I was going through profootballtalk and looking at the comments section. I found this comment from someone from the We Wuz Kangs mindset so I decided to go on the attack. Let's see if PFT actually lets my comment go through. I have had a little luck commenting on this rooney rule story and gotten alot more likes than dislikes. I also see alot of positive comments regarding the lack of diversity on the field:
toldlikeitis says:
May 19, 2020 at 6:42 pm
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mrblksd619 says:
May 19, 2020 at 11:13 am
Here’s the realest things ever written for all you white boys on here complaining about why there is a diversity problem amongst execs and why that same logic doesn’t apply to players. Prepare to have your minds blown. If it’s the best player plays on the field and the majority of those players are black wouldn’t that same logic apply to the front office and coaching as well? In the front office it’s straight nepotism. Every thing the “best player plays ” crowd hates. So if it’s best player plays and the majority of the players are black and we have a good ol boy network of nepotism that prevents opportunity…? Oh and the argument some of y’all have about why the league is predominantly black has nothing to do with black men being gifted anything it’s that were just better athletes in general. Stop hating and trying to live vicariously through these athletes. Smdh.
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Bad take. There are plenty of good and very good black athletes. However there are many who are recruited at certain positions due to being black and afforded opportunities predicated on skin color rather than ability. The inverse is true for white athletes – they are written off at positions like CB, S, RB, WR, DL because they are white. Plenty of white athletes will be told during the recruiting process right to their faces that since they are white the college/university will not recruit them at certain positions – namely CB, WR and RB. Also you see many more white defensive players get recruited and get switched to white appropriate positions such as TE and OL. Additionally white WRs are disproportionately required to bulk up and convert to TE and white RBs are converted to FB.
I find it ridiculous that the best RB in the NFL can be white yet there aren’t 20 more white RBs on NFL rosters. Jordy Nelson was a dominant outside WR and yet the league is riddled with mediocre black WRs who have yet to reach their “upside”. Let’s not forget about Wes Welker – the most dominant slot WR in NFL history – somehow he is written off rather than opening barriers and giving more white athletes a chance. The notion that somehow after Jason Sehorn no white person has the ability to play CB – also ridiculous. Let’s be honest there are plenty of bad black players in the league – piss poor secondaries giving up TDs, missed tackles, zero fundamentals, lapses in mental focus. You can spout your “the best players play BS” all you want – but I just laid out a nice opening argument to blow it up. Blow up college recruiting and all the recruiting services and start recruiting the best players – stop racially slotting players and ignoring white athletes if they play certain positions. You may think blacks are better but when it is not an even playing field in recruiting and the systematic discrimination goes unchallenged we will not see the best players on the field.
Also don’t say white boy unless you want to be called boy yourself – that is another nice example of the racial double standard that exists in this country. You folks can’t be the aggressors and the victims too!
)... Wants to have his cake and eat it too.
