"She has NO point!" Analyzing Candace Owens DEI pilot comments and more with Roland Martin

Candice Owens.... I am a black man and a retired airline captain. I have held a commercial pilot certificate for 40 years and an Airline Transport Pilot certificate for 30 years. All pilots regardless of race or gender are trained and assessed equally. All pilots have exceptional experience before being chosen as a candidate for employment as a pilot for a major airline in the United States of America. There are requirements that must be met. You can find those in the Federal Aviation Regulations. The problem is when I was hired for a major U.S. airline, less than one half of one percent of airline pilots flying for a U.S. air carrier were African American. The only way to create a level playing field for any person that's not male and white in the U.S.A. was to create laws that mandate rules for hiring other persons that are not just male and white. We call that quotas. Yes, necessary due to racist hiring practices in our great nation. Black pilots and women have served in the U.S. military since world war two. I've flown with white women, black women, black men and white men, Asian men, Men and women that speak Spanish, French, Arabic and Yoruba. Most all were outstanding and professional. We are a human race, Candice. We all have potential. Let's make America better than it ever has been.

So when we see candace owens talking, we have the think " is she qualified to ask if someone else is qualified?"

Black and female pilots had been flying airplanes safely before Candance Owens and Charlie Kirk were born.

I am a black aviator, I do not think I went to a separate flight school.

My niece, a black female pilot worked for United Airlines for over a decade. She's now working for the Federal Government in Aviation. Jamaica's national airline, Air Jamaica, was piloted by all black pilots for over 50 years. And was considered one the ''SAFEST AIRLINES" in the world during that time. No mishaps... ever! 💯🇯🇲👊🏾

And yet no one EVER questioned the qualifications of the helicopter pilot in Kobe’s crash. 😒😒😒

Roland Martin will always bring the receipts always.❤❤❤

I dare Candice to go and be a guest on Roland’s podcast and engage in a conversation with him about her political beliefs and views.

As a black aviator, the silence of my white colleagues around these comments is deafening.

As a white man, I can say this without hesitation...if you look at our country's history, black progress and success has always been met with white backlash. It is absolutely true. The dismantling of DEI efforts is just another example of this in our country's long, sad racial history...one step forward is always followed by two steps back. We have got to break this cycle. And it takes all of us white people, especially white men, to LOOK PAST OURSELVES, and to try to understand the struggles of others. We've got to fight the tendency to avoid this task. What's worse is that so many of us have begun twisting and perverting the concepts of racial equality in order to avoid dealing with these realities and return to a society dominated by white supremacy.

Candice trying to get invited to the picnic. 😂

Very positive talk. My father graduated in 1948 from NYIT with a AS in Electrical Engineering and couldn’t get a job because he’s was black. After years of discriminatory hiring practices the DEI programs have given blacks a chance of being hired for professional jobs and acceptance in schools that previously excluded them.

Thank you for calling Candace out for being a hypocrite!!!!

My grandfather was a Tuskegee Airmen in WWII, he would talk about how they had to prove to the world that they were just as good as any white pilot. He unfortunately passed away in July 2020.

I am A.76 year-old White woman I Live in Alabama. I like Roland Martin Show.

STEPHEN A - awesome having Roland on to educate and inform !!!!!

😢This will never end -- "them against us; us against us. Thank you, Roland, for keeping facts straight, brother!

Years ago I sent my daughter to NY to her dad and she was flying alone. Nervous, I sat with her looking for someone I could approach to ask if they would be of comfort to her in the case of emergency. I saw a woman, asked, and she agreed. A few moments later the crew showed up. As they approached my daughter caught the eye of a woman pilot. I saw pilot wings on a black woman. I was almost in tears; I knew my daughter was safe! I knew that the black woman pilot was automatically at the top of her game! She looked at my daughter and smiled.

What people want is not equality of outcome but rather equality of opportunity so that the most qualified rather than a gender or melamine content determine suitability

Good on Steven A for giving Roland this platform to speak truth. 💯