Why the NFL doesn't hire Black coaches

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🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Seventy percent of the NFL's players are Black, yet the league has only 2 Black head coaches. A lawsuits asks why.

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0:00.0	It's no secret that the NFL has a problem when it comes to its head coaches.
0:06.6	Mainly, they're almost all white in a league where black players are the supermajority.
0:12.9	League officials and even fans have offered all sorts of excuses about this discrepancy for decades,
0:18.4	but now there's an explosive federal lawsuit about the matter.
0:21.5	It was filed this month by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores, and he's put this
0:26.9	persistent and longstanding problem on stage.
0:30.0	The NFL lifer says that the lack of black head coaches shows that the league and its teams
0:35.0	are, well, to put it bluntly, racist.
0:45.4	I'm Gustavo Ariano.
0:47.0	You're listening to The Times, Daily News from the LA Times.
0:50.2	It's Wednesday, February 9, 2022.
0:53.2	Today, we talk about Brian Flores' lawsuit.
0:55.9	He names, names, describes disturbing scenes,
0:58.6	and just calls out the NFL big time.
1:01.0	Meanwhile, the league says the lawsuit has no merit.
1:03.4	They're instead focusing on Super Bowl 56,
1:05.7	which is happening this Sunday.
1:20.7	Thank you. Sunday. L.Z. Granderson is a columnist for the L.A. Times, and he writes about culture,
1:24.3	politics, sports, and navigating life in America. LZ, welcome to the Times.
1:29.1	Thank you very much for having me.
1:30.5	Though, I work for the L.A. Times, so I guess welcome to where you work.
1:37.2	See, yeah, with the pandemic, we're not seeing each other in the office anyway, so that's impossible.
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