Prestigious Minorities
Part 4 of the Honesty Series
The National Football League has rules in place to ensure minorities receive interviews when head coaching vacancies are looking to be filled. What a good day it was when Lovie Smith was named head coach of the Bears. The media was upset when Romeo Crennel was passed over in the years before he was hired by the Browns, but it was a wonderful day when he was hired. Art Shell was rehired by the Raiders, Denny Green is still coaching the Cardinals, and Tony Dungy is working on a good thing with the Colts. Progress is being made in the NFL.
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Bob Johnson’s inclusion in the NBA’s ownership club was hailed as a giant step forward. The NBA was a bunch of white owners making money on the backs of mostly-minority players before Johnson bought the Charlotte Bobcats. The NBA is moving in the right direction.
When Omar Minaya was named General Manager of the Mets, choirs sang as, for the first time, a hispanic was given a top job in Major League Baseball.
Even the NHL is bringing in minorities.
The media has celebrated all of these events, but where was the media for Michael Steele’s campaign when the racial taunts were thrown at him? Why wasn’t Lynn Swan promoted as moving Pennsylvania in the right direction? Ken Blackwell could have been Ohio’s first black governor. . . why wasn’t his loss to the white Ted Strickland mourned as have similar scenarios been when black coaches lost out to white coaches?
The answer: black Republican politicians don’t fit the media’s agenda as do minority coaches. The media and America's left are interested in liberal social change, not genuine racial equality. They'll twist coaching opportunities into opportunities for social change, but they won’t consider filling political vacancies the same if a black Republican is the option.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was nowhere to be found in the Blackwell campaign, the Swan Campaign, and they were actually opposed to the Steele campaign.
It’s time for America, its citizens, its social groups and its media to get serious and honest about their intentions when it comes to racial issues. The NAACP is not about advancing colored people. It is about promoting a social agenda of making blacks victims and setting the NAACP leadership up as the solution to the blacks’ victim-hood. But consider how long this has been occurring. If the current “black leadership” had the solutions, wouldn’t we be seeing progress by now? Instead it’s just more of the same, time after time.
Evidence of this is the mindset of much of America’s inner-city youth, and considering what it is that they’re being taught and who their role-models are. Minority youth are told that they can’t make it in America because the whites are holding them back. So before they even reach an age when they can really make a difference in their own lives and in society, they’ve given up and they’re playing the blame game. The youth look for a way out, and they listen to the NAACP and others like them because these groups give the youth answers to their questions, albeit wrong ones. They blame whites as the problem, and blacks outside the sphere of the NAACP as too close to the whites. The youth become angry, and they follow the current “black leadership.” And a vicious cycle is perpetuated.
When is America going to wake up and identify the real role models for our youth (the one’s who can show kids what can be done when sports are no longer a meal ticket), and identify the real answers to the problem? As long as social groups like the NAACP are more concerned with solidifying and perpetuating their influence than with enacting real change and progress, as long as the media continues to bow to the politically correct culture rather than telling the real stories and the truth, and until all Americans aren’t so darn sensitive that they can even listen to the truth, don’t expect improvement any time soon.
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