“When a plane starts its final descent,” Jason Riley asks in a chilling report in the Wall Street Journal, “are the passengers more concerned about the competence or about the skin color of the air-traffic controllers on the ground who will help the pilot land safely? The answer may be obvious to readers,” he notes, ‘if not to the Obama administration.”
That’s right. Affirmative action has now come to the air traffic control tower, compromising and to a certain degree displacing traditional tests of merit in hiring.
Fasten you seat belts.
