Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
Originally posted by 9ersLiferInChicago:
Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
Originally posted by 9ersLiferInChicago:
I truly hope his suit gets certified as a Class Action, and Brian Flores wins. Actually, I hope this thing gets the ball rolling on some sort of discussion regarding some type legislation that will better govern NFL owners. This is one thing about the NFL (among others) that owners need to be forced to change. The NFL is perhaps THE best product on the planet. Sadly, it's owned by perhaps by some of THE most racist individuals on the planet (who I personally consider among the worst people on the planet). These folks are gonna have to be dragged into the 21 century - kicking and screaming - in terms of their hiring practices of HC's. I can't think of another industry in America that so blatantly practices racial discrimination as do NFL owners.
Go Brian Flores. I hope he's successful and that he coaches again in the NFL.
What are you talking about? Who are the racists? Easy label to throw around with no specific evidence. Are the 49ers racist? Is Jed York racist?
Also if you feel NFL Owners are the worst people on the planet (strong statement). What does that make you? Do you not support the club? Do you not support the league by watching? Are you not complicit?
The "what does that make you" argument is a classic deflection. Adds nothing to the Brian Flores racial discrimination suit discussion. Says nothing about the blatant racial discriminatory hiring practices of the NFL owners.
I kinda regard York as a pretty cool dude. I didn't like the Yorks when they took over cuz wow the team dropped off dramatically. But Jed hired JH and KS. Club is doing well. New stadium. Seems to be having us in a good spot. I didn't realize he was in the running for worst person on Earth and the most racist individual on the planet. Hoping to have this explained to me as it is new info. Do you have anything here regarding York or are you just smearing all owners prior to this lawsuit having it's day and any facts being considered in a legal setting?
And to me it's no deflection. If I truly felt that owners were the worst people on the planet I wouldn't wear the T shirt of the club and put dollars in their pockets. I don't share your view on this. My dream job would be NFL owner it would be fun to run an NFL team. I lack the financial resources to pull this off... yet.
I said NFL owners - plural. I never mentioned Jed York - singular. In fact, I didn't mention any NFL owner specifically. But your insistence on a specific owner speaks to the classic deflection I spoke of.
The NFL has a real problem with hiring Blacks as HC's. This is not on Roger Goodell, who has gone so far at to offer draft picks for hiring Black coaches. This isn't on Troy Vincent, who openly pointed to the "double standard" that "we've seen" regarding NFL owner's hiring practices of HC's. This is on the owners - full stop. Like yourself I'd love to own an NFL team. But even if I had the finances to buy a team there's no way on earth the owners would allow me - a proud Black man - into that club. Based off what we all have seen I'd have a better chance finding an ice machine in hell than being allowed to buy an NFL team buy said owners, no matter how much money I had.
But I digress . . .
This suit is necessary to begin the ball rolling for change in the NFL. Nothing of any significance changes in the NFL but by lawsuit or the threat of lawsuit. Johnnie Cochran's threat to sue the NFL lead to the Rooney rule. Reggie White had to sue the NFL which lead to free agency in the NFL. Bottom line, NFL owners generally have a real problem seeing a Black man running their football team and are mostly going out of their way to avoid
seriously hiring Black coaches. That, good Sir, is a racist environment. Those environments can only be maintained by racist, those who have a stake in that environment, or those who are just indifferent. And as Black men we don't have the luxury to distinguish between the 3 because the end result is the same.
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You'd be better informed if instead of listening to what we say, you'd watch what we do."
Nixon administration Attorney General John Mitchell (yup, a convicted criminal
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