Yeah, I'd love to see a rational discussion of this issue here. I'm sure most of the NFL fans here will remember when Sherman Lewis, as offensive coordinator of the super bowl champion Packers in 1997, wasn't even interviewed for several of the openings that later went to coaches with much worse records (including my own beloved team, hiring loser Pete Caroll). Now I'm certainly not arguing that someone should have forced the Pats to hire Lewis, or anyone else, for any reason at all. And all of those teams that hired loser white coaches had good reasons, and have since (Lewis is still an offensive coordinator, still no head coaching job). But sticking your head in the sand and making jokes about the issue is what allows the left to implement wrong-headed "solutions" to these genuine issues.
Why don't you can it. I get sick and tired of everything being made into racism. The fact is that every time a black individual isn't considered for a managing position, the issue of racism always comes up. How many qualified white guys were also not given the opportunity. You get my drift?
To me, it would seem that living in a free society, team ownership has a right to pick and choose who they would want to interview for the position of team manager. In my opinion, what you are advocating is widespread socialism of sports. Isn't that wonderful.
Furthermore, I would like to make it apparent that at least 85% of retired baseball players are white, thus there are more to choose from. Today, roughly 55-60% of the players are also white.
I can't believe that we have people on this website who spew garbage that they are in favor of affirmative action for sports. What a ridiculous idea. Furthermore, there are several black managers. I don't know what all the fuss is about.