When's The Next Affirmative Action Disaster?
All standards in America are on their way out: because enough blacks can’t meet them -- We must make black people "feel" better. Never mind that lives are lost.
From “The Next Affirmative Action Disaster” by Portfolio Armour at ZeroHedge
In my last post (Affirmative Action Strikes Again), I noted that in the past couple of weeks we've seen three examples of women or minority senior officials or appointees expose their incompetence in Congressional testimony. But affirmative action of course hasn't been limited to America's senior officials: it has permeated our entire society, including in life-or-death fields such as medicine and aviation.
Several years ago, the Georgia medical board suspended the license of Dr. Windell Davis-Boutte after she was accused of botching operations that she had conducted while filming rap videos at the same time.
Oh, and don’t forget the completely incompetent “doctor” who killed pop star Michael Jackson: Conrad Murray. In an unbelieveably incompetent way, he gave Michael Jackson Propofil for sleep at Michael’s house.
Propofil is only for use in hospital theatre operating rooms that have breathing machines and vital statistics monitoring. Of course Michael’s breathing stopped. Then, if that wasn’t stupid enough, Conrad didn’t know that you needed to resusitate patients on a hard surface like a floor or operating table. He was giving compressions to Michael on his bed.
He graduated from Meherry Medical School, which according to Wikipedia is “a private historically black medical school affiliated with the United Methodist Church and located in Nashville, Tennessee.
We've Already Had A Diversity Cargo Plane Crash
I wrote above that the next affirmative action disaster may be a plane crash. Allow me to be more precise: the next affirmative action disaster may be a passenger plane crash. We've already had an affirmative action cargo plane crash. In February of 2019, Flight Officer Conrad Jules Aska, pictured below, was at the controls of a Mesa Airlines Boeing 767 cargo plane, operated on behalf of Amazon.com, that crashed 40 miles southeast of George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
After the crash, investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board found evidence that Aska was unqualified for his job:
The first officer previously worked at Mesa Airlines, Air Wisconsin, and CommutAir. At the latter two airlines, the NTSB found that he failed to finish training and was promptly flushed out of those carriers. He spent just a month at CommutAir.
Before working at Atlas, Aska was a first officer at Mesa. He tried but could not upgrade from FO to captain on the Embraer 175 regional jet at the Phoenix-based regional carrier. Check airmen, or pilot trainers, at Mesa raised several concerning flags to NTSB investigators.
Captain Paul Allred, Mesa Air check airman, told the NTSB that Aska was "one of the worst he'd ever seen, probably a 2" out of 10 in terms of piloting skills.
Meanwhile, Captain Leigh Lawless, another Mesa Air check airman, said Aska had a "lack of understanding of how unsafe he was."
NTSB investigators wrote, from talking with Lawless, that Aska "was making very frantic mistakes, lots and lots of mistakes, and did a lot of things wrong but did not recognize this was a problem. He thought he was a good pilot never had any problems and thought that he should be a captain. He could not evaluate himself and see that he did not have the right stuff. [Bingo!]"
Is An Affirmative Action Passenger Crash Next?
Let's hope not, but the signs so far this year have not been auspicious. Last month, a female [Doug here: she sounds black from the sound of recorded conversation] air traffic controller at Burbank Airport in Southern California got her left and right mixed up and cleared a plane to land on a runway that already had another plane on it.
Fortunately, the pilot noticed her error and circled around instead of landing. That near miss at Burbank airport was one of six near misses so far this year at American airports. The way things are going, one of the more erudite pseudonymous observers on Twitter, "ReStation", suggested it's only a matter of time before we have a mass casualty incident, and if diversity turns out to have played a role, the news will be swept into the memory hole.
Let's hope he's wrong, but when you hire for critical positions based on anything other than competence, you are playing with people's lives.