(I don't usually post articles on sports... but this one shocked me - specifically, it seems DEI beats W&L? - CL)
Long-time football fans and even casual ones likely remember or have heard names like Ryan Leaf, Heath Shuler, Tony Mandarich, Mike Mamula and others mentioned on many occasions. They were made infamous by an ESPN show on the NFL’s biggest draft busts.
That show was made in the 1990s, some 30 years ago, and hasn’t been updated since. Ever wonder why? It’s because while most of the “biggest busts” listed 30 years ago were White (and Mamula and Mandarich actually had decent careers), the vast majority of busts in the 21st century have been Black. Yet very few of them have been stigmatized and made infamous the way the same few Whites ones from a generation ago were and still are.
The NFL has actually been promoting DEI, affirmative action and quotas to an extreme extent for decades. What some call the racial “Caste System” when it comes to sports in the U.S. traces its roots to the tumultuous late 1960s and has only intensified and slowly become more extreme since......
The above source, Caste Football.us, is a one-of-a-kind resource on the topic of the racial dynamics of sports. Another thread, documenting the endless highly drafted Black players who turn out not to live up to the hype, has over 825 posts as I write this. [Full disclosure: Caste Football is my site, one which I started in 2004 and which now has over half a million posts.] www.theoccidentalobserver.net |
