they have to say. Neither do you either, it seems as you did not include any of it in your post, nor has it been mentioned at all in the thread.

I thus assume it is just more of the standard shit talk we get from the left.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

They really had to be twice as good as an average white man to achieve equal success.

And DEI is the exact opposite of that.

 

[whitehall]

Why isn't an organization based on race, racist?