United's 'Fly the Woke Skies' Nosedive

Is there a danger of filling racial/ gender quotas over hiring best skilled?

(From Article: Larry OConnor)
“United Airlines (@united) April 6, 2021- Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color.’ The company tweeted with a link for any potential airline pilots to click and complete the application process. Now, maybe it's just me, but when I'm hurtling through the earth's atmosphere at 35,000 feet above terra firma, I'm not entirely interested in what boxes on the Critical Race Theory checklist the person at the helm of my magic flying silver-bird successfully checked.

I'll put it another way: If the choice is between the Latinx, transgender pilot who barely scraped by on the entrance exam but filled United's quota demand versus the best damn pilot in the world who also happens to be an anti-Semitic member of the Nation of Islam, I'll pick Captain Elijah X. Khalid every day.

And I doubt I'm alone. When your plane hits turbulence the next time your flying United, will you pray that the pilot has the experience, training, and temperament to safely guide the 70-ton machine you're sitting in to safety? Or in the back of your mind, will you wonder if the person with your family's life in their hands got the gig because they met United's blatant quota requirements?”