From: mazorj@verizon.net   
      
   "Eeyore"  wrote in   
   message news:46D8DC88.7B353446@hotmail.com...   
   >   
   > John Mazor wrote:   
   >   
   >> "NoneYa"  wrote   
   >> >   
   >> > And you wonder why our Air Traffic Control system here   
   >> > in   
   >> > America is slowly falling into chaos and our test   
   >> > scores   
   >> > are falling in America??   
   >>   
   >> I dunno about test scores but the state of our ATC system   
   >> has nothing to do with your racist rants here.   
   >   
   > Isn't it the case though that 'positive action' or   
   > whatever it's called allows coloured ppl of lower   
   > ability than competing white candidates to be offered   
   > employment in order to maintain racially based   
   > 'quotas' ?   
   >   
   > Graham   
      
   We all have seen examples of the marginally competent   
   individual who probably owes his/her job to some form of   
   quota hiring, although people who obsess on that almost   
   always ignore the fact that not everyone who gets hired that   
   way is a sub-par performer.  They also overlook all the   
   incompetent people of their own race who owe their position   
   to favoritism, sycophancy, dumb luck, and the Peter   
   Principle.  They far outnumber the former in most   
   workplaces.   
      
   However, as I said, to attribute FAA's failures in providing   
   adequate air traffic services to that effect is like trying   
   to blame our quagmire in Iraq on the existence of black   
   officers in the military.  If our military were lilly white,   
   nothing would be different.  The causes and problems of the   
   Iraq debacle have nothing to do with race.  In fact, with   
   the exception of one woman of color now in the cabinet, the   
   whole debacle was engineered by white males in the highest   
   levels of power.   
      
   The causes of FAA's failures have been well documented and   
   discussed in the media and within the industry.  Nowhere is   
   race mentioned as factor.   
      
   There is a small clique of rabid racists who routinely troll   
   various newsgroups.  They seize upon any excuse to repeat   
   their rants under the guise of supposedly on-topic posts.   
   They post anonymously under a set of bogus user names.  With   
   the departure of our aviation and conspiracy loons from this   
   newsgroup, they are a poor substitute, but we make do with   
   what we have for loon-bashing.   
      
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