The NFL was racially integrated in the 1950s and in the 1960s and into the ‘70s, and during that time the league was about as close to colorblind as one can be when it comes to sports. Whites still starred at running back, wide receiver, and at all the positions on defense. Other than at quarterback, similarly Blacks also played and starred at all positions.
But through the time-honored use of gradualism, the regime slowly and methodically “blackened” the NFL (and NBA). By the mid-1980s, Whites were rapidly becoming extinct at running back, receiver, and defense in general. By 1990, only two White players were taken in the first round at that year’s draft, and that pretty much became the undeviating pattern ever since. The NFL is mostly Black; other than outliers, Whites are limited to playing quarterback, tight end, and center and guard on the offensive line. NFL teams average just one White starter out of eleven on defense, and decades have gone by without a single White cornerback starting. Same at running back. Apparently there was an “extinction event” one day circa 1985 that caused Whites, who have always loved and played football at the highest levels, to be unable to play most of the positions that they had previously played and starred at.
Blacks make very good athletes, and very good football players. But nowhere near to the extent that the NFL and its supporting fake news media claim. Given how aware many Americans have become when it comes to sniffing out the lies and narratives supporting DEI in other areas, it shouldn’t be that difficult to comprehend that the same process takes place in football, basketball and sprinting, the three sports at which Blacks are best. Sports is not “the last meritocracy,” but rather the first and longest-standing bastion of systemic discrimination against Whites.
