“I’m not sitting here bashing the league at all, because there are great mentors and there are great coaches that embrace the difference,” Chung said. “It’s just when the Asians don’t fit the narrative, that’s where my stomach churns a little bit.”
Posted on 05/22/2021 7:42:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In an interview with The Boston Globe, NFL assistant coach Eugene Chung revealed that he had interviewed for a coaching position in the off season but was told that he wasn’t right for the job because he isn’t considered the “right minority.”
Chung is Korean-American and was the first Asian-American first-round draft pick in the NFL after an historic college career at Virginia Tech. He played three seasons with the New England Patriots before moving on to the Jacksonville Jaguars and ending his career with the Indianapolis Colts. Chung was elected into the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 2008. His groundbreaking credentials would seem to make him an excellent candidate for a coaching position, particularly considering how desperate many major corporations like the NFL are to check the “diversity” boxes for social media mobs.
Unfortunately, Chung was passed over in his recent interview because he apparently did not check the right kind of diversity box for the NFL.
It was said to me, ‘Well, you’re really not a minority. I was like, ‘Wait a minute. The last time I checked, when I looked in the mirror and brushed my teeth, I was a minority. So I was like, ‘What do you mean I’m not a minority?’ ”
The response was disturbing, according to Chung.
“You are not the right minority we’re looking for.”
The New York Post points out that the Rooney Rule in the NFL has is meant to expand and encourage minority hiring, which might be why the team allegedly told Chung his ethnicity wasn’t the good kind when it comes to diversity.
The NFL has expanded the Rooney Rule to promote minority hiring beyond just head coach vacancies, to include front-office and coordinator positions. The rule is not intended to exclusively help black candidates gain opportunities, as it also applies to females, Latinos, Asians and other minority groups. Teams that develop minority candidates who are hired to premium positions are rewarded with extra draft picks.
But Chung felt overlooked during his interview.
“That’s when I realized what the narrative was,” Chung said. “I was blown away, emotionally paralyzed for a split second. I asked myself, ‘Did I hear that correctly?’ ”
Despite how he was treated in the interview, Chung says he has not no intention of “bashing” the NFL and overall his experience in the organization has been positive.
“I’m not sitting here bashing the league at all, because there are great mentors and there are great coaches that embrace the difference,” Chung said. “It’s just when the Asians don’t fit the narrative, that’s where my stomach churns a little bit.”
Of course, we know what Chung’s alleged interviewer meant. On the social justice pie chart, minorities who are self-made successes are not allowed to carry the mantle of minority-hood. That would put an inconvenient dent in the narrative of the progressive left.
Take it from this middle-class Black American. I know how gleefully the left erases minority success stories that don’t depend on progressive white saviors.
And he isn’t....no racism here...
Either you need a white savior because you’re too stupid/lazy to do it yourself or get the hell out of my face......
Enough with this anonymous horse$hit. Name names, or hold your tongue.
It’s going to be “funny” when whites are a minority. “Funny” like a culture descending into barbarism.
Remember when people were scouted for talent instead of their external wrapper color?
Yup. I’ve recently discovered Japanese is now considered the “wrong” Asian minority as well.
Try being a Jew.
We’re not allowed to defend ourselves against missiles.
And our home is not our home because some invaders who are the right kind of minority claim it.
Of course we know the Truth of that situation.
> Name names, or hold your tongue. <
Right you are. Since he didn’t give a name, Chung has smeared everyone he has come into contact with. And the best Chung could do was “It was said to me...”.
Well, said by whom? An NFL executive? A coach? A water boy?
WRONG........not what they said.
They should have been up-front about the kind of minority they wanted so as not to waste the time of the wrong kind of minorities. In whatever way they communicated the openings, they should have just said, “(__________) candidates only.
What, they can’t say that? No, they’ll go through the motions of interviewing other minority candidates knowing full well that those candidates will never be considered.
“The last time I checked, when I looked in the mirror and brushed my teeth, I was a minority.”
Players didn’t want to have to work with Tebow.
Tebow went.
Don’t want to work with this guy?
NFL doesn’t hire him.
The inmates are running the asylum .
AKA, South Africa or Zimbabwe. Yep, it’ll be “funny” as you already know.
I wanted to say, welcome to the party Mr. Chung. You are finding out the hard way that minority status is really for certain members of our African decent population (those still on the plantation) and definitely not folks of Latin, Asian (especially education) or whatever decent.
As for whites, forget it. These folks won’t be happy until white are excluded completely from everything or placed in ovens.
70% of the NFL players are black. That is racist
When the sports reporters complain about lack of "minority" NFL head coaches, they are not talking about Asian or Latino coaches...They are talking about black coaches...
Eugene Chung's first wife was Liza Chung...She was a cheerleader for Patriots...
Owners are still white...Head office is still white..They don’t seem to be eager to give THEIR JOBS to those special”minorities”......
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