It is “helping us out” because they aren’t asking the fans for the help. They’re asking the billionaire owners and the millionaire executives and coaches. Millionaire money is definitely trivial to a multi billionaire, hence the fact the billionaires can afford to pay them these salaries.

There’s one Black head coach in the NFL fam. To say that the make up is changing is to assume progress is linear and regression doesn’t exist. We’ve already seen the regression because Tomlin stands alone. If not for him being on the team that created the Rooney Rule he probably would have been fired years ago too.

And let’s just be honest, Black people didn’t create the socioeconomic construct of race. The fact that it does permeate every facet of society isn’t a decision that we made. We were born into this situation and we see this in all facets. I’m writing my dissertation on the lack of African American representation in the c-suite of healthcare facilities. 91% of all hospital CEO’s are White men. We can find this pattern almost everywhere my brotha. When is it okay to call a spade a spade? All these brothas are doing is reporting their lived experiences and the data and historical context of our relationship in America supports it all.

And now back to sports.....threads like this are the reason I only have 1645 posts since 2002.

This is what a rational, logical debate between two people with respect for each others' opinion looks like.

Feel free to make post #1646 about something more substantive yourself.

I'm not following you on how paying salaries correlates to leadership in the NFL. Or diversity. Or equity. Maybe I'm just missing the point but I respect your view.

There's one black HC today yes. But there were three last season. This season, nine HCs were fired. Six jobs have been filled (with white men) but if you read about the connections and reasoning, it's hard to surmise race a factor: https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-coach-h...versity-issues

Also worth noting from that article: Two more Black general managers were hired in Chicago (Ryan Poles) and Minnesota (Kwesi Adofo-Mensah), bringing the total to seven Black GMs (the most since 2016), important diversity in the job that usually advises owners most closely on football matters. Those were all, inarguably, positive developments.

I can appreciate that race wasn't created by black people. And although it does, as you say "permeate every facet of society" - it shouldn't. And it only does because we allow it to. We allow ourselves to be divided on superficial lines and in fact we allow certain figures to promote a sort of "anti hate" that is many ways bent on forcefully over-correcting society through aggressive means that only furthers the divide among us.

And lastly, if a black CEO can change the healthcare system to work for all of us instead of preying on us for profits then I hope every seat in America is filled by one. But in reality, it'll only be for show.

Agreed. People have to stop being so uncomfortable talking about racial issues. This country was founded on racial issues. This is 400 years of culture. This is embedded into the very fabric of American society. It’s pretty arrogant to assume we’d have worked through all that in 50 years.

Agreed. People have to stop being so uncomfortable talking about racial issues. This country was founded on racial issues. This is 400 years of culture. This is embedded into the very fabric of American society. It’s pretty arrogant to assume we’d have worked through all that in 50 years.

Wrong. This country was founded on Freedom not racial. Discrimiation has been in every country since man's greed for power and will continue because there is (always) some greedy bastard out there. Wars over land, gold, oil, diamonds or whatever a greedy person with enough of an army could take from another that was conquered has paid the price enslaving those that were conquered. As far as slavery goes all races, black, white, yellow have endured throughout time. It's just how things have been and to think that it will ever stop is not thinking clearly, still goes on today. Trying to sell it over and over makes it worst, which many do for money and power alone without (true) regret over any race. I've never owned a person(slave of any race) and don't know of anyone that has or ever will and to be put into position to keep on hearing about it time after time after time leaves a bad taste in many peoples mouth along with mine. So if it's equality (anyone) seeks, not gonna happen, nothing is ever equal.