re: Why is ESPN/NFL Network dedicating a segment on number of black coaches?

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Hire the best guy for the job, skin color should not have any influence on the decision of the person doing the hiring

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It'd be nice if that was the way it is but biases are frequently a part of any person's decision making. If they weren't then we wouldn't be human.

I'm not going to call it racism but owners, GMs hire coaches that they are comfortable with. It's the same thing with big corporations. The CEOs don't make their decisions based purely on the qualifications. It's about personality, culture fit as well. A lot of the people they're comfortable with look like them and hang around them a lot. They golf together, they vacation together. If that person happens to be black, then he gets hired. Often times he's not black. You can't really tell owners who to hang around and who to be comfortable with.

I don't think it's a conscious decision that owners and GMs are making to exclude minorities. I don't think they're racist, but they do hire based on those types of biases I mentioned earlier. I'm black by the way, and I hate the Rooney rule. Doesn't really solve anything. I don't think the "issue" can be addressed by a rule.