During an NBC News interview on Super Bowl Sunday, Democrat President Joe Biden attacked the NFL for not having more black coaches, saying that having more black coaches is a “requirement” of “generic decency.”
Biden’s came shortly after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had said that the league “won’t tolerate racism” and “won’t tolerate discrimination.”
“The commissioner pointed out they haven’t lived up to what they committed to. They haven’t lived up to being open about hiring more minorities to run teams,” Biden said to NBC News anchor Lester Holt. “Goodell says they’re gonna take a look at whether they can meet the standard. And the standard was set by someone who said this is something we should do.”
“The whole idea that a league that is made up of so many athletes of color, as well as so diverse, that there’s not enough African American qualified coaches ‘to manage these NFL teams,’ it just seems to me that it’s a standard that they’d want to live up to,” he said. “It’s not a requirement of law, but it’s a requirement, I think, of just some generic decency.”
The interview comes after former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores filed a lawsuit against the NFL for alleged racial discrimination in the NFL’s hiring process.
As explained by Fox News, “Flores claimed to receive ‘sham’ interviews while seeking a job with the New York Giants and Denver Broncos and alleged he was only being interviewed by teams so they could satisfy the Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview minority candidates for certain top jobs – like the head coach.”
