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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“The NFL is no stranger to controversies surroundings it mostly-white run league, where 71 percent of players are people of color.”
In the name of equity, shouldn’t they reduce the number of POC to 12.1%. The NFL is racist, but it is because of the lack of white players. And don’t make this about the most capable, because that dog won’t hunt.
Generic decency???? Just when xiden can’t be dumber…
Not now correct. The last two coaches hired were at least partially black.
Miami hired Michael McDaniel who identifies as multi-racial, joins Washington Commanders’ Ron Rivera, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mike Tomlin and the New York Jets’ Robert Saleh as the only minority head coaches in the 32-team league.
The Houston Texans promoted Lovie Smith after this news report.
No one with a brain should accept this crap. People must get their positions because of merit and competency not their race or skin color.
Thought it was geriatric
That was yesterday. Where have you been?......sarc/ dream on.
Will the Democrats also change what the N stands for ?
Well the Houston Texans are doing their part, firing and hiring black coaches.
Yeah and I thought owners are going to hire a coach just because of his color instead of hiring the most qualified coach
I recommend that whites support the NFL with the same percentage of finances as the numbers of whites in the NFL and blacks do the same. Equality....Fans in the stands also be the same racial percentage as the population.
Race, Class & Gender... it’s the leftist demonKKKrat plan.
I am 82.
I have known ONLY one black person I would even hire to water my horses...
and I would backstop that activity.
IT is Affirmative Action hiring at the highest level.
I've met some very skilled, dedicated, and intelligent black people I'd be happy to hire. One of the most intelligent people I know, happens to be black.
But the bell curve tends lower for blacks than other races.
Biden/Dems/Commies want to DESTROY all MERIT.
Maybe he meant Genetic Decency?
“Condoleeza Rice would be the obvious choice”
That would be great because unlike Goodell she really loves the game.
Reinforcing failure: it’s the American way ...
... or was that the USSR? Sometimes I get them mixed up.
He already did. Obama is the real fake President. Biden is just his sock puppet.
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