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A Pilot and a Racist Trump Supporter All Wrapped in One: #MAGA Pilot Arrested for Racist Airport Graffiti

I mean…not that we needed yet another story tying Trump support to good-old-fashioned American racism, but we got one via a 53-year-old pilot for Endeavor Air, a regional subsidiary of Delta, in today’s “Yep, Water is Still Wet as Hell” news. James E. Dees, whose name was probably not intentionally made to sound eerily similar…

By

Zack Linly

Published

January 18, 2020
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South Africa’s 1st Black Female Pilot Sets Stage for Others to Follow

Asnath Mahapa’s father was against her becoming a pilot, but his resistance didn’t stop her. Not only did she become a pilot, but Mahapa became South Africa’s first black female pilot, CNN reports. She started going to flight school after dropping out of the University of Cape Town. She faced a number of challenges, including…

By

The Root Staff

Published

August 24, 2016