{"id":176247,"date":"2025-11-15T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=176247"},"modified":"2025-11-15T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:06:10","slug":"air-traffic-control-obama-administration-prioritized-skin-color-over-competence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=176247","title":{"rendered":"Air Traffic Control: Obama administration prioritized skin color over competence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Obama-with-dictator-uniform.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-171936 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Obama-with-dictator-uniform-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Obama-with-dictator-uniform-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Obama-with-dictator-uniform-470x333.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Obama-with-dictator-uniform.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Pearson, a former air traffic controller, told Newsmax that the FAA&#8217;s workforce crisis began in 2011. Pearson argued that the Obama administration favored color over competency. Approximately 3000 qualified applicants were overlooked in favor of choosing demographic features. The qualified applicants had met their requirements to do the job, including passing aptitude tests, holding the appropriate degrees, and skills specific training obtained without cost to the taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From Newsmax:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former air traffic controller Michael Pearson told Newsmax on Thursday the FAA&#8217;s workforce crisis traces back to 2011, when he asserted the administration &#8220;chose color over competency&#8221; by discarding a pool of roughly 3,000 qualified applicants and introducing a controversial biographical assessment.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pearson, those applicants had already passed aptitude tests, held relevant college degrees, and completed controller training programs at no taxpayer cost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were ready to enter the system,&#8221; Pearson said during an appearance on &#8220;The Record With Greta Van Susteren.&#8221; &#8220;Instead, the administration made applicants take a biographical assessment, basically to determine what race they were, before being allowed to move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pearson said the hiring pause and new screening practices remained in place for several years, leaving the FAA with a critical shortage that persists today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It takes three to five years to train a controller. That period of not hiring anybody was devastating,&#8221; Pearson said, adding that controllers are now reporting fatigue and six-day work weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson argued that the staffing gap, not technology, is the FAA&#8217;s greatest operational challenge. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter how modern the system is if you don&#8217;t have enough controllers to run it,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Morley III, J. (2025, November 13). Fmr air traffic controller to Newsmax: Obama admin chose color over competency. <em>Newsmax<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsmax-tv\/air-traffic-control-obama-administration-shutdown\/2025\/11\/13\/id\/1234474\/\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Pearson, a former air traffic controller, told Newsmax that the FAA&#8217;s workforce crisis began in &hellip; <a title=\"Air Traffic Control: Obama administration prioritized skin color over competence\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=176247\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Traffic Control: Obama administration prioritized skin color over competence<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-government-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}