10-02-2022, 12:06 PM
(10-02-2022, 11:50 AM)NUGDUKWE Wrote: Okay I didn't read the article. But the idea isn't that the Bengals ownership or staff itself is racist. The idea would be that if there is some bias in the NFL as in the country that subtly gives white people a little leg up over people of color that it causes a butterfly affect that can have a large impact. If coaches of color get slightly less chances and or there resumes are viewed slightly less than white coaches they won't have the same opportunity to build a solid resume. So not that Cincinnati is only targeting white coaches or overlooking better resumes but rather a symptom of the entire system.
With these issues it’s hard because you can’t really measure “diversity” any other way than counting how many individual POC you have. And that just isn’t fair.
If i owned a business and i was judged off how many whites i hired or be labeled a racist, i wouldn’t like that. In my personal life i know about like 1 white person and it’s not like i go out my way to avoid white ppl. My childhood neighborhood just didn’t have any, and most of my army friends passed.
I also don’t like the idea of mandating you interview x amount of POC. Because then we see what happened to Brian Flores where teams are just hosting him just to check a box, because that’s disrespectful and demeaning when you have a solid NFL resume like Brian does.
I think the eventual answer is to go by an honor system, but to actually take accusations of bias/racism seriously.
-Housh
