Racism didn't end in 1964, but people sure have gotten better at dog whistling about it.

(Just earlier this year, the first words out of the mouth of the political right about a fatal aircraft crash was to... Question the credentials of its black pilot. Because no matter how much a black person will ever achieve in this country, some mouth breather who hasn't done a day of honest work in their lives will insist that those achievements were all a sham, they don't deserve any of them, they can't do the job, their out-of-work cousin with a meth habbit can do it better, etc.)

And if you call the pricks and nepobabies who are doing that out on it, they start hand waving it as 'we're just asking questions' and 'well, he could have been unqualified', or raise some other nonsense deflection of their vulgar, unacceptably racist behavior.

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All that judgement was made before any of the facts besides the pilot's skin color were out. If your first reaction to 'aircraft flown by <race of> pilot crashes' is 'clearly, that's because they were an unqualified AA hire', you are, unfortunately, a racist. Own it, or stop it.

And, sadly, quite a number of people were very happy to out themselves as such. What is sadder is that others are happy to play cover for them.

> Just earlier this year, the first words out of the mouth of the political right about a fatal aircraft crash was to... Question the credentials of its black pilot.

> All that judgement was made before any of the facts besides the pilot's skin color were out.

It's worse than that. The pilot was actually white.

Trump thought the pilot must have been black just because they crashed. When asked why he thought DEI caused the crash, he said, "Because I have common sense." He claimed without any source that the Obama administration "actually came out with a directive, too white" on aviation agency standards.