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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Leftists beg for these kind of lies and mistreatment. It's the same kind of "love" they got from mommy.
Employment based upon race is simply racist, even if it is under the pretext of combating racism. The NBA is approx 16 percent white (and no one under 5’ 7’’ or women). Shall the league be required to hire according to the racial and gender make up of society? No.
He’s probably the most decent person we’ve had serve since President Carter.
Maybe you’re not serious, and I somehow missed the sarcasm. If you are serious, please go to see someone and get an MRI. His whole career has been marked by lies, graft, and arrogance, not to mention his inappropriateness with children, and the rape allegation that was buried so quickly during his campaign, etc. etc.
Metaphorically accurate, perhaps, but not on point.
Wichita State basketball has a black head coach and an all black team. Not even a token white player on the bench. Reminds me of John Thompsons Georgetown teams. Except Georgetown was at least winning.
You ever notice that black owned businesses or franchises only hire black employees? Much be a lot of Popeyes owned by black franchisees.
Looking for diversity?
“Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice once described serving as NFL commissioner as her dream job.”
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