NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wants to pander to the race-obsessed activists and media figures who throw a tantrum every time a head coaching job is given to someone who isn’t black. What better way than to meet with everyone’s favorite antisemitic race-baiter, Al Sharpton?
Sharpton was among the “civil rights leaders” who Goodell met with as the league faces a lawsuit from former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores. The league is apparently looking for an alternative to the Rooney Rule, the outdated and ineffective policy that forces teams to interview a minority candidate for major job openings. Apparently, forcing teams to talk to a token black candidate doesn’t actually translate into them getting coaching jobs. Who could have guessed?
But Sharpton, whose record of antisemitism and racism stretches back decades before he became a regular guest on MSNBC’s airwaves, has a solution. Sharpton said the NFL “must have firm targets and timetables.”
In other words, the league needs racial quotas, and Sharpton wants to give Goodell some deadlines to hit them.
The narratives around the NFL are utterly bizarre. The league had eight minority head coaches in both 2011 and 2018, meaning 25% of teams were led by someone who was nonwhite. When five of them were fired, the racism narrative began, and the league was sucked into it further after the now-infamous death of George Floyd in police custody in 2020. Now, the only thing that matters is the skin color of coaches, apparently — so much so that the league is willing to take Al Sharpton’s advice on what to do.
This entire narrative is a joke, from the obsession with race to Flores’s (mostly) ridiculous lawsuit to Goodell meeting with one of the most toxic hucksters in politics for advice on how to change NFL rules. The NFL gets more negative coverage for teams not basing their hiring decisions entirely on race than they do for meeting with the man who incited antisemitic riots and pushed fake hate crimes before they became a popular hoax topic.
The league should scrap the Rooney Rule, scrap the rule that bribes teams to promote nonwhite coaches, and tell race-obsessives to go somewhere else if they don’t like it. No one is going to stop watching the NFL because of the skin color of anyone involved, and letting the most popular sport in the country be governed by public pressure from Al Sharpton and like-minded media figures is far more embarrassing than any of the league’s faux racism issues.
