It’s Black History Month and we have an off Sunday for those of us who are passionate NFL fans.
We just can’t seem to get past race issues in this country even though the only black person to ever win the White House served two terms and today still has the highest approval rating of any living president. My guess is if you went further back with approval ratings even beyond the living presidents… Barack Obama would probably garner the highest approval rating of any POTUS in the past century.
Not because of his policies per se, but the fact he brought some dignity to the office.
Isn’t that odd considering for some reason the NFL today only has one black head coach?
I’m guessing Barack Obama’s popularity didn’t translate to the NFL billionaires club.
One black head coach in a league dominated by black athletes. One, that being Mike Tomlin with the Pittsburgh Steelers. One.
Thank goodness for the Rooney family or that number would be none. There’s even a rule named for the Rooney family in this regard called the Rooney Rule, which just recently fired Brian Flores is challenging in a lawsuit. Flores won his last eight games with the Dolphins and lost his job while Mike McCarthy in Dallas somehow kept his job. That seems a little odd.
Isn’t it strange the NBA, another black dominated American professional sports league, boasts a forty per cent ratio of coaches?
Who was the first black quarterback to start an NFL season? It was Joe Gilliam with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1974.
Who was the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl? That would be Doug Williams in 1988 with the Washington Redskins. I in no way plan on calling the Redskins the Commanders…that’s just silly at this point and I’m not generally a politically correct person. But racism in America isn’t silly because it still exists and it was emboldened openly by the 45th president of the United States.
Can you imagine we have white people in this country who today question a black female judge being nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court despite the fact she graduated from Harvard and has the exact amount of experience on the federal appellate court as Clarence Thomas?
What would be the problem I ask aloud?
Same qualifications, same color.
Both are much more qualified than the four times bankrupted dimwit who liked to share erotic furniture store shopping tales to his bus buddy Billy B. I mean…that person’s main qualification minus being the Celebrity Apprentice magistrate was the fact his Daddy left him a $420 million trust fund.
Go figure these Trump people with some logic attached. I double dare you. Tell me what it is I don’t understand.
But it’s stunning in professional sports we still in America can’t come to terms with the notion of racial equality.