The Fritz Pollard Alliance is calling for the NFL to expand the Rooney Rule to include coordinators, assistant head coaches and club president positions. The proposal sent Tuesday to NFL executives comes a week after no minorities were hired for eight coaching vacancies and seven general manager openings. There are only four minority head coaches going into the 2013 season, the fewest since 2003. ''We believe pipeline issues are a part of the reason we've seen a reduction in head coaches of color over the past few years, and this expansion will diversify the head coaching pipeline,'' the alliance said in its letter. Robert Gulliver, the NFL's executive vice president of human resources, said in a statement last week the hiring results were ''disappointing'' and anticipated making revisions. Source: Associated Press
if organizations are actually stupid enough to NOT hire the best man available for any position, then they will have natural consequences (losing football games) ......but they are not ....... as much as some are trying to keep a pointless fight alive, in 2013, no large company with billions of dollars on the line is passing over a more qualified candidate because of the color of their skin.
Yea do these people not realize that they are being more racist than the NFL teams? What the teams are doing is based on what will bring results. What this stupid rule and the people pushing it is doing is judging people by skin color and trying to force them into positions they might not deserve. It's so freaking stupid it pisses me off.
#1 -- our society doesn't consider it 'racism' if it appears something is being done to 'protect' a minority. even if the 'protection' measure is incredibly racist itself. #2 -- there are still many people in this country that make a lot of money off of the 'business' of racism. they can't let it die. otherwise, so will their paychecks.
