NewsVine_Mariyam
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From what I've read, you can't get financial aid to attend flight school unless the flight instructions are a part of the curriculum like at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.[snipped]
My little A&P school had about 75 students, NOT A SINGLE BLACK PERSON ENROLLED the entire time I was a student, 2 full years, 4 semesters. Nobody stopped them, they just never enrolled.
By the way, the airlines have required that their ATPs (airline transport pilot) have at least a bachelor's degree since I first researched what is required to become an airline pilot back in the '70s.
Residual harm from slavery & Jim Crow is less disposable income to spend on flight instructions. Current estimates put the cost of obtaining the required flight hours & education to fly for the airlines at around $100,000. That price tag would stop a lot of people, no matter what their race.