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Aw, guys. It's one thing if you want to make the claim that the time has arrived that we should consider only the individual's circumstances because the wrongs of past group discrimination have been addressesed or that it's better for individuals in the long run to focus on individual merit. I don't know if I'd agree, but both claims seem like they could be made in good faith.
It's something else if you want to claim that the absence of black head coaches was purely coincidental and that individual simply "weren't qualified" for a job that in some ways there are no set qualifications for. Do you also imagine that the reason that southern schools didn't integrate until the early '60 was because there were no qualified applicants? You seem to be ignoring history completely.
I kind of doubt that every owner or general manager actually thought, "well this guy is better qualified, but we can't hire him because he's black" but other people may believe that it was that direct. I think that for whatever goofy racial reason, they couldn't see the black guy as fully qualified.
Now, I'm done too here because this thread doesn't need any more of this either.
Superbowl coaches! Woo Hoo!
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