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Biden says NFL hiring more black head coaches a question of ‘generic decency’
New York Post ^ | February 13, 2022 | Ben Kesslen

Posted on 02/13/2022 2:57:53 PM PST by karpov

The NFL’s dismal number of black head coaches shows a lack of “generic decency” from a league that hasn’t kept its promises, President Biden said in an interview airing Super Bowl Sunday.

“They haven’t lived up to what they committed to and lived up to being open about hiring more minorities to run teams,” Biden told NBC News, referencing the football league’s purported commitments to diversifying leadership.

“The whole idea that a league that is made up of so many athletes of color as well as so diverse, that there’s not enough African American qualified coaches to manage these NFL teams, it just seems to me that it’s a standard that that they’d want to live up to,” the president said. “It’s not a requirement of law, but it’s a requirement I think of just some generic decency.”

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged Wednesday that the NFL has fallen “short” in its goals of hiring more coaches of color and “is not doing a good enough job” in its efforts.

When asked if the NFL should be held to a higher standard on diversity issues because of its outsized cultural impact, Biden said he believed it should be held to a “reasonable standard.”

The NFL is no stranger to controversies surroundings it mostly-white run league, where 71 percent of players are people of color. The league of 32 teams currently has just one black coach, one Latino coach and one Arab-American coach, while the rest of the coaches are white.

In 2003, the NFL established the start of the “Rooney Rule,” which now requires teams to interview minority candidates for top jobs such as head coach.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; blacksupremacy; cornpopwasabaddude; football; nfl; quotas; superbowl
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To: hinckley buzzard

Jackson has since insinuated that the Browns management was intentionally losing to try to get better draft picks.


21 posted on 02/13/2022 3:09:34 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marktwain

I guess when one has severe dementia, phrases such as “generic decency” stumble to mind.


22 posted on 02/13/2022 3:10:02 PM PST by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: karpov

I think it’s more like, hiring a black person as head coach even if that person lacks the skill set simply because of their skin color. In essence, racism.


23 posted on 02/13/2022 3:10:10 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: TygertLane

He should give up his job to a black person if he cares about equity.


24 posted on 02/13/2022 3:10:14 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
False. That is HEAD coaches, not total coaches. Based on what I see on the sidelines, most if not all teams have two to five black assistant coaches.

And even a couple of lesbos.

25 posted on 02/13/2022 3:10:16 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yeah Huey is a real bozo.
I did like Romeo though. But he maxxed out at the coordinator level it appears.


26 posted on 02/13/2022 3:10:35 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: karpov

Racism is ‘generic decency’ to Biden and lowlife NFLer’s.


27 posted on 02/13/2022 3:11:00 PM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: dfwgator

Goodell should step down for a black. For the good of the game.


28 posted on 02/13/2022 3:11:16 PM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

Yep, he should make Jay-Z Commissioner, it seems for all intents and purposes he already is.


29 posted on 02/13/2022 3:12:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: karpov

So if the coach you need happens to be white, hire someone else to appease the “diversity gods”?


30 posted on 02/13/2022 3:13:06 PM PST by Mark was here (Say what you will about Kamala Harris, she certainly puts the "vice" in "Vice President.")
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To: dfwgator
lesbos

Is that so the boys in the locker room don't get too frisky?


31 posted on 02/13/2022 3:13:36 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: xp38
Goodell should step down for a black. For the good of the game.

Condoleeza Rice would be the obvious choice...

32 posted on 02/13/2022 3:15:40 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: karpov

Biden is hypocritical! Given his background, he is trying to salvage the black vote the democrats are losing by pandering to them with this black coach hiring nonsense. Coaches are hired because of their qualifications, not their skin color. Thinking back, Doctor King would be disappointed with Biden’s suggestion that they should be hired because of skin color. Biden is a ding-a-ling.


33 posted on 02/13/2022 3:17:24 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: karpov

NFL owners give a hoot about one thing: making money. Winning makes money. If a coach, white or black, wins…they keep their jobs.

It’s pretty simple.


34 posted on 02/13/2022 3:23:12 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: karpov

Kamala Harris has an idea on the subject of ‘generic decency’.


35 posted on 02/13/2022 3:23:42 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Vermont Lt

Like Vince Lombardi said, “I view my players as neither black nor white, but Packer green”


36 posted on 02/13/2022 3:24:25 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Allegra
Very well said. Kudos!

FMCDH(BITS)

37 posted on 02/13/2022 3:24:37 PM PST by nothingnew
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To: Allegra
This is why you’ve lost the majority of your fan base, you morons.

They lost me about 10 years ago. I haven’t watched a game since, and don’t even miss it.

38 posted on 02/13/2022 3:27:30 PM PST by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the only required elements of aviation.)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent
Biden is a ding-a-ling.

And an evil one, at that. 👍

39 posted on 02/13/2022 3:30:03 PM PST by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the only required elements of aviation.)
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To: dfwgator

If anyone watched hard knocks with the browns knew Jackson was not a good head coach


40 posted on 02/13/2022 3:30:56 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
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