Letters to the Editor
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Sheesh...
Look, I got NO sense that P.Smith was being ethnocentric or racist or whatever folks are implying by noting that there were TWO BLACK pilots flying the plane; I just thought that he was trying to point out the racism in the US that makes the odds of that happening here just about nil, and thus he's not personally used to seeing it occur before his own two eyes. Get it? It sounded to me like he met 2 pilots who displayed the level of professionalism one would hope for anywhere.
I suppose where he says "to find two black pilots in the cockpit at the same time is exceptionally rare." he should have added "in the U.S." in there to make it perfectly clear that's what he meant, but since it's in the middle of a paragraph about the scarcity of black pilots in the U.S. I think it's pretty obvious from the context.