The NFL has been pretending it has a racial hiring crisis for years. Now, the league is practically begging teams to hire nonwhite coaches.

The NFL Advisory Council released a list of “diverse coaching candidates” in preparation for the beginning of the hiring process for teams that will have vacancies at the end of the season. All 11 coaches listed are certainly qualified, but the message from the league is clear: You should hire these coaches because they are black to help get our race-obsessed critics off of our backs.