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The NFL Can’t Deny Its Race Problem Anymore | It's the Skyboxes vs. the Gridiron


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That's not going to change anything. Here's why:

These NFL teams are privately owned companies and the Denver Broncos will still be, no matter what group purchases the club.

And Black people, despite being loyal fans, simply cannot compete when it comes to money and social influence with other pressure groups.

 

Or has anyone forgotten the complete failure to press the NFL to give Colin Kaepernick another starting QB position?
 

Sometimes, social demands do not work. NFL teams mint money and their owners are looking carefully at demographics, media coverage and ad revenue.

I do not believe any of those aggrieved over the lack of Black BFL coaches get it. If you mount a drawn out pressure campaign, this is going to be the likely result:


1) You are going to piss off many fans who ordinarily don't care what color their team's coach or manager is. As long as their team is successful at winning. But if you make this an unavoidable issue, you will force such ones to choose a side.
 

Don't expect to win a lot of support. Rightly or wrongly, you'll be viewed just as you were during the Colin Kaepernick drama: As irritants taking attention away from the sport.
 

2) In this era of heightened and violent political discourse, you may actually create more social and news media hatred against innocent Black children, mothers and fathers who are not swept up in your pressure campaign.
 

3) If a Black coach or a manager is hired and then fails to win, they will probably be fired. That is a fact of life. You cannot order any profitable business to lose money to suit your personal tastes. This may not happen to Brian Flores, who landed as assistant coach's gig with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But often, when teams do fire a coach or a manager - sometimes all their assistants go as well.
 

I just don't get all this needless angst. Not having a Black NFL coach isn't getting our people gunned down by the police, by gangbangers or racist Whites. It's not making our children undereducated by attending poorly funded public schools or costing us political representation in Congress.
 

But our lack of Voting Rights does. And THAT is what we Blacks need to be focusing on.


It's the same old silliness with many of us. We worry about the type of decoration on a cake instead of noticing we rarely get a slice.

 

 

 

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