Defense is key for a white NFL resurgence

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In looking at the NFL it seems to me that the most likely avenue for an overall increase in white players lies on the defensive side of the football. There are so many all black or almost all black starting lineups out there, and yet there are plenty of white linebackers and d-lineman out there as subs or on practise squads.
This years Chiefs are an interesting example of how easy it is for a white comeback, of sorts anyway. Starting this season they had two white backups on defense, now they have six on the roster, and another, Dacus, on IR drawing an NFL salary. The Bengals are another example, going from one white defensive player to three over the length of this season, with another drawing an NFL salary on IR.
On the offensive side of things it just seems so much harder for whites to make many gains. For one thing, whites are doing very well at QB and fairly well at tight end and offensive line, but in the coveted RB and WR positions the caste system is so powerful that even a few gains, like a Hillis or a Jordy Nelson, is hardly a harbinger of things to come.
So it seems to me that defensive positions, especially of course non-Dback positions, offer many possibilities and opportunities, a juicy field of battle where white players are sometimes making inroads in a black dominated area.
 
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When the defensive lineups in the NFL became wholly tar black, it's interesting how very few names stick out (for me virtually none of them do).
 
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The key is to get gridiron football out of the States and Canada, and go international with the sport. That's what it took for the NBA to start taking in white players again. America has never had a balanced view on race. For hundreds of years, it was all in favor of white, now the balance has shifted all the way to black (with some crumbs thrown to other minorities), especially in sports. Other white and non-white countries may be screwed up, but I don't think any can reach America's level of racial irrationality. Even Canada allows white running backs to see action on the field. Imagine if we could get the sport out of North America.

In spite of many conscious of what they are doing, many more have the wool over their eyes and are sincerely convinced blacks are far better athletes, and that few whites can play on the same field with them speed-wise. Digesting this pseudo-logic, they question little when viewing a 90% black field on game day, even though this field is supposed to represent the best athletes of a country that is 15-20% black at the very most. They also have been fed the "professional theory of sport", which states that the more money one makes in a sport, the poorer their former circumstances should be, while amateur sports are for rich folks.
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