My father, who was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1943, was fond of the joke that it was an act of Congress to make him a gentleman, as in “an officer and a gentleman.” But Dad was a “country gentleman” of the old school and wore the title proudly.
The title “gentleman” doesn’t sit quite as easily on me, at least as the term was originally intended; candidly, I have more rough edges than my father did. But I accept it as a generic form of address.
Delta Airlines, however, is abandoning this perfectly acceptable term of address in an egregious example of pandering to the woke.
Over the last few years, Delta Air Lines has embraced the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda under the purview of a chief officer who believes that the phrase “ladies and gentlemen” isn’t inclusive.
Delta’s Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Social Impact Officer Kyra Lynn Johnson has said publicly…
