President Biden calls out the lack of Black head coaches in the NFL during Super Bowl interview with LesterHoltNBC, saying that having diverse leaders in the league is a requirement of 'generic decency.'
in an interview that aired during the Super Bowl, saying having diverse leaders in the league is a requirement of"generic decency."with NBC News anchor Lester Holt,"they haven't lived up to what they committed to and lived up to being open about hiring more minorities to run teams."
"The whole idea that a league that is made up of so many athletes of color, as well as so diverse, that there’s not enough African American qualified coaches 'to manage these NFL teams,' it just seems to me that it’s a standard that they'd want to live up to," he said."It’s not a requirement of law, but it’s a requirement, I think, of just some generic decency.”
Diversity in the NFL's coaching roles has long been criticized, particularly in a league made up of mostly minority players. Last year, about 71 percent of NFL players were people of color and only a quarter were white, according to the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. The races of the other 4 percent were unknown.
Only three people of color have head coaching jobs in the league, in which white men hold the majority of the roles.
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